Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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NEW, ORLEANS, ATTACK, TERROR
Vehicular attacks are not new. But preventing them has been a big challenge
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Intentional vehicular attacks on crowds of people, like the one that killed 14 revelers in New Orleans on New Year's Day, are not new. They have been
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FREEDOM, BIDEN, MEDAL, SOROS
President Joe Biden awarded election denier and two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Saturday.
The medal is the highest civilian award in the United States.
Biden, 82, hung the medal around Clinton’s
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CARTER, JIMMY, FUNERAL, GEORGIA
In a few days, Jimmy Carter will be celebrated in a towering cathedral in Washington by fellow American presidents, noted humanitarians and other world leaders.
But before all of that, a hearse carrying the remains of Mr. Carter, the nation’s 39th president,
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JOHNSON, TRUMP, SPEAKER, HOUSE
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told House Republicans in a closed-door meeting on Saturday that President-elect Donald Trump wants a single reconciliation bill to address his priorities upon entry into office, two sources told NBC News.
The reconciliation
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47, DIRECTOR, JEFF, BAENA
Director and writer Jeffrey Baena, husband of Hollywood actor Aubrey Plaza, has died. He was 47.
Baena died on January 3 at his home, according to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's Office.
A cause of death has not yet been revealed.
He was best known for
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POST, QUITS, BEZOS, WASHINGTON
A rough sketch of the cartoon, published on Telnaes' Substack blog, shows several men kneeling before a larger man wearing a suit and a long tie, representing Trump. Telnaes wrote that the likenesses are of Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg , OpenAI CEO Sam
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NEW, WOMAN, YEAR, ATTACK
One has to wonder when the people of New York City are going to say, "Enough, already."
After a string of senseless acts of violence on the Big Apple's subways, we learn now of one more, this one on New Year's Day. This time it was four feral teenagers who
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STORM, SNOW, WINTER, ICE
Over three feet of snow has fallen in parts of upstate New York.
Over 60 million under heavy snow, ice alerts as winter storm hits several states
As a deep winter chill begins to take over the northern half of the country, a new major winter storm will move
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WORLD, OLDEST, PERSON, 116
Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person, according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.
Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died Dec. 29 at
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POLICE, OLYMPIC, MIAMI, SPRINTER
U.S. Olympic track and field star Fred Kerley was arrested in Miami Beach after a confrontation with police on Thursday.
The department released police body camera footage showing Kerley approaching police before being struck and wrestled to the ground. The
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STEEL, JAPAN, BIDEN, DEAL
Biden blocks Japan's Nippon Steel from buying US Steel
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US President Joe Biden has blocked the takeover of US Steel by a bigger Japanese firm, delivering on a political promise despite fears the move could hurt Washington's relations with Tokyo
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GAZA, ISRAELI, HAMAS, HELD
Hamas’s military wing released a video on Saturday of Liri Albag, one of some 250 people taken hostage by the group in its attack on Israel, as Israeli and Hamas officials held further rounds of indirect cease-fire talks via mediators in Qatar.
Roughly 100
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AI, NEWS, TRUMP, SURVIVE
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is betting heavily on AI to drive user engagement on its social media platforms in the coming years. The company envisions human users engaging and sharing content with AI just like they do with friends and family on Facebook and Instagram.
The
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BORDER, MEXICO, DE, KIDNAPPING
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested four confirmed Tren de Aragua gang members after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. The four Venezuelan gang members crossed in a group of 22 migrants from four countries on New Year’s Eve.
Texas
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SPILL, OIL, RUSSIANS, DECLARE
Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the Kerch Strait following an oil spill in the Black Sea last month.
Mikhail
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NEW, YEAR, RESOLUTIONS, INCLUDE
Top New Year’s resolutions for Americans include eating healthier and spending more time with family, according to survey results from Statista.
Most Americans, 57 percent, said they are making resolutions of some kind for 2025, but 43 percent said they are
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CYBERTRUCK, VEGAS, MMA, TV
Tim Kennedy, a Green Beret and former UFC star, revealed in a social media post late Friday that he had once been partnered in a military reality television competition with the suspect involved in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion.
In a post on Instagram,
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BILLION, PLANS, ISRAEL, CONGRESS
The State Department has told Congress that it intends to approve $8 billion in purchases of U.S.-made arms by Israel, the department’s office in charge of arms transfers said on Friday.
It could be the final set of arms transfers to Israel by President Biden,
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TRUMP, ELECTION, 200M, INAUGURATION
Since his election victory, President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have amassed over $200 million to fund his inauguration, political endeavors, and a future presidential library, The New York Times reported.
According to individuals familiar with the
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OLIGARCHY, TRUMP, ELON, MUSK
Yes, ridiculous. On multiple levels.
The Democrats and their sock puppets in the media called President-elect Donald Trump everything from Hitler to a fascist to a white supremacist, and worse, for months prior to the 2024 presidential election. So how'd that
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ARREST, SOUTH, KOREA, PRESIDENT
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol avoided arrest on Friday when his security detail refused to allow investigators into his residence, where he has been sequestered since December 12.
Friday’s hours-long standoff between agents of the Corruption Investigation
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BUSINESS, TEAM, WH, PRESS
The Biden administration has been on an almost unbelievable tear lately as they prepare to fade off into history, telling us what a fantastic job they’ve done, doing everything in their power to kneecap the incoming Trump team, and taking every opportunity
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CENTER, KILLED, FIRE, ANIMALS
Hundreds of animals were killed Friday when a fire broke out at a Dallas shopping center.
The 579 animals, mostly small birds, in a pet shop at Plaza Latina shopping center died from smoke inhalation, Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesperson Jason Evans said in a statement.
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