Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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PANAMA, RUBIO, CANAL, CHINA
Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to escalate the Trump administration’s confrontation with Panama on Sunday, telling its leader that President Trump had determined that Chinese “influence and control” over the Panama Canal threatens the waterway and
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TRADE, LUKA, MAVERICKS, BLOCKBUSTER
The Dallas Mavericks were far from energized in their first game since the team traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers and acquired Anthony Davis.
The Mavericks allowed the Cleveland Cavaliers 91 points at halftime and lost the game 144-101.
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FAA, SYSTEM, TRANSPORTATION, FLIGHT
A key U.S. pilot messaging system was experiencing a temporary outage, which could lead to flight delays on Sunday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said late on Saturday.
The Federal Aviation Administration is working to restore the "Notice to Air
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PUNXSUTAWNEY, PHIL, DAY, GROUNDHOG
Don’t put those winter woollens away just yet. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Sunday and six more weeks of wintry weather are now predicted, his top-hatted handlers announced to a noisy, record-sized crowd at chilly Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania.
AP reports
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MUSK, ACCESS, PAYMENT, FEDERAL
The payment system is essentially a checkbook for the federal government.
The Treasury Department has given Elon Musk and representatives of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team access to the vast federal payment system responsible for handling
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On Saturday, Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg, 24, was among three people elected to the Democratic National Committee's vice chair position.
"I've just been elected as a Vice Chair of the DNC," Hogg posted on X. "I'm deeply grateful to the members
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NETANYAHU, TRUMP, ISRAEL, HAMAS
Israel's Netanyahu heads to U.S. to meet with Trump
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will discuss "victory over Hamas," countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab
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PLANE, VEHICLE, AIRPORT, DRIVER
A taxiing airplane's wing struck a United Airlines tug driving at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, flipping the vehicle over and pinning the driver underneath it, police said.
"The victim and driver of the tug, a 64-year-old male, was transported to Lutheran
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SOUTH, AFRICA, TRUMP, FUNDING
President Donald Trump said on Sunday, without citing evidence, that "certain classes of people" in South Africa were being treated "very badly" and that he would cut off funding for the country until the matter is investigated.
"South Africa is confiscating
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AGENCY, TRUMP, DOGE, MUSK
The Trump administration removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development during the weekend after they tried to stop representatives from billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from gaining access to
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BOWL, SUPER, PRICE, BIG
Southwest, Delta and more major airlines have scheduled additional flights for fans traveling for Super Bowl LIX, as the costs of airfare and hotel stays rise in the game's host city of New Orleans.
Southwest recently announced 31 new flights from Kansas City
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KILLED, RUSSIA, SCHOOL, UKRAINE
The Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that two airstrikes a day earlier had killed at least 18 civilians, one of the highest single-day tolls so far this year and a grim reminder of the war’s enduring devastation as it approaches its fourth year.
The first
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NATIONAL, TRUMP, ANTHEM, CANADIAN
Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge
22 minutes ago Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto
Reuters
A few hours after US President Donald Trump announced that he would impose steep tariffs on Canada, hockey fans in the capital Ottawa booed
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COHERENT, MESSAGE, TRUMP, DOZENS
“He is not somebody that you can appease,” Gov. JB Pritzker, an Illinois Democrat, said in an interview. “We’ve got to stand up and fight. And by the way, at the state level, I think many of us are. But I think that we’ve got to make sure that in the Senate
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IOWA, CAITLIN, CLARK, JERSEY
Caitlin Clark had a terrific Sunday afternoon.
The University of Iowa women’s basketball program immortalized Clark’s career forever as they officially retired her No. 22 jersey and hung it in the rafters of Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Clark stood with her family
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TRUMP, SUSPENDED, COACH, PRAISES
A former women’s volleyball coach suspended for fighting back against a university's handling of a transgender athlete on the women's team praised President Trump's changes to Title IX on Sunday, calling them "a great first step in the right direction."
"Now
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Officials in Washington, D.C., identified 55 bodies pulled from the Potomac River during a strenuous multi-day recovery operation following the midair collision between a commercial plane and a Black Hawk helicopter last week.
D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John
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SYRIA, SAUDI, ARABIA, INTERIM
Syria’s newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for his first foreign trip since his rebel coalition ousted longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Mr. al-Shara landed in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, early on Sunday afternoon.
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FREEWAY, ILLEGAL, PROTESTERS, LA
In what could quickly become a dangerous, out of control situation, pro-illegal alien protesters marching in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday have completely mobbed the 101 Freeway, shutting down the traffic on both sides. And the LA police are nowhere to be
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MAST, STATE, DEPARTMENT, LAID
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast, R-Fla., called for the restructuring of USAID, as opposed to its elimination, adding it should placed under the State Department.
On Sunday, Mast told CBS News' "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan,
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ASTEROID, 2032, TRIGGERS, TRACKING
Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
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Feeling lucky? Astronomers say that a newly identified space rock, potentially as big as a football field, has a better than 1% chance of crashing into Earth
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VANCE, TRUMP, CONTROL, ECHO
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Vice President JD Vance joined President Trump on Sunday in blaming diversity hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Administration for the midair collision of a commercial jet and a military helicopter near Washington
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