Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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PUTIN, TRUMP, CEASEFIRE, RUSSIA
Russian troops appear close to driving Ukraine from all the territory it seized in the Kursk region of Russia last year, a prospect that President Trump appeared to acknowledge in a social media post on Friday.
Later in the day, President Vladimir V. Putin
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TESLA, TRUMP, MUSK, TARIFFS
Hollywood actor and left-wing activist John Cusack on Thursday returned to his favorite pastime – delivering abusive messages on social media designed to paint U.S. President Donald Trump and those around him as simpleton Nazis worthy of deportation.
In the
Continued at Breitbart...
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TRUMP, DOJ, BIDEN, JUDGE
Trump said on the campaign trail that he planned to invoke the act.
President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Mar. 13, 2025.
President Donald Trump speaks
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COLUMBIA, UNIVERSITY, PRO, ARRESTS
The Trump administration's efforts to close the border have been extremely successful so far: illegal border crossings have slowed to a trickle, deportation operations have been stepped up, and, hilariously, the Biden administration's CBP One app was repurposed
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DR, OZ, MEDICAID, SENATE
Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency in charge of massive government-run health insurance programs, on Friday declined to commit to opposing future cuts to Medicaid when directly asked if he would do so.
Instead, the nominee for
Continued at CNBC...
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TRUMP, COURT, BIRTHRIGHT, DEI
The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider the Trump administration's request to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to take effect in part while legal fights play out.
In their virtually identical filings Thursday, acting Solicitor General Sarah
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HAMAS, RELEASE, HOSTAGE, EDAN
Hamas says it's willing to release the five American hostages in Gaza
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Hamas says it's willing to release the one living Israeli-American hostage and the bodies of four other dual-national Americans
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CARNEY, CANADA, MARK, NEW
Mark Carney has been sworn in as Canada's new prime minister, succeeding Justin Trudeau.
The former governor of the Canadian central bank and Bank of England took time during his first news conference to comment on the current political climate with the U
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NASA, ASTRONAUTS, SPACEX, LAUNCH
As Starliner approached the space station, some of its thrusters stopped working for a while. Still, it was able to dock. After a couple of months of troubleshooting, space agency officials decided to play it safe. They’d bring Starliner back to Earth without
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SOUTH, AMBASSADOR, RUBIO, AFRICAN
The Trump administration has ejected South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool out of the country, declaring him persona non grata after he gave a lecture claiming that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist leader.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced
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CENTER, VANCE, KENNEDY, JD
Nate Vance, Vice President JD Vance’s cousin, took back his comment that Vance and President Donald Trump were “Putin’s useful idiots,” in a new interview on Thursday.
When Matt Tardio, host of Speak the Truth podcast, asked him if he would change anything
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DIDDY, SEAN, PLEADS, GUILTY
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs returned to federal court in New York City on Friday, pleading not guilty to the latest version of an indictment charging him with two decades of sex trafficking crimes.
The 55-year-old Combs, his beard noticeably grayer
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STUDENT, MISSING, COLLEGE, AMERICAN
Man who last saw missing Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki thought she took 'her things and left'
A member of civil defense canine unit searches for Sudiksha Konanki, a university student from the U.S. who disappeared on a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican
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ICE, ILLEGAL, 200, BOSTON
An accused child rapist illegally in the U.S. was recently arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Boston, the agency announced on Thursday.
ICE Boston said Stivenson Omar Perez-Ajtzalan, 19, was arrested on Jan. 30 for aggravated rape of a child in
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TRUMP, FBI, FOX, GOVERNMENT
EXCLUSIVE: The Biden White House turned over government cellphones belonging to President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence to the FBI in May 2022 as part of a bureau probe into the aftermath of the 2020 election, tying Trump to that investigation
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5
SIMPSON, 93, ALAN, REPUBLICAN
Inevitably, tributes to and obituaries of Alan Simpson will recall how the three-term former senator, who died Friday at 93, was a moderate Republican who bridged party gaps during his stint in the Senate from 1978-96.
True, the 6-foot-7-inch man from Wyoming
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PART, DEI, UNIVERSITIES, 50
3 claims about the Department of Education and what it really does
The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Eduction, which were ordered closed for the day for what officials described as security reasons amid large-scale layoffs, is seen Mar. 12, 2025,
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DUTERTE, APPEARS, CHARGES, HAGUE
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague on Friday after being arrested this week on charges of crimes against humanity.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan — a prolific targeter
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FIRE, PASSENGERS, PLANE, CATCHES
Passengers were evacuated from an American Airlines flight after the plane caught fire at Denver International Airport on Thursday.
Footage shows smoke billowing from the aircraft and passengers standing on the plane's wing.
There were no reports of serious
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MIDWEST, TORNADOES, VIOLENT, SOUTHERN
A significant severe weather outbreak begins Friday from the central plains, shifting to the gulf coast states by Saturday.
The storm prediction center, which specializes in severe storm forecasting, has placed over 15 states in their second highest level
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Before the Depression and World War 2, the only interaction most Americans had with the federal government was when they went to the post office. It's one of the oldest federal institutions, having been there since the founding, and it's one federal agency
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