Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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SUPREME, COURT, WISCONSIN, MUSK
Elon Musk and his political operatives have tried to shape the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in ways that are not immediately obvious but could be critical to Tuesday’s outcome
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford addresses a crowd
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PEN, LE, MARINE, EMBEZZLEMENT
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement on Monday and handed an immediate -year ban from public office, a sentence that will bar her from running in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand.
The ruling
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TRUMP, MEMBERS, GANG, EL
President Trump made ridding our country of illegal alien gang members a keystone of his successful campaign, and his administration has set right about doing just that. In the latest move, on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 17 seriously
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TRUMP, MUSK, TESLA, OVERHAUL
Historian James Grossman discusses Trump order to overhaul Smithsonian Institution NPR's Michel Martin speaks with James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, about the Trump administration's executive order to overhaul the Smithsonian
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JUDGE, MAYOR, CHARGES, ADAMS
Judge Dale Ho is still waiting to make a decision on dismissing the case.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference at City Hall in Manhattan in New York City, March 24, 2025.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference
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SUPREME, COURT, UNEMPLOYMENT, CATHOLIC
Catholic Charities tests Wisconsin's unemployment payment system at Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a case testing whether Catholic Charities is entitled to opt out of
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HOUSE, WHITE, SIGNAL, CHAT
Assigned media seats in the White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room will reportedly soon be decided by the White House rather than the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA), marking another major shake-up in the briefing room.
Axios co-founder
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JUDGE, HACKMAN, RECORDS, DEATHS
A New Mexico court is weighing whether to block the disclosure of an array of records from an investigation into the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, at the request of the couple's estate.
Santa Fe-based Judge Matthew Wilson was holding
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MUSEUM, LEE, EPA, ZELDIN
National Medal of Honor Museum opens in Arlington, Texas The National Medal of Honor Museum opened this month in Arlington, Texas. Chris Cassidy, the museum's president and CEO, discusses its origins and what it's meant to inspire.
National National Medal
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DOGE, WEALTHY, STRANGELY, MUSK
Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), indicated he will be turning his crew's attention to members of Congress who have amassed fortunes despite having base salaries under $200,000.
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The tech mogul and philanthropist
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TRUMP, POLL, STRONG, CBS
President Donald Trump has an overall approval rating of 50%, with an equal percentage disapproving of the job he is doing, according to a CBS News survey released on Sunday.
His approval has dropped a percentage point from last month and is a few points lower
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COMBAT, STANDARDS, HEGSETH, FITNESS
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday evening ordered the military services to set sex-neutral physical fitness standards for combat arms, reversing more than a decade of the erosion of standards in hopes of recruiting more women.
“For far too long, we
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BUDGET, DISCOVERY, HOCHUL, NY
Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers will blow by a budget deadline Tuesday as negotiations hit an impasse over New York’s divisive discovery laws – despite growing calls for reforms.
Hochul has proposed changes to the laws that set strict rules and deadlines
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BIDEN, HUNTER, TRUMP, CLEMENCY
Both accused Hunter Biden of improperly leveraging his father's name.
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, leaves court after his guilty plea in his trail on tax evasion in Los Angeles, Sept. 5, 2024.
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, leaves
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President Donald Trump was back at it again on Monday — signing executive orders in the Oval Office. Monday's affair caused quite a splash as he was joined by Kid Rock — decked out in rather vibrant patriotic finery — as he signed an executive order aimed at
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END, JUDGE, VENEZUELANS, TRUMP
Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants will be allowed to remain in the United States without risk of deportation after a federal judge in San Francisco on Monday delayed Trump administration actions rolling back a program known as Temporary Protected
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TRUMP, ASTRONAUTS, SPACE, RESCUED
Monday, during an interview with FNC’s “America’s Newsroom,” astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams discussed their return to Earth last Tuesday off the Florida coast in a SpaceX Dragon capsule and who was to blame for stranding them in
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In Los Angeles, where I live, you don’t expect to be heckled while driving an electric car to the grocery store. But on a recent afternoon, a couple of men on bikes saw the Tesla logo on the front of my car and shouted, “Fuck you, Tesla guy” as I rolled by
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ICE, NOEM, AGENTS, KRISTI
We’ve seen the escalation of political violence lately from those opposed to President Donald Trump’s policies, with Tesla dealerships being vandalized, drivers of the brand assaulted, and then the New Mexico GOP headquarters lit on fire by anarchist arsonists
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TRUMP, HOUTHIS, EXPLOSIVE, ATTACKS
President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. attacks on Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists, who have taken control of the most populous parts of Yemen, will continue until they are no longer a threat to freedom of navigation.
"The choice for the Houthis is clear:
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NEW, NETANYAHU, CHIEF, TAPS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel named a new chief of the domestic intelligence service on Monday, moving his government closer to a showdown with the Supreme Court, which temporarily suspended the dismissal of the current spy chief earlier this
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MAMA, MUSK, BABY, CHILD
Conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair, the alleged mother of billionaire Elon Musk’s 13th child, told reporters that she sold her Tesla to “make up for the 60 percent cut” he allegedly made to child support.
Speaking with a reporter from the Daily Mail,
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