Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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TRUMP, TESTIFY, NEW, YORK
Donald J. Trump and two of his adult children must sit for questioning under oath as part of the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into their business practices, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers had argued that the
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LIOTTA, RAY, GOODFELLAS, 67
Veteran actor Ray Liotta has died at the age of 67. The actor, perhaps best known for his leading role in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 crime classic Goodfellas, died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic according to Deadline.
An official at the Dominican Republic’s
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SCHOOL, BIDEN, SHOOTING, TEXAS
Improved fencing and decreased phone usage – but not gun control – are among the dozens of solutions offered by Fox News personalities in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas school massacre.
In a clip from media watchdog Media Matters, Fox News pundits and hosts
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SPACEY, KEVIN, SEXUAL, ASSAULT
British prosecutors said Thursday they have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Spacey “has also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without
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HEARD, AMBER, DEPP, JOHNNY
CNN —
Amber Heard returned to the stand on Thursday to testify in her defamation trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp for a second time.
Heard described how her life has been impacted by allegedly defamatory statements made by Depp’s attorney, calling her abuse
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NRA, CONVENTION, SHOOTING, DON
The NRA says its Houston convention will 'reflect on' the Uvalde school shooting
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HOUSTON — The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful
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SUSSMANN, CLINTON, TRIAL, CASE
‘Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.” Sounds like I’m humming Fleetwood Mac, but I’m really just capturing the signal top officials at the FBI seemed to be sending to Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.
Sussmann claimed that he was not representing
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GEORGIA, VOTERS, PRIMARY, KEMP
Georgia's primary Tuesday was the first major election since the state's election law was enacted last summer.
Voting rights groups pointed to problems Tuesday, including delays in opening some polling sites and voters confused about where to cast their ballots.
Georgia
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The Miami Heat urges fans to call their senators about gun law reform
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The Miami Heat basketball team urged fans on Wednesday night to call their senators to advocate for gun
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GUN, POLL, MASS, VIOLENCE
The NRA had the option of delaying the event but chose not to, officials said.
The nation's largest pro-gun lobby is poised to gather in Texas days after one of the worst mass shootings in recent U.S. history unfolded in the state.
Despite demands to cancel
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RUSSIA, CRISIS, UKRAINE, SANCTIONS
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow pressed the West on Thursday to lift sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine, seeking to shift the blame for a growing food crisis that has been worsened by Kyiv’s inability to ship millions of tons of grain and other agricultural
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MUSK, ELON, TWITTER, TESLA
Twitter shareholders have filed a lawsuit against billionaire Elon Musk, accusing him of unlawfully sowing doubt about his bid to buy Twitter
Twitter shareholders have filed a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of engaged in “unlawful conduct” aimed at sowing doubt
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COLIN, KAEPERNICK, RAIDERS, WORKOUT
According to reports, Colin Kaepernick’s workout with the Las Vegas Raiders “went well” and the “door is open” for his return to the NFL.
According to NFL reporter Ian Rapoport:
On Colin Kaepernick’s workout with the #Raiders: Sounds like it went well and
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ABRAMS, GEORGIA, STACEY, HIGH
The number of people turning out for the Georgia primary this week certainly put paid to the Democratic claim about the election law that was passed in 2021. Democrats had falsely claimed that the law was a “Jim Crow” effort to restrict the vote. That was untrue;
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DOMESTIC, BILL, SENATE, TERRORISM
Family members look on during the funeral service for retired Buffalo Police officer Aaron Salter, Jr, a security guard who was shot dead in the attack by an avowed white supremacist at TOPS supermarket, in Buffalo, New York, May 25, 2022.
The U.S. Senate
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COVID, DRUG, MAKE, MOVES
The White House said Thursday it would push to make the anti-COVID medicine Paxlovid much more accessible nationwide as caseloads and hospitalizations continue to rise.
Public health officials plan to offer the highly effective anti-viral drug to patients
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DEGENERES, SHOW, ELLEN, ENDS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres brought her nearly two-decade daytime talk show to an end Thursday with a celebrity lovefest and a forceful assertion of her achievement as a gay woman daring to be herself.
DeGeneres and guests Jennifer Aniston, Billie Eilish
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GUN, TOP, TOM, MAVERICK
Top Gun: Maverick is out soon! But can any movie with fast planes, Tom Cruise, and beach volleyball truly compare to the classic fighter-pilot movie about, as writer Shirley Li puts it, “cute boys calling each other cute names”? And do audiences have an appetite
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UKRAINE, UPDATES, RUSSIA, LIVE
BILOHORIVKA, Ukraine — Out on the riverbank, the scene of mayhem unfolded under a baking spring sun: blown-up tanks, the detritus of pontoon bridges, heaps of branches shorn off by explosions and the bodies of Russian soldiers, some half buried in the mud.
In
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AL, JAZEERA, PALESTINIAN, KILLED
Jerusalem (CNN) A Palestinian Authority investigation into the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has found that she was fatally shot by Israeli forces using an armor-piercing bullet, Palestinian Attorney General Akram Al-Khatib said Thursday.
The announcement
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