Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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BIDEN, INFLATION, WHITE, HOUSE
Korean band BTS appears at the daily press briefing with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, in the Brady Press Briefing of the White House in Washington, DC, May 31, 2022, as they visit to discuss Asian inclusion and representation, and addressing anti-Asian
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SUSSMANN, CLINTON, FBI, DURHAM
With Clinton campaign-tied attorney Michael Sussmann having been acquitted for lying to the FBI, special counsel John Durham issued a statement thanking the jury for its service and his team for "seeking truth and justice."
"While we are disappointed in the
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GUN, CONTROL, HOUSE, BIDEN
House Democrats unveiled plans on Tuesday to introduce eight separate bills aimed at reducing gun violence after last week’s Texas school massacre and the racist rampage in Buffalo.
The Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), plans to take
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SUPREME, COURT, LAW, TEXAS
US Supreme Court law clerks could be asked to turn over their cellphone records as part of the escalating hunt for whoever leaked Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, a new report revealed Tuesday.
Officials tasked with unmasking
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OIL, RUSSIAN, EU, IMPORTS
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, on a screen at left, addresses a summit meeting of European leaders in Brussels on Monday.
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Monday agreed to ban most imports of Russian oil, the harshest economic penalty yet imposed
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LIA, THOMAS, TRANS, WOMEN
Transgender UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas used his Tuesday morning appearance on Good Morning America to let his critics know that he doesn’t need “anybody’s permission” to participate in the sport he loves.
EXCLUSIVE: "Trans people don't transition for athletics.
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RUSSIAN, WAR, CRIMES, UKRAINE
Russian forces in a “frenzied push” have seized half of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk that is key to Moscow’s efforts to quickly complete the capture of the industrial Donbas region
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine -- Russian forces in a “frenzied push”
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DAY, WEEKEND, MEMORIAL, HOLIDAY
(CNN) Ten people were injured, including a 17-year-old, in a shooting in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, police said.
Four people were hospitalized in critical condition, Charleston Police Chief Luther Reynolds said in a news conference Tuesday.
A
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JOHNNY, DEPP, HEARD, AMBER
Johnny Depp has been camped out at the Ritz-Carlton in Virginia during his marathon defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, recuperating from his daily courtroom grind with chicken Parmigiana dinners and red wine, sources told Fox News Digital.
Jurors
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CANADA, NEW, LAW, HANDGUN
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the country will dramatically tighten access to firearms after a series of deadly mass shootings in the United States.
The decision isn’t a full ban, Trudeau said, but effectively “caps” the market for handguns in
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TRUMP, NAVARRO, PETER, SUBPOENAED
Peter Navarro, the Trump administration’s former top trade adviser, has said he will sue House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot, arguing that they have no legal right to hold him in contempt for refusing to
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FIRE, OMAHA, CHEMICAL, RESIDENTS
Authorities say a fire was raging through a chemical company just southwest of downtown Omaha, forcing some nearby residents to evacuate and leaving thousands without power
OMAHA, Neb. -- Fire raged through a chemical company Monday night just southwest of
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PRICES, HOME, MARCH, RECORD
U.S. home prices continued to rise in March despite higher mortgage rates.
Home prices nationally were 20.6% higher than they were in March 2021, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index. That was higher than the 20% gain in February.
For
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PELOSI, HUSBAND, DUI, ARREST
Looks like more shoes are now dropping in the Paul Pelosi DUI arrest in Napa County, California.
As we’ve already reported, Pelosi, 82, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), was arrested on Saturday night shortly before midnight, at 11:44 PM, when
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MILITARY, TAIWAN, VISITS, SEN
Thirty Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) aircraft flew into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) Monday in the second-largest military aircraft incursion of the year, which included two Su-35 fighters for the first time in at least
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GUN, TOP, MAVERICK, FLAG
'Top Gun: Maverick' boasted a record opening weekend. Where'd the numbers come from? When film companies report their opening weekend box office figures, they often include what are called "previews." 'T'wasn't always thus.
Movies 'Top Gun: Maverick' boasted
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MASK, COURT, ASKS, MANDATE
CNN —
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defended its authority to issue a mask mandate for domestic travelers, in a brief filed Tuesday asking an appeals court to reverse a district court’s decision in April to strike down the mandate.
“It
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IRAN, DEAL, NUCLEAR, WATCHDOG
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett accused Iran on Tuesday of stealing internal U.N. nuclear watchdog reports under a plan to prepare ways of staving off scrutiny of its nuclear program.
Neither Tehran nor the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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AGATHA, HURRICANE, MEXICO, WEEK
SAN ISIDRO DEL PALMAR, Mexico — Hurricane Agatha caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 10 people and left 20 missing, the governor of the southern state of Oaxaca said Tuesday.
Gov. Alejando Murat said rivers overflowed their banks and swept away
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WEEKEND, FLIGHTS, SUMMER, MEMORIAL
Canceled flights over Memorial Day weekend offer travelers a peek of the summer
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The unofficial start of summer over the Memorial Day weekend offers a troubling glimpse of what lies
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BORDER, SECTOR, ILLEGAL, BIDEN
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said Tuesday the southern border is controlled by cartels rather than law enforcement.
Hutchinson joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss the need for the Biden administration to focus on the border crisis and work with border
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