Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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LIVES, GUN, MARCH, THOUSANDS
Thousands gather at March for Our Lives rallies nationwide to push for gun control
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WASHINGTON — Thousands of people rallied on the National Mall and across the United States on Saturday
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PRIDE, ARRESTED, IDAHO, EVENT
In 1937, the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment applied to the states just as it did to the federal government. That is, state and local government, just as Congress “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
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KILLED, CRASH, SON, MARINES
Former Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Steve Sax's son was among the five people killed during a military aircraft crash on Wednesday.
Capt. John J. Sax, the son of Steve Sax, was one of the crew members of the Osprey tiltrotor aircraft that crashed in
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SYNDROME, JUSTIN, RAMSAY, BIEBER
(CNN) Justin Bieber announced Friday that he is taking a break from performing because he is suffering from paralysis on one side of his face.
"It is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis,"
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The New York attorney general's lawsuit against the National Rifle Association is no mere “witch hunt,” a New York judge ruled Friday in dismissing the gun rights advocacy group's claims that the case is a political vendetta.
Manhattan Judge Joel M. Cohen's
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NBA, FINALS, CURRY, WARRIORS
The crowd heartily booed Golden State’s players, beginning in their pregame warm-ups.
When Thompson appeared on the court an hour before the game, a group of fans in the lower bowl booed him. He acknowledged them with his arms and encouraged them to get louder.
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TRUMP, BRITT, MO, ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Donald Trump endorsed Katie Britt on Friday in an Alabama U.S. Senate race, doubling down on the former president’s decision to spurn his previous choice in the Republican primary.
Trump called Britt “an incredible fighter for the people
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BELMONT, STAKES, DONEGAL, MO
Will patriotism and horseracing be the winning mix in the race known as “the test of the champion”?
We’re about to find out, with post time for the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown less an half-hour away at Belmont Park in Queens, NY. Several
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WILDFIRE, NEW, BIDEN, MEXICO
President Biden is slated to visit New Mexico on Saturday amid a highly active fire season, as anger continues to simmer over the cause of the state's largest recorded blaze.
The president will meet with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has called for the
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BIDEN, NYT, FEEL, TIMES
The Democrat-allied New York Times published a damning article Saturday that called into question President Biden’s 2024 “political viability” because the nation “is completely falling apart.”
After the Times spent most of 2020 defending and aiding Biden’s
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ALASKA, ELECTION, SPECIAL, PALIN
Anchorage, Alaska (CNN) The wildest congressional contest of 2022 is unfolding in Alaska, where the state's former governor and onetime Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is attempting a political comeback in a crowded field for a House seat
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FOX, NEWS, PARENTS, TEENAGER
Fox News stunned its audience Friday after it aired a sympathetic transgender story about a biological girl who had “transitioned” beginning at the age of 5 to become a boy.
As part of Fox News’s special series called "America Together: LGBTQ+ Pride Month,"
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STUDY, ROLE, TUSKEGEE, SYPHILIS
FILE - President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, back, help Herman Shaw, 94, a Tuskegee Syphilis Study victim, during a news conference on May 16, 1997. Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public in 1972 and halted,
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MEXICO, MIGRANTS, TEMPORARY, DOCUMENTS
The massive migrant caravan, which at one point swelled up to well over 10,000 migrants as it set off toward the U.S. border from southern Mexico, has now broken up as Mexican officials have offered temporary visas to migrants – although organizers say they
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VEGAS, PEOPLE, PHOENIX, MILLION
More than 50 million people are being warned of sweltering temperatures Saturday as an early-season heat wave hits southwestern states from California to Texas.
On Saturday, National Weather Service stations in Phoenix, Houston, Albuquerque and San Antonio
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GENDER, JUDGE, COUNTY, GEORGIA
North Carolina can’t deny gender-affirming services to state employees who receive health insurance through the state’s health care plan, a federal judge ruled Friday in a major victory for transgender rights advocates.
U.S. District Judge Loretta C. Biggs
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CRASH, HELICOPTER, ITALY, BODIES
(CNN) The bodies of seven people were found on Saturday, two days after a helicopter crashed in northern Italy.
Five bodies were initially found, according to the National Alpine Cliff and Cave Rescue Corps (CNSAS), but the bodies of two others on board were
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SEXUALITY, GENDER, CENSUS
Scout, a transgender man who uses one name, stands in the entrance to his home in Providence, R.I., Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The 2020 census questionnaire drove Scout crazy. With no direct questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, it made him
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ZELENSKY, BIDEN, HEAR, INVASION
President Joe Biden, speaking to donors at a Democratic fundraiser here, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “didn’t want to hear it” when U.S. intelligence gathered information that Russia was preparing to invade.
The remarks came as Biden was talking
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MAHER, KAVANAUGH, NYT, BURIED
Bill Maher, host of "Real Time," went after The New York Times for burying the headline regarding the assassination attempt of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. While the story was shared as a teaser, which directed readers to page A-20, the prominent
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YELLOWSTONE, OFFENSIVE, PEAK, SERVICE
The National Park Service announced last week that Yellowstone National Park's Mount Doane would be renamed First Peoples Mountain.
The agency said Thursday the change was taken to remove an "offensive name" from America's first national park.
The U.S.
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