Emerging Topics in U.S. News
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
159 articles
TRUMP, FBI, LAGO, MAR
Former President Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment rights in a deposition as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation into his family’s business practices—just days after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home in connection with an investigation
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PRICES, GAS, TIME, INFLATION
(CNN) A benchmark measure of inflation slowed in July after surging in the previous month, offering a glimmer of hope that the painful inflation Americans are facing could moderate in the coming months.
The Producer Price Index, which captures prices paid
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MIGRANTS, BIDEN, NYC, TEXAS
Agents in the five Texas-based Border Patrol Sectors apprehended more than 118,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border in July. In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott expanded his migrant busing operation to include the sanctuary city of New York.
Border
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BIDEN, JOE, AUGUST, TICE
President Biden and his family, including disgraced first son Hunter, are spending their summer vacation at a $20 million beachfront mansion in South Carolina, The Post has learned — and they’re not paying a dime.
The president recently asked prominent Democratic
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SCHOOL, TEXAS, OFFICERS, UVALDE
Uvalde students returning to school on Sept. 6 will see additional police officers protecting them, four months after a fatal shooting at an elementary school exposed security flaws and left the community reeling.
When school in the Uvalde Consolidated Independent
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INDIANA, EXPLOSION, HOUSE, DEAD
A home explosion in Evansville, Indiana killed three people and injured at least one other person on Wednesday, according to officials. MaCabe Brown/Evansville Courier & Press via Associated Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Three people were killed Wednesday
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SHOOTING, POLICE, OFFICER, SUSPECT
Authorities say an eastern Indiana police officer was critically wounded and a man was injured in a shootout following a traffic stop
RICHMOND, Ind. -- An eastern Indiana police officer was critically wounded and a man was injured in a shootout following a
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NORTH, KIM, KOREA, COVID
Sister says North Korea's Kim suffered a fever from COVID
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared victory over COVID-19 at a national meeting where his sister, in an especially combative speech,
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CRIMEA, AIR, BASE, RUSSIA
Satellite pictures released on Thursday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with potential to change the course of the war.
Pictures released by independent
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BOYFRIEND, STABBING, ONLYFANS, MODEL
An OnlyFans and social media model was arrested in Hawaii on Wednesday and is being charged in the April death of her boyfriend, whom she admitted to police she stabbed.
Courtney Clenney, a 26-year-old with two million followers on Instagram and goes by Courtney
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POLL, CONCERNED, MENTAL, HEALTH
A majority of Americans are worried President Joe Biden is suffering from cognitive decline, a new I&I/TIPP poll found.
“Even before he became president, the now-79-year-old Joe Biden faced serious and persistent questions about his mental health. Among average
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CDC, COVID, SCREENING, DROPS
NEW YORK — The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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CHINA, TAIWAN, MILITARY, PELOSI
“The arms sales process is one where Taiwan has to justify the need to the Americans on why we want those weapons,” said Kitsch Liao, a military and cyber affairs consultant at Doublethink Lab, a Taiwanese research group. “And there’s nothing more powerful
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IRAN, BOLTON, PLOT, JOHN
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said he was "embarrassed" that the price on his head hadn't been set higher by an Iranian national.
Bolton, speaking Wednesday on CNN, was asked about a plot by a member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps to assassinate
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SUPERMOON, SHOWER, METEOR, TONIGHT
Thursday night into Friday morning will be one of the special dates scattered throughout each year when skywatchers can catch a meteor shower as a multitude of flares potentially burst in the darkness.
Meteor showers occur when our planet runs into the debris
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ANNE, CRASH, HECHE, COCAINE
The woman whose rented home was destroyed in actor Anne Heche’s fiery car crash last week has addressed the incident and thanked people around the world for their support.
Lynne Mishele’s home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mar Vista went up in flames
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PARK, COASTER, ROLLER, AMUSEMENT
(CNN) A roller coaster crash at a Legoland theme park in southern Germany injured 31 people on Thursday, according to local authorities.
One person suffered severe but not life-threatening injuries and 15 people were taken to hospital with light injuries after
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TWITTER, MIDTERMS, ANNOUNCES, AHEAD
Twitter is at it again. They just announced steps to “protect” the midterm elections.
JUST IN – Twitter announces steps "to protect" US midterm elections. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 11, 2022
According to their Twitter thread, “Starting today, we’ll
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PETERSON, SCOTT, TRIAL, NEW
Scott Peterson appeared in a California court on Thursday for prosecutors and attorneys to argue their respective cases over whether the convicted killer deserves a new trial in the 2002 murders of his wife and unborn son.
Peterson, now 49, wore a blue coronavirus
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KOBE, BRYANT, PHOTOS, CRASH
Vanessa Bryant, center, the widow of Kobe Bryant, leaves a federal courthouse in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Kobe Bryant's widow is taking her lawsuit against the Los Angeles County sheriff's and fire departments to a federal jury, seeking compensation
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POLICE, INSIDE, CAR, HOT
A 3-month-old boy died inside a hot car in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, authorities said.
D.C. police officers responded to a report of an unconscious infant in a residence in the Park View neighborhood of Northwest D.C. just after 6 p.m.
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DEMANDING, BANK, STAFF, HOSTAGE
A Lebanese security official says a man armed with a shotgun has broken into a Beirut bank, holding employees hostage and threatening to set himself ablaze with gasoline unless he receives his trapped savings
BEIRUT -- A Lebanese man armed with a shotgun broke
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CLAIMS, RISE, UNEMPLOYMENT, 14
A hiring sign is displayed at a restaurant in Schaumburg, Illinois, on April 1, 2022. More Americans applied for jobless benefits last week as the number of unemployed continues to rise modestly, though the labor market remains one of the strongest parts of
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DISNEY, SUBSCRIBERS, WOKE, AHEAD
Remember when Disney signaled their virtue about Florida’s parental rights bill that the left had falsely named the “Don’t Say Gay” bill? Remember how Disney vowed to stand against the evil Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for his supposed homophobia, and how
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