Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
126 articles
TRUMP, FBI, LAGO, MAR
Donald Trump’s attorney has revealed that he and Trump family members watched nearly the entire FBI search of Mar-a-Lago on surveillance cameras, further dashing the former president’s claims that agents likely “planted” any evidence that was taken.
“The folks
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RUSHDIE, SALMAN, NEW, YORK
Iranian state media on Friday condemned author Salman Rushdie, calling him an "apostate" and his writings "blasphemous" after the Indian-born writer was stabbed before a speech in New York.
Rushdie was stabbed in the neck by an attacker before giving a speech
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BILL, CLIMATE, HOUSE, DEMOCRATS
The House votes on the Inflation Reduction Act The House votes Friday to give final congressional approval to a package of climate, health care and tax measures that Democrats have been negotiating for over a year.
Politics The House votes on the Inflation
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ANNE, HECHE, CRASH, EXPECTED
Hollywood actor Anne Heche has been declared "brain dead" one week after she crashed her car into a Los Angeles building, US media said Friday.
Heche, 53, had been comatose in hospital with a severe brain injury since the fiery collision on August 5.
She
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POLIO, NEW, YORK, DETECTED
The polio virus has been found in New York City sewage, but officials are stressing that the main risk is for people who have not been vaccinated.
Polio was once one of the nation’s most feared diseases, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of
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FBI, OFFICE, CINCINNATI, KILLED
Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that today’s attack on the FBI field office in Cincinnati has a”direct line” from Republican lawmakers’ rhetoric against the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Swalwell
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, SHIP, BLASTS
Photos: Russia invades Ukraine A young girl holds her dog as an evacuation train departs from Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, on August 2. Hide Caption 1 of 247
Photos: Russia invades Ukraine Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters attend to a fire at an
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TWITTER, BIDEN, BAN, ALEX
Though a fair amount of conservatives exist on the Twitter machine and have done well for themselves, the presence of woke leftists is far more prevalent and noticeable thanks in part to the fact that Twitter has dedicated so much time to suppressing conservative
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TRUMP, TAX, CFO, ORGANIZATION
Trump Organization, CFO's tax fraud trial set
A New York judge has ordered that Donald Trump's company and its longtime finance chief stand trial in the fall on tax fraud charges.
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IRS, YELLEN, NEW, CLASS
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen claimed that the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) expanded auditing power would only target the wealthy in a Thursday letter to the agency, outlining the ways the Biden administration intends to use funding provided
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POWDER, TALC, BABY, YEAR
Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year after it did the same in the U.S. and Canada amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it had caused cancer
Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year
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CNN, JEFFREY, TOOBIN, YEARS
Jeffrey Toobin is leaving CNN after two decades on the network — where he survived a masturbation scandal that got him fired from the New Yorker magazine.
The commentator made the abrupt announcement Friday on Twitter as CNN was not expected to renew his contract,
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NUCLEAR, PLANT, ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE
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LAS, VEGAS, FLOODS, CASINOS
(CNN) Heavy rain poured into Las Vegas casinos and flooded streets Thursday night as the wettest monsoon season in a decade helps alleviate the West's severe drought -- but also causes significant damage.
Rainwater poured in through a ceiling at Planet Hollywood
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FLORIDA, GENDER, MEDICAID, AFFIRMING
Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) has reportedly finalized rules that prevent health care providers from billing the state's Medicaid program for gender-affirming medical treatments.
Politico reported on Thursday that the agency added
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BOWSER, GUARD, NATIONAL, MAYOR
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has formally renewed her bid to get National Guard help for the “critical” flood of border-crossers being shipped in by fed-up officials in Arizona and Texas.
Bowser wrote to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday,
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ACT, INFLATION, REDUCTION, PIERRE
The Inflation Reduction Act is headed to President Biden’s desk.
The House approved the bill, a pared-back version of the original Build Back Better legislation, Friday afternoon, with all 220 Democrats voting for it and 207 Republicans voting against it.
Now
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ARIZONA, BORDER, WALL, CRISIS
PHOENIX — Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma on Friday, with officials saying they were acting to stop migrants after repeated, unfulfilled promises from
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BREONNA, PLEAD, TAYLOR, GUILTY
Prosecutors said Ms. Goodlett had reviewed a draft of the affidavit and, despite knowing that the claim about the postal inspector was false, did not alter it. They also said she added a misleading line to the affidavit in which she said the former boyfriend
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SOUTHERN, ABUSE, CONVENTION, SEX
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, said on Friday that several of its entities were being investigated by the Justice Department, after a report found the church had mishandled sex abuse claims and mistreated victims.
The
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CHINA, TAIWAN, COUNTRY, SHOW
Still, the latest measures are unlikely to be especially painful for an economy that is roughly the size of Switzerland’s and features a sophisticated manufacturing base.
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DESHAUN, WATSON, BROWNS, IMPACTED
Deshaun Watson will take the field for the first time since 2020 when he makes his debut for the Cleveland Brown’s preseason exhibition on Friday night, but with an appeal of his six-game suspension still looming, Watson is willing to meet the NFL somewhere
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STUDENTS, CALIFORNIA, FREE, MEALS
The Universal Meals Program will kick off this school year.
All California public school students will have access to free nutritious meals this school year, thanks to the statewide Universal Meals Program.
The program comes at a crucial time, with food costs
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CAROLINA, WOMAN, SOUTH, UMBRELLA
A South Carolina woman was killed after she was impaled in the chest by a beach umbrella that had blown away in a gust of wind, local officials said.
Tammy Perreault was at a Garden City beach when the umbrella broke loose from its anchor and struck her around
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