Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10th 2022
Updated 23:59 ET
32 articles
CUP, WORLD, WAHL, MOROCCO
Kylian Mbappe and France made it back to the semifinals of the World Cup on Saturday by beating England 2-1.
Olivier Giroud scored in the 78th minute at Al Bayt Stadium to keep France on course to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to win back-to-back
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TWITTER, FILES, MUSK, TRUMP
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is once again attempting to launch its premium service, a month after a previous attempt failed.
The social media company said Saturday it would let users buy subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and access special
Continued at Huffington Post...
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GRINER, BRITTNEY, SWAP, PRISONER
A Russian state TV presenter mocked President Biden’s prisoner swap of “Merchant of Death” arms dealer Viktor Bout for WNBA star Brittney Griner, claiming Griner got sprung from behind bars before long-suffering US prisoner Paul Whelan because of identity politics.
Bout
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ACTIVIST, ANGELES, LOS, INVOLVED
Washington CNN —
Los Angeles city council member Kevin de León is facing renewed scrutiny after a video surfaced online Friday night of him engaged in a physical altercation with a community activist during a holiday event.
A 35-second video of the incident
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, BAKHMUT, EASTERN
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces have “destroyed” the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, while Ukraine’s military on Saturday reported missile, rocket and air strikes in multiple parts of the country that Moscow is trying
Continued at Breitbart...
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SINEMA, PARTY, KYRSTEN, DEMOCRATS
Sinema's break with the Democratic Party may not help her as much as she'd like
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has always marched to her own beat.
So it's not shocking that she decided this week she's
Continued at NPR...
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ARIZONA, LAKE, KARI, ELECTION
Republicans in Arizona have filed a lawsuit again alleging incompetence from election officials influenced the midterm election results, after a previous legal challenge was dismissed.
Abraham Hamadeh, the Arizona Republican nominee for attorney general, joined
Continued at Fox News...
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TRUMP, DOJ, JUDGE, DEPARTMENT
Our joke of a justice department has run into another roadblock in its ridiculous crusade against Donald Trump over his alleged possession of classified documents. On Saturday, a federal judge spiked the DOJ’s request to hold Trump in contempt of court for
Continued at Red State...
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BIDEN, HUNTER, GOP, OFFENSE
Hunter Biden is preparing to play hardball with Republicans, who have long made him a target of their investigations and attacks over various business and political scandals surrounding the president’s son.
Mr. Biden’s allies are suggesting the 52-year-old
Continued at Washington Times...
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SNOW, FEET, STATES, CENTRAL
Between Saturday and Monday, a large winter storm is expected to expand across the West.
On the storm's warm side, unstable air may bring severe weather.
The central U.S. is expected to be hit worst by severe weather from Monday to Tuesday.
A large winter
Continued at USA Today...
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CALEB, HEISMAN, WILLIAMS, WINS
When coach Lincoln Riley bolted from the University of Oklahoma after last season, and his star freshman quarterback Caleb Williams followed, along with a boatload of other transfers to the University of Southern California, the expectation was that U.S.C.
Continued at New York Times...
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MAIL, MILWAUKEE, SHOT, CARRIER
Police in Wisconsin are searching for the shooter who killed a U.S. Postal Service employee as he was delivering mail
MILWAUKEE -- Police are searching for the shooter who killed a U.S. Postal Service employee as he was delivering mail in Wisconsin.
The shooting
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MEDIA, PRO, DEMOCRACY, KONG
Jimmy Lai, media mogul and opponent of the Chinese Communist Party, has been sentenced to 69 months in prison after an extensive trial period.
Lai was sentenced on two counts of fraud related to leases for the offices of his newspaper, Apple Daily.
In addition
Continued at Fox News...
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EXPLOSION, JERSEY, MISSING, DEAD
Police on the Channel Island of Jersey say an explosion and fire in an apartment building has killed one person and left several people missing
LONDON -- An explosion and fire in an apartment building on the Channel Island of Jersey killed one person and left
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GUN, DEPUTY, SLAYINGS, KILLED
Authorities say that a Virginia sheriff’s deputy who they believe traveled to California to kill three family members of a 15-year-old girl he tried to sexually extort online killed himself with a government-issued firearm
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A Virginia sheriff’s
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SPILL, KANSAS, OIL, BIGGEST
Federal data shows a spill from the Keystone pipeline this week dumped enough oil to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool into a northeastern Kansas creek
In this photo taken by a drone, cleanup continues in the area where the ruptured Keystone pipeline dumped
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RED, EXTINCTION, IUCN, THREATENED
Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said Friday.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature announced
Continued at New York Post...
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HARRY, PRINCE, NETFLIX, WILLIAM
The deepening feud between Britain’s royal brothers Prince William and Prince Harry — amid outrage over the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix docuseries — won’t mean fewer goodies under the Christmas tree for their nieces and nephews.
Despite the frosty
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BAIL, BAT, NYC, ADAMS
A New York City man accused of brutally attacking a homeless man from behind with a baseball bat was released from jail after posting $7,500 bail.
Karim Azizi, 36, was arrested and charged with assault, attempted assault, and criminal possession of a weapon
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PAKISTAN, SOUTHWEST, KILLS, WOUNDS
Police say a bomb exploded in a bakery in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Baluchistan province killing at least one person and wounding six others, including a woman and a child
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir
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GERMANY, HOSTAGE, SITUATION, DEAD
BERLIN (AP) – German police say they have ended a hostage situation in the eastern city of Dresden, following reports of shots fired Saturday morning.
Authorities had urged people to avoid an area in the city centre and ordered Dresden’s Christmas market to
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CRISIS, DISMISSED, WATER, GOV
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A judge dismissed criminal charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the Flint water crisis, months after the state Supreme Court said indictments returned by a one-person grand jury were invalid.
Snyder, a Republican who left
Continued at Huffington Post...
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RAPE, WEINSTEIN, JURY, WEEK
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors at the Los Angeles rape and sexual misconduct trial of Harvey Weinstein have been deliberating for a week without reaching a verdict.
The jury of eight men and four women went home Friday afternoon and will return to resume deliberations
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BORDER, MIGRANTS, TOWN, ARIZONA
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 320 migrants along the border wall near Lukeville, Arizona in three separate groups. The apprehensions of these migrants from 17 different nations came as President Joe Biden prepared to visit Arizona
Continued at Breitbart...