Emerging Topics in U.S. News
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
85 articles
BIDEN, CLASSIFIED, DOCUMENTS, DOCS
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee on Friday demanded answers about whether President Biden’s son Hunter was living at and conducting business deals at his dad’s Wilmington, Delaware, home while classified files were there.
Committee Chairman Rep.
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TRUMP, MCCARTHY, TAX, FRAUD
New York orders Trump companies to pay $1.6M for tax fraud Donald Trump's family business has been fined $1.6 million for criminal tax fraud in New York. It is the maximum penalty allowed under state rules.
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PRESLEY, LISA, MARIE, ELVIS
All the fame and money in the world could not save Elvis Presley’s daughter from a life of pain and anguish or from squandering much of her father’s $100 million fortune.
The only child of the man known as The King died from cardiac arrest Thursday at age
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ZOO, LEOPARD, DALLAS, CLOUDED
Dallas Zoo shuts down as police look for escaped clouded leopard
An escaped clouded leopard caused the Dallas Zoo to shut down as police are helping the zoo staff look for the missing cat.
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GAS, STOVES, AOC, SCIENCE
A member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) proposed a ban on new natural gas stoves under the guise of combating childhood asthma.
Richard Trumka Jr., son of the late AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, Sr., is behind this asinine proposal.
Trumka
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SCHOOL, YEAR, SHOOTING, OFFICIAL
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Administrators at the Virginia school where a first-grader shot his teacher last week learned the child may have had a weapon in his possession before the shooting but did not seize the 9mm handgun he brought to his classroom, the school
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ROBBIE, KNIEVEL, 60, SON
Famous American daredevil Robbie Knievel, who followed in the footsteps of his father Evel Knievel, died Friday morning after battling pancreatic cancer, his family confirmed. He was 60.
The record-holding stuntman died in Reno while in hospice care, his brother
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DEBT, LIMIT, YELLEN, HIT
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen warned on Friday that she would have to begin employing “extraordinary measures” to continue paying the nation’s bills this month if lawmakers do not act to raise the statutory debt limit and that her powers to
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RUSSIA, SOLEDAR, UKRAINE, CLAIM
Russia said on Friday that its forces had taken control of the salt-mining town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, claiming to have made its first big battlefield gain after half a year of military setbacks.
Russian forces captured the town, long the focus of
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TORNADOES, DEAD, SEVERE, SOUTHEAST
A massive storm system whipping up severe winds and spawning tornadoes cut a path across the U.S. South, killing at least seven people in Georgia and Alabama, where a twister damaged buildings and tossed cars in the streets of historic downtown Selma
SELMA,
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WALSHE, ANA, MISSING, HUSBAND
CNN —
As the sweeping investigation into the disappearance of Ana Walshe continues, newly obtained documents reveal the mother of three told police her husband, Brian Walshe, threatened to kill her and a friend before the couple was married.
Ana Walshe –
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MILLIONS, MEGA, JACKPOT, FRIDAY
A customer at the Cranberry Super Mini Mart in Cranberry, Pa., shows her Mega Millions ticket on Jan. 12, 2023. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
DES MOINES, Iowa — Mega Millions players will have another chance Friday night to end months of losing and finally win a jackpot
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ABORTION, ILLINOIS, PILLS, VOTERS
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) stated that she voted against abortion legislation proposed by House Republicans because they were “seeking to legitimize crisis pregnancy centers, which are shams, which seek to coerce,
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TWITTER, FILES, ADAM, MATT
We brought you some of the latest Twitter files released from journalist Matt Taibbi, the 14th installment that dealt with Russiagate. We also covered a supplemental release that Taibbi made dealing with Rep. Adam Schiff’s further efforts to censor people.
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HARRY, PRINCE, SPARE, RELEASE
Kate Middleton seemingly took a subtle swipe at Prince Harry during a royal engagement following the publication of his explosive tell-all this week.
On Thursday, the Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Open Door Charity in Birkenhead, England, to learn
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TESLA, PRICES, CUTS, DEMAND
Electric vehicle company Tesla slashed the price of its cars across global markets as much as 20%, the automaker announced on Thursday night.
The move aims to bolster demand as Tesla faces falling sales amid recession fears and heightened competition, some
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SANTOS, GEORGE, LIFE, CALLS
A New York Democrat called on voters to make embattled Long Island Republican Rep. George Santos' life a "living nightmare" at a protest rally in Queens on Friday.
Nassau County legislator Josh Lafazan led an organized protest outside Santos' office in Douglaston,
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JAPAN, ABE, MURDER, PRIME
Prosecutors in Japan have formally charged the man suspected of assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder.
The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, was arrested right after he allegedly shot Abe with a homemade gun, as the former leader was making
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NEW, COST, YORK, ADAMS
Eric Adams said the city received more than 3,100 asylum-seekers last week.
After New York City received over 3,100 asylum-seekers in the last week, including a record number 835 last Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams called on the state to provide more resources
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COOK, PAY, CEO, APPLE
London CNN —
Apple CEO Tim Cook recommended the company cut his pay this year after shareholders rebelled.
The world’s largest tech company said it would reduce Cook’s target pay package to $49 million, 40% lower than his target pay for 2022 and about half
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MEEK, MILL, GOV, PENNSYLVANIA
Rapper Meek Mill is no longer facing gun and drug charges thanks to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.
“I got pardoned today …, I’m taking things really far from being a trench baby!” the rapper, whose real name is Robert Williams tweeted Friday.
Mill shared a photo
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BRAZIL, BOLSONARO, RIOT, PROSECUTORS
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday authorized including former president Jair Bolsonaro in its investigation of who incited the Jan. 8 riot in the nation’s capital, as part of a broader crackdown to hold responsible parties to account.
According
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DRESS, CODE, MISSOURI, HOUSE
The women's dress code inside the Missouri House of Representatives will undergo one notable change in 2023 — due, in part, to a female representative proposing the amended language.
On Wednesday, the Missouri House reportedly adopted a new dress code for
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COVID, SAFETY, CDC, VACCINES
CNN —
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that there is a possible safety issue with the bivalent Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech but that it is unlikely to represent a true risk. The agency said it continues to recommend
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