Emerging Topics in U.S. News
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
73 articles
BIDEN, CLASSIFIED, DOCUMENTS, PENCE
Rep. James Comer says the next phase of his House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Biden family will take in President Biden’s classified documents and the business relationships of first son Hunter Biden — including the paintings he sold for exorbitant
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HALF, BAY, MOON, CALIFORNIA
Local officials reach out to victims and families of the Half Moon Bay shootings NPR's A Martinez speaks with Dave Pine, president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, about the gun violence in California, including two related mass shootings in Half
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SHOOTING, DEAD, WASHINGTON, OAKLAND
A mass shooting that left one dead and seven injured at a gas station in Oakland, California happened during the filming of a music video, reports say.
The gunfire that erupted Monday night at a Valero location came hours after seven people were killed in
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TICKETMASTER, SWIFT, TAYLOR, SENATORS
Live Nation Entertainment, the concert industry giant that owns Ticketmaster, came under withering attack during a Senate Judiciary hearing on Tuesday, with committee members from both parties criticizing it for the botched sale of tickets to Taylor Swift’s
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UKRAINE, TANKS, ABRAMS, SEND
Germany will approve the transfer of Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukrainian forces and also grant permission to other European nations, including Poland, to do the same for their German-made tanks.
The German decision, made after days of pressure from the most
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PARK, MONTEREY, SHOOTING, UPDATES
CNN —
Among the victims of a mass shooting at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, on Saturday were a loving father, and a woman whose family called her one of their biggest cheerleaders.
Dozens in their 50s, 60s and 70s gathered to celebrate the
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MCCARTHY, COMMITTEE, SWALWELL, SCHIFF
Citing the need for "integrity," House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Tuesday that he will stick by his promise not to allow California Democrats Reps. Adam Schif and Eric Swalwell, on the powerful Intelligence Committee.
House Minority Leader Hakeem
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GOOGLE, ADVERTISING, DIGITAL, JUSTICE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and eight states sued Google on Tuesday, alleging that its dominance in digital advertising harms competition.
The government alleges that Google’s plan to assert dominance has been to “neutralize or eliminate” rivals
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DOOMSDAY, CLOCK, SECONDS, 90
Doomsday Clock says the world is closer than ever to a global catastrophe This year's Doomsday Clock announcement revealed it is 90 seconds to midnight, making us closer to global catastrophe than ever before. Damien Henderson, Associated Press
The world is
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BIDEN, HOUSE, NEW, COVID
At this point, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is defaulting on virtually every question about Joe Biden’s classified document scandal to “ask the White House Counsel’s office.” She’s even refused to deny that Biden was involved in a cover-up,
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GEORGIA, REPORT, JURY, ELECTION
A consortium of media outlets has asked Judge Robert McBurney to make the report public, as the grand jury has recommended.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis cited that plan during a hearing in Atlanta, where she urged the judge to keep sealed for
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OSCAR, NOMINATIONS, TOP, MAVERICK
Janet Yang, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, speaks at the 95th Academy Awards nomination ceremony on Jan. 24, 2023, at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
NEW YORK — The multiverse-skipping sci-fi indie hit “Everything
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GUN, LAWS, CALIFORNIA, SHOOTINGS
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California has the strictest gun control laws in the nation, but accounts for 14% of mass shooting fatalities in the U.S., the second largest number of fatalities behind Texas, according to Mother
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SHIFFRIN, WORLD, RECORD, 83RD
SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Italy -- SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Italy (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won a record 83rd World Cup race Tuesday.
Shiffrin’s giant slalom victory broke a tie on the all-time women’s list with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn.
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DEBT, CEILING, MCCARTHY, MCCONNELL
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday endorsed House Republicans’ demands for spending cuts in exchange for raising the nation’s borrowing limit to avoid defaulting on U.S. debts.
“I think it is entirely reasonable for the new speaker and his team
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FBI, AGENT, OFFICIAL, RUSSIA
Sean Hannity dug into the latest details regarding the arrest of former FBI official Charles McGonigal for financial relations with Russian oligarchs on "Hannity."
SEAN HANNITY: WILL JOE BIDEN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE?
SEAN HANNITY: I hope that congenital liar
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ASSAULT, BAN, WEAPONS, MASS
CLAIM: White house press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed the result of the 1994-2004 “assault weapons” ban was that “mass shootings went down.”
VERDICT: False.
Jean-Pierre opened Tuesday’s press conference by talking about the mass shootings that have
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VOTING, POLL, BLACK, JIM
A majority of likely voters in the United States said they prefer having the government shut down to having Congress approve more spending, according to a poll.
A Rasmussen Reports poll indicated that 56 percent of the respondents would rather have a partial
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NEW, STORM, WINTER, UPDATES
Nearly 11 months have passed since measurable snow fell in New York City, making it the second-longest snowless streak to happen in the Big Apples since weather records started being kept.
The record for the longest streak was set in 2020, when 332 days passed
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EUGENIE, PRINCESS, CHILD, EXPECTING
Princess Eugenie announced on Tuesday that she and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, are expecting their second child.
“We’re so excited to share that there will be a new addition to our family this summer,” she wrote in an Instagram post alongside a photo of
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SANDS, JULIAN, MISSING, AREA
Rescue personnel in California say they have launched a search for a second hiker on the same mountain where actor Julian Sands is missing
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Rescue personnel in California have launched a search for a second hiker on the same mountain
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DALLAS, ZOO, DEATH, SUSPICIOUS
The Dallas Zoo is offering a $10,000 reward for information about how one of its endangered vultures died under “very suspicious” circumstances.
The lappet-faced vulture named Pin was around 35 years old and discovered dead in its habitat Saturday morning
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ELON, MUSK, TESLA, DEFENDS
Elon Musk defiantly defends himself in Tesla tweet trial insisting he could have pulled the deal off
Elon Musk has concluded his testimony in a federal trial over a class-action lawsuit that alleges he misled Tesla shareholders with a tweet about an aborted
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RENT, TWITTER, HQ, UNPAID
More landlords are taking Twitter to court over unpaid rent, this time at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco and its British offices
LONDON -- More landlords are taking to court over unpaid rent, this time at the social media company’s
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