Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, JUNE 10th 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
47 articles
TRUMP, INDICTMENT, FEDERAL, FIRST
Former President Donald Trump is slated to speak at the North Carolina Republican Party state convention in Greensboro on Saturday evening, just days after being indicted on 38 federal counts.
Trump’s address at the North Carolina GOP convention comes hours
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KACZYNSKI, TED, UNABOMBER, PRISON
He was arrested in 1996 after a nearly 20-year bombing spree.
Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81.
Kaczynski was previously in a maximum
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JUNGLE, PLANE, CRASH, CHILDREN
The children who miraculously survived 40 days alone in dense Colombian jungle relied on survival techniques taught to them by their indigenous grandmother, according to a native elder in the region.
“They were raised by their grandmother,” said John Moreno,
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BELMONT, STAKES, ARCANGELO, WINS
Arcangelo wins the Belmont Stakes
Enlarge this image toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP Mary Altaffer/AP
A gray colt named Arcangelo won the Belmont Stakes, the third and final race of the Triple Crown series, on Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.
The
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HEAT, CONOR, MASCOT, MCGREGOR
MIAMI — Conor McGregor knocked out the Miami Heat mascot in a midgame bit that went wrong.
Burnie - more specifically, the man who occupies Burnie’s costume - briefly sought medical attention Friday night after taking two punches from McGregor during a third-quarter
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GRINER, BRITTNEY, PROVOCATEUR, AIRPORT
DALLAS (AP) — Brittney Griner and her Phoenix Mercury teammates were confronted by a “provocateur” at a Dallas airport on Saturday, the WNBA said.
The league said in a statement it was looking into the team’s run-in with a “social media figure” whose “actions
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COUNTEROFFENSIVE, UKRAINE, ZELENSKY, BEGUN
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Ukrainian counteroffensive operations were underway, but he remained discreet on details beyond sending a message to the Kremlin that his top generals were in high spirits.
Zelenskyy shrugged dismissively
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JOHNSON, BORIS, PARLIAMENT, POLITICS
On Friday, June 9th, Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as a member of Parliament just after learning that an investigation into his flouting of Covid-19 rules while he was in office would result in sanctions for the MP.
Johnson’s announcement
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PARADE, PRINCE, HEAT, WILLIAM
At least three British soldiers fainted Saturday during the final rehearsal in front of Prince William for the annual Trooping the Colour parade.
The guardsmen were wearing woolen tunics and slacks and bearskin hats in the nearly 90-degree London heat for
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SHOOTING, FRANCISCO, INJURED, SAN
By The Associated Press
Multiple victims have been struck by bullets during a mass shooting in San Francisco’s Mission District.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Multiple victims were struck by bullets during a mass shooting in San Francisco's Mission District Friday night,
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STABBING, FRANCE, REMAIN, SUSPECT
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron, right, meet rescue forces, in Annecy, French Alps, Friday, June 9, 2023. A man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park in the French Alps on Thursday June 8, 2023, assaulting
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NEWSOM, GAVIN, BIDEN, SMALL
When I heard that Sean Hannity was interviewing Gavin Newsom, I was immediately perplexed. Since when do prominent Democrats go on Fox News? Much less to speak to a settled partisan who hosts a right-wing opinion show (not that there’s anything wrong with that)?
(Also
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CUBA, CHINA, SPY, CONFIRMS
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, says that China's reported deal with Cuba to build a spy station targeting the U.S. shows that Beijing is preparing for conflict, and that Democrats and Republicans should work together to respond.
Gonzales, who served for 20 years
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GOP, TILLIS, NORTH, SEN
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U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting on Feb. 16, 2023,
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POPE, SKIP, RECOVERY, PUBLIC
Pope Francis continues to recover at a hospital in Rome after undergoing abdominal surgery earlier this week.
The pope underwent a laparotomy and received abdominal wall plastic surgery on Wednesday.
The Vatican Press Office released a statement Saturday
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PGA, TOUR, LIV, SAUDI
Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, had gone unnoticed in Venice last month.
With luck, he thought over breakfast near the Palazzo Ducale, his confidential talks in Italy with Yasir al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s more than $700 billion sovereign
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BIDEN, PRIDE, HOUSE, WHITE
Biden honors LGBTQ+ Pride Month at White House
President Joe Biden welcomed hundreds to the White House on Saturday for a delayed Pride Month celebration aimed at showing support to the LGBTQ+ community. (June 10)
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DESANTIS, GOV, ENDORSES, OKLAHOMA
Republican Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP presidential primary on Saturday, as DeSantis tries to overtake the front-running candidate, former President Donald Trump.
DeSantis, who officially launched his
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DISTANCING, UNVACCINATED, MASKS, HOUSE
The Democrats’ position on COVID restrictions didn’t make a lot of sense while the “emergency” was still on.
Now that they declared the emergency “over” in April and declared an end to the oppressive government mandates, long after most of the rest of the
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CITY, LOS, SANCTUARY, ANGELES
The city of Los Angeles, California, has officially declared itself a “sanctuary city” to shield criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency — a decision that will enshrine the policy into its
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PLANT, NUCLEAR, UKRAINIAN, WATER
A Ukrainian nuclear plant is facing a water shortage
Enlarge this image toggle caption Kateryna Klochko/AP Kateryna Klochko/AP
Workers at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant are in a race to secure water for the plant's safe operation.
Following the destruction
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GENDER, IDENTITY, CALIFORNIA, BILL
A California state bill was recently amended so that parents in custody battles may be liable for child abuse if they do not affirm the gender identity of their children.
AB 957, which passed in the State Assembly on May 3, originally proposed that courts
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HOME, MILLION, PENNIES, CALIFORNIA
Find a penny, pick it up. Find a million more, and what are you supposed to do with them all?
That is the coinundrum facing John Reyes, a realtor from southern California. While helping his wife clean out her father's Los Angeles home, the family found more
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PLANE, MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA, SUPERSTITION
Recovery efforts were underway after a plane crashed in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains Saturday morning, officials said.
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office posted on Twitter that multiple people saw the plane go down, and that air support was able to confirm
Continued at New York Post...