Emerging Topics in U.S. News
SATURDAY, JULY 22nd 2023
Updated 23:59 ET
15 articles
TRUMP, POLL, DESANTIS, BIDEN
A new Harvard-Harris Poll found the majority of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track and respondents are picking former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden and GOP primary challenger Ron DeSantis to fix it.
Trump leads the DeSantis
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NETANYAHU, ISRAEL, MARCH, THOUSANDS
JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters marched into Jerusalem on Saturday evening and hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities in a last-ditch show of force aimed at blocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
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SHOOTING, POLICE, DEAD, INJURED
Montgomery County Police shot a man accused of stabbing four victims in Aspen Hill, Maryland, Saturday morning.
At around 10:30 a.m., law enforcement was called to the 4100 block of Colie Drive, behind the Korean Korner grocery store at Randolph and Viers
Continued at Washington Times...
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CUP, WORLD, WOMEN, VIETNAM
In the weeks before the Women’s World Cup, Sophia Smith admitted that she wanted to be the first United States player to score a goal in the tournament. Of course she did. Like every great athlete, she has long envisioned herself as a star.
Growing up in Colorado
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BIDEN, 2024, ENDORSES, HUNTER
The FBI demanded the House Oversight Committee keep the bureau’s unclassified FD-1023 form confidential before its release by Republicans on Thursday.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he released the form upon acquiring it by legally protected disclosures from
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JAMIE, FOXX, VIDEO, HEALTH
Jamie Foxx has spoken out and addressed his medical complications for the first time since he was hospitalized in April.
The 55-year-old actor posted a video on Instagram Friday night saying that he has been through “hell and back” over the past several months
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WILDFIRES, GREEK, RHODES, FORCING
More than 2,000 people were evacuated from homes and hotels Saturday as a fast-moving wildfire swept across the Greek island of Rhodes.
Although the fire had been burning for several days, it was confined to the island’s interior until strong winds and intense
Continued at New York Post...
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BORDER, TEXAS, MIGRANT, STATE
Decades of poor immigration policies made even weaker under Biden’s administration has led a New Mexico rancher to become a caretaker for migrants, the fourth-generation border rancher told Fox News.
"I feel like we are just collateral damage," said Amanda
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MEGA, MILLIONS, JACKPOT, 820
A Mega Millions wagering slip is held in Cranberry Township, Pa., Jan. 12, 2023. The Mega Millions top prize has jumped to an estimated $820 million after there was no grand prize winner in the latest drawing, late Friday, July 21, 2023. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
Mega
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DEPOT, DRONE, CRIMEAN, UKRAINE
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian drone hit an ammunition depot in central Crimea on Saturday, sparking an explosion, less than a week after a predawn strike on a key bridge linking the peninsula to Russia prompted Moscow to exit a landmark grain export deal
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BODY, FOUND, FLOOD, YEAR
BUCKS COUNTY, Penn. — Officials say they believe the body of a girl found in the Delaware River is Matilda "Mattie" Sheils, the 2-year-old who, along with her infant brother, slipped out of the arms of family members when they were swept away by flood waters
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JASON, ALDEAN, CANCEL, LOVE
Singer Jason Aldean has taken a lot of fire from people on the left over the last week because of their distortion of his song, “Try That in a Small Town.” The song talks about standing up to violence and riots where people “stomp on the flag and light it up.”
Continued at Red State...
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PROTESTERS, DENMARK, BAGHDAD, FLAG
Protesters try to storm Baghdad's Green Zone over Quran and flag burning in Denmark
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BAGHDAD — Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign
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DECADE, JEFF, POST, BOUGHT
During his tenure as executive editor at The Washington Post, Martin Baron ran into a persistent problem.
Jeff Bezos had purchased The Post for $250 million in 2013, less than a year after Mr. Baron had taken over. Mr. Bezos, who arrived at media ownership
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GRAIN, DEAL, RUSSIA, UKRAINIAN
UNITED NATIONS — Russia came under pressure at the United Nations Security Council on Friday from its ally China and developing countries as well as Western nations to avert a global food crisis and quickly revive Ukrainian grain shipments.
Moscow was also
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SCOTIA, NOVA, BREACH, EASTERN
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — An unusually long procession of intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia over the past two days, causing flash flooding, road washouts and power outages.
Torrential
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DEMOCRAT, CHILDREN, CONSPIRED, DAYCARE
A transgender former New Hampshire state lawmaker is facing criminal charges for allegedly conspiring with a daycare worker to gather sexually explicit photos of children.
Stacie Marie Laughton, a 39-year-old who was born male but now identifies as a female,
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CARLEE, RUSSELL, REPORTS, WOMAN
From the beginning, the details of Carlee Russell’s disappearance seemed destined to cause an internet frenzy: Russell, a Black 25-year-old nursing student, went missing from the side of a highway in Hoover, Alabama on the night of July 13th, shortly after
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HUNTER, TAYLOR, MARJORIE, GREENE
Lowell, in the letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics, wrote that it previously contacted the office over Greene’s defamatory statements and “bizarre dissemination of conspiracy theories” toward Hunter Biden, adding that she “lowered herself and by extension
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GILGO, BEACH, REX, SUSPECT
Alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann better sleep with one eye open.
Fellow Suffolk County inmate Philip Walker, in an exclusive jailhouse interview with The Post, warned, “I don’t think people would be too happy if he was in population. I don’t
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MALAYSIA, BANDMATE, MATTY, 1975
British pop-rock band The 1975 has been banned from performing in Malaysia a day after the band’s frontman Matty Healy slammed the country’s anti-LGBTQ laws and then kissed his bandmate, bassist Ross MacDonald.
The country, where homosexuality is illegal,
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NIXON, CLINTON, DECLASSIFIED, RUSSIA
A month before he died in April 1994, former President Richard Nixon wrote a letter to then-President Bill Clinton offering what Clinton later called “wise counsel, especially with regard to Russia.” The contents of that letter have now been declassified by
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DAMAGE, FDA, CAUSE, SUPPLY
RALEIGH, N.C. — Most of the destruction from a tornado that tore through eastern North Carolina Wednesday and struck a large Pfizer pharmaceutical plant affected its storage facility, rather than its medicine production areas, the company said Friday.
The
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DOZENS, SENDS, TAIWAN, CHINA
FILE - J-10 jet fighters perform in formation to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army Air Force in Beijing, China, Nov. 15, 2009. China sent dozens of warplanes, including fighter jets and bombers, toward Taiwan, the island's Defense
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