Emerging Topics in U.S. News
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PRIMARY, DEMOCRATS, PRESIDENTIAL, CALENDAR
The new calendar South Carolina the first state to cast votes.
The Democratic National Committee near unanimously approved a reconfigured presidential primary calendar rubber-stamped by the White House at the group's winter gathering on Saturday.
A few nay
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OHIO, TRAIN, FIRE, DERAILMENT
A train derailed near the border of Ohio and Pennsylvania on Friday night, causing a massive fire in the area, local media reported.
Multiple train cars can be seen on fire in images posted on social media from East Palestine, a town northwest of Pittsburgh.
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COLD, NEW, MOUNT, WASHINGTON
Temperatures dropped precipitously and wind speeds rose across the Northeast early on Saturday, but no area could compete with the frigid conditions atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
At 6,288 feet, it is the highest peak in the Northeast and known for
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KYRIE, IRVING, NETS, TRADE
With Brooklyn Nets star guard Kyrie Irving requesting a trade prior to the deadline on Thursday, NBA legend Magic Johnson knows where he wants to see him go.
"Personally, I’d love to see Kyrie in the purple and gold," Johnson tweeted on Friday, referencing
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POLL, TRUMP, BIDEN, DOCUMENTS
This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted by in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 search by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
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TYRE, NICHOLS, BLACK, POLICE
The U.S. Justice Department will participate in a review of the Memphis Police Department after the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man fatally beaten by officers in the Tennessee city last month, according to city officials.
The review was disclosed
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BIDEN, STATE, UNION, JOE
As the nation has changed, so has the State of the Union speech
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It has been called the biggest night of the year in Washington, D.C., and also the dullest
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POLICE, SUSPECT, SHOT, SHOOT
A San Jose police officer was wounded by gunfire early Sunday morning after a suspect opened fire at two locations.
The violence unfolded after police officers initiated a traffic stop near the intersection of King and Story Roads just before 10:30 p.m. The
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SANTOS, GEORGE, STAFFER, RULES
CNN —
A former prospective staffer to Rep. George Santos said he filed a police report and House ethics complaint alleging that the freshman congressman made an unwanted sexual advance toward him during a private encounter in his office and was later denied
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ISRAELI, PM, PUTIN, KILL
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
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DOZENS, SWAP, PRISONER, RUSSIA
KYIV, Ukraine — Dozens of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war have returned home following a prisoner swap, officials on both sides said Saturday.
Top Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said in a Telegram post that 116 Ukrainians were freed.
He
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TRUMP, SUNUNU, 2024, GOV
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu doesn't believe that former President Donald Trump would beat current President Joe Biden in a general-election setting next year — despite what one left-leaning poll has already suggested.
While appearing on ABC's "This Week"
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POWERBALL, JACKPOT, 700M, DRAWING
The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $700 million, with a cash option of $375.7 million, ahead of Saturday night's drawing.
If someone wins the estimated $700 million prize, it would be the sixth largest jackpot that Powerball has ever seen and tenth
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SCHOOL, ARRESTED, HIGH, CALIFORNIA
A man has been arrested in connection with an incident at a girls’ high school basketball game in Corona, California, where he allegedly punched several female athletes and brandished a firearm.
During a game between the Centennial High School Huskies and
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RUST, BALDWIN, SPOTTED, ARMORER
Alec Baldwin's defense attorneys and prosecutors will both have persuasive arguments in the fatal "Rust" shooting case if it goes to trial, according to lawyer James Brosnahan.
Last month, the 64-year-old actor and film armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were charged
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Former British prime minister Liz Truss blamed on Sunday the economic "orthodoxy" in the country's finance ministry, other nations and in parts of the governing Conservative Party for derailing her premiership and "plan for growth".
Truss's tenure was cut
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TRAGEDIES, VACCINE, LIES, DIED
Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver’s autopsy may take weeks. But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral this week to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine.
A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia’s name and smiling dance
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CHRISTMAS, MELINDA, DILLON, 83
Melinda Dillon, the two-time Academy Award nominee who starred in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "A Christmas Story," died on Jan. 9. She was 83.
The actress' obituary noted that "fond memories and expressions of sympathy" for the Dillon family could
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SOUTH, SUDAN, POPE, PEACE
The Pope has called for peace in South Sudan in the final part of his Africa tour
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JUBA, South Sudan — Pope Francis made a final appeal for peace in South Sudan on Sunday as he celebrated
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SHARK, GIRL, TEENAGE, AUSTRALIA
A teenage girl who had jumped off her jet ski to try to swim with dolphins was killed by a shark in Australia Saturday.
The 16-year-old suffered critical injuries after apparently being attacked by the shark in Perth’s Swan River. She later died.
“There was
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CHARLES, BROWN, MURPHY, KIMBROUGH
Charles Kimbrough, right, poses with Candice Bergen, a fellow cast member of the "Murphy Brown" TV series, as they are reunited for a segment of the NBC "Today" program in New York, on Feb. 27, 2008. (Richard Drew/AP)
LOS ANGELES — Charles Kimbrough, a Tony-
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AUSTIN, FAA, AIRPORT, COLLISION
A FedEx cargo plane attempting to land at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas averted crashing into a Southwest Airlines commercial flight after the latter was cleared to takeoff from the same runway, officials.
As the FedEx plane made its descent
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