2018 Day 454: Trump denied that he fired Comey because of the Russia investigation, contradicting his previous comments; Stormy Daniels released a sketch of the person that threatened her on Trump's behalf; Trump called the person in the sketch a "nonexistent man"; Trump is still "apoplectic" about the FBI raids on Cohen; and Karen McDougal is now free to talk about her affair with Trump. Apr 18, 2018
2022 Day 454: A federal judge in Florida struck down the Biden administration’s Covid-19 mask mandate for public transportation; at least 10 mass shootings across the U.S. this weekend left eight people dead and dozens injured; Alex Jones's Infowars filed for bankruptcy in an effort to settle defamation lawsuits over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that "all of the countries of the world" should be prepared for the possibility that Putin could use tactical nuclear weapons; the Biden administration will resume selling onshore oil and gas leases on federal land; and the Florida education department rejected 54 math books for its K-12 curriculum because they “contained prohibited subjects,” including critical race theory. Apr 18, 2022
2023 Day 819: Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans won't allow Democrats to temporarily replace Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee; an anti-abortion coalition urged the Supreme Court to reinstate a lower court decision that suspended the FDA's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone; a federal judge in New York denied Trump's request to delay the civil rape and defamation trial against him; and Fox News reached a last-minute settlement with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million. Apr 18, 2023
2024 Day 1185: On the third day of Trump’s election interference case involving falsified business records to conceal a hush money payment late in the 2016 campaign, two of the seven jurors already seated in the case were removed; House Republicans privately urged Speaker Mike Johnson to change the chamber’s rules and raise the threshold required to trigger the procedure to oust the speaker; the Biden administration imposed new sanctions on Iran's drone, steel, and auto industries in response to its missile attack on Israel; and 53% of Americans under 30 say they’ll "definitely be voting" in the 2024 presidential election. Apr 18, 2024