2019 Day 805: Mueller's investigators gathered "alarming and significant" evidence of obstruction by Trump; the Department of Justice defended Barr's handling of Mueller's report; and Trump accused the New York Times of being a "Fake News paper" with no "legitimate sources" after it reported that Mueller's team believes that the report is more damaging than Barr has indicated. Apr 4, 2019
2022 Day 440: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warned that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will likely be irrevocably out of reach within eight years; the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court; a New York judge blocked the state's new congressional map, which would have given Democrats the advantage in 22 of the state's 26 congressional seats; the Biden administration will end the Trump-era policy that limited asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent the spread of Covid-19; and 55% of Americans disapprove of the job Biden is doing as president. Apr 4, 2022
2023 Day 805: Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts related to hush money payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign; a federal appeals court denied Trump’s request to block his top aides from testifying about him to a grand jury investigating his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election; job openings fell below 10 million in February for the first time since May 2021; the Florida Senate approved a proposed ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy; and Tennessee House Republicans initiated the process of expelling three Democratic lawmakers for "disorderly behavior." Apr 4, 2023
2024 Day 1171: Biden called for "an immediate ceasefire" in Gaza to "protect innocent civilians"; a federal judge denied Trump's request to dismiss the criminal charges that he mishandled classified documents; a Georgia judge rejected Trump’s attempt to get his criminal election interference case dismissed on First Amendment grounds; and the judge overseeing Trump’s criminal case in Manhattan rejected his effort to delay the trial beyond April 15. Apr 4, 2024