On This Day: August 11

4 posts spanning 2017–2022

2017

• Day 204 Aug 11, 2017

2020

• Day 1300: Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his running mate hours after Trump suggested that some men would feel "insulted" if he chose a woman; Trump baselessly claimed that Americans will "have to learn to speak Chinese" if Biden wins in November; Trump claimed that he would not have called on Obama to resign from office if 160,000 Americans had died despite tweeting in 2014 that Obama should resign for allowing a doctor who tested positive for Ebola to enter the U.S.; and the White House is considering new immigration rules to temporarily block entry by citizens and legal residents from returning to the United States if authorities believe they may be infected with the coronavirus. Aug 11, 2020

2021

• Day 204: The Senate passed a $3.5 trillion budget plan along party lines; NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned; the federal government sent 200 ventilators to Florida; California became the first state to require all teachers and school staff to get vaccinated; the Texas House speaker signed arrest warrants for state Democrats who fled the state to block GOP voter suppression laws; Trump must turn over some of his tax records to House investigators; Biden nominated Damian Williams to be the next U.S. Attorney in Manhattan; and YouTube suspended Rand Paul's account over a COVID misinformation video he posted about masks. Aug 11, 2021

2022

• Day 569: A group of historians warned Biden that the current moment in America is among the most dangerous to democracy in modern history; Attorney General Merrick Garland "personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant" for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and asked a Florida judge to unseal the warrant; a man wearing body armor and carrying an AR-15 style rifle fired a nail gun into the FBI's Cincinnati office; the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the global average over the past 40 years; gas prices dropped below $4 a gallon for the first time in more than five months; the number of Americans filing new unemployment claims reached its highest level this year; rental costs in the U.S. are rising at their fastest pace in more than three decades; and the U.S. murder rate climbed 6% in 2021. Aug 11, 2022