2018 Day 582: The CFO at the Trump Organization was given immunity by federal prosecutors in New York; the Manhattan district attorney's office is considering criminal charges against the Trump Organization; Trump urged Sessions to "look into all of the corruption on the 'other side'" after Sessions said he would not be influenced by Trump's politics; and CIA informants close to the Kremlin have gone silent ahead of the midterms. Aug 24, 2018
2020 Day 1313: The New York Attorney General’s Office is investigating whether the Trump Organization and Trump inflated his assets in financial documents to secure loans and get tax benefits; Postmaster General Louis DeJoy denied that the policies he's implemented have led to the current mail delays; Twitter flagged Trump's tweet that mail drop boxes are a "voter security disaster" and "not Covid sanitized," labeling it a "misleading health claim that could potentially dissuade people from participation in voting"; Trump, without evidence, accused the FDA of deliberately delaying coronavirus vaccine trials until after the election; and the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for blood plasma as a treatment for COVID-19. Aug 24, 2020
2022 Day 582: Biden canceled up to $20,000 in student debt for Pell Grant recipients, and up to $10,000 for individual borrowers who make under $125,000 per year; voters in rural western Michigan defunded their town's only public library over books with LGBTQ content; roughly 20 million U.S. homes are behind on their utility bills; as many as 1 in 6 trees native to the contiguous U.S. are in danger of going extinct due to climate change; the U.S. has experienced five separate 1-in-1,000 year rain events in the past five weeks; and California plans to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035. Aug 24, 2022
2023 Day 947: Trump surrendered at the Fulton County jail on 13 state charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia; Mark Meadows surrendered at the Fulton County Jail for his alleged role in the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia; Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis asked a state judge to schedule Trump’s racketeering trial for Oct. 23, 2023; Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee opened an investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis; and U.S. intelligence concluded that an intentional explosion or some other form of sabotage caused the plane crash that killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary leader who led a failed uprising against Putin two months ago. Aug 24, 2023