2018 Day 566: Trump's legal team rejected Mueller's request for a voluntary presidential interview; Omarosa secretly recorded conversations with Trump in the West Wing; the Trump administration will sanction Russia for its use of a chemical weapons against a former Russian spy; and Putin lobbied Trump on nuclear arms control, banning weapons in space, and several other issues during their private two-hour meeting in Helsinki last month. Aug 8, 2018
2019 Day 931: The White House refused requests by Homeland Security for more than a year to make combating domestic terror a greater priority; Twitter suspended Mitch McConnell's account after the campaign tweeted a profanity-laced video of protesters outside his home; the NRA warned Trump against endorsing extensive background checks for gun sales; and climate change is putting pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself. Aug 8, 2019
2022 Day 566: The Senate passed the largest investment in U.S. history to counter climate change, putting the nation on a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 40% below their 2005 levels by 2030; climate change could exacerbate 58% of known human infectious diseases; Indiana is the first state to pass a near-total ban on abortion since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade; Biden administration authorized a $1 billion package of ammunition, weapons, and equipment for Ukraine; the Jan. 6 committee received about two years' worth of Alex Jones' text messages; and the FBI confirmed that it sent tips the agency had collected about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Trump White House without investigation. Aug 8, 2022
2023 Day 931: Ohio voters will decide whether to make it harder to amend the state constitution in a special election that has implications over the future of abortion rights in the state; Supreme Court backed a Biden administration effort to regulate “ghost guns”; Biden designated a new national monument near the Grand Canyon; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis restructured his presidential campaign operations for the third time in less than a month; and 64% of Americans say they disapprove of last year’s Supreme Court ruling that women do not have a constitutional right to an abortion. Aug 8, 2023