2021 Day 21: Trump's impeachment trial kicked off in the Senate with House Democrats playing a video montage of Trump whipping up a crowd of supporters; the first day of the proceeding were devoted to a debate over the constitutionality of the House prosecuting a president who has already left office; the Senate voted 56 to 44 that Trump's impeachment trial was constitutional; the office of Georgia’s secretary of state launched an investigation into Trump's attempts to overturn the state’s election results; and the Biden administration will begin sending doses of Covid-19 vaccines to community health centers next week. Feb 9, 2021
2022 Day 386: New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois will ease mask requirements as the Omicron wave recedes; the National Archives asked the Justice Department to investigate Trump’s handling of White House records; Rudy Giuliani and other Trump legal advisors asked a Michigan prosecutor to hand over the county's voting machines to the Trump team; the House Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed Peter Navarro; the House approved legislation to keep the government funded through mid-March; and the White House approved a plan for U.S. troops in Poland to help Americans flee Ukraine if Russia invades. Feb 9, 2022
2023 Day 751: The Chinese spy balloon carried antennas and sensors for collecting intelligence and communications; the House passed a resolution condemning China for its “brazen violation of United States sovereignty”; Russia suggested that its U.S. relations are in a state of “unprecedented crisis"; North Korea displayed nearly a dozen advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles; and the Supreme Court discussed, but failed to agree an ethics code of conduct. Feb 9, 2023
2026 Day 1847: Ghislaine Maxwell invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer all questions during a closed-door House Oversight Committee deposition; the top House and Senate party leaders received a heavily redacted May 2025 whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard after an eight-month delay; the White House deleted Trump’s racist Truth Social post that depicted Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes; the Trump administration told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer it would release frozen federal funding for the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel if Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport were renamed after Trump; Trump, a noted athlete, called a U.S. skier at the Winter Olympics “a real loser"; and Trump, a noted pop-culture tastemaker, declared Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show “one of the worst,” calling the largely Spanish-language performance “absolutely terrible” and that “nobody understands a word.” Feb 9, 2026