2018 Day 503: Stormy Daniels filed a new lawsuit against her former attorney and Michael Cohen; Ivanka connected Cohen with a Russian who offered to introduce Trump to Putin during the campaign; Mueller requested that witnesses turn in their personal phones so investigators can inspect their encrypted messages; and Giuliani claimed that Mueller's team is trying to "frame" Trump. Jun 6, 2018
2019 Day 868: Mexico proposed sending about 6,000 National Guard troops to the country's border with Guatemala to help avoid Trump's tariffs; Trump threatened to impose tariffs on "at least" another $300 billion worth of Chinese goods; the military will spend a month painting a mile-long section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall to improve its "aesthetic appearance"; and Nancy Pelosi told senior Democrats she'd like to see Trump "in prison." Jun 6, 2019
2022 Day 503: Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to boost the domestic production of solar panels and their parts; Biden is expected to decide in July or August whether to partially forgive student-loan debt; the U.S. has wasted 82.1 million Covid-19 vaccine doses; Pence's chief of staff reportedly warned the Secret Service on Jan 5th that Trump was going to publicly turn against the vice president; the Justice Department charged the former top leader of the Proud Boys extremist group and four other members with seditious conspiracy for their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection; the Justice Department, however, declined to prosecute former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and communications chief Daniel Scavino; the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection of the Capitol will host its first televised hearing Thursday at 8 pm Eastern; and 44% of Republican respondents said deadly mass shootings in the U.S. are something that must be accepted as part of a "free society." Jun 6, 2022
2023 Day 868: The Human Rights Campaign issued a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people living in the U.S.; a federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that prohibits gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth; a Texas sheriff recommended criminal charges for the flights that Ron DeSantis arranged to deport 49 asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last year; a state school board in Oklahoma approved the nation's first publicly funded religious school; and Special Counsel Jack Smith's office recently issued federal grand jury subpoenas to multiple witnesses associated with the classified documents investigation involving Trump. Jun 6, 2023
2024 Day 1234: Human activities were responsible for 92% of the warming observed in 2023; a federal judge ordered Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1; and an Israeli airstrike on a school operated by the United Nations for displaced Palestinian refugees in Gaza killed at least 40 people, including women and children. Jun 6, 2024