2019 Day 771: Otto Warmbier's family blamed Kim Jong Un for the death of their son a day after Trump said he took Kim "at his word" that the North Korean dictator was not responsible; Michael Cohen and Felix Sater will both testify before the House Intelligence Committee; More than 1,000 TSA employees have not received all of the back-pay they are owed for work during the shutdown; and Robert Mueller is expected to need five to eight days for Roger Stone's trial. Mar 1, 2019
2021 Day 41: The House passed Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package; Senate Democrats and the White House abandoned efforts to include a $15 minimum wage increase; the FDA authorized Johnson & Johnson's one-shot coronavirus vaccine for emergency use; Biden's task force for reuniting migrant families separated by the Trump administration will allow those families to reunite and settle in either in the U.S. or their county of origin; the Biden administration won't release visitor logs of attendees to virtual meetings; Republicans, conservative activists, and media personalities have repeatedly pushed false and fictional narratives about what happened on Jan. 6, in order to rewrite the story that a mob – incited by Trump – breached the United States Capitol to keep Trump in power through violence; and Trump attacked Biden's tenure as president in his first public appearance since leaving office, calling it "the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history." Mar 1, 2021
2022 Day 406: Russian forces shelled Ukraine's second-largest city and U.S. intelligence officials are worried Putin might escalate the violence even further; Trump claimed "there would be no NATO" without him; Biden declined to invoke executive privilege for two former Trump officials; and Biden is scheduled to deliver his first State of the Union speech tonight. Mar 1, 2022
2023 Day 771: Rupert Murdoch testified that several Fox News hosts “endorsed” Trump’s false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen; Democratic leaders called on Rupert Murdoch “to stop spreading false election narratives and admit on the air that they were wrong to engage in such negligent behavior”; FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News that COVID-19 pandemic "most likely" started after a lab incident in Wuhan; the Georgia Senate Ethics Committee approved legislation to ban ballot drop boxes statewide; a Republican in Florida's state Legislature proposed eliminating the Florida Democratic Party; and Mississippi's Republican governor signed a bill banning transgender health care for minors. Mar 1, 2023