2019 Day 791: Kushner and Ivanka Trump used WhatsApp and personal email accounts to conduct official government business; the former owner of a Florida spa involved in a prostitution investigation claimed she didn't sell access to Trump; Trump wants Patriots owner Robert Kraft at the White House despite Kraft's recent arrest on charges of soliciting prostitution at a Florida massage parlor; Trump charged his own reelection campaign $1.3 million at Trump-owned properties since taking office; and 78% of Republicans who watch Fox News say Trump is the most successful president in history. Mar 21, 2019
2022 Day 426: The Senate Judiciary Committee held the first day of confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson; Justice Clarence Thomas was hospitalized with an infection after experiencing flu-like symptoms; a federal judge ruled that former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis knowingly violated the rights of same-sex couples by denying them marriage licenses; Biden warned that Russia is "exploring options for potential cyberattacks" against the U.S.; Mark Meadows is under investigation for alleged voter fraud in North Carolina; and Meadows was reportedly involved in efforts to encourage Trump's supporters to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Mar 21, 2022
2023 Day 791: The Senate advanced a bill to repeal the congressional authorization used to attack Iraq in 1991 and 2003; the Pentagon will accelerate the training and delivery of Abrams tanks and Patriot missile defense systems for Ukraine; the Minnesota House of Representatives advanced legislation that would shield patients who travel to the state for an abortion and the providers that treat them; Missouri’s Republican attorney general filed an emergency regulation to limit access to gender-affirming treatments for minors; Biden designated new national monuments in Nevada and Texas; a Fox News producer filed a lawsuit claiming the network's lawyers coerced her into providing misleading testimony in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network; and U.S. cases of a rare and often deadly fungus tripled from 2019 to 2021. Mar 21, 2023
2024 Day 1157: The Biden administration will cancel nearly $6 billion in federal student loans for 78,000 Americans through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program; congressional leaders released details of their $1.2 trillion deal to fund the government and avert a partial government shutdown; New York Attorney General Letitia James took her first step toward seizing Trump’s golf club and private estate in Westchester County; Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said no further delay in Trump’s hush money trial is warranted; and the U.S. submitted a draft resolution to the United Nations calling for "an immediate and sustained ceasefire" in Gaza tied to the release of Israeli hostages. Mar 21, 2024