2019 Day 1021: The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine told House impeachment investigators that it was his "clear understanding" that military aid would not be sent to Ukraine until the country pursued investigations that could benefit Trump; the House will begin holding public impeachment hearings next week; and a federal judge overturned the Trump administration's "conscience" rule that would have made it easier for doctors and other health care workers to refuse care for on religious or moral grounds. Nov 6, 2019
2020 Day 1387: Biden is on the verge of winning the presidency after taking the lead in the vote count in Pennsylvania and Georgia; Trump – citing no evidence – continued to question the integrity of the election and promised legal action; and the U.S. recorded at least 121,000 new coronavirus cases a day after hitting 100,000 for the first time since the pandemic began. Nov 6, 2020
2023 Day 1021: Trump repeatedly provided off topic testimony, lost his temper, and attacked the judge overseeing his $250 million civil fraud case; a federal appeals court lifted a gag order imposed on Trump in the election subversion criminal case; United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned that Gaza is "becoming a graveyard for children," saying "the unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent with every passing hour"; the Biden administration has reportedly become deeply "uncomfortable" and "distressed" with some of Israel’s tactics, saying the "counterattack against Hamas has been too severe, too costly in civilian casualties, and lacking a coherent endgame"; and Biden trails Trump in five of the six battleground states one year before the 2024 election. Nov 6, 2023
2024 Day 1387: America elected the first convicted felon to serve as president of the United States; Republicans gained control of the Senate, while the House is still up for grabs; Special Counsel Jack Smith is preparing to drop the two federal criminal cases against Trump to comply with long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister while the world’s attention was focused on the U.S. election; and North Korean troops deployed to Russia have come under Ukrainian fire in Kursk. Nov 6, 2024
2025 Day 1752: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund November SNAP benefits by Friday for about 42 million people; U.S. employers laid off 153,074 people in October, the highest for any October since 2003; Trump called Democrats’ “affordability” message “DEAD,” claiming prices had fallen under his presidency even as inflation has stayed at 3%; the Congressional Budget Office was hacked by a suspected foreign actor; the Senate will vote Friday on a plan to end the 37-day government shutdown; hundreds of U.S. flights were canceled after the FAA ordered airlines to begin cutting traffic at 40 major airports because of the government shutdown; a D.C. jury acquitted the "sandwich guy" who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s declared “crime emergency” in Washington; Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as House speaker, said she will not seek re-election and retire when her term ends in early 2027; and the Supreme Court allowed Trump to enforce a policy requiring that sex markers on U.S. passports match birth certificates while litigation continues. Nov 6, 2025