2018 Day 637: Trump said it "certainly looks" as if Jamal Khashoggi is dead; intelligence agencies are confident that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in the murder of Khashoggi; Pompeo, meanwhile, said the U.S. will give Saudi Arabia "a few more days" to investigate; and Saudi Arabia might try to blame a high-ranking intelligence adviser for the killing of Khashoggi. Oct 18, 2018
2019 Day 1002: Mick Mulvaney tried to walk-back his claim that Trump's decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine was in exchange for an investigation of the hacked Democratic National Committee server; associates of an indicted Ukrainian oligarch tried to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for Giuliani helping the oligarch avoid extradition to the U.S.; Rick Perry won't comply with a subpoena from the Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Relations committees; and House Democrats are preparing a resolution to condemn the Trump's decision to select the Trump National Doral Miami for the next G7 summit. Oct 18, 2019
2021 Day 272: Trump sued the Jan. 6 select committee and the National Archives to block the release of his White House’s records related to the Capitol attack; the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a Texas law that bans most abortions in the state while a legal challenge moves forward; a key climate policy designed to phase out fossil fuels will likely be cut from the $3.5 trillion infrastructure package because Joe Manchin opposes the clean electricity program; and the Senate is expected to take up a voting rights legislation this week, which Republicans plan to block. Oct 18, 2021
2022 Day 637: Biden pledged to codify Roe v. Wade into law if Democrats retain control of Congress in the November midterm elections; the Interior Department announced the first-ever lease sale for offshore wind development in the Pacific Ocean; the Biden administration plans to release 10 million to 15 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to keep gasoline prices from climbing; primary source for the Trump-Russia dossier was acquitted of four counts of lying to the FBI about where he got his information for the 2016 "Steele dossier"; the special master reviewing documents seized from Mar-a-Lago warned Trump's lawyers that there was a “certain incongruity” to their executive privilege claims that at least one document was both Trump's personal property and government property; and 70% of voters say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. today, and 64% are pessimistic about the state of politics in the country. Oct 18, 2022
2023 Day 1002: The latest U.S. intelligence assessment concludes that Israel was “not responsible” for the blast at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza; Jim Jordan failed to win the House speakership for a second time as the number of Republicans refusing to back him grew; Trump appealed the gag order imposed on him in his federal election case; and 85% of voters say they are concerned that the war between Israel and Hamas will escalate into a wider war in the Middle East. Oct 18, 2023