2018 Day 603: Manafort pleaded guilty to conspiracy and agreed to fully cooperate with Mueller; Kushner defended the eviction of the Palestine Liberation Organization from its offices; details emerged about the Kavanaugh letter, and a second letter defended the nominee's character; and the commander of the bin Laden raid resigned from a Pentagon post over Trump's revocation of John Brennan's security clearance. Sep 14, 2018
2020 Day 1334: Political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services repeatedly demanded that the CDC revise or delay weekly scientific reports on the coronavirus pandemic that they believed were unflattering to Trump; the top communications official at the Department of Health and Human Services baselessly accused career government scientists of forming a "resistance unit" for "sedition" against Trump; in August, Trump told Bob Woodward "nothing more could have been done" about the coronavirus; Trump held an indoor campaign rally in Nevada, in defiance of state regulations and his own administration's pandemic health guidelines; and Trump claimed – without evidence – that climate change has nothing to do with the wildfires in California, Oregon, and Washington. Sep 14, 2020
2022 Day 603: Biden approved the first $900 million in U.S. funding to build EV charging stations in 35 states; Amtrak will shut down all long distance passenger trains starting Thursday because of the possible freight rail strike; the EPA's inspector general office is investigating the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi where roughly 150,000 residents have been under a boil-water advisory for seven weeks; Marco Rubio will co-sponsor Lindsey Graham's bill to ban abortions nationwide after 15 weeks; and House lawmakers proposed bipartisan legislation to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Sep 14, 2022
2023 Day 968: The world needs to invest $2.7 trillion a year to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and keep temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius this century; a federal judge ruled – again – that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is illegal; Kevin McCarthy dared his Republican colleagues to make good on their threats to remove him as speaker; a Georgia judge rejected prosecutors’ plan to try all 19 defendants together in the 2020 election interference case in October; Hunter Biden was indicted on three criminal counts related to his possession of a gun while using narcotics; and 77% of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, including 76% of Democrats and 79% of Republicans. Sep 14, 2023