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The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in the United States.. With the dominant political story of this year being the 2024 presidential election, most American-focused media outlets routinely have been covering the nominees, with Donald Trump becoming the second president in American history to win two non-consecutive terms, defeating Democratic vice president Kamala Harris who ...
The exact application of the three-strikes laws varies considerably from state to state, but the laws call for life sentences for at least 25 years on their third strike. In the state of Maryland, any person who receives their fourth strike for any crime of violence will automatically be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
The War in Iraq (2013–2017) was an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State.Following December 2013, the insurgency escalated into full-scale guerrilla warfare following clashes in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in parts of western Iraq, and culminated in the Islamic State offensive into Iraq in June 2014, which lead to the capture of the cities of Mosul, Tikrit ...
The Wagner Group seizes and occupies the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh as clashes occur across both oblasts. Wagner Group forces capture the Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov-on-Don. Rostov Governor Vasily Golubev asks residents to remain indoors. (Ukraine Today)
A waterfront strike along the West Coast begins in San Francisco (billy club used at the strike in Seattle pictured, right) The San Jose Light Opera Association is established Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. opens a small bar/restaurant across from his parents' grocery store at San Pablo Avenue and 65th Street in Oakland , originally calling it ...
Israel says that the men were armed and were responsible for a series of drive-by shootings in recent weeks. Protests occur in the West Bank in response to the killings. Islamic State insurgency in Iraq. An Iraqi airstrike kills seven Islamic State members in Hatra District, Nineveh Governorate. Kurdish–Turkish conflict
SlutWalk is a transnational movement [1] calling for an end to rape culture, including victim blaming and slut-shaming of sexual assault victims. [2] Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance . [ 3 ]
2 April 2006, during the sixth day of violence, a protester was killed in the southeast as police opened fire to disperse crowds. In Istanbul a group of men poured gasoline into a bus and set it on fire as they pushed the vehicle into pedestrians, killing three people. The total death toll from 28 March to 2 April rose to 15. [30]