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The following is a list of events of the year 2023 in the United States. The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy , whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber.
2023 attack on the Chem Pluto. A drone launched from Iran strikes the Liberian-flagged, Japanese-owned chemical tanker Chem Pluto in the Indian Ocean. Kurdish–Turkish conflict. Seventeen PKK militants and 12 Turkish soldiers are killed during two days of shootouts in northern Iraq. Nigerian bandit conflict
2023 Gaza–Israel clashes Israel launches an airstrike against a multi-story building in Gaza City , killing two people, including a commander of Islamic Jihad . Rockets are also fired by Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip , striking the West Bank near Jerusalem for the first time.
2023 Pacific hurricane season Hurricane Otis becomes the most intense landfalling cyclone in the Eastern Pacific basin on record after making landfall near Acapulco , Mexico , and killing at least 27 people in the city, as a category 5 hurricane with 1-minute sustained winds of 165 miles per hour (266 km/h).
2023 Gaza humanitarian crisis, 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel authorizes the temporary use of its Kerem Shalom border crossing to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. (AFP via NST) Law and crime. 2023 Nigerien crisis. An ECOWAS court orders former President Mohamed Bazoum to be freed from arrest and reinstated as president.
Burning Man 2023, September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods. Heavy flooding at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, United States, kills one person and leaves tens of thousands of people stranded in the Black Rock Desert. Organizers close the festival to vehicles after the death was reported. International relations. Nuclear program of Iran
2023 began with a bump; more specifically, Rihanna revealed baby number two was on the way during her Super Bowl half-time show. At the movies, Hollywood got off to a big start.
2023 Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever outbreak. Namibia declares an outbreak after a person dies of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever in Windhoek. Law and crime. 2023 Cardiff riot. Rioting occurs in Ely, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, after two teenage boys were killed when their e-bike collided with a bus as they were being pursued by police.