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President Donald J. Trump arrives at Zurich Airport Thursday, January 25, 2018, in Zurich, Switzerland, and proceeds to Marine One traveling to Davos, Switzerland over the Swiss Alps. January 1 The 2018 North American cold wave takes place, with record low temperatures in the Midwestern and Eastern United States.
2013 – Black Lives Matter emerges as a political movement, protesting against widespread racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. 2014 – A grand jury decides not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown inciting protests and riots against racism and ...
Elections were held in the United States on November 6, 2018. [c] These midterm elections occurred during incumbent Republican president Donald Trump's first term.Although the Republican Party increased its majority in the Senate, unified Republican control of Congress and the White House was brought to an end when the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives in what was ...
During this time period the United States experienced a wave of unprecedented political polarization and ongoing political debates such as climate change, voting rights, gun control, police misconduct, and immigration. [1] The ongoing 2008 financial crisis dominated the early Obama presidency (2009–2017).
11 March 2018. China's National People's Congress approves a constitutional change that removes term limits for its leaders, granting Xi Jinping the status of "President for Life".
As America shifts into 2025, many changes are coming, But amid a new GOP-led Congress and a presidential inauguration, a few steadfast things remain, like American's money woes, ongoing foreign ...
On October 27, 2018, a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue during Shabbat morning services, killing 11 people and injuring six more. The attack was the deadliest ever against the Jewish community in America; many of those killed had been Holocaust survivors. The shooting brought awareness to an increase in antisemitism. [130]
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.