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14 February 2000 Asha Degree: 9 Shelby, North Carolina, U.S. Degree was last seen in the early morning hours of 14 February 2000, while running into a woodlot off North Carolina Highway 18 on a rainy and very windy day. Some of her personal effects were found three days later in a nearby shed, and her backpack was found buried 20 miles (32 km ...
January 3 – 7: Boko Haram perpetrates a massacre of over 2,000 people in Baga, Nigeria, and allies itself with ISIL. April 2 : Al-Shabaab perpetrates a mass shooting in Kenya , killing 148. April 25 – May 3 : The death of an African-American man, Freddie Gray by police leads to violent unrest in Baltimore , Maryland .
The George Floyd protests are an ongoing series of protests, riots, and demonstrations against police brutality and racism in policing. The protests began in the United States in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020, [40] following the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, who knelt on Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes during an arrest the ...
The world population grew to over 8 billion people, and in 2023, India overtook China as the most populous country in the world. Ongoing military conflicts include the Myanmar civil war , the Ethiopian civil conflict , the Kivu conflict , the Mali War , the Yemeni civil war , the Somali Civil War , Sudanese civil war , the Syrian civil war ...
February 26, 2020 – 6 people are killed in a mass shooting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before the perpetrator killed himself. February 29, 2020 – The Trump administration and the Taliban sign a conditional peace agreement in Doha, Qatar as part of a process to end the War in Afghanistan. March 3, 2020 – Super Tuesday 2020 takes place.
Since 2020, over 7 million lives have been lost to the virus, according to the World Health Organization. Social distancing, wearing masks and introducing COVID-19 vaccines led the WHO to declare ...
Early 2000s recession: March 2001 – November 2001 8 months 10 years 6.3% (June 2003) −0.3% The 1990s were the longest period of economic growth in American history up to that point. The collapse of the speculative dot-com bubble, a fall in business outlays and investments, and the September 11th attacks, [73] brought the decade of growth to ...
The U.S. saw the loss of an average of two newspapers per week between late 2019 and May 2022, [1] leaving an estimated 70 million people in places that are already news deserts and areas that are in high risk of becoming so. Prior to that steep decline, newspapers' weekday circulation had fallen 7% and Sunday circulation 4% in the United ...