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2019 in the United States#February

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Events from the year 2019 in the United States.

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Incumbents

= Federal government =

::Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) (until January 3)

::Nancy Pelosi (D-California) (starting January 3)

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Events

= January =

  • January 1
  • Public Domain Day: All works published in 1923{{Cite web| url=https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf | title=Duration of Copyright}} except sound recordings{{Cite web|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ264/pdf/PLAW-115publ264.pdf|title=ORRIN G. HATCH–BOB GOODLATTE MUSIC MODERNIZATION ACT}} enter the public domain in the United States, the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
  • Washington state bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic assault rifle.{{cite magazine | title=Washington Bans Anyone Under 21 From Buying Assault Rifles |url=http://time.com/5491441/washington-bans-anyone-under-21-from-buying-assault-rifles/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101233817/http://time.com/5491441/washington-bans-anyone-under-21-from-buying-assault-rifles/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 1, 2019 |date=1 January 2019 |magazine=TIME |access-date=1 January 2019 }}
  • January 2 – Adventist Health System and its subsidiaries rebranded to AdventHealth.{{Cite web|url=https://orlandosentinel.com/2018/08/14/florida-hospital-adventist-health-system-announce-new-name-adventhealth/|title=Florida Hospital, Adventist Health System announce new name: AdventHealth|last=Miller|first=Naseem|date=2018-08-14|website=Orlando Sentinel|url-access=subscription|access-date=2023-10-27}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/Florida-Hospital-to-change-its-name-to-AdventHealth_170889366/|title=Florida Hospital to change its name to AdventHealth|last=Griffin|first=Justine|date=2018-08-14|website=Tampa Bay Times|access-date=2023-10-27}}
  • January 3 – The Democrats take control of the House of Representatives, with a promise to end the government shutdown, but without funding for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall.{{cite web | title=US shutdown: Democrats to pass funding bills as they take control of House |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46746603 |date=3 January 2019 |work=BBC News|access-date=3 January 2019 }} The Republicans increase their control of the United States Senate.{{Cite web |last=Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |date=2019-02-28 |title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 2018 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/2018election.pdf |page=57 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office}}
  • January 4 – Government data reveals that the U.S. economy added 312,000 jobs in December, far ahead of predictions of 177,000, and that manufacturing ended 2018 with the most jobs added in one year since 1997.{{cite web |title=US jobs growth jumps in December |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46761329| date=4 January 2019| access-date = 4 January 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • January 8 – In a televised address to the nation, President Donald Trump makes the case for his proposed border wall.{{cite web |title=Full Transcripts: Trump's Speech on Immigration and the Democratic Response| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/politics/trump-speech-transcript.html| date=8 January 2019| access-date= 12 January 2021| work= New York Times| archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190109035058/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/politics/trump-speech-transcript.html |archive-date=January 9, 2019|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}
  • January 11 – Representative Tulsi Gabbard announces her candidacy for U.S. president.{{cite web|title=Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announces she's running for president in 2020|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/tulsi-gabbard-running-for-president-in-2020-2019-1|publisher=Business Insider|date=January 11, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|last=Haltiwanger|first=John}}
  • January 12
  • The ongoing government shutdown becomes the longest in U.S. history at 22 days, leaving 800,000 employees unpaid.{{cite web |title=US partial government shutdown becomes longest ever |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46848435| date=12 January 2019| access-date = 12 January 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro announces his candidacy for U.S. president.{{citation|title=Julián Castro announces presidential run|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/12/julian-castro-running-for-president-2020/|newspaper=Texas Tribune|date=January 12, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|last=Svitek|first=Patrick}}
  • January 14 – J. B. Pritzker is sworn in as the 43rd governor of Illinois, replacing Bruce Rauner.{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met-jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-inauguration-20190111-story.html|title=J. B. Pritzker sworn in as Illinois' 43rd Governor, replacing Bruce Rauner|publisher=Chicago Tribune|date=January 14, 2019|accessdate=7 February 2022}}
  • January 15 – Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces her candidacy for U.S. president.{{cite web|title=New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Announces 2020 Presidential Run|last=Taylor|first=Jessica|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/01/15/678292493/new-york-sen-kirsten-gillibrand-announces-2020-presidential-run|publisher=NPR|date=January 15, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019}}
  • January 19 – President Trump offers a "compromise" of three years' additional protection for 700,000 Dreamers who entered the US illegally with their parents and the 300,000 people holding visas under Temporary Protection Status (TPS) in exchange for funding for his security wall, but the offer is rejected by Democrats.{{cite web |title=US shutdown: Trump angered by Democrat rejection of 'compromise'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46939305| date=20 January 2019| access-date = 20 January 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • January 21 – The Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration is allowed to limit military service for transgender people.{{Cite web| url=https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-01-22/supreme-court-lets-military-transgender-ban-take-effect-pending-ongoing-lawsuits |title=Court Lets Trump's Military Transgender Ban Take Effect |website=usnews.com |publisher=US News| date=2019-01-22| access-date=2023-01-26}}
  • January 23 – South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg announces his candidacy for U.S. president.{{cite web|title=Democratic mayor Pete Buttigieg running for president; would be first openly gay nominee|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democratic-mayor-pete-buttigieg-running-president-would-be-first-openly-n961596|publisher=Associated Press|date=January 23, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019}}
  • January 25
  • Political consultant Roger Stone is charged with seven counts in the 2017–2019 Special Counsel's investigation, including obstruction of justice and witness tampering.{{cite web |title=Trump ally Stone faces seven charges|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47002713| date=25 January 2019| access-date = 25 January 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • Flights are halted into New York's LaGuardia Airport due to shortages of air traffic control staff, as a result of the ongoing government shutdown.{{cite web |title=US shutdown: Flights halted into New York airport|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47006907| date=25 January 2019| access-date = 25 January 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • President Trump agrees to temporarily end the government shutdown as he backs a deal to fund federal agencies for three weeks.{{cite web |title=Trump backs down to end painful shutdown temporarily|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47007081| date=26 January 2019| access-date = 26 January 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • January 28 – The Justice Department charges Chinese tech firm Huawei with multiple counts of fraud, raising U.S.-China tensions.{{cite web |title=US files charges against China's Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47036515| date=28 January 2019| access-date = 28 January 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • January 29 – Author Marianne Williamson announces her candidacy for U.S. president.{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/marianne-williamson-running-in-2020-presidential-election-2019-1|title=Marianne Williamson, a best-selling author and Oprah confidante, announces she's running for president in 2020|publisher=Business Insider|date=January 29, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019}}
  • January 30
  • Large portions of the United States are hit by a polar vortex, bringing "once-in-a-generation" low temperatures and heavy snow. A state of emergency is declared in several states and a number of cold-related deaths are reported.{{cite web |title=Polar vortex brings deadly cold snap to US states|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47055952| date=30 January 2019| access-date = 30 January 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • Teachers rally in Denver following a vote on January 22 to strike for higher pay.[https://www.9news.com/article/news/education/denver-teachers-rally-at-state-capitol/73-7f90d93a-a26b-44c6-9a22-7fab61a602a2 Denver teachers rally at State Capitol] 9News, 2019-01-30.
  • Sandusky, Ohio becomes the first city in the country to make Election Day a paid holiday while eliminating Columbus Day.{{citation|website=Sandusky Register|date=Jan 30, 2019|access-date=Sep 26, 2019|title=Sandusky's gov't eliminates Columbus Day as holiday|url=http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201901300027}}

= February =

  • February 1
  • President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty.{{cite web |title=Donald Trump confirms US withdrawal from INF nuclear treaty|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/inf-donald-trump-confirms-us-withdrawal-nuclear-treaty| date=1 February 2019| access-date = 1 February 2019| work=The Guardian}}
  • Senator Cory Booker announces his candidacy for U.S. president.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/02/01/676578945/cory-booker-makes-it-official-hes-running-for-president-in-2020|title=Cory Booker Makes It Official: He's Running For President In 2020|last1=Detrow|first1=Scott|last2=Taylor|first2=Jessica|website=NPR.org|publisher=NPR}}
  • February 3 – Super Bowl LIII is hosted at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.{{cite news| last1=Rosenthal| first1=Gregg| title=Atlanta, South Florida, L.A. chosen to host Super Bowls| url=https://www.nfl.com/news/atlanta-south-florida-l-a-chosen-to-host-super-bowls-0ap3000000664704| publisher=NFL Enterprises| website=NFL.com| access-date=January 12, 2021}} Tom Brady, the quarterback of the New England Patriots football team, wins his sixth championship, the most NFL world championships ever won by a single player,{{cite web| url=https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/tom-brady-breaks-nfl-record-most-super-bowl-wins-one-player| title=Tom Brady breaks NFL record for most Super Bowl wins by one player| date=4 February 2019| publisher= NBC Sports| access-date=January 12, 2021}} with the Patriots' six titles tying the Steelers for most Super Bowl wins.{{cite web| url=https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/11/super-bowl-wins-teams |title=How many Super Bowl wins does every team have? |date=21 November 2019 |publisher=USA Today |access-date=January 12, 2021}}
  • February 5 – State of the Union Address.
  • February 9 – Senator Elizabeth Warren announces her candidacy for U.S. president.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/09/politics/elizabeth-warren-campaign-kickoff-massachusetts/index.html|title=Elizabeth Warren kicks off presidential bid with challenge to super wealthy — and other Democrats|publisher=CNN|date=February 9, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|last1=Lee|first1=MJ|last2=Krieg|first2=Gregory}}
  • February 10 – Senator Amy Klobuchar announces her candidacy for U.S. president.{{cite web|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/02/10/amy-klobuchar-2020-presidential-race-announcement|title=Klobuchar launches 2020 presidential bid|date=February 10, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|last=Bakst|first=Brian|publisher=MPR (Minneapolis)}}
  • February 12 – Mexican drug boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug-trafficking trial at a federal court in New York.{{cite web |title=El Chapo trial: Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán found guilty|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47218887| date=12 February 2019| access-date = 12 February 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • February 15
  • Gary Montez Martin murders five people and injures six others in a mass shooting at Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shooter-aurora-illinois-manufacturing-plant-wasn-t-legally-allowed-own-n972436|title = Aurora, Illinois shooter wasn't legally allowed to own gun|website = NBC News| date=16 February 2019 }}
  • President Trump declares a national emergency to free up funds for his proposed border wall.{{cite web |title=Trump declares national emergency to bypass Congress over border wall funds – live news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/feb/15/trump-national-emergency-news-live-latest-updates-border-wall-mexico-us-politics-today| date=15 February 2019| access-date = 15 February 2019| work=The Guardian}}{{cite web |title=Mexico border wall: Trump confirms emergency move|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47258754| date=15 February 2019| access-date = 15 February 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • February 16 – Bishop Theodore Edgar McCarrick is defrocked, following historical sexual abuse allegations. He becomes the most senior Catholic figure to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times.{{cite web |title=US ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick defrocked over abuse claims|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47264130| date=16 February 2019| access-date = 16 February 2019| work=BBC News}}
  • February 19 – Senator Bernie Sanders announces his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election.{{cite web |title=Bernie Sanders announces run for presidency in 2020|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/19/bernie-sanders-announces-2020-run-presidency| date=19 February 2019| access-date = 19 February 2019| work=The Guardian}}
  • February 20 – U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson, who planned a domestic terrorist attack targeting politicians and journalists, is arrested.{{cite news |last1=Choi |first1=Matthew |title=Coast Guard officer accused of plotting to kill Democrats, journalists |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/20/coast-guard-officer-domestic-terror-1176806 |access-date=21 February 2019 |website=Politico |date=2 February 2019}}
  • February 21
  • Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax: Actor Jussie Smollett is arrested after being charged with disorderly conduct for staging a racist attack on himself in Chicago. Smollett maintains his innocence.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/20/actor-jussie-smollett-now-official-suspect-filing-false-police/|title=Empire star Jussie Smollett charged with staging racist attack in 'desperate publicity stunt'|first=Nick|last=Allen|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=February 20, 2019|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}
  • Senator Kamala Harris declares her candidacy for U.S. president.{{citation|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/01/21/kamala-harris-announces-presidential-campaign/2632083002/|title=California Sen. Kamala Harris announces 2020 presidential bid on 'Good Morning America'|date=February 21, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|newspaper=USA Today|location=Atlanta|last=Cummings|first=William}}
  • February 22
  • Singer R. Kelly is charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for incidents dating back as far as 1998.{{cite web |title=R Kelly charged with 10 counts of sexual abuse|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/22/r-kelly-charged-chicago-aggravated-criminal-sexual-abuse| date=22 February 2019| access-date = 22 February 2019| work=The Guardian}}
  • National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System: The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas rules that male-only conscription breaches the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.{{cite web |url=https://usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/24/military-draft-judge-rules-male-only-registration-unconstitutional/2968872002/ |title= With women in combat roles, a federal court rules the male-only draft unconstitutional |last1= Korte |first1=Gregory |date=Feb 24, 2019 |work= USA Today |access-date= February 24, 2019}}
  • February 23 – Atlas Air Flight 3591 crashed into Trinity Bay, near Anahuac, Texas, approximately 40 miles southeast of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, killing everyone onboard.{{Cite web |last=Silverman |first=Steve Almasy, Hollie |date=2019-02-23 |title=Three feared dead after cargo jet crashes near Houston |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/23/us/texas-atlas-air-cargo-jet-crash/index.html |access-date=2024-05-26 |website=CNN |language=en}}
  • February 24 – The 91st Academy Awards, the first since 1989 to have no official host, are held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Peter Farrelly's Green Book winning Best Picture. Bryan Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody wins four awards, among them Rami Malek for Best Actor, and both Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite and Alfonso Cuarón's Roma both lead with ten nominations. Cuarón wins his second Best Director award, Olivia Colman wins Best Actress for The Favourite, Mahershala Ali Best Supporting Actor for Green Book and Regina King Best Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk. The telecast garners nearly 29.6 million viewers.
  • February 27 – President Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen tells Congress that Trump had advanced knowledge of leaked Democratic emails during the 2016 presidential campaign.{{cite web |title=Trump knew about email hack, Cohen tells Congress|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47389621| date=27 February 2019| access-date = 27 February 2019| work=BBC News}}

  • February 27–28 – The 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit is held in Vietnam. It is the second summit with a United States president and the North Korean leader.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2019/feb/06/trump-announces-new-north-korean-summit-during-state-of-the-union-address-video|title=Trump announces new North Korean summit during State of the Union address – video|publisher=Reuters| newspaper=The Guardian |date=February 6, 2019|via=www.theguardian.com}}

= March =

  • March 1 – Washington State governor Jay Inslee announces his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election.{{cite web|title=Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announces 2020 presidential bid|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/01/politics/inslee-2020-presidential-campaign/index.html|last=Merica|first=Dan|date=March 1, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|publisher=CNN}}
  • March 3
  • An unmanned demonstration flight of the SpaceX Dragon achieves successful autonomous docking with the International Space Station.{{cite news |title=SpaceX Dragon capsule docks with space station |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47430432 |date=3 March 2019 |work=BBC News |access-date=3 March 2019 }}
  • A severe tornado outbreak hits the southern states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, leaving at least 23 people dead and leaving 10,000 homes and businesses without electricity.[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47436809 Tornadoes kill at least 23 in Lee County, Alabama] BBC, March 4, 2019
  • March 4 – Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper announces his candidacy for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.{{cite web|title=The John Hickenlooper presidential campaign cheat sheet: What to know now that he's announced|date=March 4, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|url=https://denverite.com/2019/03/04/john-hickenlooper-president-campaign-announcement/|publisher=Denverite}}
  • March 8 – Captain Marvel, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, is released by Marvel Studios{{cite web| url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/10/captain-marvel-dominates-the-box-office-with-153-million-opening-weekend-for-disney.html| title='Captain Marvel' dominates the box office in another stellar superhero opening weekend for Disney| date=10 March 2019| publisher=CNBC| access-date=January 12, 2021}} as the 21st film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).{{Cite web |last1=McEwan |first1=Cameron K. |last2=Longridge |first2=Chris |date=August 7, 2019 |title=Marvel's 'Phases' explained: What goes when & why |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a871567/marvel-phase-4-3-2-1-mcu/ |access-date=June 4, 2021 |website=Digital Spy}} It becomes the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2019 during its run, earning $1.128 billion worldwide.{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2019/?ref_=bo_cso_table_1|title=2019 Worldwide Box Office |website=Box Office Mojo|publisher=IMDb|access-date=January 12, 2021}}
  • March 12
  • The 2019 college admissions bribery scandal becomes public; around 50 people are accused of bribery and fraud to secure admission to elite colleges, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.{{cite news |title=Lori Loughlin: US actress released on bail in college cheating scam |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47557056 |date=13 March 2019 |work=BBC News |access-date=14 March 2019 }}
  • California governor Gavin Newsom places a moratorium on California's death penalty, thus ordering a reprieve for the 737 people on death row.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/03/12/702873258/gov-gavin-newsom-suspends-death-penalty-in-california|title=Gov. Gavin Newsom Suspends Death Penalty In California|publisher=NPR|date=March 12, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|last1=Shafer|first1=Scott|last2=Lagos|first2=Marissa}}
  • March 13
  • Boeing grounds its entire global fleet of 737 Max aircraft in response to evidence gathered following the crashes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610.{{cite news |title=Boeing grounds entire crash aircraft fleet |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47562727 |date=13 March 2019 |work=BBC News |access-date=14 March 2019 }}
  • Former Representative Beto O'Rourke announces his candidacy for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.{{citation|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2019/03/13/beto-orourke-2020-president-announce/|date=March 13, 2019|title=Beto O'Rourke running for president|newspaper=Texas Tribune|last=Svitek|first=Patrick|access-date=March 18, 2019}}
  • March 15
  • President Trump issues the first veto of his presidency, striking down a Senate resolution to end his national emergency declaration to build a border wall.{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-first-presidential-veto-resolution-national-emergency-border-wall-2019-3|publisher=Business Insider|title=Trump issues his first presidential veto, striking down Senate resolution to terminate his national-emergency declaration for a border wall|access-date=March 15, 2019|last=Perticone|first=Joe}}
  • Hundreds of students stage a walkout and rally at the Capitol building, demanding legal action on climate change. They are joined by students in over 1,600 simultaneous protests in 100 countries around the world.{{cite web|url=https://thinkprogress.org/youth-climate-strike-dc-trump-green-new-deal-b6cf036e147d/|title=Students march on U.S. Capitol, demanding lawmakers act on climate change|publisher=Think Progress|date=March 15, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|last=Crunden|first=E. A.}}
  • Robert Gentile, 82, whom federal authorities believe is a person of interest in the $500 million Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, is released from federal custody.{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/7c807bcff849410b8dd677a0245c6486|title=Man linked to largest art heist in history freed from prison|last=Collins|first=Dave|date=March 18, 2019|access-date=March 20, 2019|publisher=AP}}
  • The New Mexico legislature votes to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day.{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/434410-new-mexico-state-senate-votes-to-replace-columbus-day-with-indigenous|title=New Mexico state Senate votes to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day|date=March 16, 2019|access-date=March 20, 2019|work=The Hill|last=Folly|first=Aris}}
  • March 17
  • The Washington State Senate approves legislation that would legally require all presidential candidates to release the last five years of their personal tax returns in order to have their names featured on both primary and general election voting ballots.{{citation|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-2020-tax-returns-ballots-washington-state-republicans-a8827176.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190318000507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-2020-tax-returns-ballots-washington-state-republicans-a8827176.html |archive-date=2019-03-18 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=Trump to be left off 2020 ballots unless he shows his tax returns, Washington State says|last=Riotta|first=Chris|newspaper=The Independent|location=London|date=March 17, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019}}
  • The University of Tennessee announces it will guarantee free tuition and fees to admitted in-state residents with a family household income of less than $50,000.{{cite web|url=https://thinkprogress.org/university-of-tennessee-free-tuition-low-income-students-4b72464474ad/|title=University of Tennessee will be free for low-income students starting in fall 2020|last=Fulwood III|first=Sam|publisher=Think Progress|date=March 17, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019}}
  • March 18 – Floods across the Midwest kill at least three people and inflict hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/three-dead-one-missing-devastating-floods-across-u-005935672.html|title=Three dead, one missing in devastating floods across U.S. Midwest|publisher=Reuters|date=March 18, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019}}
  • March 19 – American Karen Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize for outstanding contributions to mathematics.{{citation|website=The Abel Prize|title=Karen Uhlenbeck first woman to win the Abel Prize|access-date=Sep 29, 2019|url=https://www.abelprize.no/nyheter/vis.html?tid=74161|archive-date=August 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830182148/https://www.abelprize.no/nyheter/vis.html?tid=74161|url-status=dead}}{{citation |website=El Pais|title=Una mujer gana por primera vez el 'Nobel' de matemáticas|access-date=Sep 29, 2019|date=Mar 19, 2019|author=Manuel Ansede|language=es |url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/19/ciencia/1552992900_461327.html?id_externo_rsoc=FB_CM|trans-title=A woman wins the 'Nobel' in mathematics for the first time}}
  • March 20 – The International 2019 Major League Baseball season begins with the Oakland Athletics and the Seattle Mariners playing in Japan at the Tokyo Dome.{{cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/mariners-to-open-the-2019-season-in-japan-vs-the-as/|title=Mariners to open the 2019 season in Japan vs. the A's|website=SeattleTimes.com|author=Ryan Divish|date=May 1, 2018}}
  • March 21 – Cesar Sayoc, 57, the Florida man accused of the October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts, pleads guilty in Manhattan federal court to 65 felony counts, including using weapons of mass destruction in an attempted domestic terrorist attack.{{cite web|title=Mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc pleads guilty|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/21/us/cesar-sayoc-guilty-plea/index.html|publisher=CNN|date=March 21, 2019|access-date=March 21, 2019|last1=Orden|first1=Erica|last2=Chavez|first2=Nicole}}
  • March 22
  • Jimmy Carter becomes the longest-living U.S. president at 94 years, 172 days old.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/21/us/jimmy-carter-oldest-living-former-president-trnd/index.html|title=Jimmy Carter just became the oldest living former president ever|date=March 22, 2019|access-date=March 22, 2019|publisher=CNN}}
  • Special Counsel Robert Mueller turns in the report of his nearly two-year investigation on whether the Trump campaign helped Russia interfere in the 2016 presidential election.{{cite web|title=Special Counsel Mueller submits report to attorney general|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/special-counsel-mueller-submits-report-to-attorney-general-1463392323611|work=NBC News|date=March 22, 2019|access-date=March 22, 2019}}
  • The Department of Defense declares that the Islamic State militant group no longer controls any territory in Syria.{{cite web|title=Battle for Baghouz: White House declares victory over ISIS in Syria, but desperation remains|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/battle-baghouz-white-house-declares-victory-over-isis-syria-desperation-n986246|date=March 22, 2019|access-date=March 22, 2019|last=Bradley|first=Matt|work=NBC News}} The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces declare victory over the group the following day.{{citation|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/mar/23/syrian-fighters-declare-victory-over-isis/|title=Syrian fighters declare victory over ISIS|date=March 23, 2019|access-date=March 22, 2019|newspaper=Arkansas Democrat Gazettee|location=Little Rock}}
  • March 23 – For the second time in a week, a survivor of the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, commits suicide.{{citation|title=Leaders react and take steps after second tragedy at Parkland |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article228350134.html |newspaper=Miami Herald |access-date=January 26, 2023 |date=March 24, 2019 |last=Madan |first=Monique O.}} On March 17, Sydney Aiello, 19, committed suicide after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.{{citation|title=Parkland shooting survivor kills herself because of 'survivor's guilt,' parents say|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article228280289.html|newspaper=Miami Herald|access-date=March 25, 2019|date=March 22, 2019|last=Madan|first=Monique O.}}
  • March 24 – Attorney General William Barr sends members of Congress a four page letter outlining the principle conclusions of the Mueller Report.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47688187|date=March 24, 2019|title=Trump-Russia inquiry: President 'did not conspire with Russia'|access-date=March 24, 2019|work=BBC News}}
  • March 25
  • Kentucky outlaws bestiality.{{citation|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/27/sex-animals-bestiality-bill-signed-kentucky/3294087002/|title=Kentucky governor signs bill outlawing sex between people and animals|last=Kobin|first=Billy|date=March 27, 2019|access-date=March 27, 2019|newspaper=USA Today}}
  • Attorney Michael Avenatti is arrested in New York on charges of attempting to extort more than $20 million from sports company Nike. He is also charged with wire and bank fraud in a separate case in Los Angeles.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/michael-avenatti-extortion-arrested-charged-nike|date=March 26, 2019|title=Michael Avenatti, ex-lawyer for Stormy Daniels, arrested on extortion charges|access-date=March 26, 2019|work=The Guardian}}
  • Jeremy Richman, father of 6-year-old Avielle Richman, who was among 20 children and six adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, is found dead from an apparent suicide. This follows recent suicides by two survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/25/us/sandy-hook-victim-father-jeremy-richman-suicide/index.html|title=The father of a Sandy Hook victim dies from an apparent suicide|last=Yan|first=Holly|publisher=CNN|date=March 25, 2019|access-date=March 26, 2019}}
  • March 26
  • The House of Representatives fails to reach the supermajority needed to override President Trump's veto of Congress's attempt to overturn the border wall emergency declaration.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/26/politics/house-veto-vote-wall-emergency-resolution/index.html|work=CNN|date=26 March 2019|title=House fails to override Trump's veto over national emergency wall fight}}
  • "Bump stocks" are made illegal in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/bump-stocks-are-now-illegal-in-the-united-states-1465125443628|title=Bump stocks are now illegal in the United States|date=March 26, 2019|access-date=March 27, 2019|publisher=MSNBC}}
  • March 28 – The 2019 Major League Baseball season has its earliest season opener in history.{{cite web| url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2018/08/22/mlbs-opening-day-on-march-28-will-be-earliest-ever/37568979/| title=2019 MLB season will open on earliest day ever |publisher= USA Today |access-date=January 12, 2021}}
  • March 29
  • A judge in eastern North Carolina declares a charter school's dress code unconstitutional.{{cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/girls-successfully-sue-school-in-us-so-they-can-wear-pants-not-skirts-2015410|title=Girls Were Forced To Wear Skirts At A US School. So They Sued – And Won|date=March 31, 2019|access-date=March 31, 2019|publisher=NDTV}}
  • Fire destroys a building that housed executive offices at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee; arson is suspected.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/white-power-symbol-found-after-fire-destroys-social-justice-center-n990271|title='White power' symbol found after fire destroys social justice center that hosted Rosa Parks, MLK Jr.|work=NBC News|date=April 2, 2019|access-date=April 3, 2019}}
  • March 30 – President Trump issues a new permit to construct the Keystone Pipeline.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/keystone-xl-pipeline-trump-presidential-permit_n_5c9ee89ae4b00ba6327d620a|title=Trump Sidesteps Court Order, Issues Edict To Build Controversial Keystone XL Pipeline|publisher=Huffpost|date=March 30, 2019|access-date=April 3, 2019|last=Papenfuss|first=Mary}}
  • March 31 – A 23rd horse is reported to have died at Santa Anita racetrack in California, the latest in a string of deaths occurring since December 2018.{{cite web|publisher=CNN|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/01/us/santa-anita-horse-death-reopen/index.html|title=2 days after racing resumed, 23rd horse dies at Santa Anita Park|date=March 31, 2019|access-date=April 1, 2019}}

=April=

  • April 1
  • Bucklew v. Precythe: the Supreme Court rules 5–4 that death row inmates are not guaranteed "painless" executions under the U.S. Constitution.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-execution-idUSKCN1RD2J5|title=Death row inmates not guaranteed 'painless' execution, U.S. Supreme Court says|date=1 April 2019|work=Reuters}}
  • The U.S. halts the delivery of F-35 fighter jet-related equipment to Turkey to protest the country's planned purchasing of Russia's S-400 missile defense system.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-f35-exclusive-idUSKCN1RD316|title=U.S. halts F-35 equipment to Turkey, protests its plans to buy from Russia|date=1 April 2019|work=Reuters}}
  • The Colorado legislature passes a red flag law, allowing seizure of guns from people deemed a threat to themselves or others.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/colorado-passes-bill-seize-guns-people-deemed-threat-012134175.html|title=Colorado passes bill to seize guns from people deemed threat to self, others|publisher=Yahoo News|last=Coffman|first=Keith|date=April 1, 2019|access-date=April 1, 2019}}
  • Two airports in New York join San Antonio International Airport in banning concessions to Chick-fil-A restaurants due to the company's anti-LGBTQ record.{{cite web|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/04/chick-fil-banned-two-airports-continued-donations-anti-lgbtq-groups/|title=Chick-fil-A banned from two more airports over continued donations to anti-LGBTQ groups|date=April 1, 2019|publisher=LGBTQ Nation}}
  • Firefighters in Asbury Park, New Jersey put out a forest fire that burned 11,638 acres (18 square miles) in two days.{{citation|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/01/new-jersey-forest-fire-contained/3330183002/|title=New Jersey forest fire 100 percent contained, crews still monitoring fire|newspaper=USA Today|location=McLean, Virginia|date=April 1, 2019|access-date=April 1, 2019|last=Kachmar|first=Karla}}
  • April 2
  • Lori Lightfoot wins the run-off in the 2019 Chicago mayoral election, becoming the first black woman to hold the post and the first openly gay Chicago mayor.{{citation|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|date=April 2, 2019|access-date=April 2, 2019|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-mayoral-election-2019-results-lightfoot-preckwinkle/|title=Lori Lightfoot wins historic mayoral race: 'This is amazing'}}
  • Prosecutors in Waco, Texas decide to not go ahead with prosecution of individuals allegedly involved in the 2015 Waco shootout that left nine dead and 20 people injured.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/waco-biker-shooting-prosecutors-drop-all-charges-deadly-shootout-n990341|title=Waco biker shooting: Prosecutors drop all charges in deadly shootout|work=NBC News|date=April 3, 2019|access-date=April 3, 2019}}
  • An explosion at a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas leaves one dead and two injured. This comes just weeks after a similar Houston-area explosion in Deer Creek, Texas on March 17.{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/4/headlines/felony_charges_dropped_against_african_american_victim_of_dallas_attack|title=Blast at Texas Chemical Plant Kills 1, Injures 2|date=April 4, 2019|access-date=April 4, 2019|publisher=Democracy Now}}
  • April 3
  • Representative Richard Neal, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, sends a letter to the Internal Revenue Service asking for President Trump's tax returns.{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/its-official-democrats-demand-trumps-tax-returns-he-has-one-week/|title=It's Official: Democrats Demand Trump's Tax Returns. He Has One Week.|publisher=Mother Jones|date=April 3, 2019|access-date=April 3, 2019}} Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee votes to subpoena the Mueller Report.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mueller-report-subpoena-full-vote_n_5ca4c429e4b094d3f5c4ef88|publisher=Huff Post|title=House Panel Votes To Authorize Subpoena For Full Mueller Report|date=April 3, 2019|access-date=April 3, 2019}}
  • The Pittsburgh City Council votes for new gun laws, including a ban on certain semiautomatic assault weapons.{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/3/headlines/pittsburgh_approves_new_gun_control_measures|title=Pittsburgh Approves New Gun Control Measures|date=April 3, 2019|access-date=April 3, 2019|publisher=Democracy Now}}
  • April 4 – The 1973 War Powers Resolution is invoked for the first time when the House votes 247–175 to end U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its intervention in the Yemeni Civil War; the Senate voted 54–46 on the bill in March 2019. President Trump vetoes the bill on April 16, the second veto of his presidency.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/04/yemen-saudi-arabia-war-us-military-assistance-vote-congress-trump-veto-latest|title=Yemen war: Congress votes to end US military assistance to Saudi Arabia|date=4 April 2019|work=The Guardian}}{{cite news|work=Axios|url=https://www.axios.com/trump-vetoes-resolution-asking-end-us-involvement-yemen-56dce5b1-eac5-4198-b7b1-b3b1a1edb7cb.html|title=Trump vetoes resolution to end U.S. involvement in Yemen|date=16 April 2019}}
  • April 5 – Shazam!, directed by David F. Sandberg, is released as the seventh film in the DC Extended Universe.
  • April 6
  • Arson is suspected as the cause of three fires in historically black churches since March 26 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. A fourth, smaller fire was set at a majority-white church in Caddo Parish on March 31.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/06/us/louisiana-black-church-fires/|title=Suspicious fires consume 3 black churches in 10 days in a Louisiana parish|date=April 6, 2019|access-date=April 6, 2019|publisher=CNN}} The culprit in the case of the three black churches is arrested and charged on April 11.{{cite news|url=http://time.com/5568701/holden-matthews-charged-fire-black-churches-louisiana/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411183912/http://time.com/5568701/holden-matthews-charged-fire-black-churches-louisiana/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 11, 2019|title=Sheriff's Deputy's Son Charged With Setting Fire to 3 Black Churches in Louisiana|date=11 April 2019}}
  • April 8 – Joining Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, the Trump administration announces its intentions to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group. The official designation takes place on April 15.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/iran-us-irgc-designation/index.html|title=Trump designates elite Iranian military force as a terrorist organization|date=8 April 2019|work=CNN}}
  • April 11
  • Federal prosecutors announce a 36-count indictment against lawyer Michael Avenatti, including bank fraud, embezzlement, tax evasion and wire fraud.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/11/politics/michael-avenatti-indicted-los-angeles/index.html|title=Michael Avenatti indicted on 36 counts, accused of embezzling tens of millions of dollars |date=April 11, 2019|access-date=April 11, 2019|publisher=CNN}}
  • Federal prosecutors indict Obama-era White House Counsel Greg Craig on charges of lying and hiding information related to his work for Ukraine.{{cite news|title=Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig charged by federal prosecutors over alleged Ukraine lies|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/11/obama-white-house-counsel-gregory-craig-charged-by-federal-prosecutors.html|date=11 April 2019|work=CNBC}}
  • Ohio passes legislation to ban abortion at six weeks, the fifth state to do so.{{cite web|url=https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/which-states-have-passed-six-week-abortion-bans.html|title=Ohio Just Became the Fifth State to Ban Abortion at 6 Weeks|publisher=The Cut|date=April 12, 2019|access-date=April 12, 2019}}
  • April 15 – Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld officially announces his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election. He will run as a Republican primary challenger to incumbent President Donald Trump, the first to do so.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/politics/bill-weld-2020-trump/index.html|work=CNN|date=15 April 2019|title=Bill Weld officially announces he is challenging Trump for GOP nomination in 2020}}
  • April 16 – Apple and Qualcomm settle a multi-year legal dispute regarding patent royalties. The deal between the two tech giants helps, among other arrangements, pave the way for Apple to have 5G iPhones on the market by 2020.{{cite news|url=https://www.axios.com/apple-qualcomm-settle-long-running-legal-dispute-1555441742-c689e958-3641-4780-a5ce-4734c04cd3a6.html|work=Axios|date=16 April 2019|title=Apple, Qualcomm settle long-running legal dispute}}{{cite news|url=https://www.axios.com/apple-qualcomm-deal-reshapes-us-chip-business-12d8073b-3ba2-4822-967c-9d881f146bb8.html|work=Axios|title=Apple-Qualcomm deal reshapes U.S. chip business|date=17 April 2019|access-date=18 April 2019}}
  • April 18 – A redacted version of the final Mueller Report is released by Attorney General William Barr to Congress and the general public. The report goes into detail on findings from the 2017–2019 Special Counsel probe regarding Russian contacts with the 2016 Donald Trump election campaign and matters regarding obstruction of justice by President Trump himself.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/mueller-report-recounts-10-episodes-involving-trump-and-questions-of-obstruction.html|title=Mueller report recounts 10 'episodes' involving Trump and questions of obstruction|date=18 April 2019|work=CNBC}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/read-text-full-mueller-report-n994551|title=Read the text of the Mueller report|date=18 April 2019|work=NBC News}}
  • April 23 – Wing Aviation, a Google offshoot company, becomes the first drone delivery service to receive Air Carrier Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration.{{cite web|url=https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=23554|title=Press Release – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao Announces FAA Certification of Commercial Package Delivery |date=April 23, 2019|access-date=April 25, 2019|publisher=FAA}}{{cite web|url=https://www.recode.net/2019/4/24/18514295/google-wing-aviation-alphabet-drone-faa|title=Google's Wing has landed the FAA's first approval for drone delivery |date=April 24, 2019|access-date=April 25, 2019|publisher=recode}}{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-becomes-first-certified-air-carrier-for-drones-in-the-us-43401883f20b|title=Wing becomes first certified Air Carrier for drones in the US|date=April 23, 2019|access-date=April 25, 2019|publisher=Medium|archive-date=April 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425140901/https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-becomes-first-certified-air-carrier-for-drones-in-the-us-43401883f20b|url-status=dead}}
  • April 25
  • Former Vice President Joe Biden announces his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election, expanding the field to a record 20 candidates, the largest field of presidential candidates in U.S. history.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/biden-entry-makes-2020-democrats-the-largest-presidential-field-in-history|title=Biden entry makes 20 Democrats in 2020: The largest presidential field in history|date=24 April 2019|access-date=25 April 2019}}
  • A manhunt is launched for man caught on CCTV attempting to set fire to the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/authorities-search-arsonist-who-set-fire-outside-national-archives-washington-n999161|title=Authorities search for arsonist who set fire outside of National Archives in Washington|date=27 April 2019}} The suspect, Jacob Leroy Wallace, 32, is later arrested on May 2.{{cite news|url=https://wjla.com/news/local/police-arrest-man-fire-national-archives|title=Man accused of setting fire at National Archives Building says 'voices' told him to do it|date=7 May 2019|access-date=12 May 2019}}
  • April 26 – Avengers: Endgame is released by Marvel Studios{{cite web| url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/12/07/avengers-endgame-watch-first-trailer-marvels-anticipated-film/2212076002/ |title=It's finally here! Watch the first trailer for Marvel's newly titled 'Avengers: Endgame' |publisher=USA Today |access-date=January 14, 2021}} as the sequel to 2018's Avengers: Infinity War. It breaks several box office records{{Cite web |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |date=April 28, 2019 |title=Avengers: Endgame Box Office: All the Records Broken in $1.2B Global Bow |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avengers-endgame-box-office-all-records-broken-12b-bow-1205398/ |access-date=December 24, 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/07/avengers-endgame-box-office-records-broken-russo-brothers-fandangonow-presales-1202656364/|title=Russo Brothers Break More Records With 'Avengers: Endgame' As FandangoNOW Reports All-Time Home Presales: A List Of All B.O. Benchmarks For Marvel Pic|date=July 29, 2019|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=June 4, 2021}} and eventually becomes the second highest-grossing film of all time, grossing $2.798 billion.{{Cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/avengers-endgame-passes-avatar-become-no-1-film-all-time-1225121 |title=Box Office: 'Avengers: Endgame' Passes 'Avatar' to Become No. 1 Film of All Time |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=July 20, 2019 |access-date=June 4, 2021 }}{{Cite The Numbers|id=Avengers-Endgame-(2019)|title=Avengers: Endgame|access-date=June 4, 2021}}
  • April 27
  • A mass shooting occurs at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California on the last day of Passover, resulting in one death and three injuries.{{cite news |date=April 28, 2019 |title=Mayor says synagogue shooting in California that left 1 dead and 3 wounded was a 'hate crime' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/27/us/san-diego-synagogue/index.html |work=CNN |access-date=April 28, 2019}}
  • A construction crane working on a Google office building in Seattle, Washington, collapses onto Mercer Street, killing four people and injuring four others.{{cite news |last1=Bush |first1=Evan |last2=Shapiro |first2=Nina |date=April 27, 2019 |title=Fallen crane kills four in South Lake Union: 'It was terrifying' |work=The Seattle Times |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/fallen-crane-kills-four-in-south-lake-union-it-was-terrifying/ |accessdate=April 27, 2019}}
  • April 28 – Undersea explorer Victor Vescovo sets a new world record for the deepest ever sea dive at {{convert|10,972|m}} in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. Several unusual things are discovered at the bottom, including four new species of prawn-like crustaceans and a new species of snailfish.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48230157|title=Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag|work=BBC|date=13 May 2019|access-date=14 May 2019}}
  • April 30
  • A school shooting takes place at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, leaving two people dead and four injured.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-2-dead-2-injured-after-report-shooting-university-north-n1000436|title=2 dead, 4 injured after shooting at University of North Carolina at Charlotte|website=NBC News|language=en|access-date=April 30, 2019}}
  • Minneapolis Police Officer Mohamed Noor is convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter for shooting and killing Australian woman Justine Damond after she called 9-1-1 to report the possible assault of a woman.{{Cite web|url=https://www.startribune.com/mohamed-noor-guilty-murder-manslaughter-fatal-shooting-justine-ruszczyk-damond-minneapolis-police/509224642/|title=Mohamed Noor guilty of third-degree murder, manslaughter in killing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond|first=Chao Xiong Star|last=Tribune|website=Star Tribune|date=May 2019 }}

=May=

  • May 1 – Maine becomes the first state to ban Styrofoam containers.[https://www.ecowatch.com/maine-bans-styrofoam-2636014775.html?socialux=facebook&share_id=4576315 Maine First U.S. State to Ban Styrofoam Containers] by Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch, May 1, 2019
  • May 2
  • After designating them "dangerous individuals and organizations", social media giant Facebook purges InfoWars, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, prominent white nationalist Paul Nehlen, right-wing figures Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Paul Joseph Watson and others from all of its platforms, including Instagram.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/facebook-ban-louis-farrakhan-infowars-alex-jones-milo-laura-loomer/index.html|title=Facebook bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and others from its platforms as 'dangerous'|date=2 May 2019|work=CNN}} After notable partisan outcry, President Trump later tweets on the matter, decrying perceived targeted censorship against conservatives on social media platforms by private corporations. Facebook responds that the bans were not ideologically motivated.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/04/tech/trump-social-media-twitter-facebook/index.html|title=Trump tweets support for far-right figures banned by Facebook|date=4 May 2019|work=CNN}}
  • Mayor of Baltimore Catherine Pugh announces her resignation from office amid state and federal investigations into whether she used bulk sales of her self-published children's book to disguise kickbacks.{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/baltimore-mayor-catherine-pugh-resign-healthy-holly|title=Baltimore mayor expected to resign Thursday amid FBI, state investigations into 'Healthy Holly' book|date=2 May 2019|work=Fox News}}
  • May 3 – New economic data shows that the U.S. unemployment rate fell from 3.8 percent to 3.6 percent in April 2019, the lowest in 49 years, with employers adding 263,000 jobs in April versus the expected 190,000.{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/8a603c0717d44e9a9edca5f342129685|title=Unemployment hits 49-year low as US employers step up hiring|date=3 May 2019|work=AP}}
  • May 4
  • For the first time in American history, the winners of the Miss America (Nia Franklin), Miss Teen USA (Kaliegh Garris), and Miss USA (Cheslie Kryst) beauty contests are all black women.{{citation |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/04/entertainment/miss-usa-miss-teen-usa-miss-america-trnd/index.html|title=For the first time, Miss USA, Miss America and Miss Teen USA are all black women|publisher=CNN|date=May 4, 2019|access-date=May 4, 2019}}
  • At the 2019 Kentucky Derby, longshot contender Country House wins the race after Maximum Security is disqualified, despite being the first across the finish line.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/kentucky-derby-2019-results-country-house-claims-victory-after-maximum-security-disqualified/|last=Cody |first=Benjamin |date=May 4, 2019|title=Kentucky Derby 2019 results: Country House emerges with victory after Maximum Security disqualified|work=CBS Sports|access-date=May 4, 2019}}
  • May 5 – National security adviser John Bolton announces the U.S. will deploy the {{USS|Abraham Lincoln|CVN-72}} Carrier Strike Group and four B-52 bombers to the Middle Eastern theater to "send a clear and unmistakable message" to Iran following Israeli intelligence reports of an alleged Iranian plot to attack U.S. forces in the region.{{cite news|work=Axios|title=Bolton: U.S. sending Navy strike group to Iran to send "clear message"|url=https://www.axios.com/us-navy-deploys-strike-group-to-iran-bolton-1e5b9298-f807-4db2-a4e7-ddd9f308db36.html|date=6 May 2019}}{{cite news|work=Axios|url=https://www.axios.com/israel-warned-trump-of-possible-iran-plot-bolton-34f25563-c3f3-41ee-a653-9d96b4541984.html|title=Israel passed White House intelligence on possible Iran plot|date=6 May 2019}} The military would later deploy the {{USS|Arlington|LPD-24}} Marine transport ship and a Patriot SAM battery to the Middle East as well.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/10/pentagon-marines-patriot-missiles-added-force-confronting-iran/1169210001/|title=Pentagon bolsters force in Middle East with Marines and missiles to confront Iran|date=10 May 2019|work=USA Today}}
  • May 6
  • According to Gallup's tracking poll, President Donald Trump's approval rating reaches 46%, the highest of his presidency thus far.{{cite web|publisher=Gallup|url=https://news.gallup.com/poll/249344/trump-approval-remains-high.aspx|title=Trump Approval Remains High for Him, at 46%|date=3 May 2019}}
  • Professional golfer Tiger Woods is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, becoming the fourth (and the youngest) active golfer to have received the medal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trump-tiger-woods-presidential-medal-of-freedom |title=Trump presents 'true legend' Tiger Woods with Presidential Medal of Freedom |author=Samuel Chamberlain|publisher=Fox News|language=en|date=2019-05-06|access-date=2019-05-06}}
  • The Arizona Senate declares pornography to be a public health crisis.{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/porn-deemed-public-health-crisis-arizona-politicians/story?id=62874408|title=Porn deemed a public health crisis by Arizona politicians|date=7 May 2019|work=ABC News}}
  • May 7 – A school shooting occurs at the STEM School Highlands Ranch in Douglas County, Colorado, leaving one dead and seven injured.{{cite news |title=Denver: two suspects in custody following shooting at school |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/07/denver-shooting-stem-school-suspects-injuries |access-date=May 7, 2019 |work=The Guardian |agency=Associated Press |date=May 7, 2019}}
  • May 8
  • The New York Times publishes newly obtained tax information revealing that from 1985 to 1994, Donald Trump lost $1.17 billion from his various businesses – a far greater amount than previously known, and more than any tax payer in U.S. history.{{cite news |title=Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html |access-date=May 8, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=May 8, 2019}}
  • Denver, Colorado, becomes the first city in the U.S. to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, in a vote of 51 to 49%.{{cite news |title=Denver Voters Approve Measure To Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomangell/2019/05/08/denver-voters-approve-measure-to-decriminalize-psychedelic-mushrooms/ |access-date=May 9, 2019 |work=Forbes |date=May 8, 2019}}
  • May 10 – At 12:00 a.m. EST, President Trump's proposed 25 percent tariff hike on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect, escalating tensions between the two nations amid the ongoing China–United States trade war. The deadline hits as negotiations between trade representatives continued.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-tariffs/trumps-tariff-hike-on-200-billion-of-chinese-goods-takes-effect-idUSKCN1SG08X|title=Trump's tariff hike on $200 billion of Chinese goods takes effect|date=9 May 2019|work=Reuters}}
  • May 13 – 2019 college admissions bribery scandal: Actress Felicity Huffman pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud and admits to paying $15,000 for a proctor to change her daughter's SAT answers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/felicity-huffman-pleads-guilty-college-admissions-scandal-n1005056|title=Felicity Huffman tearfully pleads guilty in college admissions scandal|website=NBC News|date=13 May 2019 }}
  • May 14
  • Abortion is outlawed in the state of Alabama, except for cases where a woman's life is threatened or a lethal fetal anomaly is present. The anti-abortion law, written to serve as a catalyst for a legal challenge against the Roe v. Wade ruling, is set to go into effect in November.{{cite news |title=Alabama Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning Nearly All Abortions |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/05/14/723312937/alabama-lawmakers-passes-abortion-ban |access-date=May 14, 2019 |work=NPR |date=May 15, 2019}}{{cite news |title=Alabama passes bill banning abortion |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48275795 |access-date=May 15, 2019 |work=BBC News |date=May 15, 2019}}
  • San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition technology.{{cite news |title=San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48276660 |access-date=May 15, 2019 |work=BBC News |date=May 15, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=7206781&GUID=38D37061-4D87-4A94-9AB3-CB113656159A|title=City Ordinance Banning Facial Recognition}}{{cite news |title=San Francisco votes to ban city use of facial recognition technology

|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-san-francisco-facial-recognition/san-francisco-votes-to-ban-city-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-idUSKCN1SK2NH |access-date=May 15, 2019 |work=Reuters |date=May 14, 2019}}

  • May 15 – President Trump issues an executive order invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in response to security threats from foreign telecom companies such as Huawei.{{cite news |title=Huawei hits back after Trump declares national emergency on telecoms 'threat' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/15/donald-trump-national-emergency-telecoms-threats-huawei |access-date=May 16, 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=May 16, 2019}}
  • May 16 – New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announces his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election, expanding the Democratic primary field to a record 24 candidates, already the largest presidential primary field for any political party in American history.{{cite news|url=https://www.axios.com/nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-launches-2020-presidential-campaign-fd66b4ab-d99d-40f5-8253-72e50bfb4f22.html|title=NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio launches 2020 presidential campaign|date=16 May 2019|work=Axios}}
  • May 17
  • The U.S. reaches a deal with Mexico and Canada to lift steel and aluminum tariffs imposed in May 2018, paving the way for further ratification of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trade agreement set to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).{{cite news|work=CNBC|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/us-to-announce-deal-to-lift-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-on-canada-and-mexico-as-soon-as-today-sources.html|title=US reaches deal to lift steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico|date=17 May 2019}}
  • Japan lifts its ban on U.S. beef imports that were from cattle older than 20 months of age.{{cite news|work=CNBC|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/japan-ends-longstanding-trade-restrictions-on-american-beef-usda.html|title=Japan ends longstanding trade restrictions on American beef, setting stage for exports to grow|date=17 May 2019|access-date=20 May 2019}}
  • May 17–30 – A major tornado outbreak strikes the Central United States, killing at least eight people and causing "catastrophic" damage in many areas.{{Cite web|url=https://m.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/live-particularly-dangerous-tornado-outbreak-unfolds-in-oklahoma-texas/70008322|title=Particularly dangerous tornado outbreak unfolds in Oklahoma and Texas}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • May 21 – Washington becomes the first state to legalize human composting, the right to allow people to have their body turned into soil after death. The process is seen as an alternative to traditional cremations and burials.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48359571|work=BBC|date=21 May 2019|access-date=22 May 2019|title=Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting}}
  • May 22 – The Alabama Historical Commission announces that the wreckage of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring African slaves to the United States during the Atlantic slave trade, is found in the Mobile River.{{cite news |last=Koplowitz |first=Howard |title=Clotilda, the last American slave ship, found in Alabama, historical commission says |url=https://www.al.com/news/2019/05/clotilda-the-last-american-slave-ship-has-been-found-alabama-historical-commission-announces.html |work=AL.com |access-date=May 22, 2019 |date=May 22, 2019 }}
  • May 23 – California native John Walker Lindh, a former Taliban fighter and the first person to be convicted of a crime in the War on Terror, is released from federal prison after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence.{{cite news|title='American Taliban' released from prison, a key case for questions about radicals re-entering society|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/politics/john-walker-lindh-american-taliban/index.html|date=23 May 2019|work=CNN}}
  • May 24
  • President Trump authorizes the deployment of 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East amid regional tensions with Iran.{{cite news|title=US orders new troops to Middle East to counter Iran 'threat'|url=https://news.yahoo.com/us-orders-troops-middle-east-counter-iran-threat-201533911.html|date=25 May 2019|work=Yahoo! News}}
  • Federal judge Carlton Reeves temporarily blocks a Mississippi law banning abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/us/mississippi-abortion-law.html|title=Federal Judge Blocks Mississippi Abortion Law|last=Blinder|first=Alan|date=2019-05-24|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-05-27|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
  • May 26 – Simon Pagenaud wins the Indianapolis 500, driving a Dallara-Chevrolet for Team Penske. It was Pagenaud's first win in the event and Penske's 18th.{{cite web|url=https://motorsports.nbcsports.com/2019/05/26/simon-pagenaud-wins-indianapolis-500-completes-indy-sweep-of-may/|title=Simon Pagenaud wins Indy 500 thriller, completes sweep of May|first=Nate|last=Ryan|date=May 26, 2019|access-date=March 31, 2020|work=NBC Sports}}
  • May 30
  • 2019 measles outbreak: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that, thus far in 2019, there have been 971 cases of measles in the U.S., the highest level in more than 25 years.{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-measles-cases-set-record-11559242458|work=Wall Street Journal|title=U.S. Measles Outbreaks Hit Highest Level in More Than 25 Years|date=30 May 2019}}
  • President Trump announces his intentions to apply a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican imports, effective June 10, to pressure Mexico to do more to crack down on a surge in Central American migrants trying to cross the U.S. southern border. The tariffs are to increase to 10 percent on July 1, and by another 5 percent each month for three months. The tariffs are averted on June 7.{{cite news|url=https://www.apnews.com/afec271c5f9c4fdb82f57b48cb593add|title=Trump announces new Mexican tariffs in response to migrants|date=30 May 2019|work=Associated Press}}
  • Louisiana bans abortions at six weeks of pregnancy, joining five other states that have passed six-week abortion bans.{{cite news|work=ABC News|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/louisiana-set-latest-state-sign-abortion-ban-law/story?id=63370943|title=Louisiana governor signs 6-week abortion ban into law|date=30 May 2019}}
  • New Hampshire becomes the 21st state to abolish the death penalty.{{cite web |url=https://www.nhpr.org/post/nh-abolishes-death-penalty-legislature-overturns-governors-veto |title=N.H. Abolishes Death Penalty, As Legislature Overturns Governor's Veto |date=30 May 2019 |publisher=New Hampshire Public Radio |access-date=January 14, 2021}}
  • May 31 – 12 people are killed, including the perpetrator, and four are injured in a mass shooting at a municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/updated-at-least-dead-six-hospitalized-after-shooting-at-virginia/article_6c782e64-0652-5a0f-bc2c-b965b0dd32ad.html|title='Today is Virginia Beach's darkest hour:' 12 killed in shooting at municipal complex; assailant dead|last=Finley|first=Ben|website=Richmond Times-Dispatch|date=31 May 2019 |language=en|access-date=2021-01-14}}

=June=

  • June 3 – Jay-Z becomes the first hip-hop billionaire, according to Forbes magazine.{{cite news|title=Jay-Z becomes 'world's first hip-hop billionaire'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48502463|work=BBC News|date=3 June 2019|access-date=4 June 2019}}{{cite news|title=Artist, Icon, Billionaire: How Jay-Z Created His $1 Billion Fortune|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2019/06/03/jay-z-billionaire-worth/#29137b723a5f|work=Forbes|date=3 June 2019|access-date=4 June 2019}}
  • June 7 – NASA announces that, beginning in 2020, the International Space Station will be commercialized, allowing private companies to use the station to conduct for-profit activities, including marketing, advertising and space manufacturing.{{cite news|url=https://www.space.com/nasa-international-space-station-commercial-use.html|title=NASA: The International Space Station Is Open for Commercial Business in Orbit|date=7 June 2019|work=Space.com}}
  • June 10
  • United Technologies and Raytheon agree to a merger. The resultant company is projected to be the second largest defense and aerospace contractor in the U.S.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/10/raytheon-united-technologies-to-merge-what-experts-are-watching.html|title=Raytheon and United Technologies to merge – here's what experts are watching|date=10 June 2019|access-date=11 June 2019|work=CNBC}}
  • June 11 – Alabama legalizes chemical castration as a stipulation for child sex offenders applying for parole; the law goes into effect September 1.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/06/11/alabama-chemical-castration-bill/|title=Alabama approves 'chemical castration' bill for some sex offenders|date=11 June 2019|newspaper=Washington Post}}
  • June 12
  • Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signs a law making abortion a "fundamental right" for pregnant individuals in the state.{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met-illinois-abortion-rights-law-governor-jb-pritzker-20190612-story.html|title=Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs abortion rights law making procedure a 'fundamental right' for women in Illinois|work=Chicago Tribune|date=12 June 2019|access-date=13 June 2019}}
  • At least two dozen police officers and two journalists are injured in overnight riots in Memphis, Tennessee after U.S. Marshals kill a 20-year-old black man, Brandon Webber, during an attempted arrest.{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dozens-officers-injured-during-protest-memphis-after-task-force-kills-n1017086|title=Dozens of officers injured during protest in Memphis after task force kills man|date=13 June 2019|work=NBC News}}
  • The St. Louis Blues defeat the Boston Bruins 4 games to 3, to win their first Stanley Cup Championship.
  • June 14 – Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill making Florida the 12th state to ban sanctuary cities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sanctuary-cities-florida-gov-ron-desantis-signs-sanctuary-ban-undocumented-immigrants-protections-today-2019-06-14/|title=Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs "sanctuary cities" ban|website=CBS News|date=14 June 2019 }}
  • June 17 - Amphibia debuts on Disney Channel.
  • June 18 – Twelve Federal Police agents are sentenced to 34 years of prison for the August 24, 2012 murder of two CIA agents in Tres Marias, Morelos, Mexico.{{cite news|newspaper=Diario de Morelos|date=June 18, 2019|access-date=July 8, 2019|location=Cuernavaca|title=Sentencian a policías federales por ataque a agentes de la CIA en Tres Marías en 2012|language=es|trans-title=Federal police sentenced for attack on CIA in Tres Marias in 2012 |url=https://www.diariodemorelos.com/noticias/sentencian-polic-federales-por-ataque-agentes-de-la-cia-en-tres-mar-en-2012}}
  • June 19 – Keith Raniere, leader of sex cult NXIVM, is found guilty of all charges against him in a New York court.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48699099|title=Nxivm: Sex cult leader Raniere found guilty in New York|date=19 June 2019|access-date=19 June 2019|work=BBC News}}
  • June 20 – 2019 Iranian shoot-down of American drone: President Trump orders then aborts conventional military strikes against Iran after the shoot-down of an RQ-4A surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz. He reportedly approves cyber attacks against Iranian missile systems.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/with-trumps-approval-pentagon-launched-cyber-strikes-against-iran/2019/06/22/250d3740-950d-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html|title= Trump approved cyber-strikes against Iran's missile systems|date=22 June 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post}}
  • June 21
  • Journalist and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses President Trump of having sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/donald-trump-sexual-assault-allegation-e-jean-carroll-new-york-latest-accusation|title=Donald Trump accused of sexually assaulting writer E Jean Carroll|date=21 June 2019|access-date=22 June 2019|work=The Guardian}}
  • Pixar Animation Studios' 21st feature film, Toy Story 4, the sequel to 2010's Toy Story 3, is released in theaters.
  • June 23 – In a public stunt, two members of The Flying Wallendas successfully walk a quarter-mile tightrope 25 stories above Times Square.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/nyregion/flying-wallendas-times-square.html|title='Flying Wallendas' Cross Times Square on High Wire in Death-Defying Stunt|date=23 June 2019|access-date=24 June 2019|work=The New York Times}}
  • June 24 – President Trump signs an executive order sanctioning Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the first such sanctions in history.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-new-iran-sanctions-order-2019-06-24-live-updates/|title=Trump issues "hard-hitting" Iran sanctions|date=24 June 2019|work=CBS News}}
  • June 25 – San Francisco becomes the first major U.S. city to ban the sale of e-cigarettes.{{cite news|title=San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigarette Ban|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-25/juul-ban-in-san-francisco-is-expected-to-be-passed|date=25 June 2019|work=Bloomberg}}
  • June 27
  • Rucho v. Common Cause and Benisek v. Lamone: The Supreme Court rules 5–4 that federal courts are constitutionally powerless to hear challenges to excessive partisan gerrymandering, leaving it up to states and Congress to legally address the issue.{{cite web | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-gerrymandering.html | title= Supreme Court Says Constitution Does Not Bar Partisan Gerrymandering |first= Adam | last= Liptak | date = June 27, 2019 | access-date = June 27, 2019 | work = The New York Times }}
  • During a 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries debate, Moderator and NBC "Today" host Savannah Guthrie asked the 10 Democratic primary candidates on stage if their health plans would provide coverage for the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally. Every candidate raised their hands.{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-presidential-candidates-favor-health-care-coverage-for-undocumented-immigrants|date=27 June 2019|title=Illegal immigrants should get health care, say Dems in Night 2 debate|work=Fox News}} One study predicts this would cost American taxpayers up to $23 billion a year.{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/providing-health-insurance-to-illegal-immigrants|date=10 October 2019|title=Providing health insurance to illegal immigrants could cost up to $23 billion a year, study finds|work=Fox News}}
  • June 30
  • During a three-way meeting at the Korean Demilitarized Zone with South and North Korean leaders, President Trump becomes the first sitting U.S. president to set foot on North Korean territory. Both Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pledge to restart stalled nuclear negotiations between the two countries.{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/30/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-1390737|date=30 June 2019|title=Trump takes historic step into North Korea with Kim Jong Un|work=Politico}}
  • Ten people are killed when a twin-engine Beechcraft BE-350 King Air crashes into a hangar, shortly after take-off at Addison Airport, Texas.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48821328|title=Texas plane crash: 10 killed after 'aircraft veers into hangar'|date=1 July 2019|access-date=1 July 2019|work=BBC News}}
  • Date unknown – According to CNN and Financial Times reports, President Trump promised Chinese President Xi Jinping that the US would remain quiet on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong while trade talks continued.{{citation|website=CNN Politics|date=Oct 4, 2019|title=Trump promised Xi US silence on Hong Kong democracy protests as trade talks stalled |author1=Jim Sciutto|author2=Gloria Borger|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/04/politics/trump-xi-hong-kong-protests/index.html}}

=July=

  • July 2 – Spider-Man: Far from Home, directed by Jon Watts, is released by Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures as the 23rd film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the final film in its "Phase Three" slate, the final installment in its self-styled "Infinity Saga" and the sequel to 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming.
  • July 4
  • In a one-hour Independence Day event titled Salute to America, President Donald Trump becomes the first U.S. president in nearly seven decades to address a crowd at the National Mall during the holiday. President Harry Truman had previously done so in 1951.{{cite news|title=Trump asks Americans to 'stay true to our cause'|url=https://www.apnews.com/5fef7761f14f4c65a7de982359b87bd0|work=Associated Press|date=4 July 2019}}
  • Southern California is hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the largest in the region since 1994.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquake-california-shake-quake-20190704-story.html|title=Largest earthquake in decades hits Southern California, measuring 6.4 magnitude|date=4 July 2019|access-date=4 July 2019|work=Los Angeles Times}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48876482|title=Southern California shaken by 6.4 magnitude earthquake|date=4 July 2019|access-date=4 July 2019|work=BBC News}}
  • July 5 – A second, stronger earthquake of 7.1 magnitude hits Southern California. There are no reported casualties.{{cite news|url=https://news.sky.com/story/7-1-magnitude-earthquake-recorded-in-southern-california-11757742|title=Southern California hit by 7.1-magnitude earthquake days after earlier quake|date=6 July 2019|access-date=6 July 2019|work=Sky News}}
  • July 6
  • Billionaire financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking and additionally charged by the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking and with conspiracy to traffic minors in Florida and New York.{{cite web|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article232374872.html|title=Jeffrey Epstein arrested on sex trafficking charges|last=Brown|first=Julie K.|date=2019-07-06|website=Miami Herald|language=en|access-date=2019-07-07}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-charges.html |date=July 8, 2019 |last=Watkins |first=Ali |access-date=July 10, 2019 |website=The New York Times |title=Jeffrey Epstein Is Indicted on Sex Charges as Discovery of Nude Photos Is Disclosed}}
  • At least 20 people are injured, two seriously, by an apparent gas explosion at a shopping mall in Plantation, Florida.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48894648|title=Plantation explosion: Injuries reported at Florida shopping complex|date=6 July 2019|access-date=6 July 2019|work=BBC News}}
  • July 7 – The U.S. women's soccer team wins their fourth World Cup, defending their status as the No. 1 team in the world and renewing their campaign for pay equity.{{cite news|url=https://www.insider.com/news-stories-that-gripped-in-the-world-in-2019#in-july-the-us-womens-national-soccer-team-won-its-fourth-world-cup-12|work=CNN|date=20 December 2019|access-date=28 April 2020|title=21 news stories that gripped the world in 2019}}
  • July 9 – Billionaire Tom Steyer announces his candidacy for the 2020 U.S. presidential election, on the Democratic Party ticket.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/politics/tom-steyer-presidential-campaign/index.html|work=CNN|date=9 July 2019|access-date=10 July 2019|title=Tom Steyer officially announces presidential bid}}
  • July 11
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average exceeds 27,000 points for the first time in its history.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/11/stock-market-fed-chief-signals-a-rate-cut.html|title=Dow rallies 200 points to close above 27,000 for the first time ever|publisher=CNBC|last=Imbert|first=Fred|date=July 11, 2019}}
  • Singer R. Kelly is arrested in Chicago on federal sex trafficking charges—it is the first time he faces federal criminal charges.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/r-kelly-arrested-nypd-and-homeland-security-arrested-singer-on-sex-trafficking-charges-today-2019-07-12/|work=CBS|title=R. Kelly arrested on federal sex trafficking charges|date=12 July 2019}}
  • July 12
  • Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announces his resignation amid controversy over his prosecution of a 2007 sex crimes case against Jeffrey Epstein, the details of which resurfaced following Epstein's July 6 arrest.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/12/labor-secretary-alex-acosta-is-resigning-as-pressure-mounts-from-jeffrey-epstein-case.html|title=Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigns amid pressure from Jeffrey Epstein sex traffic case|date=12 July 2019|work=CNBC}}
  • In a 3–2 vote, the Federal Trade Commission approves a record $5 billion fine on Facebook to settle an investigation into data privacy violations.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/07/12/facebook-hit-5bn-us-fine-cambridge-analytica-scandal/|work=The Telegraph|title=Facebook to be hit with $5bn US fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal |date=12 July 2019|access-date=13 July 2019}}
  • July 13
  • A blackout occurs in Manhattan's West Side, affecting 73,000 customers. The blackout occurs exactly 42 years after the New York City blackout of 1977.{{cite web |last1=Romero |first1=Dennis |last2=Winter |first2=Tom |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/power-outage-strikes-midtown-manhattan-n1029636 |title=Power returning to major sections of Manhattan after outage |work=NBC News |date=July 13, 2019 |access-date=July 13, 2019 }}
  • Hurricane Barry approaches the Gulf Coast, becoming the first hurricane of the 2019 season, with a sustained wind speed of 75 mph (120 km/h).{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48973819|work=BBC News|title=Hurricane Barry closes in on Louisiana as residents lock down |date=13 July 2019|access-date=13 July 2019}}
  • Willem Van Spronsen, a self-described Antifa member armed with a rifle and incendiary devices, attacks an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Washington state. Van Spronsen fires several shots at the detention center, throws incendiary devices, and sets vehicles on fire. While attempting to ignite a propane tank, Van Spronsen is shot and killed by Tacoma police officers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-ice-detention-center-attack-flames|title=Washington ICE detention center attack seen in video, ex-acting director says 'hundreds' could have died|website=Fox News|date=15 August 2019}}
  • July 14 – President Trump sparks controversy over remarks directed at four Democratic congresswomen that were widely perceived as racist; Trump sharply denies the comments were racist.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48998696|work=BBC News|title=Congresswomen hit back after Trump's tweets branded racist |date=16 July 2019|access-date=16 July 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/14/trump-squad-tlaib-omar-pressley-ocasio-cortez|work=The Guardian|title='Go back home': Trump aims racist attack at Ocasio-Cortez and other congresswomen |date=15 July 2019|access-date=16 July 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/a67df9b560fc416f8326827b36b0de81|date=16 July 2019|title=Trump calls on GOP to oppose House condemnation of tweets|work=Associated Press}} The House of Representatives votes 240–187 to condemn the President's remarks two days later.{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-democrats-prepare-condemn-trumps-twitter-attacks-congresswomen/story?id=64365956|date=16 July 2019 |title=Trump condemned by House for Twitter attacks against congresswomen|work=ABC}}{{cite news |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/489|date=16 July 2019|title=H.Res.489 – Condemning President Trump's racist comments directed at Members of Congress.|work=Congress.gov}} The controversy persisted as Trump supporters chanted similar remarks at a subsequent rally in Greenville, North Carolina on July 18.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rally-greenville-president-donald-trump-holds-rally-in-greenville-north-carolina-today-2019-07-17/|title="Send her back:" Trump continues attack against congresswomen while crowd chants|last=Montoya-Galvez|first=Camilo|website=CBS News|date=July 18, 2019|access-date=July 18, 2019}} Trump disavowed the chant the next day.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-republicans-condemn-chant-at-trump-rally-but-stand-by-his-characterizations-of-four-minority-lawmakers/2019/07/18/dded4b92-a962-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html|title=Trump says he disagrees with 'Send her back!' chant directed at Rep. Omar during his rally despite his previous 'go back' tweet|date=18 July 2019|newspaper=Washington Post}}
  • July 16–20 – The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is observed.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49060410|title=Apollo 11: World celebrates 50th anniversary of first Moon landing|date=21 July 2019|access-date=22 July 2019|work=BBC}}
  • July 17 – Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, former head of the Sinaloa cartel, which became the biggest supplier of drugs to the US, is sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.{{citation |title=El Chapo trial: Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán gets life in prison|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49022208|work=BBC News|date=17 July 2019 |access-date=17 July 2019 }}
  • July 24 – Ricardo Rosselló, governor of Puerto Rico, announces he will resign on August 2 following revelations of his participation in a chat group with sexist, profane, and homophobic comments.{{citation |title=Puerto Rico governor to resign after mass protests

|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49102274|work=BBC News|date=24 July 2019 |access-date=25 July 2019 }}

  • July 25
  • Attorney General William Barr reinstates the death penalty for federal crimes. The federal government also schedules the execution of five death row inmates.{{citation |title=Barr directs federal government to reinstate death penalty, schedule the execution of 5 death row inmates |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/justice-department-capital-punishment-barr/index.html|work=CNN|date=25 July 2019 |access-date=25 July 2019|author1=Tammy Kupperman|author2=Ariane de Vogue|author3=Vernocia Stracqualursi}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ag-barr-orders-reinstatement-federal-death-penalty-n1034451|title=AG Barr orders reinstatement of the federal death penalty|website=NBC News|date=25 July 2019 }}{{Cite journal|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/justice-department-bill-barr-orders-revival-federal-executions-lethal-injection.html|title = The Federal Government Plans to Revive the Death Penalty After 16 Years| journal=Slate |date = 25 July 2019 | last1=Brownlee | first1=Chip }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/death-penalty-capital-punishment-us-justice-department-resumes-executions|title = US justice department resumes use of death penalty and schedules five executions|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 25 July 2019}}
  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocks legislation to improve election security less than 24 hours after Special Counsel Robert Mueller warns of the continued threat of interference in American elections.{{citation |title=GOP senators block election security legislation hours after Mueller warns of Russian interference

|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/republican-senators-block-election-security-legislation/index.html|work=CNN|date=25 July 2019 |access-date=25 July 2019|author1=Ted Barrett|author2=Kevin Collier}}

  • Sixteen Marines are arrested at Camp Pendleton, California for human trafficking and drug-related offenses. Two others had been arrested on July 3.{{citation |title=16 Marines arrested at Camp Pendleton on charges ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/republican-senators-block-election-security-legislation/index.html|work=ABC News|date=25 July 2019 |access-date=25 July 2019 |author1=Elizabeth McLaughlin|author2=Luis Martinez}}
  • Five women (Alexandria "Ally" Kostial, 21; Zaria Newton, 20; Arykah Patrice White, 16; Lisa Nguyen, 59; and Shayna Catherine Cline, 19) are killed in Mississippi in separate incidents within 24 hours. All five were killed by firearms.{{cite web|website=Refinery 29|title=Ally Kostial Was 1 Of 5 Women Killed In Mississippi In 24 Hours|author=Tiffany Diane Tso|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/07/238736/ally-kostial-lisa-nguyen-zaria-newton-arykah-white-women-killed-mississippi|date=July 25, 2019|access-date=July 30, 2019}}
  • Three students from the University of Mississippi, members of Kappa Alpha Order a fraternity at the University, post a photo on Instagram taken at the Emmett Till Memorial that is widely seen as racist.[https://www.propublica.org/article/ole-miss-students-pose-with-guns-in-front-of-shot-up-emmett-till-memorial We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.] ProPublica, July 26, 2019; retrieved Nov 3, 2019 The students are suspended by the fraternity but not charged with a hate crime.[https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/nov/02/white-supremacists-caught-emmett-till-memorial-mak/ White Supremacists Caught at Emmett Till Memorial Making Propaganda Film] Jackson Free Press, Nov 2, 2019; retrieved Nov 3, 2019
  • July 26 – Cindy Lovell discovers the long-sought signature of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, whose pen name was Mark Twain, inside the Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Missouri.{{citation|title=USF Sarasota-Manatee Instructor Recalls Thrill of Discovering Clemens Signature at Mark Twain Cave|url=https://smcampus.usf.edu/blog/usf-sarasota-manatee-instructor-recalls-thrill-of-discovering-clemens-signature-at-mark-twain-cave/|work=University of South Florida|date=November 13, 2019|access-date=July 14, 2021|archive-date=July 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714145815/https://smcampus.usf.edu/blog/usf-sarasota-manatee-instructor-recalls-thrill-of-discovering-clemens-signature-at-mark-twain-cave/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-connecticut-twain-cave-20190925-dq5g6osiyvgbzlbb3rplo5sbby-story.html |title=After 20 years of searching, the former director of the Mark Twain House discovers Samuel Clemens' signature in a Missouri cave |date=2019-09-25 |author=Amanda Blanco |publisher=Hartford Courant}}
  • July 27 – Logan Paul hosts the Challenger Games at Long Beach City College in California. Notable participants included Tobi Brown, Jake Paul, and Deestroying.
  • July 28 – Four people, including the shooter, are killed and twelve others injured in a mass shooting in Gilroy, California.{{cite web|website=Reuters|date=July 30, 2019|access-date=July 30, 2019 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-shooting/police-seek-motive-for-shooting-at-california-garlic-festival-idUSKCN1UP1ES |title=Police seek motive for shooting at California garlic festival}}
  • July 30 – The InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), owner of Holiday Inn and other hotels, announces it will stop using small soap and shampoo containers in order to cut down on plastic waste. Marriott International and Hilton Hotels & Resorts have made similar announcements.{{cite web|website=CNN Business|date=July 30, 2019|access-date=July 30, 2019 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/30/business/intercontinental-hotels-plastic-toiletries-trnd/index.html |title=Holiday Inn owner ditches tiny hotel soaps and shampoos|author=Jordan Valinsky}}
  • July 31
  • The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the first time since 2008, with a 0.25% reduction to a baseline level of 2–2.25%.{{citation |title=Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 0.25% – its first in a decade |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/31/federal-reserve-cuts-interest-rates-by-025-its-first-in-a-decade|work=The Guardian|date=31 July 2019 |access-date=31 July 2019}}
  • Leslie McCrae Dowless faces new charges of electoral fraud in North Carolina. Dowless was arrested in 2017 and charged with trying to rig the election in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District in favor of Mark Harris, the Republican candidate.{{cite web|website=Daily Kos |date=July 31, 2019 |access-date=July 31, 2019 |title=New charges for North Carolina Republican operatives accused of rigging a congressional election |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/31/1875663/-New-charges-for-North-Carolina-Republican-operatives-accused-of-rigging-a-congressional-election |last=Einenkel |first=Walter}}

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  • August 2
  • The U.S. officially withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty established with Russia in 1987.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/02/politics/nuclear-treaty-inf-us-withdraws-russia/index.html|date=2 August 2019|title=US formally withdraws from nuclear treaty with Russia and prepares to test new missile|work=CNN}}
  • Dozens of jailed immigrants are pepper-sprayed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a protest in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.{{cite web|website=Mother Jones|date=August 2, 2019|access-date=August 2, 2019|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/08/immigrant-detention-ice-bossier-louisiana-pepper-spray/|title=Dozens of ICE Detainees Were Pepper-Sprayed by Guards for Protesting at a Louisiana Jail|author=Fernanda Echeverria}}
  • Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello resigns, and Pedro Pierluisi (who was appointed secretary of state on July 31) takes the oath of office to succeed him.{{cite web|website=ABC News|date=August 2, 2019|access-date=August 2, 2019 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/puerto-rico-gov-ricardo-rossellos-resignation-effect-hours/story?id=64731767|title=Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello officially resigns, Pedro Pierluisi sworn in|author1=Ella Torres|author2=Joshua Hoyos}}
  • August 3 – 2019 El Paso shooting: A mass shooting occurs at a Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, resulting in 23 fatalities and 23 injured.{{cite web |website=CBS News|date=August 3, 2019 |access-date=August 3, 2019|title=At least 19 killed, 40 injured in El Paso shooting |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/el-paso-walmart-shooting-today-police-confirm-active-shooter-cielo-vista-mall-today-2019-08-03-live-updates/}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/26/business/ap-mass-shooting-texas.html|title=El Paso Shooting Victim Dies Months Later, Death Toll Now 23|work=The New York Times|date=April 26, 2020|access-date=April 26, 2020}}
  • August 4 – 2019 Dayton shooting: A mass shooting occurs in the Oregon Historic District in downtown Dayton, Ohio, resulting in 10 fatalities (including the perpetrator) and 27 injuries.{{cite web|url=https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/active-shooter-reported-in-dayton-ohio|title='As many as' 10 killed in reported mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio|last=Boggs|first=Justin|website=news5cleveland.com|date=August 4, 2019}}
  • August 7 – The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico rules that Pedro Pierluisi's swearing in as governor was unconstitutional and removes him from office. Secretary of Justice Wanda Vázquez Garced becomes governor.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/us/puerto-rico-governor-supreme-court-pierluisi.html|title=Puerto Rico Supreme Court Rules New Governor Was Unlawfully Sworn In|last1=Mazzei|first1=Patricia|date=2019-08-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-08-07|last2=Robles|first2=Frances|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
  • August 8 – The largest U.S. immigration raids in a decade result in 680 arrests in Mississippi.{{Cite web|url=https://www.apnews.com/bbcef8ddae4e4303983c91880559cf23|title = Largest US immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests|website = Associated Press|date = 20 April 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/hundreds-arrested-largest-immigration-raids-decade-190808014646924.html|title = Hundreds arrested in largest US immigration raids in a decade}}{{Cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/07/us/mississippi-immigration-raids/index.html|title=680 undocumented immigrants are arrested in Mississippi|date=7 August 2019 }}
  • August 9 – The North Dakota Supreme Court upholds a voting law that disenfranchises 10% of the state's Native Americans.{{cite web|website=Truthout.org|title=Court Upholds North Dakota Law Stripping Voting Rights From Native Americans |url=https://truthout.org/articles/court-upholds-north-dakota-law-stripping-voting-rights-from-native-americans/|date=August 9, 2019|access-date=August 9, 2019}}
  • August 10
  • 2020 Democratic candidates for president speak at a gun forum sponsored by Everytown for Gun Safety, in Des Moines, Iowa.{{citation|newspaper=Des Moines Register|date=August 9, 2019|access-date=August 9, 2019|title=17 presidential candidates will attend Saturday's gun forum in Des Moines. Here's what to expect. |url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/08/07/gun-mass-shootings-regulation-iowa-el-paso-dayton-policy-presidential-everytown-2020-trump-democrats/1946231001/}}
  • The FBI, the Justice Department's inspector general and the New York City medical examiner launch inquiries following the death of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 10, 2019 |access-date=August 11, 2019|title=Jeffrey Epstein dead after 'apparent suicide' in New York |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/jeffrey-epstein-kills-himself-in-jail-according-to-media-reports/2019/08/10/a3d48862-bb73-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html}}{{cite web |website=BBC News|date=August 10, 2019 |access-date=August 11, 2019|title=Jeffrey Epstein: Questions raised over disgraced financier's death |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49309317}}
  • August 12
  • The Trump administration issues new rules that reject applicants for temporary or permanent visas for failing to meet income standards or for receiving public assistance such as welfare, food stamps, public housing or Medicaid.{{citation |website=Independent.com.uk|date=August 12, 2019|access-date=August 12, 2019|title=Trump administration announces new immigration rules to deny people visas for being poor|author=Andrew Buncombe|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-immigration-green-card-visa-us-poor-residency-a9054551.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812175724/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-immigration-green-card-visa-us-poor-residency-a9054551.html |archive-date=2019-08-12 |url-access=limited |url-status=live}}
  • The Department of Interior revises its implementation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 including preventing the Fish and Wildlife Service from automatically offering full endangered species protections to wildlife classified as "threatened".{{citation|website=Poliico.com |date=August 12, 2019|access-date=August 12, 2019|title=Trump administration eases endangered species rules|author=Ben Lefebvre |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/12/trump-administration-eases-endangered-species-rules-1655594}}
  • FBI agents raid Jeffrey Epstein's private Caribbean island amid ongoing investigations into alleged sex trafficking.{{cite news|work=NBC News|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-agents-swarm-jeffrey-epstein-s-private-caribbean-island-n1041596|title=FBI agents swarm Jeffrey Epstein's private Caribbean island|date=12 August 2019|access-date=13 August 2019}}
  • August 14
  • An employee of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement drives a truck through a group of peaceful protesters from Never Again Action, injuring several.{{citation|website=Buzz Feed News|date=August 15, 2019|access-date=August 15, 2019|author=Julia Reinstein|title=A Prison Guard Drove A Truck Through A Group Of Jewish ICE Protesters, Injuring Several |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/ice-prison-guard-never-again-action-drove-truck-jewish-ice}}
  • Mylan N.V., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., and Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc. are accused of blocking a Congressional investigation into rising drug prices.{{citation|website=Bloomberg.com|date=August 15, 2019|access-date=August 15, 2019|author1=Cristin Flanigan|author2=Riley Grifin|title=Generic-Drug Giants Accused of Blocking Congressional Probe |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-14/sanders-cummings-accuse-generic-drugmakers-of-obstruction}}
  • August 15
  • Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper withdraws from the 2020 presidential election campaign.{{citation|website=Think Progress.org|date=August 14, 2019|access-date=August 15, 2019|title=John Hickenlooper ends presidential campaign, teases possible Senate run|url=https://thinkprogress.org/hickenlooper-closes-door-to-presidential-run-opens-one-that-could-lead-to-the-u-s-senate-94f60cdefda5/|author=Danielle McClean}}
  • The government of Israel denies visas to Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).{{citation|website=The New Civil Rights Movement.com|date=August 15, 2019|access-date=August 15, 2019|title=Israel Blocks Entry to Two US Congresswomen – Former Ambassador Says It's Because of Trump's 'Recommendation'|url=https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/08/israel-block-entry-to-two-us-congresswomen-former-ambassador-says-its-because-of-trumps-recommendation/|author=David Badash}}
  • August 16 – Denmark rejects the suggestion that the United States might purchase Greenland.{{citation|website=BBC News|date=August 16, 2019|access-date=August 16, 2019|title=Greenland: Trump warned that island cannot be bought from Denmark|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49367792}}
  • August 17 – Protests are held in Portland that rally: Proud Boys Three Percenters, a “patriot movement” militia group, and American Guard. They are met with three times as many counter protesters.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/17/portland-oregon-far-right-rally-proud-boys-antifa Portland rally: Proud Boys vow to march each month after biggest protest of Trump era] The Guardian, Aug 18, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2019/08/city-portland-braces-rally-counter-protests-190817163753555.html|title = Far-right groups, Antifa face-off in Portland}}
  • August 17–18 – Anti-gun rallies are held in over 100 cities in all 50 states.{{citation|website=Refinery 29 |date=August 18, 2019|access-date=August 19, 2019|title=Gun Control Activists Rally Across The U.S. To Demand Urgent Action After Mass Shootings|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/08/240851/gun-control-activists-rallies-el-paso|author=Alejandra Salazar}}
  • August 20 – Richard Ross Jr., police commissioner of Philadelphia, resigns amid allegations that members of his department engaged in sexual harassment and racial and gender discrimination against women serving in the ranks.{{citation|website=USA Today|date=August 21, 2019|access-date=August 21, 2019 |title=Philadelphia police head resigns amid sexual harassment, discrimination allegations|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/21/philadelphia-police-head-richard-ross-jr-resigns-harassment-claims/2069939001/|author=Grace Hauck}}
  • August 21 – Washington governor Jay Inslee announces the end of his 2020 presidential bid.{{citation|website=Fox News Network|date=August 21, 2019|access-date=August 21, 2019 |title=Jay Inslee, climate advocate who called Trump 'white nationalist,' drops out of 2020 presidential race|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jay-inslee-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race|author=Greg Re}}
  • August 22 – A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charges 80 people, mostly Nigerians, in a conspiracy to steal and then launder millions of dollars. 14 people are arrested.{{citation|website=ABC News.com.go|date=August 23, 2019|access-date=August 23, 2019|title='One of the largest cases of its kind': Feds indict 80 people in $10 million fraud, money laundering scheme|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/largest-cases-kind-feds-indict-80-people-10/story?id=65142255}}
  • August 23
  • The first recorded death due to vaping is announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), amid concern over a mystery lung disease in the United States, linked to the use of e-cigarettes.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49452256|date=24 August 2019|access-date=24 August 2019|title=First death linked to vaping reported in Illinois|work=BBC News}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/s0823-vaping-related-death.html|date=23 August 2019|access-date=24 August 2019|title=CDC Director's Statement on the first death related to the outbreak of severe lung disease in people who use e-cigarette or "vaping" devices|work=CDC}}
  • NASCAR bans advertisements of “assault-style rifles/sniper rifles.”{{citation|website=KDKA 2 CBS Pittsburgh|date=Sep 13, 2019 |access-date=Sep 14, 2019|title=NASCAR Shocks Gun Industry As It Appears To Block Some Firearm Ads |url=https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/09/13/narcar-change-on-gun-related-ads/}}{{citation|website=Midsouth Shooters Blog|title=NASCAR CHOOSES ANTI-GUN STANCE|date=Aug 29, 2019|access-date=Sep 14, 2019|url=http://www.mssblog.com/2019/08/23/nascar-chooses-anti-gun-stance/|archive-date=August 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812084513/http://www.mssblog.com/2019/08/23/nascar-chooses-anti-gun-stance/|url-status=dead}}
  • August 26 – Johnson & Johnson is ordered to pay $572 million for contributing to the opioid crisis in Oklahoma.{{citation|website=Democracy Now.org|title="This Ruling Is Huge": Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million for Fueling Opioid Epidemic|date=Aug 27, 2019|access-date=Aug 31, 2019 |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/27/oklahoma_johnson_and_johnson_572_million}}
  • August 28
  • New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand withdraws from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.{{citation |website=Politico.com|date=August 29, 2019|access-date=August 29, 2019|title=Why Gillibrand crashed and burned

|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/29/kirsten-gillibrand-drops-out-2020-race-1477845}}

  • 16-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg arrives in New York Harbor after sailing across the Atlantic. Thunberg plans to testify at a UN summit on zero emissions.{{citation|website=The Guardian|date=August 28, 2019|access-date=August 29, 2019 |title=Greta Thunberg tells Trump to 'listen to the science' as she arrives in New York – video |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2019/aug/28/greta-thunberg-tells-trump-to-listen-to-the-science-as-she-arrives-in-new-york-video}}
  • August 29 – Federal judge Amy Totenberg rules that the state of Georgia must replace all of its voting machines or use paper ballots in time for the March 24, 2020 presidential primary election.{{citation|website=The Mercury News|location=Atlanta |author=Kate Brumback, Associated Press|date=August 29, 2019|access-date=August 29, 2019 |title=Judge: Georgia must replace voting machines after 2019 |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/15/judge-georgia-must-replace-voting-machines-after-2019/}} Several faulty voting machines were reported during the Mississippi gubernatorial primary on August 27.{{citation|website=Common Dreams.org|access-date=August 29, 2019|title=Viral Video of Mississippi Voting Machine Changing Man's Vote Prompts Calls for Paper Ballots and Election Security Reform|url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/28/viral-video-mississippi-voting-machine-changing-mans-vote-prompts-calls-paper|author=Juli Conley}}
  • August 31 – Midland–Odessa shootings: Seven people are killed and 21 others wounded in a spree shooting in West Texas, between the cities of Midland and Odessa. The suspect is shot and killed by police outside a movie theater in Odessa.{{citation |website=BBC|date=September 1, 2019|access-date=September 1, 2019|title=Texas shooting rampage leaves seven dead

|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49540160 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901004549/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-495401600 |archive-date=September 1, 2019 |url-status=live}}

=September=

  • September 2 – An early-morning fire on a dive boat off San Miguel Island and Santa Cruz Island, California results in 25 dead and 9 missing.{{citation|website=California Diver|date=Sep 3, 2019|access-date=Sep 3, 2019|title=Fire on the Conception Dive Boat: 25 Dead, 9 Missing|url=http://californiadiver.com/fire-on-the-conception-dive-boat-takes-34-lives-0901|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903213226/https://californiadiver.com/fire-on-the-conception-dive-boat-takes-34-lives-0901/|archive-date=September 3, 2019|url-status=live}}
  • September 3
  • The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes a resolution calling the National Rifle Association of America a "domestic terrorist organization".{{citation|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=Sep 4, 2019|access-date=Sep 7, 2019 |title=San Francisco just passed a resolution calling the NRA a 'domestic terrorist organization' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/04/san-francisco-just-passed-resolution-calling-nra-domestic-terrorist-organization/ |author=Eli Rosenberg |url-access=subscription}}
  • Walmart announces they will stop selling handgun ammunition and certain types of ammo for short-barrelled rifles.{{citation|website=Mother Jones|date=Sep 3, 2019|access-date=Sep 3, 2019|title=Walmart Will No Longer Sell Handgun Ammunition |author=Abigail Weinberg |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/walmart-will-no-longer-sell-handgun-ammunition/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914133716/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/walmart-will-no-longer-sell-handgun-ammunition/ |archive-date=September 14, 2019 |url-status=live}} Kroger asks shoppers to refrain from openly carrying guns even if it is legal.{{citation|website=Business Insider|date=Sep 3, 2019|access-date=Sep 3, 2019|title=Kroger tells shoppers to stop openly carrying guns in its stores, just hours after Walmart makes the same request|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/kroger-walmart-bars-open-carry-guns-2019-9}} Other major retailers follow suit.{{citation|website=CNN Business|date=Sep 5, 2019|access-date=Sep 5, 2019 |title=Walgreens and CVS ask customers not to openly carry guns in their stores|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/05/business/walgreens-open-carry/index.html|author=Clare Duffy}}
  • The Cherokee Nation names an official delegate to the United States Congress for the first time.{{citation|website=CNN Politics |date=Sep 3, 2019|access-date=Sep 5, 2019|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/03/politics/cherokee-nation-names-delegate-kimberly-teehee/index.html|title=Cherokee Nation names first ever delegate to Congress

|author=Chandelis Duster}}

  • September 4 – CNN hosts ten town hall meetings for as many Democratic presidential hopefuls to discuss climate change.{{citation|magazine=Time|title=Six Takeaways from the CNN Democratic Climate Change Town Hall Meeting|url=https://time.com/5669382/democratic-climate-change-town-hall-meeting-cnn-takeaways/|date=Sep 5, 2019 |access-date=Sep 5, 2019}}
  • September 6
  • Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina as a Category 1 storm. 350,000 residents and businesses in North Carolina and South Carolina are left without electricity.{{citation|website=CBS News|title=Hurricane Dorian slams North Carolina's Outer Banks|date=Sep 6, 2019|access-date=Sep 6, 2019|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/hurricane-dorian-track-path-models-latest-forecast-today-2019-09-06/}}
  • Following three deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends against the use of electronic cigarettes.{{citation|website=PBS New Hour|title=After 3 deaths, CDC says to stop using e-cigarettes|author=Laura Santhanam|date=Sep 6, 2019|access-date=Sep 6, 2019|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/after-3-deaths-cdc-says-to-stop-using-e-cigarettes}}
  • The [https://www.energy.gov/science-innovation/artificial-intelligence-and-technology-office Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office] (AITO) is established, as part of the Department of Energy.{{citation|website=DOE|title=Secretary Perry Stands Up Office for Artificial Intelligence and Technology|date=Sep 6, 2019|access-date=Oct 2, 2019|url=https://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-perry-stands-office-artificial-intelligence-and-technology}}
  • September 7 – President Trump announces he called off planned Camp David peace talks with the Taliban after they claimed responsibility for the September 5th Kabul bombings which killed a U.S. soldier.{{cite news|work=AP|url=https://apnews.com/bf2b42d5e86d466ab5f434d0f646bc72|title=Pompeo: Taliban 'overreached' in attack that killed American|date=8 September 2019}}
  • September 8 – Mark Sanford, former governor and US representative from South Carolina announces his candidacy for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination.{{citation|website=ABC News|author1=Wil Steakin|author2=Samara Lynn |title=Mark Sanford announces he will challenge President Trump in 2020 GOP primary|date=Sep 8, 2019|access-date=Sep 8, 2019 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mark-sanford-announces-challenge-president-trump-2020-gop/story?id=65466012}}
  • September 9 – The inspector general of Intelligence, Michael Atkinson, notifies the House Intelligence Committee about an "urgent" and "credible" whistleblower complaint involving an apparent July 25 telephone call in which President Donald Trump promised Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky $250 million if he would reopen an investigation into Hunter Biden son of former Vice President Joe Biden. The White House denies doing anything wrong and refuses to release the complaint.{{citation|website=Los Angeles Times|title=Trump faces new turmoil over whistleblower complaint|date=Sep 20, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019|author=Chris Megerian |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-20/whistleblower-complaint-creates-latest-turmoil-for-trump}}{{citation|website=Politico|date=Sep 20, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019|title=Trump allies jolt into action to deflect Ukraine-whistleblower scandal|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/20/trump-allies-jolt-into-action-to-deflect-ukraine-whistleblower-scandal-1506882|author1=DARREN SAMUELSOHN|author2=NATASHA BERTRAND}}
  • September 10
  • National Security Advisor John R. Bolton is dismissed by President Trump.{{citation|website=BBC News|title=John Bolton: Trump's national security adviser is out|date=Sep 10, 2019|access-date=Sep 10, 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49655279}}
  • Two former senior FEMA officials are arrested on charges of bribery in relation to Hurricane Maria relief.{{citation|website=Washington Examiner|title=Former senior FEMA officials arrested on bribery and fraud charges over Hurricane Maria relief effort in Puerto Rico|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-senior-fema-officials-arrested-on-bribery-and-fraud-charges-over-hurricane-maria-relief-effort-in-puerto-rico|date=Sep 10, 2019|access-date=Sep 6, 2019}}
  • September 12
  • Former Illinois and Florida nursing home owner Philip Esformes is convicted of $1.3 billion Medicare fraud and sentenced to 20 years in prison.{{citation|website=South Florida Sun Sentinel|date=Sep 12, 2019 |access-date=Sep 16, 2019|title=Nursing home mogul Philip Esformes sentenced to 20 years for $1.3 billion Medicaid fraud|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-philip-esformes-sentenced-nursing-home-fraud-20190912-wh4aoeirenfghkd446wnpnhdri-story.html|author1=David Jackson|author2=Mario Ariza}}
  • During the third 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries debate Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, arguing for a mandatory buyback of assault weapons, declares, “Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, AK-47.” {{cite news|work=Fox News|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/orourke-hell-yes-were-going-to-take-your-ar-15|title=O'Rourke's debate-stage vow: 'Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15'|date=12 September 2019}}
  • September 13 – Actress Felicity Huffman is sentenced to 14 days in prison, a fine of $30,000 and 250 hours of community service for her involvement in the college admissions scandal.{{citation|website=BBC News|title=Felicity Huffman handed prison time over college admissions scandal|date=Sep 13, 2019|access-date=Sep 14, 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49693193}}
  • September 15 – Drug company Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy in response to lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic.{{citation |website=BBC News|date=Sep 16, 2019|access-date=Sep 16, 2019|title=Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy in the US|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49711618}}
  • September 16
  • 48,000 union members of the United Automobile Workers go on strike against General Motors.{{citation |website=Yahoo News (Reuters)|date=Sep 16, 2019|access-date=Sep 16, 2019|title=GM, UAW restart talks as workers take to picket lines |url=https://news.yahoo.com/gm-uaw-restart-talks-workers-133241465.html}}
  • Saturday Night Live fires comedian Shane Gillis after his anti-Asian and anti-gay videos come to light.{{citation|website=CNN Entertainment|title='SNL' fires new hire Shane Gillis|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/16/entertainment/snl-shane-gillis/index.html|author1=Sandra Gonzalez |author2=Whitney Friedlander|date=Sep 16, 2019|access-date=Sep 16, 2019}} Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who is Taiwanese-American and was called a “Jew c***k,” forgives Gillis.{{citation|website=Politico|title=Andrew Yang stands by comedian after SNL firing for racist jokes|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/20/andrew-yang-snl-racist-jokes-1506565|date=Sep 20, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019}}

September 17

  • Interest rates on repurchase agreements (or "repos") in the United States experience a sudden and unexpected spike.{{Cite journal|last1=Anbil|first1=Sriya|last2=Anderson|first2=Alyssa|last3=Senyuz|first3=Zeynep|date=February 27, 2020|title=What Happened in Money Markets in September 2019?|journal=FEDS Notes|volume=2020|issue=2527|url=https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/what-happened-in-money-markets-in-september-2019-20200227.htm|location=Washington, DC|publisher=Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System|doi=10.17016/2380-7172.2527|s2cid=214047684|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=May 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503233603/https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/what-happened-in-money-markets-in-september-2019-20200227.htm|url-status=live}}
  • 33 inches of rain from Tropical Storm Imelda falls on Hamshire and other areas of southeastern Texas, causing severe flooding.{{citation|website=ABC News|title='Worst flooding I've ever seen': Torrential rain wreaks havoc in Texas communities |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/flash-flooding-eastern-texas-forces-hospital-evacuation-home/story?id=65712731|date=Sep 19, 2019|author=Max Golembo}}
  • September 18 – President Donald Trump revokes California's authority to set its own auto emission standards.{{citation|website=CNN Politics|title=Trump revokes waiver for California to set higher auto emissions standards|date=Sep 18, 2019|author=Kevin Liptak|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/18/politics/epa-trump-california/index.html}}
  • September 19
  • President and CEO Dennis Veilleux of gun manufacturer Colt announces the company will stop producing rifles such as the AR-15 for personal use.{{citation|website=The Hill|date=Sep 19, 2019|access-date=Sep 19, 2019|title=Colt to end production of AR-15 rifles for personal use|author=Rachel Frazin|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/462199-colt-to-end-production-of-ar-15-rifles-for-personal-use}}
  • 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.{{citation|website=Al Jazeera|date=Sep 20, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019|title=Afghanistan: US confirms drone attack that killed 30 farmers

|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/afghanistan-dozens-civilians-killed-drone-attack-190919072728303.html}}

  • HUD Secretary Ben Carson is accused by members of his department of making transphobic remarks at a meeting in San Francisco.{{citation|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=HUD Secretary Ben Carson makes dismissive comments about transgender people, angering agency staff|author1=Tracy Jan|author2=Jeff Stein |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/19/hud-secretary-ben-carson-makes-dismissive-comments-about-transgender-people-angering-agency-staff/|date=Sep 19, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019}} He says his comments about "big, hairy men" using women's homeless shelters were a "mischaracterization."{{citation|website=Huff Post|title=Ben Carson Defends Transphobic Remarks, Accuses Media Of 'Mischaracterizations'|author1=Lydia O’Connor|author2=Amy Russo|date=Sep 21, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019 |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ben-carson-transphobic-homeless-women_n_5d840c08e4b0957256b3fccc?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063§ion=politics}}
  • Six-year-old Kaia Rolle is handcuffed, fingerprinted, mug-shot, and charged with battery after throwing a tantrum at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy, a charter school in Orlando, Florida. The same police officer also arrested an eight-year-old in an unrelated incident the same day.{{citation|website=Daily Kos|access-date=Sep 22, 2019|title=Florida police handcuff and arrest 6 year old because she threw a tantrum at school|url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/22/1887137/-Florida-police-handcuff-and-arrest-6-year-old-because-she-threw-a-tantrum-at-school|author=Marissa Higgins}} The officer was subsequently suspended.{{citation|website=NBC News |access-date=Sep 22, 2019|title=Florida officer suspended after arresting two kids, ages 6 and 8, at school |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-officer-suspended-after-arresting-two-kids-ages-6-8-n1057441|author=Tim Stelloh}}
  • September 20
  • Thousands of students across the United States join their counterparts world-wide in demonstrations against climate change. The demonstrations are led by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and 12-year-old Colorado activist Haven Coleman.{{citation|website=The Verge|title=Students 'strike for climate' across the United States|author=Rachel Becker |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/15/18266559/students-strike-for-climate-across-the-united-states|date=March 15, 2019|access-date=Sep 20, 2019}}{{citation|website=CBS News|title=Millions hit the streets for global climate change strike – live updates

|author=Haley Ott|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/global-climate-change-strike-protests-today-2019-09-20-live-updates/|date=Sep 20, 2019 |access-date=Sep 20, 2019}}

  • New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces his withdrawal from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.{{citation|website=NBC News Think|title=Mayor Bill de Blasio Why I'm ending my 2020 presidential campaign — and what I promise to do next|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/why-i-m-ending-my-2020-presidential-campaign-what-i-ncna1056761|date=Sep 20, 2019}}
  • Ten Democratic presidential candidates participate in an LGBTQ Forum sponsored by GLAAD, The Advocate, One Iowa, and The Gazette.{{citation|website=Daily Kos|date=Sep 21, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019|author=Jessica Sutherland|url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/21/1886858/-Two-candidates-one-question-and-accusations-of-media-bias-at-Iowa-s-LGBTQ-Forum?detail=facebook|title=Two candidates one question and accusations of media bias at Iowa's LGBTQ Forum?}}
  • The proposed "invasion" by 2,000,000 truth-seekers of the classified Air Force base known as Area 51 falls short of its goal by about 1,999,970 participants. Only the Pentagon takes it seriously, threatening to bomb participants. They later apologize.{{citation |website=BBC News|date=Sep 22, 2019|access-date=Sep 22, 2019|title=Area 51: US military sorry over bomber raid tweet |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49786363}}
  • September 21
  • President Donald Trump approves deployment of several hundred troops and military equipment including Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates following the September 14 attack on Saudi oil refineries.{{citation|website=Sky News|date=Sep 21, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019|title=Trump approves deployment of US forces in Saudi Arabia|author=Sharon Marris |url=https://news.sky.com/story/trump-approves-deployment-of-us-forces-in-saudi-arabia-11815482}}{{citation|website=India Today |date=Sep 21, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019|title=Donald Trump to send troops to Saudi Arabia, hold off on striking Iran |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/donald-trump-approves-deployment-of-us-forces-to-saudi-arabia-uae-1601522-2019-09-21}}
  • At least five deaths are reported due to Tropical Storm Imelda in southeast Texas. 40 inches (101.6 cm) of rain falls in 72 hours in one of the wettest tropical storms in American history.{{citation|author=David Aaro|website=Fox News|date=Sep 21, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019|title=Authorities confirm fifth death linked to Tropical Storm Imelda as Texas floodwaters recede|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/fifth-death-linked-tropical-depression-imelda-houston}}
  • Greek police arrest a 65-year-old Lebanese suspect in the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the death of U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem.{{citation |website=Fox News|author=Robert Gearty|date=Sep 21, 2019|access-date=Sep 21, 2019|title=Greek police arrest suspect in 1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacking|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/greek-police-arrest-suspect-in-1985-twa-flight-847-hijacking}}
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation announces a $15,000 reward in search of individuals involved in three arson attacks on Roman Catholic churches that serve Hispanics and migrants in El Paso, Texas.{{citation|website=NBC News|date=Sep 21, 2019|access-date=Sep 22, 2019|title=Arson at 3 Catholic churches serving Hispanics in El Paso probed by FBI, reward set |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/arson-3-catholic-churches-serving-hispanics-el-paso-probed-fbi-n1057281|author=Nicole Acevedo}}
  • September 22 – Three men are dead and four are hospitalized due to a mysterious "medical situation" in Pittsburgh. All are believed to be middle-aged men, and all were wearing orange wristbands.{{citation|website=CNN|author1=Laura Ly|author2=Holly Yan|title=3 people are dead and 4 others are hospitalized in Pittsburgh. All were wearing orange wrist bands|date=Sep 22, 2019|access-date=Sep 22, 2019 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/22/us/pittsburgh-fatal-medical-emergency/index.html}}
  • September 24
  • Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/09/24/speaker-nancy-pelosi-announces-formal-impeachment-inquiry.html|title=Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry|website=www.cnbc.com|date=24 September 2019|access-date=2019-09-24}}
  • The United States Navy announces three suicides aboard the {{USS|George H.W. Bush}} in one week.{{citation|website=ABC News|date=Sep 24, 2019|access-date=Oct 4, 2019|title=3 suicides in 1 week by sailors from aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush|author=LUIS MARTINEZ |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sui}}
  • September 25 – The White House releases details of a July 25 phone call between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump asks the Ukrainian President to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49830588|title=Trump impeachment: Memo confirms president urged Biden inquiry|website=BBC|date=Sep 25, 2019|access-date=Sep 25, 2019|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190925142244/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49830588|archive-date=September 25, 2019|url-status=live}}
  • September 26 – The Trump administration says it plans to allow only 18,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, its lowest level since the modern program began in 1980.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/trump-proposes-slashing-refugee-numbers|title = Trump proposes slashing refugee numbers|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190927005356/https://www.sbs.com.au/news/trump-proposes-slashing-refugee-numbers|archive-date=September 27, 2019|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/trump-administration-slashes-refugee-programme-190926212502321.html|title = Trump aims to slash US refugee intake, claiming backlog}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-trump-to-propose-lowest-ever-refugee-cap-in-american-history/|title = Trump to cut number of refugees allowed in U.S. To lowest ever|website = CBS News| date=26 September 2019 }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49847906|title = US slashes refugee limit to all-time low of 18,000|work = BBC News|date = 27 September 2019|archive-url = http://web.archive.org/web/20190928011431/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49847906|archive-date = September 28, 2019|url-status = live}}
  • September 27
  • The New York Times reports that Wayne LaPierre, chief of the National Rifle Association of America offered President Trump "financial support for the president's defense" if the president will "stop the games" on gun-control legislation. The NRA denies any wrongdoing.{{citation|website=Business Insider|date=Sep 27, 2019|title=NRA chief Wayne LaPierre reportedly offered to help Trump fight off impeachment and asked him to stop 'the games' on gun reform|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/nra-trump-discussed-financial-support-not-backing-gun-control-nyt-2019-9|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190928004514/https://www.businessinsider.com/nra-trump-discussed-financial-support-not-backing-gun-control-nyt-2019-9|archive-date=September 28, 2019|url-status=live}}
  • Kurt Volker, special envoy to Ukraine, resigns.{{citation|website=Vox|author=Andrew Prokop|date=Sep 27, 2019 |title=The whistleblower scandal has led to its first Trump administration resignation|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/27/20887899/volker-resigns-ukraine-whistleblower}}
  • September 28
  • Sixty-seven climate change protesters are arrested at a coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire.{{citation|website=CNN|author=Hollie Silverman|date=Sep 28, 2019|access-date=Sep 29, 2019|title=Dozens of protesters arrested at New Hampshire coal plant|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/28/us/new-hampshire-coal-plant-arrests/index.html}}
  • Coal miners in Cumberland, Kentucky have called off the protest that began two months ago against their employer, Blackjewel, when the company suddenly declared bankruptcy and did not pay their wages. They intend to continue their fight in court.{{citation|website=CNN|author1=Polo Sandoval|author2=Steve Almasy|date=Sep 29, 2019|access-date=Sep 29, 2019|title=Kentucky miners, still seeking back pay, end coal train protest after two months|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/28/us/kentucky-coal-miners-protest-ends/index.html}}
  • September 30
  • New York Congressman Chris Collins resigns and then pleads guilty to insider trading and lying to the FBI.{{cite web|website=The Guardian: Australia|date=Sep 30, 2019|access-date=Oct 27, 2019|title=US congressman resigns amid insider trading scandal involving Australian biotech company|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/01/us-congressman-resigns-amid-insider-trading-scandal-involving-australian-biotech-company}}
  • California governor Gavin Newsom signs a law over the objections of the National Collegiate Athletic Association that allows college athletes to be financially compensated for the use of their names, images, and likenesses.{{citation|website=Los Angeles Times|date=Sep 30, 2019|title=California will allow college athletes to profit from endorsements under bill signed by Newsom|author1=MELODY GUTIERREZ|author2=NATHAN FENNO|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-30/college-athlete-endorsement-deals-ncaa-california-law}}

=October=

  • October 1
  • The first cannabis cafe in the United States opens in Los Angeles, California.{{citation |website=CNN|date=1 October 2019|access-date=1 October 2019|title=The first cannabis cafe in the United States opens |url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/cannabis-cafe-lowell-farms-trnd/index.html|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20191001131510/https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/cannabis-cafe-lowell-farms-trnd/index.html|archive-date=October 1, 2019|url-status=live}}
  • The Florida Department of Education announces that some teachers in some districts will be allowed to carry guns in schools.{{citation |website=CNN|date=Oct 1, 2019|access-date=Oct 2, 2019|title=Some teachers in Florida can carry guns inside classrooms now|author=Scottie Andrew| url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/01/us/florida-teachers-carry-guns-classrooms-bill-trnd/index.html|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20191005091805/https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/01/us/florida-teachers-carry-guns-classrooms-bill-trnd/index.html|archive-date=October 5, 2019|url-status=live}}
  • October 2
  • Gabby Giffords and March for Our Lives host a forum on gun safety for 2020 presidential candidates in Las Vegas, Nevada.{{citation|website=Giffords.org|access-date=Sep 21, 2019|title=Giffords and March For Our Lives Team Up to Host Nation's First Presidential Forum on Gun Safety|date=Aug 1, 2019|url=https://giffords.org/2019/08/gun-safety-presidential-forum-announcement/|archive-date=September 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915115033/https://giffords.org/2019/08/gun-safety-presidential-forum-announcement/|url-status=dead}} Nine candidates laid out plans for stronger gun control. Senator Bernie Sanders does not attend as he is recovering from an operation.{{citation|website=Las Vegas Sun|date=Oct 2, 2019|title=At Las Vegas gun safety forum, Democrats renew call for stricter measures |url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/oct/02/las-vegas-gun-safety-forum-democrats-stricter-laws/|author=John Sandler|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20191003030333/https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/oct/02/las-vegas-gun-safety-forum-democrats-stricter-laws/|archive-date=October 3, 2019|url-status=live}}
  • Senate Democrats ask the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA).{{citation|website=NBC News|access-date=Oct 2, 2019 |title=Senate Democrats ask the IRS to consider stripping the NRA of its tax-exempt status|date=Oct 2, 2019 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-democrats-ask-irs-consider-stripping-nra-its-tax-exempt-n1061131|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20191002171417/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-democrats-ask-irs-consider-stripping-nra-its-tax-exempt-n1061131|archive-date=October 2, 2019|url-status=live}}
  • California becomes the second state, after North Dakota, to allow the establishment of public banks as an alternative to commercial banks. The idea is to provide low-interest loans for businesses, affordable housing, and municipal infrastructure.{{citation|website=Common Dreams |title='Stunning Rebuke to Predatory Wall Street Megabanks' as California Gov. Signs Law Allowing Creation of Public Banks|author=Jake Johnson |date=Oct 3, 2019|access-date=Oct 3, 2019|url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/03/stunning-rebuke-predatory-wall-street-megabanks-california-gov-signs-law-allowing}}
  • Dallas police officer Amber Guyger is sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering Botham Jean in his home. This is the first time a white female police officer has been convicted of murdering an unarmed black man.{{citation|website=ABC News |title=Extraordinary act of mercy: Brother of Botham Jean hugs and forgives Amber Guyger after 10-year sentence imposed|author=BILL HUTCHINSON |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/jury-de}} Joshua Brown, a key witness in the trial, is killed two days later.{{citation|website=Dallas Daily News|date=Oct 5, 2019|title=Botham Jean's neighbor, a key witness in Amber Guyger trial, shot to death in Dallas|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/05/man-fatally-shot-apartment-complex-near-dallas-medical-district-suspect-loose/}}
  • Ten anti-drone protesters are arrested at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.{{citation|website=Democracy Now!|date=Oct 3, 2019 |access-date=Oct 4, 2019|title=10 Arrested in Anti-Drone Protest at Nevada's Creech Air Force Base |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/3/headlines/10_arrested_in_anti_drone_protest_at_nevadas_creech_air_force_base}}
  • October 3
  • Finland agrees to return Native American remains and other artifacts stolen in 1891 to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.{{citation|website=AP News|date=Oct 3, 2019|access-date=Oct 3, 2019|title=Finland agrees to return Native American remains to tribes|author1=SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN|author2=FELICIA FONSECA |url=https://www.apnews.com/dd9e33febc804b89874d15872859fb2b}}
  • CNN refuses to run an ad for the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign, saying it includes false claims against former Vice President Joe Biden.{{citation|website=Yahoo! News|date=Oct 3, 2019|access-date=Oct 3, 2019|title=CNN says it won't air a Trump campaign ad featuring 'false' claim against Biden|url=https://news.yahoo.com/cnn-says-wont-air-trump-190530782.html}} Fox News rejects a request from the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign to not run the ad either.{{citation|website=The Hill|date=Oct 4, 2019|author=JOE CONCHA |title=Fox rejects Biden request to not run Trump campaign ad|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/464388-fox-rejects-biden-request-to-not-run-trump-campaign-ad}}
  • President Trump calls on Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.{{citation |website=ABC News|date=Oct 4, 2019|access-date=Oct 4, 2019|author=DAVID RIND|title='Start Here': Trump asks Ukraine and China for Biden probe, Vegas has settlement, N. Korea talks|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/start-here-trump-asks-ukraine-china-biden-probe-vegas/story?id=66033197}}
  • The Washington Post reports an Internal Revenue Service employee filed a whistleblower complaint reporting that an unnamed political appointee at the United States Department of the Treasury tried to interfere with the tax audits for President Trump or Vice President Mike Pence.{{citation|website=Democracy Now!|date=Oct 4, 2019|title=IRS Whistleblower: Treasury Official Tried to Interfere with Trump or Pence Tax Audit |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/4/headlines/irs_whistleblower_treasury_official_tried_to_interfere_with_trump_or_pence_tax_audit}}
  • European Commission spokesperson Daniel Rosario threatens retaliatory measures if the United States imposes a US$7.5 billion (€6.823 billion) tariff on products such as olives, whiskey, wine, cheese, yogurt, and airplanes. The tariffs are scheduled to take effect on October 18.{{citation|website=AP|date=Oct 3, 2019|access-date=Oct 4, 2019|title=US-Europe dispute threatens main artery of world trade |author1=CARLO PIOVANO|author2=LORNE COOK|url=https://apnews.com/f9a1b466d1a64c649c4c68054be316b9}}
  • October 4
  • Microsoft says a group called Phosphorus, which is linked to the Iranian government, has attempted to hack accounts belonging to American journalists, former government officials, and the 2020 United States presidential election, as well as prominent Iranians living outside Iran.{{citation|website=Microsoft|date=Oct 4, 2019|access-date=Oct 4, 2019|title=Recent cyberattacks require us all to be vigilant

|author=Tom Burt|url=https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/10/04/recent-cyberattacks-require-us-all-to-be-vigilant/}}

  • The Bureau of Land Management ends a five-year moratorium on leasing federal land in California to fossil fuel companies, opening 725,000 acres (1100 sq. miles; 29,000 ha) to drilling in San Benito, Monterey, and Fresno counties.{{citation|website=Common Dreams|date=Oct 5, 2019|access-date=Oct 5, 2019|title=Merging 'Loyalty to the Oil Industry' and 'Grudge Against California,' Trump Opens 725,000 Acres to Fossil Fuel Drilling |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/05/merging-loyalty-oil-industry-and-grudge-against-california-trump-opens-725000-acres |author=Jake Johnson}}
  • Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the United States has picked up its attacks in Afghanistan since peace talks with the Taliban fell apart last month. In August, Politico reported that the U.S. troop strength is about 13,000, fewer than the authorized 14,000.{{citation|website=Politico|date=Oct 4, 2019|author=WESLEY MORGAN|title=U.S. strikes in Afghanistan have increased on Trump's orders, Esper says|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/04/esper-afghanistan-strike-increase-029815}}
  • A report by the Associated Press finds that 1,700 Roman Catholic priests accused of being sex offenders live freely in the United States.{{citation|website=HuffPost|date=Oct 4, 2019|author1=Claudia Lauer|author2=Meghan Hoyer |title=1,700 Catholic Priests Accused Of Child Sex Abuse Reportedly Living Freely In U.S.|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/1700-catholic-priests-accused-of-child-sex-abuse-reportedly-living-freely-in-us_n_5d973848e4b02911e1197b81?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067&n}}
  • Joker is released in theatres.
  • October 7 – Federal judge Victor Marrero orders Trump to turn over eight years of tax returns, saying he cannot endorse a "categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process."{{citation|website=BBC News|date=Oct 7, 2019|access-date=Oct 7, 2019|title=Trump tax returns must be given to prosecutor, judge rules|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49963910}} An appeals court grants a temporary stay of the order.{{citation|website=NPR|date=Oct 7, 2019|access-date=Oct 7, 2019|title=President Trump Doesn't Need To Release His Tax Returns — For Now |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/767830713/federal-judge-rules-trump-must-hand-over-8-years-of-tax-returns}}
  • October 9 – The Wall Street Journal reports that two foreign-born businessmen, close associates of Rudy Giuliani, have been arrested on campaign finance violation charges. Igor Fruman (Belarusian) and Lev Parnas (Ukrainian), worked with Giuliani in trying to convince the Ukraine government to find dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.{{cite web |website=NBC News|date=Oct 10, 2019|access-date=Oct 10, 2019|title=Florida businessmen who helped Giuliani in Ukraine arrested on campaign finance charges|author1=Tom Winter|author2=Allan Smith|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/florida-businessmen-who-helped-giuliani-ukraine-arrested-campaign-finance-charges-n1064606}}
  • October 11
  • President Trump's 4th U.S. Homeland Security Advisor, Kevin McAleenan, resigns.{{cite web|website=BBS News|title=Kevin McAleenan: US Homeland Security chief steps down|date=Oct 11, 2019|access-date=Oct 11, 2019|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50023448}}
  • Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, testifies at the Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.{{cite news|title=Trump impeachment: Marie Yovanovitch says she was ousted over 'false claims'|work=BBC News|date=11 October 2019|access-date=Oct 11, 2019|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50018043}} Former diplomats and oversight committee members praise Yovanovitch's "bravery" for testifying in response to a subpoena but in defiance of a State Department order.{{cite web|website=Reuters|date=Oct 11, 2019 |access-date=Oct 12, 2019|title=Abandoning diplomat's discretion, ex-Ukraine ambassador takes Trump to task|author1=Arshad Mohammed|author2=Jonathan Landay|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whistleblower-yovanovitch/abandoning-diplomats-discretion-ex-ukraine-ambassador-takes-trump-to-task-idUSKBN1WQ2TO}}
  • 100,000 people in northern Los Angeles County, California are evacuated as the Saddle Ridge Fire grows to more than 7,500 acres and is 13% contained. 25 homes are destroyed and one death is reported.{{cite web|website=CBS News|title=Tens of thousands ordered to evacuate after wildfire explodes in Southern California|date=Oct 11, 2019|access-date=Oct 11, 2019 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fires-in-california-saddleridge-wildfire-explodes-prompting-mandatory-evacuations-amid-power-outages-2019-10-11/}}
  • Defense Secretary Mark Esper announces that the U.S. is sending additional troops and weapons to Saudi Arabia.{{cite web |website=Politico|title=Pentagon sends new wave of troops to Saudi Arabia even as Trump calls for ending wars |date=Oct 11, 2019|access-date=Oct 12, 2019|author=WESLEY MORGAN|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/11/pentagon-troops-saudi-arabia-044502}}
  • October 12
  • Students at Georgia Southern University burn books written by Jennine Capó Crucet, a Cuban-American author, who had been invited to the school to discuss white privilege.{{cite web|website=CNN|title=Georgia college students burned the books of a Latina author|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/11/us/georgia-southern-university-book-burning/index.html|date=Oct 12, 2019|access-date=Oct 12, 2019|author1=Amir Vera|author2=Natalie Johnson}}
  • Democratic incumbent Governor of Louisiana John Bel Edwards is narrowly forced into a run-off in his bid for a second term. He advances to a runoff (November 16) with wealthy Republican businessman Eddie Rispone.{{cite web|website=The Hill|title=Louisiana's Democratic governor forced into runoff|author=REID WILSON|date=Oct 12, 2019|access-date=Oct 12, 2019|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/465554-louisianas-democratic-governor-forced-into-runoff}}
  • Two people are killed and 20 injured when a Hard Rock Hotel and Casino under construction in downtown New Orleans partially collapses.
  • October 14 – Indigenous Peoples' Day is celebrated in Alaska, Minnesota, and North Carolina as well as several cities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-christopher-columbus-federal-holidays-in-united-states-deb-haaland/|title=Some states forgo Columbus Day to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day|website=CBS News|date=14 October 2019 }}
  • October 15 – Twelve Democratic presidential candidates appear on the same stage at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio in a debate sponsored by The New York Times and CNN.{{citation|website=CNN |date=Oct 3, 2019|title=Podium order announced for the CNN/New York Times Democratic presidential debate |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/02/politics/democratic-debate-podium-order/index.html}}
  • October 18
  • The United States Department of State finishes its investigation into Hillary Clinton's email controversy, citing violations by 38 people, some of whom may be punished.{{citation|website=NBC News|title=38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe|date=Oct 18, 2019|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/38-people-cited-violations-clinton-email-probe-n1068851}} The State Department determined that there was "deliberate mishandling of classified information".{{citation|website=CNN Politics|title=State Department finds no 'deliberate mishandling of classified information' related to Clinton email server|date=October 19, 2019|author=Kevin Bohn |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/state-department-clinton-email-server/index.html}}
  • The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration announces that refugee flights to the United States have been canceled for the second time, as refugees are capped at 18,000.{{citation|website=CNN Politics|title=More refugee flights to the US are being canceled |date=October 18, 2019|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/refugee-flight-cancellations/index.html}}
  • October 19 – 26,000 people attend a campaign rally for Bernie Sanders in Long Island City, Queens, New York.{{cite web|website=Politico|title='I am back': Sanders tops Warren with massive New York City rally|date=Oct 19, 2019|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/19/bernie-sanders-ocasio-cortez-endorsement-rally-051491}}
  • October 21
  • Four drug companies, McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, reach a $260 million out-of-court settlement with Summit County and Cuyahoga County, Ohio in the Opioid epidemic in the United States.{{cite web|website=CNN Health|title=4 pharmaceutical companies accused in the opioid epidemic reach a $260 million settlement just before trial|date=Oct 21, 2019|author1=Aaron Cooper|author2=Kristina Sgueglia|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/21/health/ohio-opioid-settlement-monday/index.html}}
  • Thirty Republican Members of the House of Representatives, led by Matt Gaetz, storm a secure hearing room and violate security precautions, demanding they be allowed to participate in the Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump despite not being members of the committees that are investigating the president.{{cite web|website=Huff Post|title=Republicans Try To Storm Impeachment Room, Break Rules In Process|date=Oct 23, 2019|access-date=Oct 23, 2019|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-impeachment-scif_n_5db08980e4b0131fa998661f?ucn}}
  • October 23 – Google announces that its 53-qubit 'Sycamore' processor has achieved quantum supremacy.{{cite web|url=https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html|title=Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor|date=23 October 2019|access-date=23 October 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50154993|title=Google claims 'quantum supremacy' for computer|date=23 October 2019|access-date=23 October 2019|work=BBC News}}{{cite journal|title=Hello quantum world! Google publishes landmark quantum supremacy claim|date=23 October 2019|journal=Nature|doi=10.1038/d41586-019-03213-z|last1=Gibney|first1=Elizabeth|volume=574|issue=7779|pages=461–462|pmid=31645740|bibcode=2019Natur.574..461G|s2cid=204836839|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5|title=Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor|date=23 October 2019|access-date=23 October 2019|journal=Nature|doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5|last1=Arute|first1=Frank|last2=Arya|first2=Kunal|last3=Babbush|first3=Ryan|last4=Bacon|first4=Dave|last5=Bardin|first5=Joseph C.|last6=Barends|first6=Rami|last7=Biswas|first7=Rupak|last8=Boixo|first8=Sergio|last9=Brandao|first9=Fernando G. S. L.|last10=Buell|first10=David A.|last11=Burkett|first11=Brian|last12=Chen|first12=Yu|last13=Chen|first13=Zijun|last14=Chiaro|first14=Ben|last15=Collins|first15=Roberto|last16=Courtney|first16=William|last17=Dunsworth|first17=Andrew|last18=Farhi|first18=Edward|last19=Foxen|first19=Brooks|last20=Fowler|first20=Austin|last21=Gidney|first21=Craig|last22=Giustina|first22=Marissa|last23=Graff|first23=Rob|last24=Guerin|first24=Keith|last25=Habegger|first25=Steve|last26=Harrigan|first26=Matthew P.|last27=Hartmann|first27=Michael J.|last28=Ho|first28=Alan|last29=Hoffmann|first29=Markus|last30=Huang|first30=Trent|volume=574|issue=7779|pages=505–510|pmid=31645734|arxiv=1910.11333|bibcode=2019Natur.574..505A|s2cid=204836822|display-authors=1}}
  • October 24
  • Representative Tim Ryan withdraws from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.{{cite web|website=NBC News|title=Tim Ryan drops out of presidential race|author1=Allan Smith|author2=Alex Seitz-Wald|date=Oct 24, 2019 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/tim-ryan-drops-out-presidential-race-n1065796}}
  • Senator Kamala Harris announces she is withdrawing from the October 25–27 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, after learning that President Trump was scheduled to receive an award.{{citation |newspaper=The Washington Post|title=Kamala Harris skipping South Carolina forum over Trump award|date=Oct 25, 2019|author=Meg Kinnard |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kamala-harris-skipping-south-carolina-forum-over-trump-award/2019/10/25/cd03a2ce-f77b-11e9-b2d2-1f37c9d82dbb_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026022306/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kamala-harris-skipping-south-carolina-forum-over-trump-award/2019/10/25/cd03a2ce-f77b-11e9-b2d2-1f37c9d82dbb_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 26, 2019}} Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Secretary Julian Castro, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Representative John Delaney, and Representative Tulsi Gabbard are still expected to attend.{{citation|website=2020 Club.org|access-date= Oct 25, 2019|title=Upcoming Event, 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum|url=http://2020club.org/}} Trump receives the award for his leadership in the passage of the First Step Act.{{citation|website=ABC Columbia|title= President Donald Trump receives Bipartisan Justice Award in Columbia |url=https://www.abccolumbia.com/2019/10/25/president-donald-trump-receives-bipartisan-justice-award-in-columbia/|date=Oct 25, 2019|access-date=Oct 25, 2019}}
  • October 25
  • The longest strike in General Motors' history ends when 57% of the members of the United Automobile Workers union vote to ratify a contract.{{citation|website=Truthout.org|date=Oct 26, 2019|access-date=Oct 26, 2019|title=GM Workers Ratify Contract Considered "Mixed at Best" by Long-Time Employees|url=https://truthout.org/articles/gm-workers-ratify-contract-considered-mixed-at-best-by-long-time-employees/}}
  • Journalist Max Blumenthal ("The Grayzone") is arrested and charged with assault in a case related to a May 7 incident at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC.{{citation|website=Shadow Proof|access-date=Oct 28, 2019|author=Kevin Gosztola|title=Journalist Max Blumenthal Arrested, Hit With Political Prosecution Related to Venezuela Reporting|url=https://shadowproof.com/2019/10/28/journalist-max-blumenthal-arrested-charged-venezuela-embassy-reporting/}}
  • October 26
  • Senator Kamala Harris reverses herself on participation in the "Second Step Justice Forum" after 20/20 Club drops its sponsorship. Senator Cory Booker announces he will attend also.{{cite web|website=The Hill|author=TAL AXELROD |title=Harris reverses course, attends South Carolina justice forum|date=Oct 26, 2019|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/467579-harris-to-attend-sc-justice-forum-after-group-that-awarded-trump-removed}}
  • Two are killed and at least twelve injured at a shooting during a party in Greenville, Texas, celebrating the homecoming of Texas A&M University–Commerce.{{cite news|newspaper=Dallas News|title=2 die as at least 12 people shot at party near Greenville, authorities say|date=Oct 27, 2019|author1=Chris Siron|author2=Tom Steele|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/27/mass-shooting-at-texas-am-commerce-homecoming-party-in-greenville-according-to-reports/}}
  • October 27
  • President Trump announces that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a U.S. special forces operation on October 26. It was reported that Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest after being chased into a tunnel.{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/isis-leader-baghdadi-confirmed-dead-after-apparent-suicide-during-u-s-operation-sources|date=October 27, 2019|title=ISIS leader al-Baghdadi confirmed dead after apparent suicide during U.S. operation: sources|work=Fox News}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50200339|title = Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: IS leader 'dead after US raid' in Syria|work = BBC News|date = 28 October 2019}}
  • Representative Katie Hill resigns amid accusations she had an illicit sexual relationship with a staff member. Hill denies the accusation.{{citation|website=CBS News|title=Katie Hill, California congresswoman, resigns amid allegations of affairs with staff|author=BY ED O'KEEFE|date=Oct 27, 2019|access-date=Oct 27, 2019|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/katie-hill-california-congresswoman-to-resign-amid-allegations-of-affairs-with-staff-2019-10-27/}}
  • 200,000 people evacuate wildfires in Northern California that destroy 79 structures including 31 homes.{{citation|website=NBC News|date=Oct 27, 2019|title=Northern California wildfires force nearly 200,000 people to evacuate |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/180-000-under-evacuation-two-major-wildfires-flank-california-n1072551?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma}} Governor Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency.{{citation|website=Mic|date=Oct 28, 2019|title=As wildfires rage in California, governor declares statewide emergency |url=https://www.mic.com/p/as-wildfires-rage-in-california-governor-declares-statewide-emergency-19272522}}
  • October 28
  • A North Carolina court rules that the state can't proceed with next year's House primary elections due to political gerrymandering.{{citation|website=Politico|date=Oct 28, 2019|title=Court freezes North Carolina's gerrymandered map|author1=STEVEN SHEPARD |author2=ALLY MUTNICK|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/28/court-north-carolina-gerrymandering-060677}}
  • On his first visit to Chicago, President Donald Trump calls the city "embarrassing to us as a nation" and blasts the police superintendent for not attending his speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police.{{citation|website=The Guardian |date=Oct 29, 2019|title=Trump calls Chicago 'embarrassing to nation' during first visit as president|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/28/trump-chicago-embarrassing-police}} Thousands protest against Trump, who called for "a surge," or militarization, of the nation's police.{{citation|website=Common Dreams|date=Oct 28, 2019|title='Call It the Surge': Vowing Nationwide Crackdown, Trump Touts Tougher and More Militarized US Police|url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/28/call-it-surge-vowing-nationwide-crackdown-trump-touts-tougher-and-more-militarized}}{{citation|website=Truth Dig|date=Oct 29, 2019|title=Trump Reveals Plans for Nationwide Crackdown and More Militarized Police|url=https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-reveals-plans-for-nationwide-crackdown-and-more-militarized-police/}}
  • October 29
  • The National Collegiate Athletic Association announces they will allow college athletes to be paid. New rules must be ready no later than January 2021.{{citation|website=CNBC|title=The NCAA will allow athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness in a major shift for the organization|date=Oct 29, 2019|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/29/ncaa-allows-athletes-to-be-compensated-for-names-images.html}}
  • A rupture occurs in the Keystone Pipeline near Edinburg, North Dakota with an estimated 9,120 barrels spilled.Kumar, Devika Krishna (31 October 2019). "Keystone pipeline shut after spilling 9,000 barrels of oil in N. Dakota." [http://news.trust.org/item/20191031180757-6lurs Thomson Reuters Foundation News website] Retrieved 1 November 2019. This is the second significant spill in two years.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/leak-keystone-pipeline-spills-9-000-barrels-oil-north-dakota-n1074991 Leak in Keystone pipeline spills 9,000 barrels of oil in North Dakota] Retrieved Nov 1 2019
  • Murray Energy files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.{{Cite news|date=2019-10-29|title=Murray Energy News: Coal Miner Goes Bust as Trump Rescue Fails|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/biggest-private-coal-miner-goes-bust-after-trump-rescue-fails|access-date=2019-10-29|website=Bloomberg.com}}
  • October 30
  • Dr. Michael Baden, one of the world's leading forensic pathologists, describes his findings of the Jeffrey Epstein suicide, noting that the financier's injuries appeared more consistent with murder than suicide, contradicting an earlier report by the New York City Medical Examiner.{{citation|website=Miami Herald|date=Oct 30, 2019|access-date=Oct 30, 2019|title=Jeffrey Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article236809668.html}} Dr. Barbara Sampson, the chief Medical Examiner, sticks by the original finding that Epstein's death was due to suicide by hanging.{{citation|website=CNN News|title=NYC medical examiner rejects claim that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a homicide|date=Oct 30, 2019|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/30/us/jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-fox/index.html}}
  • Wildfires rage across California, with a rare "extreme red-flag warning" issued from weather officials, as gusts exceed 70 mph (113 km/h).{{citation|website=BBC News|date=Oct 30, 2019|access-date=Oct 30, 2019|title=California fires: Reagan Presidential Library threatened|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50229657}}
  • The Federal Reserve lowers its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point, to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%, the third cut in four months.{{citation|website=BBC News|date=Oct 30, 2019|access-date=Oct 30, 2019|title=Federal Reserve cuts rates again amid trade and growth fears|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50225030}}
  • Social media website Twitter bans all political advertising worldwide.{{citation|website=BBC News|date=Oct 30, 2019|access-date=Oct 30, 2019|title=Twitter bans all political advertising|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50243306}}
  • The Washington Nationals defeat the Houston Astros in the seventh and deciding game of the 2019 World Series, capturing their first championship in franchise history.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/10/30/world-series-nationals-astros-game-seven/|title=Nationals win first World Series title, storming back on Astros in Game 7, 6-2|last1=Sheinin|first1=Dave|last2=Fortier|first2=Sam|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 31, 2019|access-date=October 31, 2019}}
  • October 31
  • The House of Representatives votes 232–196 in favor of formally proceeding with an impeachment inquiry against President Trump.{{citation|website=BBC News|date=Oct 31, 2019|access-date=Oct 31, 2019|title=Trump impeachment: House votes to formalise inquiry|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50246324}}
  • The United States Department of the Treasury announces that federal debt surpasses $23 trillion for the first time. This is a 16% increase since Donald Trump became president in 2017.[https://thehill.com/policy/finance/468600-us-debt-surpasses-23-trillion-for-first-time US debt surpasses $23 trillion for first time] Retrieved Nov 1, 2019
  • Five are killed and four wounded in a shooting at a house party in Orinda, California.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/02/us/california-halloween-shooting-saturday/index.html A fifth person dies after shooting at a California Halloween party advertised on social media] CNN retrieved Nov 3, 2019

=November=

  • November 1
  • Former Representative Beto O'Rourke suspends his campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/politics/beto-orourke-drops-out.html|title=Beto O'Rourke Is Dropping Out of the Presidential Race|last=Burns|first=Alexander|date=2019-11-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-11-01|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20191101213127/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/politics/beto-orourke-drops-out.html|archive-date=November 1, 2019|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}
  • A law that allows almost all citizens to open carry guns goes into effect in Oklahoma.[https://www.foxnews.com/us/permitless-gun-carry-oklahoma Permitless gun carry in Oklahoma takes effect] Fox News retrieved Nov 3, 2019
  • Oklahoma commutes 500 prison sentences, the largest number in the state's history.[https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/468771-oklahoma-to-commute-more-than-500-sentences Oklahoma commutes more than 500 sentences] The Hill retrieved Nov 3, 2019
  • November 2 – The Washington Post reports that the United States-Mexico Border Wall has been easily breached multiple times using inexpensive and easily attainable electric saws.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/02/politics/smugglers-saw-through-trump-border-wall/index.html Washington Post: Border agents say smugglers in Mexico are sawing through parts of Trump's border wall] Retrieved Nov 1, 2019
  • November 3
  • President Trump threatens to cut off federal aid to combat California wildfires.{{cite web|website=NBC News|title=Trump threatens to pull federal aid for California wildfires|author=Allan Smith|date=Nov 3, 2019 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-threatens-pull-federal-aid-california-wildfires-n1075866?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma}}
  • McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook is fired for having a consensual relationship with an employee.{{cite web|website=The Hill|date=Nov 3, 2019|title=McDonald's fires CEO Steve Easterbrook after relationship with employee|url=https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/468775-mcdonalds-fires-ceo-steve-easterbrook-after-relationship-with-employee}}
  • November 5
  • The Federal Communications Commission approves a merger between T-Mobile and Sprint Corporation.[https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/05/fcc-approves-t-mobile-sprint-merger-despite-serious-concerns/ FCC Approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger despite serious concerns] Tech Crunch, Nov 5, 2019
  • The 2019 United States elections are held.
  • 2019 Virginia Senate election & 2019 Virginia House of Delegates election: Democrats take control of the legislature for the first time in twenty years.{{citation|website=NBC News|date=Nov 5, 2019|title=Virginia Democrats take control of state legislature for first time in over two decades|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democrats-capture-virginia-state-senate-first-time-years-house-grabs-n1077036?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma}}[https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/11/massive-major-victories-for-democrats-in-virginia-and-kentucky-as-trump-fails-to-deliver-wins-for-his-gop-candidates/ Massive, Major Victories for Democrats in Virginia and Kentucky as Trump Fails to Deliver Wins for His GOP Candidates] The New Civil Rights Movement retrieved Nov 5, 2019
  • New York City voters approve a ballot measure that would establish ranked-choice voting in primary and special elections for all local offices beginning in 2021.[https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/06/huge-win-democracy-nationwide-celebrations-nyc-residents-approve-ranked-choice 'Huge Win for Democracy': Nationwide Celebrations as NYC Residents Approve Ranked-Choice Voting Ballot Measure] Common Dreams retrieved Nov 6, 2019
  • November 6
  • Donald Trump Jr. Tweets a Breitbart News link purportedly revealing the name of the whistleblower whose allegations started the Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.[https://shareblue.com/donald-trump-jr-whistleblower-identity-ukraine-impeachment-breitbart-mark-zaid/ Whistleblower's lawyer slams Don Jr. for putting his client 'at risk of serious harm'] Share Blue retrieved Nov 6, 2019 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for the media to release the person's name. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), said the name out loud in a hearing unrelated to the impeachment inquiry.[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/ukraine-whistleblower-protection-law/ Outing the Whistleblower Could Be Illegal. Expect Them to Get Away with It.] Mother Jones (magazine) Nov 7, 2019
  • The San Francisco Chronicle publishes a report that says the Halloween shooting at an Airbnb rental property in Orinda, California is part of a pattern of violence at such parties, involving the shooting of 42 people and 17 deaths.[https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Orinda-Airbnb-violence-fits-pattern-at-least-14815970.php Orinda Airbnb violence fits pattern — at least 42 people shot at short-term rentals in last 6 months] San Francisco Chronicle retrieved Nov 6, 2019
  • Transcripts released from the closed-door hearings of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump reveal that witnesses were concerned about a quid pro quo (English: "this for that") holding up millions of dollars in aid to Ukraine in return for dirt on Hunter Biden and his father, former Vice President Joe Biden. Witnesses were Marie Yovanovitch and Michael McKinley,[https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/house-impeachment-investigators-begin-releasing-closed-door-testimony-000315 Ex-Ukraine ambassador felt threatened by Trump] Politico Nov 4, 2019 Bill Taylor,[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/read-full-transcript-top-diplomat-bill-taylor-s-impeachment-testimony-n1077676 Read the full transcript of top diplomat Bill Taylor's impeachment testimony] NBC News Nov 6, 2019 Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker,[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/gordon-sondland-kurt-volker-transcripts-impeachment-inquiry/index.html Key diplomat changes testimony and admits quid pro quo with Ukraine] CNN Politics Nov 5, 2019[https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/impeachment-testimony-released-gordon-sondland-kurt-volker-065990 'It kept getting more insidious': What Sondland and Volker told Trump impeachment investigators] Politico Nov 5, 2019 George Kent,[https://www.motherjones.com/impeachment/2019/11/read-the-transcript-of-george-kents-testimony-to-the-house-impeachment-probe/ Read the Transcript of George Kent's Testimony to the House Impeachment Probe] Mother Jones (magazine), Nov 7, 2019 Alexander Vindman,[https://www.motherjones.com/impeachment/2019/11/now-heres-alexander-vindmans-interview-with-the-house-impeachment-probe/ Now Here's Alexander Vindman's Interview with the House Impeachment Probe] Mother Jones, Nov 8, 2019 Fiona Hill,[https://www.motherjones.com/impeachment/2019/11/read-fiona-hills-testimony-to-house-impeachment-investigators/ Read Fiona Hill's Testimony to House Impeachment Investigators] Mother Jones, Nov 8, 2019 and Laura Cooper.[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/read-transcript-pentagon-official-laura-cooper-s-impeachment-testimony-n1080231?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma Read the transcript of Pentagon official Laura Cooper's impeachment testimony] NBC News, Nov 11, 2019 Lawyer Rudy Giuliani hires three attorneys as his dealings in Ukraine have attracted the scrutiny of federal prosecutors and House impeachment investigators.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-06/mulvaney-will-skip-house-testimony-this-week-impeachment-update House Cites Ongoing McGahn Case on Subpoenas: Impeachment Update] Bloomberg Nov 6, 2019
  • November 7
  • Two former Twitter employees are charged with spying for Saudi Arabia. Ahmad Abouammo, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Seattle on November 3, but Ali Alzabarah, a Saudi citizen, is presumably back in the Middle East.[https://abc30.com/former-twitter-employees-charged-in-saudi-spy-scandal/5676960/ Former Twitter employees charged in Saudi spy scandal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107212157/https://abc30.com/former-twitter-employees-charged-in-saudi-spy-scandal/5676960/ |date=2019-11-07 }} ABC 30, Nov 7, 2019
  • The Weather Channel, Mother Jones, and "Climate Desk" sponsor a one-hour special about Climate change mitigation featuring five Democratic and three Republican candidates in the 2020 United States presidential election.[https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/11/weather-channel-climate-desk-mother-jones-climate-special-2020/ “Like the Moon Landing”: 8 Candidates Confront the Next President's Most Urgent Task] Mother Jones (magazine) retrieved Nov 6, 2019
  • November 8
  • Transform Holdco LLC, which purchased nearly all of the assets of Sears Holdings Corp in February, announces that it will be closing 96 Sears and K-Mart stores across the country.[https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/469568-sears-k-mart-to-close-third-of-remaining-stores Sears, Kmart to close third of remaining stores] The Hill, Nov 8, 2019
  • By filing as a candidate in Alabama, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg officially declares his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.[https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/469690-bloomberg-files-for-alabama-presidential-primary Bloomberg officially files to run in Alabama presidential primary] The Hill, Nov 9, 2019
  • November 9 – KSI wins his rematch against fellow youtuber Logan Paul in both of their professional boxing debuts.
  • November 12
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center publishes a report accusing White House aid Stephen Miller of promoting white nationalism. Eventually over 80 Democratic Members of Congress call on him to resign[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-miller-resign-70-congressmembers-say_n_5dcdffdde4b01f982eff2a24?section=politics&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063 Over 80 Members Of Congress To Stephen Miller: Resign From White House Now] Huff Post Politics, Nov 15, 2019
  • Disney+ is launched.
  • November 13
  • The first public hearings of the Trump impeachment inquiry are held, beginning with Bill Taylor and George Kent.{{Cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-department-official-to-testify-in-impeachment-probe-11573038000 |title=First Public Hearings in Impeachment Inquiry to Begin Next Week |last1=Volz |first1=Dustin |date=November 6, 2019 |work=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=November 6, 2019 |last2=Andrews |first2=Natalie }}
  • United States Department of Justice proposes a program to reduce gun violence.{{citation|website=The Hill|date=Nov 13, 2019|title=DOJ unveils program aimed at reducing gun violence|author=RACHEL FRAZIN|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/470276-doj-unveils-program-aimed-at-reducing-gun-violence}}
  • November 14
  • A mass shooting occurs at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, resulting in 3 deaths (including the perpetrator) and 3 injuries.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-14/shooting-reported-at-saugus-high-school-in-santa-clarita-police-searching-for-teen-suspect|title=Santa Clarita shooting: 2 teens killed; attack came on suspect's birthday, officials say|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=November 14, 2019|access-date=November 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114180422/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-14/shooting-reported-at-saugus-high-school-in-santa-clarita-police-searching-for-teen-suspect|archive-date=November 14, 2019|url-status=live}}
  • Managing director of Bain Capital and former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick announces his candidacy for President.[https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/deval-patrick-2020-announcement-election Patrick Acknowledges Established Democratic Field, Goes Ahead And Runs Anyway] Talking Points Memo, Nov 14, 2019
  • New Jersey demands Uber pay $640 million in taxes and fines for wrongly classifying employees as independent contract workers.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-hits-uber-640-million-tax-bill-misclassifying-workers-n1082666?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma New Jersey hits Uber with $640 million tax bill for misclassifying workers] NBC News, Nov 14, 2019
  • Taylor Swift says talent agent Scooter Braun and her former label CEO Scott Borchetta are prohibiting her from performing some of her old songs.[https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/taylor-swift-says-scooter-braun-former-label-won-t-let-n1082686?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma Taylor Swift says Scooter Braun and former label won't let her perform hits from past] NBC News, Nov 14, 2019
  • November 15
  • President Trump pardons two officers convicted of war crimes and restores the rank to a third.[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/trump-dismisses-murder-charge-against-green-beret-pardons-army-officer-n1079941?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma Trump dismisses murder charge against Green Beret, pardons Army officer] NBC News, Nov 15, 2019
  • Roger Stone is found guilty on all seven felony counts over lying to Congress and witness tampering.{{citation|website=The Hill|date=Nov 15, 2019|access-date=Nov 15, 2019|title=Jury finds Stone guilty on 7 felony counts|url=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/470657-stone-verdict-guilty}}
  • November 17 – Four people are killed and six are wounded in a shooting at a football-watch party in Fresno, California.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/18/us/fresno-mass-shooting-football-party/index.html At least 10 people were shot, 4 fatally, at a backyard football watch party in Fresno, California] CNN, Nov 18, 2019
  • November 18 – Smithsonian National Zoo returns a four year-old giant panda named "Bei Bei" to China.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/17/us/bei-bei-giant-panda-national-zoo-trnd/index.html Bye bye, Bei Bei: Beloved giant panda is leaving DC for China in a private jet] Theresa Waldrop, CNN Travel, Nov 18, 2019
  • November 20
  • At the Trump impeachment hearing, Gordon Sondland states that there was a quid pro quo in the Ukraine scandal, pushed by Rudy Giuliani and ordered by Trump.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/nov/20/donald-trump-news-today-live-impeachment-hearings-gordon-sondland-ukraine-republicans-latest-updates|title=Impeachment hearings: Sondland says quid pro quo was pushed by Giuliani and ordered by Trump - live|date=20 November 2019|access-date=20 November 2019|work=The Guardian}}
  • The fifth Democratic Party presidential debate is held in Atlanta and hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post.{{citation|website=The Hill|date=Oct 8, 2019|access-date=Oct 27, 2019|title=Fifth DNC debate to be held Nov. 20 in Georgia|author=RACHEL FRAZIN|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/464920-fifth-dnc-debate-to-be-held-nov-20-in-georgia?amp=1&_recirculation=1}}
  • November 21 – At a showcase in Los Angeles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Cybertruck, the company's first electric pickup truck.{{cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/21/20975475/tesla-cybertruck-announcement-musk-electric-truck-pickup-features-range-price-release-date|work=The Verge|date=21 November 2019|title=Tesla Cybertruck will get up to 500 miles of range and start at $39,900}}
  • November 22
  • Walt Disney Animation Studios' 58th animated film, Frozen II, a sequel to 2013's Frozen, is released in theaters. Although critical reception is not as strong as its predecessor (though still positive), it is, to date, the animation studio's biggest commercial success (earning $1.450 billion), the tenth highest-grossing film of all time and the second highest-grossing animated film of all time behind The Lion King remake earlier in the year.
  • A Fred Rogers film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, directed by Marielle Heller is released in theaters.
  • November 23 – More than 100 students and alumni from Harvard and Yale protest the universities' complicity in climate change by running onto the field during half-time at the annual Harvard–Yale football game.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/23/us/harvard-yale-climate-protest-trnd/index.html The Harvard-Yale football game was delayed after students and alumni stormed the field to protest climate change] Nicole Chavez, CNN, Nov 24, 2019
  • November 24
  • Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 77, officially announces his campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.[https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-bloomberg-running-for-president-billionaire-former-nyc-mayor-2019-11 Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg officially announced he's running for president] Ellen Cranley, Business Insider, Nov 24, 2019
  • President Trump orders Defense Secretary Mark Esper to fire Navy Secretary Richard Spencer after the latter removes Eddie Gallagher from SEAL Team 7.[https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/11/revealed-trump-gave-me-the-order-to-not-remove-accused-war-criminal-from-elite-seal-team-says-defense-secretary/ Revealed: Trump ‘Gave Me the Order’ to Not Remove Accused War Criminal From Elite SEAL Team Says Defense Secretary] David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement, Nov 25, 2019[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/25/politics/esper-spencer-aftermath/index.html Esper says Trump ordered him to allow Gallagher to keep his Trident pin and remain a SEAL] Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, CNN, Nov 25, 2019
  • November 25
  • President Trump signs the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT Act) into law, making animal cruelty a federal felony. The bill expands on 2010 legislation that made creation or distribution of "animal crushing" videos illegal.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/26/trump-signs-preventing-animal-cruelty-torture-act/4306002002/|title='A major step to end animal abuse': Trump signs bill making animal cruelty a felony|work=USA Today|date=26 November 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/724/text|title=Text - H.R.724 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act|last=Deutch|first=Theodore E.|date=2019-11-25|website=www.congress.gov|access-date=2019-12-03}}
  • Conan, the Special Operations Military Working Dog that participated in the raid on ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is honored at the White House.{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-hails-military-dog-conan-injured-in-baghdadi-raid-11574707635|title=Trump Hails Military Dog Conan Injured in Baghdadi Raid|first=Vivian|last=Salama|website=WSJ}}
  • Federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson rules that former White House counsel Don McGahn must testify to House impeachment investigators.[https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782705643/federal-judge-rules-that-mcgahn-must-testify-delivering-blow-to-white-house?orgid=309 Federal Judge Rules That McGahn Must Testify, Delivering Blow To White House] NPR, Nov 25, 2019 The Justice Department plans to appeal the ruling.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/25/politics/don-mcgahn-house-subpoena-impeachment/index.html Federal judge says former White House counsel Don McGahn must speak to House: 'Presidents are not kings'] Katelyn Polantz, CNN, Nov 25, 2019
  • November 27 – The federal government passes the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/us/politics/trump-hong-kong.html |title=Trump Signs Hong Kong Democracy Legislation That Has Angered China |last=Cochrane |first=Emily |date=November 27, 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=November 27, 2019 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128164117/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/us/politics/trump-hong-kong.html |archive-date=November 28, 2019 |url-status=live }}

=December=

  • December 1
  • The White House announces that President Donald Trump will not participate in the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing on December 3.[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-says-trump-wont-participate-in-judiciary-hearing White House, in fiery letter, declares Trump won't participate in House Judiciary impeachment hearing] Gregg Re and Bradford Betz, Fox News, Dec 1, 2019[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-judiciary-impeachment-hearing_n_5de45e3ce4b00149f7315580?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063 White House Won't Participate In Judiciary Committee's First Impeachment Hearing] Nick Visser, HuffPost, Dec 1, 2019
  • Former Representative Joe Sestak withdraws from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/01/politics/joe-sestak-2020-campaign/index.html Joe Sestak ends long-shot 2020 Democratic presidential campaign] Paul LeBlanc, CNN Politics, Dec 1, 2019
  • Energy Secretary Rick Perry resigns.[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/rick-perry-stepping-down-ukraine-impeachment/ Rick Perry Is Leaving as His Role in Impeachment Scandal Grows] Nathalie Baptiste, Mother Jones, Nov 30, 2019
  • December 2
  • Former Montana Governor Steve Bullock withdraws from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/02/steve-bullock-suspends-presidential-campaign-074729 Steve Bullock ends presidential bid, won't run for Senate] NATASHA KORECKI, Politico, Dec 2, 2019
  • Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) pleads guilty to corruption charges and resigns from Congress.[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/2/1903075/-Duncan-Hunter-to-Plead-Guilty-and-Resign-from-Congress Duncan Hunter to Plead Guilty and "Resign from Congress"] Daily Kos, Dec 2, 2019
  • At least six people die in Thanksgiving-weekend storms. More than 150 flights are canceled and 900 are delayed.[https://news.sky.com/story/us-weather-at-least-six-die-as-winter-storms-sweep-across-country-11876474 US weather: At least six die as winter storms sweep across country] Sky News, Dec 2, 2019[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/01/storm-thanksgiving-travel-hits-north-east Deadly storm disrupting Thanksgiving travel across US hits north-east] The Guardian, Dec 2, 2019
  • December 3
  • Senator Kamala Harris suspends her campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/sen-kamala-harris-drops-out-2020-presidential-race-n1094996?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma Sen. Kamala Harris drops out of 2020 presidential race] NBC News, Dec 3, 2019
  • The House Intelligence Committee releases a report accusing President Donald Trump of using his office to further his personal interests.[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-intel-committee-releases-impeachment-report House Democrats release Trump impeachment report, blast scheme to 'solicit foreign interference' in 2020 race] Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, Dec 3, 2019[https://www.businessinsider.com/house-intelligence-committee-trump-impeachment-report-2019-12 House Intelligence Committee's impeachment report found that Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with Ukraine and obstructed Congress' impeachment inquiry] Sonam Sheth, Business Insider, Dec 3, 2019
  • December 5 – Huawei submits a petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit against the FCC's decision to prohibit rural U.S. network providers from using equipment from the China-based vendor due to national security concerns, asking that the recent FCC order be overturned.[https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/huawei-slams-fcc-with-legal-appeal/2019/12/ Huawei Slams FCC With Legal Appeal], by Dan Meyer | Editor-in-Chief, December 5, 2019, sdxcentral.com.
  • December 6
  • Four people die in a mass shooting by a Saudi aviation student that was being trained by the U.S. military.[https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/12/06/the-latest-on-the-pearl-harbor-shooting/ The latest on the Pearl Harbor shooting] Navy Times, retrieved Dec 6, 2019
  • The U.S. unemployment rate drops to 3.5%, the lowest in 50 years.{{cite news|url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/us-unemployment-rate-50-year-low-why-wall-street-dislikes-2019-12-1028744899|date=6 December 2019|access-date=10 December 2019|work=Business Insider|title=US unemployment is the lowest in 50 years. Here's why Wall Street thinks that's actually a bad thing.}}
  • Kansas City, Missouri becomes the first city in the U.S. to approve free public transportation.[https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/06/now-lets-do-everywhere-kansas-city-missouri-approves-free-public-transit-all 'Now Let's Do This Everywhere': Kansas City, Missouri Approves Free Public Transit for All] Julia Conley, Common Dreams, Dec 6, 2019
  • The House of Representatives approves 228–187 to restore parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.[https://www.vox.com/2019/12/6/20998953/house-bill-voting-rights-advancement-act The House has passed a bill to restore key parts of the Voting Rights Act] By Ella Nilsenella, Vox, Dec 6, 2019 [https://web.archive.org/web/20191206222055/https://time.com/5745617/house-voting-rights-act-restored/ House Passes Bill to Restore Key Parts of Voting Rights Act] MATTHEW DALY, AP/Time, DECEMBER 6, 2019 President Trump threatens to veto if the bill is approved by the Senate.[https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-wh-threatens-to-veto-restored-voting-rights-act-74683461885?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_lw Trump WH threatens to veto restored Voting Rights Act] MSNBC, Dec 6, 2019
  • December 8 – Rapper Juice WRLD aka Jarad Anthony Higgins dies from a drug overdose.
  • December 9
  • The Inspector General of the Department of Justice issues a report that concludes that the FBI investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign was legally justified and conducted without political bias, but reprimands the FBI for abusing its authority regarding Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) warrants.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/politics/fbi-ig-report-russia-investigation.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage|title=Report on F.B.I. Russia Inquiry Finds Serious Errors but Debunks Anti-Trump Plot|work=The New York Times|date=9 December 2019|access-date=10 December 2019}}[https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation] Oversight and Review Division 20-012, December 2019
  • Sports Illustrated names soccer star Megan Rapinoe Sportsperson of the Year.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/09/us/megan-rapinoe-sports-illustrated-trnd/index.html Soccer legend Megan Rapinoe has been named Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year] Alaa Elassar, CNN, Dec 10, 2019
  • December 10
  • Democrats in the House of Representatives announce formal charges against President Trump that accuse him of abusing power and obstructing Congress, making him the fourth U.S. president in history to face impeachment.{{cite news|title='Solemn step': Democrats unveil articles of impeachment against Trump|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/10/donald-trump-articles-of-impeachment-democrats-congress|work=The Guardian|date=10 December 2019|access-date=10 December 2019}}
  • A mass shooting occurs at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey. The attack is officially designated domestic terrorism two days later.{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/jersey-city-shooting-kosher-market-hate-crime-anti-semitism|date=12 December 2019|title=Jersey City mayor: Kosher market attack was a hate crime, anti-Semitism must be called out|work=Fox News}}
  • December 11
  • The World Trade Organization (WTO) is left unable to intervene in trade disputes, after the U.S. blocks the appointment of new panel members.{{cite news|title=Trump Cripples W.T.O. as Trade War Rages|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/business/trump-trade-war-wto.html |work=The New York Times|date=8 December 2019|access-date=11 December 2019}}
  • Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin controversially pardons or commutes sentences for 428 convicts, including child rapists and murderers; one commutation was for the brother of a family that raised $21,500 to pay off Bevin's campaign debt.{{cite news|newspaper=Louisville Courier Journal |date=Dec 11, 2019|title=Bevin pardons include convicted killer whose brother hosted campaign fundraiser for him|url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/11/bevin-issued-hundreds-pardons-and-commutations-final-day/4399770002/}}[https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-legislature/2019/12/13/bevin-pardons-robert-stivers-calls-federal-investigation/2641276001/ Senate President Robert Stivers wants feds to investigate Matt Bevin's pardons] Ben Tobin, Louisville Courier Journal, Dec 13, 2019 [https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article238347353.html Kentucky lawmakers in both parties call for investigation of Matt Bevin's pardons] Daniel Desrochers, Lexington Herald Leader, Dec 13, 2019
  • Time magazine names climate activist Greta Thunberg Person of the Year{{citation|website= CNN Business|date=Dec 11, 2019|author=Kerry Flynn|title=Time Person of the Year: Climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/11/media/time-person-of-the-year-2019/index.html}}
  • December 12
  • The Federal Communications Commission approves a proposal to designate 988 as the hotline phone number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.{{cite news|url=https://nbc25news.com/news/nation-world/fcc-votes-to-set-up-3-digit-suicide-hotline-number-like-911|title=FCC votes to set up 3-digit suicide hotline number like 911|date=12 December 2019|agency=Associated Press}}
  • Federal judge Clark Waddoups rules that American Samoans are U.S. citizens and should be granted U.S. passports.{{citation|website=CNN Politics|date=Dec 12, 2019 |title=Federal judge rules American Samoans are US citizens by birth|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/12/politics/american-samoa-citizenship/index.html}}
  • December 13 – Construction begins on the Navy oiler {{USNS|Harvey Milk|T-AO-206}}, named for LGBTQ leader Harvey Milk.[https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/16/construction-navy-ship-harvey-milk-begins-san-diego.html Construction of Navy Ship 'Harvey Milk' Begins in San Diego] Military.com, Dec 16, 2019
  • December 15 – Hallmark Channel faces a backlash after pulling ads that show same-sex couples celebrating marriages.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/15/business/hallmark-same-sex-advertisement-backlash/index.html Hallmark Channel faces backlash after it pulled ads featuring same-sex couples] Clare Duffy, CNN Business, Dec 15, 2019 The backlash caused an almost immediate reversal of the plan.[https://thehill.com/homenews/media/474672-hallmark-channel-reverses-decision-to-pull-ads-featuring-same-sex-couples Hallmark Channel reverses decision to pull ads featuring same-sex couple] ARIS FOLLEY, The Hill, Dec 15, 2019
  • December 16
  • Boeing announces that it will suspend production of the Boeing 737 MAX—which was involved in two accidents earlier this year—in January 2020.{{citation|website=The Verge|date=Dec 16, 2019|title=Boeing 737 MAX|author=Sean O'Kane|url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/16/21025081/boeing-737-max-production-halt-stop-crash-faa-airplane}}
  • A dozen people are killed by winter storms in Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deadly-winter-weather-snow-latest-path-track-forecast-today-2019-12-16/ 11 dead as winter storm threatens millions of Americans] CBS News, Dec 16, 2019 27 tornadoes hit Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, killing three in northern Alabama and one in Vernon Parish, Louisiana.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-warning-3-dead-after-27-tornadoes-rip-through-alabama-mississippi-louisiana/ 18 students escape minutes before tornado destroys Louisiana school] CBS News, Dec 17, 2019
  • December 17
  • A former employee of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints alleges that the Church illegally built a $100 billion investment fund intended for charitable purposes and owes billions in taxes. The Church denies the allegations.[https://apnews.com/0f606a997780500883139fff2e802aaa Mormon use of member donations questioned by whistleblower] BRADY McCOMBS, Associated Press, Dec 17, 2019
  • New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signs a bill restoring voting rights to 80,000 people who are on parole or probation, joining 17 other states with similar laws.[https://www.npr.org/2019/12/18/789538148/new-jersey-governor-signs-bills-restoring-voting-rights-to-more-than-80-000-peop New Jersey Governor Signs Bills Restoring Voting Rights To More Than 80,000 People] Vanessa Romo, NPR, Dec 18, 2019 Governor Murphy later signs a law making New Jersey the fifteenth state to grant driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in the United States on December 19.{{citation|website=The Hill|title=New Jersey governor signs bill allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses |author=RACHEL FRAZIN|date=Dec 20, 2019|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/475456-new-jersey-governor-signs-bill-allowing-undocumented-immigrants-to-get}}
  • December 18
  • The U.S. House of Representatives votes largely along party lines to forward two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, accusing him of abuse of power and obstructing Congress. Donald Trump becomes the third U.S. president to be impeached by the House.{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/trump-impeached-house-abuse-power-n1104196|work=NBC News|title=Trump impeached by the House for abuse of power, obstruction of Congress|date=December 18, 2019}}
  • The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules 2–1 to uphold a lower court ruling that the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-obamacare-law-setting-up-supreme-court-showdown|title=Federal appeals court strikes down ObamaCare rule, setting up Supreme Court showdown|work=Fox News|date=December 19, 2019}}
  • The Government Accountability Office raises ethics questions about a federal contract awarded by the Department of Transportation to Boone County, Kentucky that appears to be designed to help the reelection campaign of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.{{citation|website=Buzz Flash|author=Josh Israel|title=Ethics Watchdogs Sound Alarm After Transportation Secretary Chao Delivers Major Federal Contract to Husband Mitch McConnell's Kentucky|date=Dec 18, 2019 |url=https://buzzflash.com/articles/ethics-watchdogs-sound-alarm-after-transportation-secretary-chao-delivers-major-federal-contract-to-husband-mitch-mcconnells-kentucky}}
  • December 19
  • For the first time in U.S. history, the economy starts and ends a decade without a recession, avoiding a recession for an entire calendar decade.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/19/us-economy-avoids-a-recession-for-the-longest-time-ever.html|title=For the first time in history, the US economy has started and ended a decade without a recession|date=December 19, 2019|work=CNBC}}
  • The House of Representatives approves the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the North American trade deal set to replace NAFTA.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/19/house-passes-trumps-usmca-trade-agreement.html|title=House approves USMCA trade deal after more than a year of talks, sending it to Senate|date=December 19, 2019|work=CNBC}}
  • U.S. Steel announces it will lay off 1,545 workers at its Great Lakes Works production plants near Detroit, MI.{{citation |website=Detroit Free Press|title=Why President Trump's steel tariff didn't save US Steel workers from layoffs|author=JC Reindl|date=Dec 21, 2019|url=https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2019/12/21/trumps-steel-tariff-us-steel-layoffs/2712706001/}}
  • Washington state legislator Matt Shea (R-Spokane Valley) is accused of domestic terrorism on three occasions, including for his participation in the 2016 Bundy-family takeover of a wildlife refuge in Oregon.{{citation|website=CBS News|title=Washington state lawmaker accused of "domestic terrorism" refuses to resign|date=Dec 20, 2019|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-shea-washington-state-lawmaker-who-engaged-in-domestic-terrorism-refuses-to-resign/}} {{citation|website=KXLY News|title=Rep. Matt Shea removed from caucus, report sent to FBI and U.S. Attorney|date=Dec 19, 2019|author=Melissa Luck|url=https://www.kxly.com/news/rep-matt-shea-removed-from-caucus-report-sent-to-fbi-and-us-attorney/1152912144|access-date=December 20, 2019|archive-date=December 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220035332/https://www.kxly.com/news/rep-matt-shea-removed-from-caucus-report-sent-to-fbi-and-us-attorney/1152912144|url-status=dead}} {{citation |website=KREM 2 |title='I will not back down': Rep. Matt Shea, accused of 'domestic terrorism,' refuses to resign |date=Dec 19, 2019 |url=https://www.krem.com/article/news/politics/matt-shea-investigation-says-he-engaged-in-domestic-terrorism/293-82a8700c-b5e0-44bb-a752-a43c682ace16 }}
  • The sixth Democratic presidential debate is held in Los Angeles, hosted by Politico and PBS.{{citation|website=NBC News|date=Oct 25, 2019|title=Sixth Democratic debate to be hosted by PBS and Politico in Los Angeles|author=Dylan Byers|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/sixth-democratic-debate-be-hosted-pbs-politico-los-angeles-n1071876}} Seven candidates participate.[https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-yang-pete-buttigieg-and-amy-klobuchar-won-the-democratic-debate-2019-12 Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar won Thursday's Democratic presidential debate] Eliza Relman, Business Insider, Dec 19, 2019 [https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/19/politics/dem-debate-speaking-time-december/index.html?sr=fbCNN121919dem-debate-speaking-time-december1014PMStory Democratic debate speaking time: By the numbers] CNN Politics, Dec 19, 2019
  • Camille Schrier of Virginia wins the Miss America 2020 beauty pageant.[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/miss-america-science-experiment-camille-schrier_n_5dfcad7ce4b0b2520d09458d?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063 Camille Schrier Wins Miss America After Doing Science Experiment For Talent] Ron Dicker, Huff Post, Dec 20, 2019
  • December 20
  • The United States Space Force (USSF) is founded, becoming the sixth U.S. military service branch and the first new service branch in 72 years.{{cite news|url=https://www.airforcemag.com/space-force-established-as-trump-signs-ndaa/|title=Space Force Established as Trump Signs NDAA|date=December 20, 2019|access-date=December 21, 2019|work=Air Force Magazine}}
  • The federal government authorizes, for the first time, the use of federal funds to research geoengineering.{{cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614991/the-us-government-will-begin-to-fund-geoengineering-research/|title=The US government has approved funds for geoengineering research|date=20 December 2019|access-date=23 December 2019|publisher=Technology Review}}
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is released as the Ninth and last film of the Star Wars saga.
  • December 21 – White Sands National Park becomes the 62nd National Park in the United States.[https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/white-sands-national-park-trnd/index.html White Sands National Monument designated as the newest US national park] Allen Kim, CNN Travel, Dec 23, 2019
  • December 22
  • Two days after a failed launch, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner makes a soft landing in New Mexico.[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/22/tech/boeing-starliner-landing-deorbit-scn/index.html Boeing's Starliner spacecraft makes safe landing after botched test flight] Jackie Wattles, CNN Business, Dec 22, 2019
  • At least 13 people are injured during a shooting at a memorial for an earlier shooting victim in Englewood, Chicago, IL.{{citation |website=Newsweek|title=MULTIPLE PEOPLE SHOT AT CHICAGO HOUSE PARTY COMMEMORATING GUN CRIME VICTIM|author=EWAN PALMER|date=Dec 22, 2019|url=https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-shooting-hosue-party-englewood-1478711}}
  • Fog and ice cause a 69-car pileup westbound on I-64 near Williamsburg, Virginia. 51 people are injured.[https://www.foxnews.com/auto/massive-car-pileup-virginia-injuries Massive 69-car pileup in Virginia leaves several with critical injuries, shuts down interstate] By Stephen Sorace, Fox News, Dec 22, 2019 Two died and 46 were injured when a similar accident involving 30 vehicles took place on December 18 along I-80 in White Deer Township, Pennsylvania.[https://www.foxnews.com/us/snow-squall-nyc-pennsylvania-pileup-interstate-80-weather-winter Snow squall sweeps into NYC, triggers deadly pileup on Pennsylvania interstate] By Travis Fedschun, Fox News, Dec 19, 2019
  • December 23
  • Business Insider reports that 9,300 retail stores will close by the end of the year, including all 2,500 of Payless ShoeSource, 805 of Gymboree, 650 of Dressbarn, and 520 of Charlotte Russe.[https://www.businessinsider.com/stores-closing-in-2019-list-2019-3 More than 9,300 stores are closing in 2019 as the retail apocalypse drags on — here's the full list] Hayley Peterson, Business Insider, Dec 23, 2019
  • Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich endorses Tulsi Gabbard's 2020 presidential campaign.[https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/475743-kucinich-endorses-gabbards-2020-bid Kucinich endorses Gabbard's 2020 bid] BY REBECCA KLAR, The Hill, Dec 23, 2019
  • December 25 – Ambassador Daniel Lewis Foote is recalled from Zambia after defending gay rights and denouncing corruption.{{cite web |website=CNN Politics|title=US ambassador recalled after dispute with Zambian government over gay rights and corruption|date=Dec 25, 2019 |author1=By Michael Conte|author2=Kylie Atwood|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/25/politics/daniel-foote-zambia-ambassador/index.html}}
  • December 27
  • A judge temporarily blocks a North Carolina law that requires voter ID. Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein is undecided as to whether to appeal.{{cite web|website=The Hill|title=Judge halts North Carolina voter ID law

|date=Dec 27, 2019|author=RACHEL FRAZIN|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/476062-judge-halts-north-carolina-voter-id-law}}

  • The Food and Drug Administration officially raises the legal age for tobacco products, e-cigarettes, and vaping cartridges from 18 to 21.{{cite web|website=The Hill|title=FDA officially raises tobacco buying age to 21|date=Dec 27, 2019 |url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/476035-fda-officially-raises-tobacco-buying-age-to-21|author=Marty Johnson}}
  • An article in The Washington Post accuses former American Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick of paying bribes totaling US$600,000 to Pope John Paul II ($50,000) and Pope Benedict XVI ($291,000) and 100 Vatican employees to cover-up sexual misconduct accusations against him.{{cite web|website=Proceso|title=Aseguran que excardenal acusado de abuso sobornó a Juan Pablo II y Benedicto XVI|author=Rodrigo Vera|date=Dec 27, 2019|language=es|trans-title=Alleged that former cardinal accused of abuse bribed John Paul II and Benedict XVI|url=https://www.proceso.com.mx/612393/aseguran-que-excardenal-acusado-de-abuso-soborno-a-juan-pablo-ii-y-benedicto-xvi|access-date=December 28, 2019|archive-date=December 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228130029/https://www.proceso.com.mx/612393/aseguran-que-excardenal-acusado-de-abuso-soborno-a-juan-pablo-ii-y-benedicto-xvi|url-status=dead}}
  • December 28 – Police in New York City are reported to have investigated at least five and possibly eight cases of antisemitic attacks during the week.[https://abc7ny.com/mother-walking-with-child-beaten-in-5th-anti-semitic-attack/5790733/ NYPD probes 8th anti-Semitic attack; patrols stepped up] ABC 7NY, Dec 28, 2019[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/29/us/jewish-attacks-week-new-york-trnd/index.html There was an attack on Jewish New Yorkers almost every day last week. Police are investigating these as possible hate crimes] By Christina Maxouris, CNN, Dec 29, 2019 These follow shootings at a Kosher grocery store and a Jewish cemetery in Jersey City just two weeks earlier.[https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/jersey-city-shooting-police-officer-shot-live-stream-updates-2019-12-10/ 4 killed in Jersey City shooting, including a police officer] BY AUDREY MCNAMARA & VICTORIA ALBERT, CBS News, Dec 11, 2019
  • December 30
  • Former president Barack Obama and incumbent president Donald Trump tie in Gallup's most admired man and woman poll. Michelle Obama is chosen as the most admired woman.[https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/30/trump-obama-tie-americas-most-admired-man-091023 Trump, Obama tie for Americans' most-admired man] By QUINT FORGEY, Politico, Dec 30, 2019
  • 91 groups with connections to public lands send a letter to Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt demanding that acting Bureau of Land Management director William Perry Pendley resign or be removed from office.{{cite web|website=The Hill|title=Coalition of 91 groups asks for resignation or removal of BLM chief|date=Dec 30, 2019|author=REBECCA BEITSCH |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/476279-coalition-of-91-groups-asks-for-resignation-or-removal-of-blm-chief}}
  • December 31
  • Thousands protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, in response to an airstrike that killed 25 on December 27.[https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/476318-protesters-storm-us-embassy-in-baghdad-after Protesters storm US Embassy in Baghdad after Iraq airstrikes] BY JUSTINE COLEMAN, The Hill, Dec 31, 2019
  • Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker pardons 11,017 low-level marijuana convictions.[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/31/1908762/-Illinois-governor-pardons-11-017-marijuana-convictions-day-before-new-law-legalizes-recreational-use Illinois governor pardons 11,017 marijuana convictions day before new law legalizes recreational use] Lauren Floyd, Daily Kos, Dec 31, 2019

2019 in Numbers

  • Economics
  • Nominal GDP: $21,439.45 billion (#1), per capita: 65,112 (#8).[http://statisticstimes.com/economy/projected-world-gdp-ranking.php Projected GDP Ranking (2019-2024)] Statistics Times, 13 Nov 2019, retrieved 27 Dec 2019
  • Purchasing power parity Ranking: $21,439.45 (#2), per capita: $65,112 (#11).
  • Growth rate: 2.1% (3rd quarter estimate).[https://www.bea.gov/news/glance U.S. Economy at a Glance] Bureau of Economic Analysis, retrieved Dec 27, 2019
  • Personal income in the United States: Increase 0.5% in November 2019, compared to +0.1% in October; Wages and salaries increase 0.4% in November, compared to 0.5% in October.
  • Current account deficit: Down $1.1 billion, or 0.9%, to $124.1 billion in the third quarter of 2019. The third quarter deficit was 2.3% of GDP.
  • Unemployment rate: Fell from 3.9% in January to 3.5% in November.
  • Federal debt: $22.6 trillion on September 30; up from $22 trillion in February.[https://www.thebalance.com/the-u-s-debt-and-how-it-got-so-big-3305778 The US Debt and How It Got So Big] BY KIMBERLY AMADEO, The Balance, Dec 14, 2019
  • Federal deficit (Fiscal 2019): $984 billion (highest since 2012.[https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/heres-how-the-economy-performed-under-trump-in-2019-12-1028781846 Trump said he would revive the US economy. Here's how those pledges held up in 2019.] Gina Heeb, Markets Insider, Dec 23, 2019
  • Stock Market: S&P 500 close: 3,230.78; NASDAQ Composite close: 8,972.60; Dow Jones Industrial Average close: 28,534.44.[https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/31/dow-futures-last-trading-day-of-2019.html?__soure=twitter%7Cmain Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 surging more than 28%] Fred Imbert, CNBC, Dec 31, 2019
  • Education
  • Programme for International Student Assessment (15-year-olds): The OECD ranks the United States #24/63 with 1489 total points; 500 in reading (average 493), 487 in math (average 496), and 502 in science (average 501).
  • Best universities: QS Top Universities ranks Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, and California Institute of Technology the four best universities in the world. University of Chicago is #9.[https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2019 QS Top Universities] QS Top Universities, retrieved Dec 27, 2019
  • Immigration
  • Immigrants (2017, the year with the most recent figures): 44.4 million people, 13.6% of the total population; 77% are legally authorized and 45% are naturalized citizens.{{cite web|website=Pew Research Center|title=Key findings about U.S. immigrants|date=June 17, 2019|author=JYNNAH RADFORD|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/}}
  • Country of origin of immigrant population (2017): Mexico (25%) China (6%), India (6%), the Philippines (5%) and El Salvador (3%). Regionally: South and East Asia (27%), Europe/Canada (13%), the Caribbean (10%), Central America (8%), South America (7%), the Middle East (4%) and sub-Saharan Africa (4%).
  • Country of origin for new immigrants (2017): Total: 1,000,000; India (126,000 people), Mexico (124,000), China (121,000) and Cuba (41,000).
  • Overstayed visas vs. illegal border crossings: The Center for Migration Studies of New York estimates that 62% of the undocumented immigrants in the U.S. had overstayed their visas versus 38% who crossed the border illegally.{{cite web |website=Brookings|title=How many undocumented immigrants are in the United States and who are they?|author1=Elaine Kamarck|author2=Christine Stenglein|date=Nov 12, 2019|url=https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/how-many-undocumented-immigrants-are-in-the-united-states-and-who-are-they/}}
  • Persons detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (September 10, 2019): 52,722.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/24/detained-us-largest-immigrant-detention-trump DETAINED, How the US built the world's largest immigrant detention system] by Emily Kassie, The Guardian, September 24, 2019 in 200 detention centers.[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/24-immigrants-have-died-ice-custody-during-trump-administration-n1015291 24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during the Trump administration] By Hannah Rappleye and Lisa Riordan Seville, NBC News, June 9, 2019
  • Deaths during ICE custody: 15 (2019);[https://www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_border_patrol DEATHS BY BORDER PATROL SINCE 2010] Southern Border.org., Nov 6, 2019 24 (January 21, 2017 – June 9, 2019).
  • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) participants: 600,000.
  • Gun violence
  • Total deaths: 38,820 (children 0-11, 208), (teens 12–17, 765).{{cite web|website=Gun Violence Archive|title=GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2019|date=Dec 27, 2019|url=https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/}}
  • Homicide, murder, unintentional: 14,494.
  • Suicide: 23,826.
  • Injuries : 29,054.
  • Mass shootings: Measurements of mass shootings vary greatly. Gun Violence Archive reports 410 incidents by December 27; ABC News reports 21 incidents and 124 killed by September 30.[https://abcnews.go.com/US/deadly-mass-shootings-month-2019/story?id=63449799 There have been at least 21 deadly mass shootings in the US so far in 2019] ABC News, Oct 1, 2019
  • Mass murders: 30 incidents.
  • Gun safety laws passed (2019 legislative session): 23 states and DC; 70 laws.{{Cite news|url=https://giffords.org/blog/2019/12/year-end-trendwatch-states-surpass-previous-years-progress-in-2019-blog/|title=Year-End Trendwatch: 2019 Was a Record Year for Gun Safety|newspaper=Giffords |date=19 December 2019 }}
  • Officer-involved incidents: 70 incidents; officer killed or injured: 297; suspect killed: 1,197.
  • Population 330,193,593 (est, Dec 26); #3 in world.[https://www.census.gov/popclock/ U.S. and World Population Clock] United States Census Bureau, retrieved Dec 27, 2019 Most populous: California (39,747,267) Least populous: Wyoming (572,381).
  • Life expectancy: 78.6 years for a baby born in 2017, down from 78.7 years in 2016. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cites a 72% increase in overdoses in the last decade (including a 30% increase in opioid overdoses from July 2016 to September 2017), a ten-year increase in liver disease (men 25 to 34 increased by 8%; women by 11%), and a 33% increase in suicide rates since 1999.[https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/09/us-life-expectancy-has-been-declining-heres-why.html US life expectancy has been declining. Here's why] Upton Saiidi, CNBC Markets, July 9, 2019

Births

  • January 24 – A Pudú (South American deer) in Los Angeles Zoo.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}
  • March 16 – April the Giraffe gives birth to her fifth calf.{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-biggest-news-missed-weekend-212918481.html|title=Here's the biggest news you missed this weekend|date=March 18, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|publisher=USA Today}}
  • July 12 – An unnamed endangered male Malayan tapir, born at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, WA.[https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article232743367.html It's a boy! Endangered tapir gives birth at Tacoma zoo] by Siandhara Bonnet, The News Tribune, July 16, 2019
  • November 25 – An unnamed female Southern white rhinoceros was born by artificial semination at the San Diego Zoo. A male, Edward, was born to a different mother in July.[https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2019-11-26/san-diego-zoo-announces-birth-of-white-rhino San Diego Zoo Announces Birth of White Rhino] U.S. News & World Report, Nov 26, 2019 Indian rhinoceroses born through artificial insemination in 2019 include Monica (b. at Zoo Miami in May) and an unnamed male (b. at Buffalo Zoo on June 21).[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2019/06/21/rhino-buffalo-zoo-births-calf-after-488-day-pregnancy/1526216001/ Mama rhino gives birth to 123-pound calf after 488 days of pregnancy (um, no thanks)] by Rashi Ali, USA Today, June 21, 2019
  • December 24 – An unnamed black rhino is born at Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan.{{cite web|website=CNN Travel|title=Rare black rhino born at Michigan zoo on Christmas Eve|date=Dec 24, 2019|url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/black-rhino-born-michigan-zoo-trnd/index.html}}

Deaths

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