WTF Just Happened Today?
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Monday, January 20, 2025
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1/ Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States after defeating Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, winning 49.9% of the popular vote with a margin of 1.48 percentage point – one of the narrowest popular vote margins in modern U.S...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more ne...
Thursday, January 16, 2025
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1/ Biden, in his farewell address, warned of the rise of an oligarchy and a “tech-industrial complex” that he said threatens democracy, basic freedoms, and economic fairness in the United States. Biden, speaking from the Oval Office, stated, “Toda...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
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1/ Israel and Hamas agreed to a 42-day ceasefire. The deal temporarily pauses the 15-months of fighting in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have killed at least 46,500 Palestinians – mostly civilians – in response to the Hamas-led October 7 te...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
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1/ Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report made clear that Trump has not been exonerated for his “unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power” and that the evidence would have secured...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more n...
Monday, January 13, 2025
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1/ A federal judge ruled that the Justice Department may release the portion of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The release is expected as early as Tuesday. Judge Aileen Cannon, however, mainta...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more ne...
Thursday, January 9, 2025
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1/ The New York Court of Appeals – the highest court in the state – denied Trump’s request to block his Friday sentencing. The decision leaves the U.S. Supreme Court as Trump’s final option to defer sentencing on 34 felony counts related to falsif...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
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1/ Trump asked the Supreme Court to block his sentencing in the New York election interference case involving falsified business records. The last-ditch request came after a New York appeals court refused to postpone his Friday sentencing – 10 day...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
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1/ A federal judge in Florida temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s classified documents investigation. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon justified her order “to preserve the statu...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more n...
Monday, January 6, 2025
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1/ A joint session of Congress certified Trump’s 2024 victory without incident four years after he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss by encouraging his followers to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop Congress from certifying...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more ne...
Thursday, January 2, 2025
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1/ Trump blamed “criminal” immigrants for the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that was carried out by a U.S. Army veteran from Texas. In the early hours of New Year’s Day, a man drove a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, whi...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more ...
Monday, December 30, 2024
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1/ A federal appeals court upheld the $5 million verdict against Trump in the sexual abuse and defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll. Trump had asked for a new trial after a jury unanimously concluded in May 2023 that he sexually abused Carro...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more n...
Friday, December 20, 2024
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1/ The House rejected the Trump-endorsed plan to fund the government and avert a shutdown after 38 Republicans joined 197 Democrats in voting against the alternative funding bill. The package — which included funding the government through March 1...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more n...
Thursday, December 19, 2024
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1/ Trump killed the bipartisan spending deal to avert a shutdown, hours after Elon Musk called the plan a “piece of pork” and threatened that those who support it would “be voted out in 2 years.” Less than two days before a government shutdown, Tr...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
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1/ The House Ethics Committee secretly voted to release its report on Matt Gaetz and allegations of sex trafficking an underage girl and illicit drug use. The report is now expected to be made public as soon as this week: after the final votes of ...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for mor...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
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1/ A judge rejected Trump’s effort to have his felony conviction dismissed on presidential immunity grounds. Judge Juan Merchan, addressing the Supreme Court’s decision to grant presidents “absolute immunity from criminal prosecution” for “officia...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more ...
Monday, December 16, 2024
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1/ Trump downplayed concerns that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services – will revoke the polio vaccine despite reports that RFK Jr.’s personal attorney previously lobbied the FDA to suspend its appro...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more n...
Thursday, December 12, 2024
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1/ Trump pledged to use the first hours of his second presidency to pardon most individuals convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. “I’ll be looking at J6 early on, maybe the first nine minutes,” he said in an interview with Time. “We’re going to ...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
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1/ FBI Director Christopher Wray will resign at the end of Biden’s term. Wray’s resignation comes seven years into his 10-year term and follows Trump’s announcement that he would nominate loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director. Although Trum...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for mor...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
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1/ Trump’s first term Justice Department secretly obtained phone and text message records from two members of Congress, 43 staffers – including Kash Patel, his pick to lead the FBI – and eight journalists, according to a new report by the departme...Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more ...
Monday, December 9, 2024
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1/ Trump “can’t guarantee anything” when asked whether his promised tariffs would increase prices for Americans, in an NBC interview. “I think tariffs are the most beautiful word. I think they’re beautiful. It’s going to make us rich,” Trump said....Visit WTF Just Happened Today? for more n...
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