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- Countries Fail the Climate Change Challenge—Again. “A code red for humanity.” That’s how UN Secretary General António Guterres’ described the UN report released in August that concluded that humanity faces catastrophic climate change unless the emission of heat-trapping gases is slashed.
- COVID-19 Vaccines Arrive as the Virus Mutates. The vaccines created to address the novel coronavirus may join the smallpox, polio, and measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines as major advances in saving lives and diminishing morbidity.
- Joe Biden Becomes President. “America is back.” Joe Biden made that point repeatedly in 2021. He moved quickly upon taking office to fulfill his promise to strengthen relations with America’s allies.
- The Global Democratic Erosion Continues. The global erosion of democratic governance that has been underway since 2006 continued in 2021. The United States, long the champion of democracy, saw its peaceful transition of power disrupted for the first time in its history by the January 6 insurrection.
Jun 27, 2009 · As a modal auxiliary verb (a subject we wrote about in 2012 and 2018 ), “may” can be used to indicate permission. But “may” is also used—like “might”—to indicate likelihood or possibility. So when speaking about the possibility of something’s happening, you can use either “may” or “might.”. You can say, “I might go ...
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As the year began, the nation was still firmly in the grip of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that first emerged in late December 2019 and spread around the world in 2020, prompting lockdowns, a global recession and upheaval on an unprecedented scale. In what became a record for the fastest vaccine development in history, vaccines by Pfizer and Mod...
January 6 Insurrection On January 6, a mob of pro-Trump demonstrators stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop lawmakers from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Five people died in the chaos either shortly before, during or following the event, including a Capitol police officer. Lawmakers from both political parties, in...
U.S. Rejoins Paris Climate Accord and WHO In his first hours as president, Biden signed a letter signaling the return of the United States to the global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, adopted by nearly 200 nations in Paris in 2015. The nation had officially withdrawn from the Paris accord in late 2020...
Juneteenth Becomes a Federal Holiday In June, President Biden signed legislation officially establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The new holiday marks the anniversary of the date in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in...
Mass Shootings in Atlanta and Boulder Two mass shootings within a week of each other in March—at three spas in the Atlanta area on March 16 and a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on March 22—proved a devastating reminder of the ongoing scourge of gun violence in the United States. Of the eight people killed in Atlanta, six were Asian women, fueli...
Verdicts in Three Prominent Murder Trials In April, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, which sparked protests against systemic racism and police violence in more than 2,000 U.S. cities and 60 countrie...
NASA Rover Lands on Mars Launched in late July 2020, the NASA rover Perseverance spent months traveling through space, covering some 292.5 million miles before touching down on Mars on February 18. As the space agency’s most sophisticated rover yet, Perseverance spent the rest of the year exploring Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake, collec...
Among the notable people we lost in 2021 was Colin Powell, the celebrated military leader who became the nation’s first Black secretary of state, who died in October of complications from COVID-19 while suffering from multiple myeloma, a blood cell cancer that suppresses the immune system, as well as Parkinson’s disease. Baseball Hall of Famer Hank...
Amy McKeever, “U.S. surpasses 800,000 COVID-19 deaths as Omicron looms.” National Geographic, December 15, 2021. CNN Editorial Staff, “Covid-19 Pandemic Timeline Fast Facts.” CNN, November 23, 2021. Mark Hosenball and Sarah N. Lynch, “FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated.” Reuters, August 20, 2021. Devan Cole and Paul LeBlan...
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Dec 6, 2021 · 3. An autonomous drone was deployed to attack humans, the U.N. says. A drone may have autonomously hunted down and killed human targets in Libya, according to a U.N. report.
Aug 9, 2021 · A Covid-19 victim is laid to rest in a graveyard in Comas, Peru, on June 1. Peru has more than doubled its official death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic following a government review of the ...
Dec 2, 2019 · Updated: February 5, 2020 | Original: December 2, 2019. Protesters in Hong Kong clashed with police, fire consumed an 850-year-old cathedral in Paris, the U.S. women’s soccer team won the World ...
Dec 23, 2019 · 8. The U.S.-China Trade War Continues.Back in March 2018, President Donald Trump tweeted that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” That hasn’t been the case so far with his trade war with ...
