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September 30 – President Donald Trump receives widespread backlash for attacking Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Twitter after she criticizes the United States federal government's response to the devastation from Hurricane Maria in the territory.
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Trump’s inauguration: After a divisive election season, Donald Trump officially became the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. In a 16-minute inaugural address (the shortest since Jimmy Carter‘s in 1977), Trump repeated his “America First” campaign slogan in which he delivered a dark-toned nationalist, populist message. The slo...
Women’s rights: In January, the Women’s March on Washington, which advocated for policies regarding women’s rights and other issues, became one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history. The Washington Post estimated that more than 5 million people may have attended 653 marches in U.S. cities, rivaling participation in the Vietnam Wa...
Opioid epidemic: Public health officials announced that drug overdoses have become the leading cause of death for Americans under age 50, with more than two-thirds of those deaths coming from opioid painkillers. President Trump declared the opioid crisis a “public health emergency” in October. Artificial intelligence: Facebook’s artificial intellig...
The wild inauguration of Andrew Jackson, Trump’s populist predecessor; The New York Times. A short history of ‘America First’; The Atlantic. Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers; Time. This is what we learned counting the women’s marches; Washington Post. The U.S. is now the only country not part of the Paris climate agreement after Syria ...
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- The New President. Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Jan. 20, outlining his vision of a new national populism and reiterating the same “America First” mantra that delivered the White House to him during the 2016 election.
- The Mueller Investigation. Bowing to public and congressional pressure, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller in May as a special counsel to conduct the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
- Greater Tensions with North Korea. American tensions with North Korea intensified rapidly since President Donald Trump was inaugurated in late January, as leader Kim Jong Un made no secret that his scientists are working on a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the U.S.
- The #MeToo Movement. In early October, back-to-back bombshell reports in The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed that film mogul Harvey Weinstein allegedly lured women into hotel rooms and bars, and sexually harassed or assaulted them in what some have described as an open secret known for years in Hollywood.
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- December 22, 2017
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- President Donald Trump's tweets. "I'm going to be very restrained, if I use [Twitter] at all, I'm going to be very restrained," then President-elect Donald Trump told 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl in his first TV interview just days after winning the U.S. election.
- The Women's March. One day after President Trump's inauguration, hundreds of thousands of people descended on Washington, D.C. for the Women's March, and many more took to the streets in cities across all 50 states as well as dozens of countries abroad.
- Harvey Weinstein allegations and the #MeToo movement. Bombshell reports in October from The New York Times and The New Yorker exposed allegations of Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct in Hollywood.
- Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Hurricane season in 2017 was particularly brutal for the southeastern U.S. and Caribbean. Hurricane Harvey left a path of destruction in Houston and surrounding areas of Texas as well as Louisiana.
Dec 28, 2017 · Politics. In Inaugural Address, Trump Decries 'Carnage' And Promises 'America First' On Jan. 20, 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
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Nov 16, 2017 · January 20 - Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. January 21 - More than a million Americans take to the streets of the United States to protest Donald Trump...
Dec 23, 2017 · From hurricanes to solar eclipses, 2017 has been a year to remember. ABC News photo editors chose some of their favorite images from the last 12 months around the world.
