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The United States Air Force lands two F-22 Raptors in Lithuania for the first time in a show of support for Lithuania and surrounding countries, which have been worried over Russia's involvement in Ukraine. China denies a Hong Kong port call from Carrier Strike Group 3, which includes the USS John C. Stennis and other escorting vessels.
- U.S. Presidential Election
- Russian Hacking
- Syrian Civil War
- Brexit
- Zika Outbreak
- Flint, Michigan Water Crisis
- Terror Attacks Around The World
- Pulse Nightclub Shooting
- Deaths of Iconic Figures
- America’s Opioid Crisis
The narrative of the 2016 election seemed to set the tone for the entire year. Donald Trump’s surprising win came at the end of a long, bitter campaign where both sides flung accusations of sexism, racism, lies, cover-ups, illegal activity, and even sexual assault. The country saw for the first time a political candidate who could change the entire...
The hacking of the Democratic National Committee before the convention in July was a game-changer that rocked the presidential race. The following email leaksexposed damaging and embarrassing information on the Democrats, creating a major headache for the Clinton campaign. But it increasingly became clear that the larger story was that the hack rev...
The brutal war in Syriais nearing its six-year mark, with no end in sight for the violence that has already killed more than 400,000 people and driven nearly five million from their homes. Several cease-fire deals were made this year, including one agreed to in mid-December just after Syrian government forces claimed the hard-hit city of Aleppo, bu...
The U.S. election wasn’t the first shocking vote of 2016. In June, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a move nicknamed “Brexit.” After months of bitter campaigning, the result sent Britain’s prime minister packing and caused economic panic across the globe. The leaders of the “Leave” movement campaigned on the idea that, among ...
Mosquitoes were public enemy number one in many parts of the world this year due to their role in spreading the Zika virus. Brazil was the epicenter of the outbreak, where thousands of babies were born with Zika-related microcephaly, or a small head and under-developed brain. That’s just one terrifying result linked to the virus, and it seemed rese...
President Obama declared a state of emergency in response to the Flint water disaster on January 16, 2016. That was a little less than two years after the local government switched the city’s water source to the Flint River, causing an unprecedented public health crisis which officials were slow to recognize. The resulting corrosion of the water pi...
The year was punctuated by horrific attacks like the January siege by al Qaeda-linked militants on a popular tourist hotel in Burkina Faso, in West Africa, that left nearly 30 people dead, and a deadly bombing at the Brussels airport in Belgium that killed 32 in March. A terror cell involved in 2015’s Paris attackwas found to be behind the Brussels...
In the midst of pride celebrations across the country, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history targeted the very group that should have been celebrating. A lone gunman entered Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, just after last call on Latin night on June 12, 2016. For several hours, he terrorized club-goers as he gunned down 49 of themwhile ...
2016 felt especially cruel as the losses of major cultural icons built up in a steady stream throughout the year — so many that it would be daunting to list them all here. From musical game-changers like David Bowie and Prince, to beloved actors Alan Rickman and Gene Wilder, to The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, America seemed to be in a constant state of...
Prince’s death was a high-profile chapter in the opioid addiction epidemic plaguing the U.S. that has dramatically increased in recent years. According to the Department of Health and Human services, 78 people die every day in this country from an opioid-related overdose, whether it be prescription drugs or heroin. Several gut-wrenching videos and ...
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Dec 30, 2016 · Feb. 1: In the official start of the 2016 race for the White House, the Democratic race was a virtual tie between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders; for the ...
Jan 1 Dubai skyscraper "The Address" burns as the New Year is rung in. Fire started on the 31st. Jan 2 Saudi Arabia executes 47 alleged terrorists, including Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. Jan 3 Jimmy Butler breaks Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls record for points in an NBA half, scoring 40 of his 42 points in the second half to lead the Bulls ...
Apr 22, 2024 · United States Presidential Election of 2016, American presidential election held on November 8, 2016, in which Republican Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by more than 2.8 million votes but won 30 states and the decisive electoral college with 304 electoral votes to Clinton’s 227 and thus became the 45th president of the United States.
Wall Street spent a record $2 billion trying to influence the 2016 United States presidential election. [248] [249] The following table is an overview of the money used in the campaign as it is reported to Federal Election Commission (FEC) and released in September 2016.
Nov 29, 2018 · In what many political analysts considered a stunning upset, Trump, with his populist, nationalist campaign, won the Electoral College, scoring 304 votes to Clinton's 227. When the dust settled ...
