2018 Day 560: Mueller offered to reduce the number of obstruction of justice-related questions his team would ask Trump, who recently told his advisers that he is eager to meet with Mueller; a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation to "impose crushing sanctions" on Russia; the Trump administration plans to roll back Obama-era fuel efficiency and emissions standards on new cars; and a Russian spy worked for the Secret Service at the U.S. embassy in Moscow for more than a decade. Aug 2, 2018
2021 Day 195: A third D.C. police officer who responded to the 1/6 insurrection committed suicide; Lindsay Graham tested positive for COVID-19; Kevin McCarthy joked that it would be hard not to hit Nancy Pelosi with the gavel if the GOP wins back the House; Jihadists are flooding the pro-Trump social media platform with propaganda; Senators unveiled the details of the $1 trillion infrastructure proposal; and the Treasury Department is preparing "extraordinary measures" after Congress miss the deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Aug 2, 2021
2022 Day 560: The U.S. killed al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in a drone strike; the Justice Department sued Idaho over its near-total ban on abortion; Kansas is voting on whether to add an anti-abortion amendment to the state's Constitution; Georgia taxpayers can list embryos as dependents on their tax returns; Florida ordered its schools to ignore federal guidelines aimed at protecting LGBTQ students and teachers from discrimination; a music festival in Atlanta was canceled because Georgia's gun laws limited organizers ability to ban firearms in the public park; and the U.S. military runs more than 3,000 slot machines on American military bases overseas that earn more than $100 million each year from service members. Aug 2, 2022