2020 Day 1364: U.S. coronavirus cases are rising again; the White House supported a group of scientists arguing for a “herd immunity” strategy to deal with the pandemic; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin acknowledged that a pre-election coronavirus relief package is unlikely; a federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William Barr to review Obama administration officials' "unmasking" of unnamed individuals in intelligence reports found no evidence of wrongdoing; Justice Department attorneys argued in court that Trump's tweets that he had “fully authorized the total declassification” of all documents related to the Russia investigation should not be considered a real declassification order; and Trump refused to say if he would keep Barr as his attorney general in a potential second term, saying "I'm not happy." Oct 14, 2020
2025 Day 1729: Trump threatened to permanently cut more “Democrat programs” as the government shutdown entered its third week; North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders will vote next week to redraw the state’s U.S. House map to add a Republican-leaning seat; the Supreme Court will rehear a major voting rights case that could limit how race is used in drawing election maps; the U.S. military killed six more people in a strike on a boat off the coast of Venezuela; nearly every major U.S. news outlet refused to sign the Pentagon’s new press access policy, saying it “undermines the First Amendment”; Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the Fed would likely cut rates again this month as job growth continued to slow and key data remained unavailable during the shutdown; and Trump posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Oct 14, 2025
2026 Day 2094: U.S. inflation rose to 3.7% in September from a year earlier; wages adjusted for inflation fell for a sixth consecutive month; the Social Security Administration set a 3.6% cost-of-living increase for 2027, the largest adjustment since 2023; the Trump administration delayed the release of IRS data showing how Republicans' 2025 tax cuts affected millions of Americans; a senior adviser to Trump's Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman reportedly told staff to retract a referral recommending an investigation into suspected insider trading; Greenland contradicted Trump's claim that "massive" oil, gas and mineral exploration is about to begin on the island, saying "we are very far away from 'massive' exploration"; a federal judge extended his order blocking Trump from banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico reporters from the White House; the BBC asked a federal judge to compel Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit after he canceled the agreed-upon session; and 33% of Americans said they trust the executive branch, 28% Congress, and 46% the judiciary – all historic lows. Oct 14, 2026