I believe that in the past two years since the election there has been excessive amount of information that comes through our media and we do not always have the ability to completely and healthily absorb all of it. This timeline aims to show important US political stories that have taken place since the election of 2016 and allow viewers to easily digest and understand the scope of the events that have taken place.
James Comey informs Congress that "the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation."
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States marked commencement of the four-year term of Donald Trump as President and Mike Pence as Vice President. An estimated 300,000–600,000[1][2] people attended the public ceremony.
Government forces and their allies now control eastern Aleppo, ending more than four years of rebel rule there.
President Donald Trump stood at a podium in the Rose Garden to announce the United States would be withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. With Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt beaming in the front row, Trump described the pact, signed by every single other nation on Earth, as “an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries.”
Around 8:05 a.m., a Hawaii emergency employee initiated an internal test, according to a timeline released by the state. From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: “Test missile alert” and “Missile alert.” He was supposed to choose the former; as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a real-life missile alert. Around 8:07 a.m., an errant alert went out to scores of Hawaii residents and tourists on their cellphones: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”
The Women’s March on Washington was likely the largest single-day demonstration in recorded U.S. history. The only potential competitors were the Vietnam War Moratorium days in 1969 and 1970
Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President, tells MSNBC host Chuck Todd that the Press Secretary used 'alternative facts' in his first statement to the Press Corps.
Dutch attorney who lied to federal agents investigating former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in prison in the first punishment handed down in special counsel's Russia investigation.
Senate rules required 60 votes, so McConnell then made a motion to overturn that ruling. And once that motion passed on a party-line vote, the Gorsuch nomination only needed 51 votes to clear the hurdle. That mild-sounding parliamentary maneuver has the most destructive nickname, "the nuclear option," because it contains sweeping impact on the Senate, President Trump and all of his successors — and the nation as a whole.
Judge Neil M. Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate to become the 113th justice of the Supreme Court, capping a political brawl that lasted for more than a year and tested constitutional norms inside the Capitol’s fraying upper chamber
Western military forces carried out air raids across western Syria in the predawn hours Saturday, obliterating Syrian government targets related to President Bashar Assad’s deadly chemical weapons program.
President Trump fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, abruptly terminating the top official leading a criminal investigation into whether Mr. Trump’s advisers colluded with the Russian government to steer the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Months after trading insults and threatening each other with nuclear annihilation, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shook hands at a historic summit in Singapore. This was the first meeting ever between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader. It came less than two months after Kim met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Walter M. Shaub Jr., the government’s top ethics watchdog, who has repeatedly gone head-to-head with the Trump administration over conflicts of interest, said that he was finally calling it quits.
Medical officials at Phoenix’s Mayo Clinic Hospital on Friday found a brain tumor known as glioblastoma while the longtime Republican politician was having a blood clot removed from his left eye.
President Donald Trump bragged about his election victory over Hillary Clinton and criticized the media while speaking at the 2017 Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia.
President Trump abruptly announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military on Wednesday, blindsiding his defense secretary and Republican congressional leaders with a snap decision that reversed a year-old policy reviled by social conservatives. Mr. Trump made the declaration on Twitter, saying that American forces could not afford the “tremendous medical costs and disruption” of transgender service members. He said he had consulted generals and military experts, but Jim Mattis, the defense secretary, was given only a day’s notice about the decision.
Unite The Right and Black Lives Matter clash in Charlottsville with a few deaths from a White Supremacist running his car through protesters.
The violent fallout from a decision by city officials in Charlottesville to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from a city park has energized efforts to eliminate Confederate symbols across the nation.
Sitting down with Anderson Cooper, Stormy Daniels describes in detail her experience with Donald Trump and the threats she received.
Due to rising tensions between Trump and Kim Jon Un, NK fired two missiles over Japan in a show of force. SK responded by firing their own missile near NK's border into the ocean.
President Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and setting in motion a plan to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to the fiercely contested Holy City.
U.S. Republicans fell short yet again in their seven-year drive to repeal Obamacare, in a bitter defeat that raises more questions about their ability to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court by one of the slimmest margins in American history, locking in a solid conservative majority on the court and capping a rancorous battle that began as a debate over judicial ideology and concluded with a national reckoning over sexual misconduct.
Sen. Al Franken would resign after seven women came forward in recent weeks and said he groped or tried to forcibly kiss them, capping a stunning fall from grace for one of the Democratic Party's most popular and high-profile politicians.
Doug Jones, a Democratic former prosecutor who mounted a seemingly quixotic Senate campaign in the face of Republican dominance here, defeated his scandal-scarred opponent, Roy S. Moore, after a brutal campaign marked by accusations of sexual abuse and child molestation against the Republican. The upset delivered an unimagined victory for Democrats and shaved Republicans’ unstable Senate majority to a single seat.
Republicans took a critical step toward notching their first significant legislative victory since assuming full political control, as the House and Senate voted along party lines to pass the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in decades.
17 killed and 14 wounded at a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. This shooting would lead many survivors to go on and lead the "March for our Lives" march a month later.
urvivors of the deadly shooting rampage at a Parkland, Florida, high school led hundreds of thousands Saturday in March for Our Lives events across the country, delivering a resounding message that Washington's inaction on the scourge of gun violence is no longer acceptable.
Senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security, which processes migrants at the border, initially denied that the numbers were so high. But after they were confirmed to The Times by three federal officials who work closely with these cases, a spokesman for the health and human services department on Friday acknowledged in a statement that there were “approximately 700.”
James Comey is called in front of the Senate to answer questions regarding his firing. At this hearing, the nation watched John McCain's brain cancer take its toll as McCain fumbled over asking a question to James Comey multiple times.
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to eight counts related to tax fraud, excessive campaign contributions, making false statements to a financial institution, and unlawful corporate contributions at a court hearing in New York on Tuesday.
John S. McCain, the proud naval aviator who climbed from depths of despair as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to pinnacles of power as a Republican congressman and senator from Arizona and a two-time contender for the presidency, died. He was 81.
Kim Kardashian West is keeping up with the White House. The reality television star came to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Wednesday for the second time for a meeting with administration officials on prison reform.
Trump had toilet paper stuck to his shoe and no one bother to tell him. Not much else to add.
A Florida man with a lengthy criminal history was charged with sending explosive devices to high-profile Democrats who have sparred with President Trump, a major break in a case that has gained national attention and stoked political divisions ahead of the midterm elections.
The party's gains in the House were propelled by the largest vote margin for one party ever seen in a midterm election year
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