2018: The Year in News

As the year 2018 ends and 2019 begins, LA Mundi News brings you ”The Year in News”.

January:

• The state of Pennsylvania banned a fraternity responsible for a death from hazing in 2013.
• Steve Bannon left Breitbart News.
• A San Francisco judge temporarily halted President Trump’s move to end DACA.
• The state of Vermont legalized Marijuana.
• The state of Hawaii endured a false nuclear missile alert.
• The law (Patriot Act) permitting the NSA to collect intelligence and monitor Americans at home was renewed.
• Government shutdown began and ended.
• There was a school shooting in Kentucky.
• The USA Gymnastics Board had a mass resignation due to the actions of Larry Nassar.
• Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba remains open.
• Saudi Arabian corruption purge occurs under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s orders.

February:

• The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots to win Super Bowl LII.
• President Trump requests a military parade after a visit to France on ‘Bastille Day’.
• Pyeongchang Olympics occur.
• Parkland school shooting occurs, sparking a national gun debate.
• West Virginia teachers walk-out, demanding better wages.
• Joint North Korea-South Korea summit occurs.
• South Africa elects a new President after rampant corruption under the previous President, Jacob Zuma.
• Russia’s Olympic membership is restored after drug scandal.

March:

• White House Communications Director Hope Hicks resigns.
• Stephen Hawking, “the smartest person in the world”, dies.
• National School Walkout occurs; ”March for Our Lives”.
• President Trump fires Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Twitter.
• School shooting in Maryland occurs.
• Oklahoma walk-out continues.
• Xi Jinping becomes ‘Ruler for Life’.
• 23 Russian diplomats are expelled from the UK.
• Vladimir Putin wins re-election.
• A prison riot occurs in Venezuela.

April:

• Former First Lady Barbara Bush dies.
• National Guard is sent to the US-Mexico border.
• Shooting occurs at YouTube headquarters.
• 200 million eggs are recalled.
• Brazil’s former President Lula is jailed.
• Cuba gets a new President.

May:

• Harvey Weinstein is indicted.
• US pulls out of Iran Nuclear Deal.
• A Russian-Ukrainian journalist fakes his death.
• US moves the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
• Anti-government protests in Armenia led by opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan force the new Prime Minister to leave his post.

June:

• Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is sent to jail.
• President Trump places American tariffs on Chinese goods, prompting a trade war.
• Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy retires; setting the stage for the Kavanaugh nomination fight on the Senate floor.
• The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia begins.

July:

• President Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh to fill the seat vacated by Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
• Medics and divers from around the world rescue a kids’ soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand. One diver dies trying to save the kids.
• The FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia ends with France crowned champion, after beating Croatia in the finals.

August:

• Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) dies at 81 from brain cancer. McCain was known being bipartisan and criticizing the Trump administration along with Senator Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).
• Sexual abuse of children at the hands of Catholic priests in Pennsylvania is uncovered.
• Emmerson ”the Crocodile” Mnangagwa becomes the new President of Zimbabwe.
• Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull resigns from Parliament.
• Apple becomes first company to be worth $1 trillion.

September:

• Brazil’s National Museum catches on fire.

October:

• Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice.
• Sears declares bankruptcy.
• Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who criticized the Saudi royal family for limiting freedom, is feared dead when he goes missing in Turkey.

November:

• G20 summit occurs in Buenos Aires.
• The Turkish government shows the US evidence of the Saudi killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
• Former President George H.W. Bush dies at age 94.
• 2018 mid-term elections occur.

December:

• US jobs surge by 312,000.
• Michael Cohen is sentenced to three years in prison.
• President Trump decides to pull US military out of Syria; Secretary of Defense James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis resigns in protest.