9/18

• President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden paid their respects to Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Hall.
• A second bus load of migrants arrived outside Vice President Harris’ home in Washington, D.C., continuing Texas Gov. Abbott’s protest of the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
• Typhoon Nanmadol struck Japanese island Kyushu, grounding hundreds of domestic flights and canceling train and ferry services due to the possible danger and destruction of the storm.
• A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit the southeastern coast of Taiwan.
• Rep. Matt Gaetz requested a pardon from former President Trump for the sex trafficking allegations against him.

9/19

• 1,000 were rescued in Puerto Rico following destruction caused by Hurricane Fiona.
• A 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit western Mexico on the anniversary of two catastrophic earthquakes, which occurred in 1985 and 2017.
• After recently pushing Russian troops out of the northeast Kharkiv region, Ukrainian soldiers may have revealed Russia’s weakening force in the war. Pro-Russian officials urged Moscow to annex the two separatist “republics” located in eastern Ukraine.
• Queen Elizabeth II has officially been laid to rest as her coffin arrived at Windsor Castle. Earlier in the day, the funeral at Westminster Abbey was televised following the 10-day mourning period.
• Adnan Syed has been freed from prison after serving 23 years for the murder of his girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999. The case was popularized after being featured and reexamined on the true-crime podcast Serial.
• 146 were injured after an earthquake hit southeastern Taiwan.
• A new report by PEN America shows more than 2,500 book bans in 32 states throughout the 2021-22 school year.
• A prisoner swap has released Mark Frerichs, an American held captive in Afghanistan for over two years.
• In a 60 Minutes interview, President Joe Biden declared the COVID-19 pandemic is over. On the other hand, many health critics refute the bold claim.
• An investigation has been launched by a Texas sheriff on Governor Ron DeSantis concerning the migrant transport to Martha’s Vineyard. This aims to uncover how the governor, directed by the Florida Legislature, used the $12 million he was given by Florida lawmakers.
• More than 8 million people have been ordered to evacuate Japan due to Typhoon Nanmadol.
• President Biden said that in the event of an attack by China, U.S. troops would protect Taiwan.

9/20

• Russia officially plans to annex four Russian-occupied parts of eastern and southern Ukraine.
• Former President Trump’s lawyers insisted a federal appeals court strike down the request by the Justice Department to reveal Mar-a-Lago documents.
• 80% of Puerto Rico continues to have no power following Hurricane Fiona.
• The Justice Department has charged 47 defendants for defrauding Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit in Minnesota, in a $250 million scheme.
• New surveillance footage has revealed a fake Trump elector spending hours in a Georgia elections office on January 7, 2021, the day its voting systems were reportedly breached.
• At least 8 have been injured in a supposed explosion in Chicago.

9/21

• President Biden attacks Putin’s invasion of Ukraine at the first full in-person United Nations gathering in three years. The president referred to the invasion as a “brutal, needless war” that was “chosen by one man.”
• New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit against Trump targets him, his business, and three of his children. James aims for a $250 million judgment for falsely inflating his net worth by “billions of dollars” numerous times and creating over 200 “false and misleading valuations of assets on his annual Statements of Financial Condition to defraud financial institutions.”
• The Federal Reserve approved its rise in interest rates by 0.75% percentage point for the third consecutive meeting in order to combat inflation.
• According to Unicef, Pakistan floods are impacting 16 million children. Additionally, the floods have killed over 1,500 people, including 528 children.
• Thomas Lane, a police officer involved in the murder of George Floyd, was sentenced to three years in prison for aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
• The House passed the President Election Reform Act to prevent presidents from attempting to overturn a presidential election.
• Putin issued a new partial military mobilization of up to 300,000 reservists. This will require members of the military, whether they want to or not, to serve in Russia’s armed forces.
• Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has agreed to an interview with the Jan. 6 committee from the House of Representatives about her role in the attack on the Capitol.
• The Senate approved the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the first climate treaty agreed on in decades. The agreement aims to reduce refrigerant chemicals that are among the strongest pollutants to the climate.

9/22

• The House passed a package with both policing and public safety bills. According to NBC News, this legislation will give a boost to Democrats, who have been labeled as wanting to defund the police and not recognizing rising crime by Republican campaigns, before the 2022 midterm elections.
• Following the interest increase by the Federal Reserve, central banks across the world have also heightened their interest rates as well.
• The Department of Justice has been officially permitted to investigate classified documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
• Protests are continuously growing in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini was a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, who was detained by police for allegedly wearing a hijab in an “improper” way. The officers then beat Amini, which put her into a coma where she died shortly after. Since the passing, trends online have sparked many to remove their hijabs and cut their hair. Additionally, Iran has blocked its capital from internet access and cut off social media platforms in Tehran and Kurdistan as protests proceed.
• Just one week after Indiana’s abortion ban was instituted, a judge paused the ban, which was imposed to have a harsh punishment on those both receiving and performing the abortion. Plaintiffs asked the Indiana court for a temporary pause until the final decision in the lawsuit has been made.
• Russians at the draft-age for Putin’s mobilization have started to escape the country, reported Reuters.

9/23

• Author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, Hilary Mantel, passed away at 70.
• More than 70 refugees and migrants have been found dead on a boat carrying them from Lebanon sank near Syria.
• An Arizona Superior Court judge ruled that the state is permitted to enforce a ban that outlaws all abortions except those performed to save the mother’s life.
• The autopsy report of Elijah McClain has determined the ketamine injection as his cause of death. McClain died a week after being involved in a violent encounter with police officers and injected by paramedics in Aug. 2019.
• The United Nations has directed the evacuation of all non-essential international workers from Haiti as violence grows.

9/24

• Eastern Canada has been hit by the center of Fiona, which transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical cyclone.
• Russian protests have begun in protest of Putin’s military draft.
• President Biden surprised Elton Johnwith a National Humanities Medal at White House Concert.
• Jazz musician Pharoah Sanders has passed away at 81.
• Russia is instituting penalties for soldiers who are choosing to surrender or refuse to fight the Russia-Ukraine war with up to 10 years in prison. Additionally, Russia’s top logistics general has been replaced.