Economic inequality
Distribution of income or wealth between different groups
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| 2025 | Trump pardoned approximately 1,500 January 6 rioters, including those who violently attacked police. |
| 2025 | Within the first four days of his second term, Trump's executive actions were found to closely align with approximately two-thirds of the proposals from Project 2025, according to a Time magazine analysis. |
| 2025 | During Donald Trump's second inauguration, Musk made a controversial hand gesture that was interpreted by some politicians and historians as a potential Nazi or Roman salute, sparking international criticism. |
| 2025 | Tyler Perry will release the series 'Route 187'. |
| 2025 | Bill Gates revealed in a BBC interview that his total charitable donations had reached $100 billion, with $60 billion directed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
| 2025 | Planned publication of the first of three memoirs, 'Source Code'. |
| 2025 | Investigation Discovery released a docuseries called 'Fall of Diddy', focusing on Sean Combs' personal and professional narrative. |
| 2025 | Peacock released a documentary movie titled 'Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy', exploring Sean Combs' life and career. |
| 2025 | Becomes the 47th President of the United States. |
| 2025 | Issued more executive orders on his first day in office than any other president in history, with 30 out of 47 executive actions aligning with Project 2025 proposals. |
| 2025 | Commuted the sentences of 14 individuals. |
| 2025 | Justice began serving as the junior United States senator from West Virginia. |
| 2025 | Spielberg is set to co-produce the upcoming stage adaptation of Smash, based on the 2012 NBC television series, which he also served as an executive producer. |
| 2025 | In Source Code, Gates wrote that he believed he was autistic. |
| 2025 | Visited India for Maha Kumbh Mela. |
| 2025 | Donald Trump began his second presidential term, immediately launching a series of controversial executive orders that challenged existing legal and constitutional boundaries. |
| 2025 | Trump granted clemency to all participants of the January 6 Capitol riot, including those who had been involved in violent attacks against police officers, in a sweeping and unprecedented presidential pardon. |
| 2025 | Trump ordered the U.S. Government to stop funding and working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and announced the U.S.'s intention to formally leave the organization. |
| February 2025 | Musk faced criticism for his treatment of employees and prioritizing secrecy within the Department of Government Efficiency. |
| February 2025 | Set to begin shooting The Dish, a film about UFOs, starring Emily Blunt and others, with a planned theatrical release on May 15, 2026. |
| February 2025 | Spielberg begins shooting his next film, reportedly about UFOs, with a planned release on May 15, 2026. |
| February 2025 | Criticized for employee treatment and prioritizing secrecy within the DOGE organization. |
| February 2025 | Scott Benson publicly acknowledged that the character Peter in the video game Night in the Woods was named after Peter Thiel. |
| February 2025 | Awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering jointly with Yoshua Bengio, Bill Dally, Geoffrey E. Hinton, John Hopfield, Yann LeCun and Fei-Fei Li |
| February 2025 | Jay-Z dropped his request to have Tony Buzbee sanctioned by the court. |
| February 7 2025 | Federal Judge Carl Nichols, originally nominated by Trump during his first term, delayed the administrative leave of 2,200 employees pending a hearing. |
| February 7 2025 |
JB Pritzker
Posted a satirical video on his personal Twitter account announcing a fictional annexation of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and renaming Lake Michigan to Lake Illinois, in a humorous response to previous statements by Donald Trump.
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| February 5 2025 | The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation advanced Lutnick's nomination in a 16-12 vote. |
| February 3 2025 | Trump appointed Elon Musk as a special government employee, giving his unofficial Department of Government Efficiency access to multiple federal government agencies including the Treasury Department, Small Business Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and General Services Administration. As part of this appointment, Trump and Musk also dismantled USAID. |
| February 3 2025 | The White House designated Musk as a special government employee to work for the federal government for a limited time without compensation. |
| February 1 2025 | James became the seventh player to reach 2,500 career three-pointers, registering a triple-double of 33 points, 11 rebounds, and 12 assists in a 128–112 win over the New York Knicks. |
| February 1 2025 | Trump announced 25% tariffs would be imposed on imports from Canada and Mexico. |
| February 1 2025 | Donald Trump announced 10% tariffs on imports from China and 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and initiating a trade war with these countries. |
| January 2025 | Trump imposed 25% tariffs on imports from Colombia and implemented travel and visa restrictions, stemming from a dispute over Colombian migrant deportations. Some tariffs and restrictions were temporarily paused after Colombia agreed to accept U.S. deportation flights. |
| January 2025 | After Donald Trump returns to the presidency, Dimon expresses support for Trump's tariff policies, despite previously criticizing such tariffs as a threat to the US economy. |
| January 2025 | Resumed the 'Remain in Mexico' policy for migrants seeking asylum. |
| January 2025 | Trump initiated far-reaching immigration measures, including instructing border patrol agents to summarily deport migrants crossing the border illegally and disabling the CBP One app used for scheduling border crossings. |
| January 2025 | Initiated a mass deportation operation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeting over 1,000 daily arrests, focusing on sanctuary cities and individuals on criminal target lists. |
| January 2025 | Disabled the CBP One app used for scheduling border crossings and resumed the 'Remain in Mexico' policy. |
| January 2025 | Deployed troops to the southern border and renewed construction of the border wall. |
| January 2025 | Suspended refugee processing for four months and revoked parole status for migrants who entered under CBP One and CHNV humanitarian parole. |
| January 2025 | Labeled drug cartels as terrorist groups and deployed troops to the southern border. |
| January 2025 | Publicly supported President Donald Trump's across-the-board tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, criticizing critics who claimed economic disruption. |
| January 2025 | Musk tried to pressure the UK government about the sexual exploitation of girls in Britain, questioning the handling of the prosecution of grooming gangs and calling for the arrest of government minister Jess Phillips. |
| January 2025 | Huang delivered the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, announcing multiple new products and collaborations, including the GeForce RTX 50-series and technologies for self-driving vehicles. |
| January 2025 | Sentenced to unconditional discharge for falsifying business records, becoming the first U.S. president convicted of a crime. |
| January 2025 | The Justice Department released a special counsel's report finding that Trump engaged in an 'unprecedented criminal effort' to overturn the 2020 election. |
| January 2025 | Musk gave a virtual speech at a campaign rally for the far-right German party Alternative for Germany, criticizing multiculturalism and discussing German guilt, which drew significant criticism from Holocaust remembrance advocates. |
| January 2025 | Launched Manas AI, an AI-enabled drug discovery startup with cancer researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, securing about $25 million in initial funding. |
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