The following is a list of events of the year 2025 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. The start of the year has been dominated by the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, which have devastated Greater Los Angeles. Following his election victory in November, Donald Trump was inaugurated and began his second, non-consecutive term on January 20.

• President:
  • Joe Biden (D-Delaware) (until January 20)
  • Donald Trump (R-Florida) (since January 20)
• Vice President:
  • Kamala Harris (D-California) (until January 20)
  • JD Vance (R-Ohio) (since January 20)
• Chief Justice: John Roberts (Maryland)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana)
• Senate Majority Leader:
  • Chuck Schumer (D-New York) (until January 3)
  • John Thune (R-South Dakota) (since January 3)
• Congress: 118th (until January 3), 119th (since January 3)

Elections will be held on November 4 of this year. The off-year election includes gubernatorial and state legislative elections in a few states, as well as numerous mayoral races, and a variety of other local offices on the ballot.

• January 1
  • New Orleans truck attack: At least sixteen people are killed and thirty-five others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack along Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The suspect is killed in the attack.^[1]
  • Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion: A Tesla Cybertruck catches on fire and explodes outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada, killing one person and injuring seven others.^[2]
  • Ten people are wounded in a shooting at a memorial outside a nightclub in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York.^[3]
  • Mexico's Tax Administration Service implements new tariffs, including a 19% duty on goods from countries without international trade agreements with Mexico and a 17% duty on goods from Canada and the United States under certain value thresholds.^[4]
  • Honduran President Xiomara Castro warns that she might remove all US military bases from Honduras and seek to cancel the military cooperation with the United States if President-elect Donald Trump fulfills his threat to order mass deportations of Hondurans when he takes office on January 20.^[5]
  • Public Domain Day: Works published in 1929, including Popeye and Tintin, enter the public domain in the United States.^[6]
• January 2
  • The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rules in Ohio Telecom Association v. FCC that the Federal Communications Commission cannot enforce net neutrality.^[7]
  • According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, United States forces are deploying a new convoy to areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces in Kobani, Aleppo Governorate, as part of operations to establish a new US military base in north-eastern Syria. This is denied a day later by the Department of Defense.^[8]
• January 3
  • The 119th Congress begins. Vice President Kamala Harris officiates the swearing-in of senators, while representatives vote to re-elect Mike Johnson as speaker of the House.^[9]
  • President Joe Biden blocks the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel.^[10]
  • Surgeon general Vivek Murthy calls for cancer warnings on alcohol.^[11]
  • SpaceX successfully launches the United Arab Emirates Space Agency's communications satellite Thuraya 4-NGS via a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.^[12]
• January 5
  • New York City enacts a congestion charge for vehicles entering Lower and Midtown Manhattan below 60th Street, becoming the first city in the United States to do so. All proceeds go to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which plans to invest in long-term transportation initiatives citywide.^[13]
  • The National Weather Service warns of severe weather disruption as a winter storm emerges in the central United States and begins to move east, bringing heavy snow and freezing temperatures.^[14]
  • The State Department notifies Congress of a planned $8 billion arms sale to Israel consisting of air-to-air and Hellfire missiles, artillery shells, and other ammunitions.^[15]
• January 6
  • Due to harsh weather and snowstorms, a water treatment facility malfunctions and floods, causing the entire city of Richmond, Virginia to completely lose access to running water. As a result, several surrounding counties also suffer similar issues. As of January 8, the crisis has not yet been resolved.^[16]
  • As one of his final acts, President Biden bans new oil and gas drilling along the majority of American coastlines.^[17]
  • Congress convenes in a joint session for the Electoral College vote count, the final procedure of the 2024 presidential election.^[18]

• January 7
  • Los Angeles experiences the most destructive wildfire in its history, fueled by strong winds and prolonged drought conditions. Thousands of structures are destroyed, including most of Sunset Boulevard. Five deaths are reported, while 180,000 people are evacuated, with fires continuing for days.^[19][20][21]
  • Hussain Sajwani announces a $20 billion investment in the United States data center industry over the coming years.^[22]
  • Mark Zuckerberg announces that Meta will remove fact-checkers for Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, replacing them with a community-orientated system, similar to Community Notes.^[23]
  • President-elect Donald Trump refuses to rule out using military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, declaring United States control of both to be "vital to American national security".^[24]
  • Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. makes a personal visit to Greenland weeks after Trump announced that "ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity". In response to the visit, Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen states that "Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders".^[25]
  • The Treasury imposes sanctions on Hungarian cabinet minister Antal Rogán for alleged corruption, accusing him of using his position to secure financial benefits for himself and political allies.^[26]
  • The United States accuses the Rapid Support Forces of committing genocide in Sudan during the ongoing civil war and imposes sanctions on the group's leader Hemedti.^[27]
• January 8 – The California wildfires spread to more areas.^[28][29]
• January 9
  • The state funeral of Jimmy Carter is held in Washington, D.C.^[30]
  • The Supreme Court rules that Trump can be sentenced.^[31]
  • The House of Representatives votes 243 to 140 to sanction the ICC for issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.^[32][33][34]
  • Senate majority leader John Thune promises swift consideration of the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act so President-elect Donald Trump can sign it into law shortly after taking office. Under the act, any foreigner who investigates, arrests, detains or prosecutes United States citizens or those of an allied country, including Israel, not under ICC jurisdiction would be sanctioned along with their family members.^[32][35]
• January 10
  • Vice President-elect JD Vance resigns from the United States Senate.^[36]
  • President-elect Donald Trump is sentenced to an "unconditional discharge" for 34 counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money case.^[37]
  • The United States government imposes a new series of sanctions targeting Russia's energy sector, including the Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas oil companies.^[38]
  • United States authorities announce an increased $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.^[39]
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission announces that former WWE CEO Vince McMahon has agreed to pay a $400,000 fine and reimburse $1.3 million to WWE as part of a settlement to drop accounting fraud charges.^[40]
  • 2025 California wildfires:
    • Los Angeles authorities declare a local health emergency due to poor air quality resulting from the ongoing wildfires.^[41][42]
    • The evacuation area in the Palisades Fire is expanded.^[43]
    • Governor Newsom calls for an independent investigation into how firefighters have struggled with water supplies while tackling the wildfires.^[44]
• January 11 – Incoming United States Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an effort to secure a ceasefire deal in Gaza Strip before Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20.^[45]
• January 12
  • Foreign ministers and senior officers of Arab countries, the European Union, United States, United Kingdom and Turkey hold in Riyadh a series of diplomatic meetings focused on Syria.^[46]
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and outgoing United States President Joe Biden discuss efforts to reach a deal to solve the Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis and a ceasefire to end the war.^[47]
• January 13 – AccuWeather releases a preliminary estimate of the total physical and economic losses caused by the ongoing wildfires in Southern California of between $250–275 billion, a figure attributed to exceptionally high property values in and near Santa Monica, which would surpass their estimates of the costs of the entire 2020 United States wildfire season as well as Hurricane Helene in 2024.^[48]
• January 14
  • Hamas officials say that they have accepted a draft agreement for a potential ceasefire as well as the release of hostages. Mediators in the United States and Qatar also state that this is the closest that both sides have been to a ceasefire agreement so far.^[49]
  • President Biden announces that the United States will remove Cuba from its state sponsors of terrorism list as part of a prisoner release deal.^[50]
  • The Armenian Foreign Minister, Ararat Mirzoyan, and the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, sign in Washington, D.C. a Strategic Partnership Charter between Armenia and the United States.^[51]
• January 15
  • Israel and Hamas reach a diplomatic agreement mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States to initiate a ceasefire and an end to military operations in Gaza, as well as to facilitate the exchange of hostages and prisoners, marking the first major cessation of hostilities since November 2023.^[52]
  • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bans the usage of Red No. 3 artificial food coloring, due to research showing that the food coloring is carcinogenic.^[53]
  • The Yemeni Houthi group claims that it launched a missile attack targeting the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and accompanying warships of the United States Navy in the Red Sea.^[54]
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying the American Blue Ghost M1 moon lander from Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese Hakuto-R Mission 2 moon lander from ispace.^[55]
• January 16
  • The Treasury Department sanctions the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, for "destabilizing Sudan and undermining the goal of a democratic transition" to a civilian-led government.^[56]
  • Blue Origin launches its New Glenn rocket for the first time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket's second stage, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft, successfully reaches a geocentric orbit, but its reusable first stage is lost during landing.^[57]
  • SpaceX launches its seventh test flight of the Starship launch vehicle, with an improved second stage out of its Starbase launch site in Texas. The company catches the first stage but the second stage breaks up shortly before engine shutdown.^[58]
  • Two homeless people are killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack in Miami. A 30-year-old suspect is arrested.^[59]
  • 2025 California wildfires: It is reported that the Eaton Fire, which has burned over 14,000 acres and has killed 17 people, is 65% contained.^[60]
• January 17
  • The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the provisions of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act banning social media platform TikTok unless it is sold by ByteDance.^[61][62]
  • U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announces that his upcoming second inauguration will be moved indoors at the United States Capitol Rotunda due to cold temperatures, making it the first to be held indoors since the second 'public' inauguration of the 40th U.S. President, Ronald Reagan in 1985.^[63]
  • The Treasury Department sanctions a cybersecurity company and hacker, both with ties to China's Ministry of State Security, for their alleged roles in hacking American telecommunications companies.^[64]
• January 18
  • Ahead of Trump's second term, the Women's March hosts protests at Columbus Circle in Washington, D.C. The People's March on Washington is also held on the same day.^[65][66]
  • The Mega Zeph roller coaster at the former Six Flags New Orleans amusement park catches fire.^[67]
  • In American football, the Washington Commanders (formerly the Redskins) upset the Detroit Lions, 45-31, to reach the NFC Championship game, their first since the 1991 season when they were known as the Redskins.^[68]
  • TikTok goes offline in the United States, hours before a new law banning the platform comes into effect.^[69]
• January 19 – TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, and Marvel Snap are banned off of all app stores in the U.S. due to their owner being ByteDance.^[70]

• January 20
  • Trump is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. as the 47th president of the United States for a second, non-consecutive term, with JD Vance sworn in as the 50th vice president of the United States.^[71][72][73]
  • Trump issues roughly 1,500 pardons and six commutations to people charged in connection to the January 6 United States Capitol attack.^[74]
  • National Action Network founder and civil rights activist Al Sharpton holds a rally on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the same day as the inauguration, to honor MLK's legacy and protest the second presidency of Trump.^[75][76]
  • Trump signs an executive order officially renaming the northernmost portion of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and renaming Denali to its 1917–2015 official name, Mount McKinley.^[77]
  • The United States Senate unanimously confirms Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, making him the first Cabinet official of Trump's second term to be confirmed by the Senate. Rubio also becomes the first Latino American to serve as Secretary of State.^[78]
  • Trump officially creates the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk aimed at cutting spending of the United States government. DOGE is a temporary organization under the United States DOGE Service, not a federal executive department. Within minutes of the announcement, government employee unions, watchdog groups, and public interest organizations sued over this executive order.^[79]
  • Trump signs an executive order to delay enforcement of the law banning TikTok in the United States for 75 days.^[80]
  • Trump signs the Putting America First In International Environmental Agreements executive order directing the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.^[81]
  • Trump signs an executive order directing the United States withdrawal from the World Health Organization.^[82]
  • Trump signs his first executive orders on gender and immigration, and also signs an order ending usage of the CBP One app.^[83]
  • Trump revokes Biden's removal of Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list.^[84]
  • Ohio State wins the NCAA CFP National Championship, beating Notre Dame 34–23.^[85]
• January 21
  • Multiple brush fires spread by hurricane-force winds erupt in San Diego County, California, prompting evacuation orders.^[86]
  • Much of Canada and the contiguous United States are impacted by a cold wave, killing one person near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Historic snowfall is expected in the Southern United States, and historic blizzard and whiteout conditions are expected on the Gulf Coast.^[87]
  • Two Americans held in Afghanistan are freed in exchange for a Taliban fighter in the United States. The deal is brokered by Qatar and finalized during the final hours of the outgoing Biden administration.^[88]
  • Oracle Corporation, MGX, SoftBank Group, OpenAI, and other partners have announced the launch of The Stargate Project, a joint venture focused on developing AI infrastructure in the United States. The initiative includes a projected $500 billion investment and aims to create 100,000 new jobs in the United States by 2029.^[89]
  • Donald Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for charges including conspiracy to commit money laundering, hacking, and drug trafficking.^[90]
• January 22
  • The death toll of a historic winter storm event on the Gulf Coast of the United States rises to nine. 8 in (20 cm) of snow falls at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana, and the statewide snowfall record in Florida is broken as over 5.5 in (14 cm) falls in Molino.^[87]
  • The United States House of Representatives passes the Laken Riley Act, heading to Trump for his signature.^[91]
  • Donald Trump re-designates the Yemeni Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization.^[92]
  • A school shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, kills two students and injures two others.^[93]
  • Daniel Ball, a rioter that took part in the riot at the United States Capitol, is arrested again despite being pardoned by Trump, making him the first rioter with additional legal trouble after the pardon.^[94]
  • The Trump administration imposes an immediate freeze on meetings – such as grant review panels – as well as travel, communications, and hiring at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), impacting $47.4 billion worth of activities.^[95]
• January 23
  • A large-scale outage of AI tool ChatGPT is reported.^[96]
  • Trump orders the public release of classified documents relating to the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.^[97]
  • Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee files a long-shot resolution which would change the 22nd Amendment to allow Trump to serve a third term.^[98]
  • U.S. District Judge for Washington John C. Coughenour temporarily blocks President Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional".^[99][100]
  • The U.S. Department of State bans consular posts from flying any flags other than the U.S. flag as part of the Trump administration targeting several instances during the Biden administration when LGBTQ rainbow flag and Black Lives Matter flags were flown at embassies abroad.^[101]
• January 24
  • Saudi Arabia announces that it will invest 600 billion USD in the United States economy.^[102]
  • Mexico denies a request from the United States to allow a military aircraft deporting migrants from the U.S. to land in Mexico.^[103]
  • The State Department freezes nearly all foreign aid programs except military aid to Israel and Egypt and emergency food programs.^[104]
  • Pete Hegseth is confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Defense in a 51–50 vote after Vice President JD Vance casts the tie breaking vote, making him the first Vice President to cast a tiebreaker vote on a Cabinet nominee since Mike Pence did so in 2017 to confirm then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.^[105]
  • Spirit Airlines announces a ban on passengers who wear "lewd" clothing or have "offensive" tattoos.^[106]
• January 26
  • Colombian President Gustavo Petro blocks two U.S. military aircraft carrying deported Colombians as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown from landing in his country.^[107] In response, President Trump enacts a 25% tariff on all goods traded to the U.S. from Colombia, which will be raised to 50% in one week; Colombia accepts the deportation flights a day later.^[108]
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces the release of American citizen Anastasia Nufer from a prison in Belarus.^[109]
  • In soccer, Chelsea Women sign American defender Naomi Girma from San Diego Wave for a world-record fee of US$1.1 million, making her the most expensive woman player and the first million-dollar transfer in women's soccer.^[110]
  • 2024–25 NFL playoffs: In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs win their respective conference championship games for a Super Bowl rematch of Super Bowl LVII.^[111]
• January 27
  • The Nasdaq falls sharply in response to DeepSeek, a Chinese competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Chip giant Nvidia loses $600bn of its value, the biggest drop for a single company in U.S. stock market history.^[112]
  • United States federal government grant pause: The Office of Management and Budget acting director Matthew Vaeth orders federal government agencies to temporarily pause all federal financial assistance programs, with the exception of Medicare and Social Security, that could be implicated by select executive orders from President Trump.^[113]
  • President Trump signs an executive order eliminating "gender radicalism in the military", targeting transgender troops in the military, and another executive order that mandates a process to develop an American Iron Dome.^[114]
  • The Idaho House of Representatives votes for a resolution that calls for the Supreme Court to reconsider its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges same sex marriage decision.^{[115][116][117]}
• January 28
  • A F-35 fighter jet crashes and explodes at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska.^[118]
  • United States federal judge Loren AliKhan temporarily blocks President Donald Trump's executive order to pause funding for federal assistance in the country.^[119]
  • The South Dakota Senate narrowly votes for a bill requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The bill is similar to a 2024 law passed in Louisiana.^[120]
  • Boom Technology's XB-1 trijet supersonic demonstrator becomes the first privately-funded jet-powered plane to break the sound barrier at Mojave Air and Space Port.^[121]
• January 29
  • 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision: A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 operating as American Eagle Flight 5342 collides with a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on approach to Reagan National Airport, killing all passengers on both aircraft and causing a shutdown of flights in and out of the airport.^[122]
  • United States Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff visits the Gaza Strip and meets with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to assure that the ceasefire remains intact.^[123]
  • President Donald Trump signs the Laken Riley Act into law, the first legislation of Trump's second term.^[124]
  • President Donald Trump announces plans to transform the United States detention facility in Guantanamo Bay into a holding center for undocumented immigrants, capable of hosting 30,000.^[125]
  • Former Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey is sentenced to 11 years in prison, following his conviction on bribery and corruption charges.^[126]
• January 30
  • The United States Federal Drug Administration approves Vertex Pharmaceuticals' new Journavx drug, a non-opioid analgesic used to treat acute pain and potentially eliminate the risks of opioid addiction and overdose.^[127][128]
  • Trump orders the Department of Agriculture to remove any mention of climate change on its websites.^[129]
• January 31
  • The Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, the last two of the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, are contained.^[130]
  • A medical transport jet crashes into a northeastern Philadelphia neighborhood, killing all four passengers and two crew members onboard. Additionally, one person on the ground is killed and 19 injured.^[131][132]
  • Venezuela frees six American hostages after U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Richard Grenell meets with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.^[133]
  • Representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are granted full access to the federal treasury, allowing Elon Musk and his team to monitor and potentially limit government spending.^[134]

• February 1
  • Second Trump tariffs: President Trump signs an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico, and a 10% tariffs on goods imported from China.^[135] In response, Canada and Mexico respond with a 25% tariff on American goods in their countries,^[136][137] while China vows to take the matter to the World Trade Organization.^[135][138]
  • President Trump says he has ordered the U.S. military to carry out airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Somalia. The strikes targeted a series of cave systems used by the terror group.^[139]
  • The Democratic National Committee chairmanship election is held by party voting members at the DNC's Winter Meeting, electing Ken Martin as the next Chair of the Democratic National Committee.^[140]
  • 2024–25 NBA season: In basketball, the Dallas Mavericks, Utah Jazz, and Los Angeles Lakers are involved in a trade that sends Luka Dončić to the Lakers for Anthony Davis.^[141][142]
• February 2
  • The 67th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, honoring the best in music from September 2023 to August 2024.^[143] "Not Like Us" by Kendrick Lamar wins Record of the Year while Cowboy Carter by Beyoncé wins Album of the Year.
  • Thousands of demonstrators protest against immigration policies implemented by President Donald Trump in downtown Los Angeles, blocking the Hollywood Freeway.^[144]
  • The Puntland military spokersperson claims that U.S. airstrikes against ISIL have killed 46 fighters in the Cal Miskaad Mountains, a remote area in northeastern region Bari, Somalia.^[145]
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels to Panama in his first foreign trip in the position and urges Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino to reduce Chinese influence in the Panama Canal. In response, Mulino said that his country won't renew its contracts with China's Belt and Road Initiative when they expire.^[146]
  • In ice hockey, Jonathan Quick becomes the first American-born goalie to reach 400 wins.^[147]
• February 3
  • Second Trump tariffs:
    • Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and President Donald Trump announce they have agreed to delay 25% of tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month in exchange for boosting security along their respective borders.^[148][149]
    • Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces Ontario will end contracts with Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk's Starlink program unless the US lifts tariffs on Canada.^[150]
  • Elon Musk announces that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will be shut down and would be merged into the State Department.^[151]
  • President Donald Trump says he is stopping funding to South Africa over a land seizure law.^[152]
  • Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele makes an offer to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to accept convicted "dangerous American criminals" and incarcerate them at the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador in exchange for a fee.^[153]
• February 4
  • The United States implements a 10% across-the-board tariff on Chinese products and eliminates the de minimis exemption for exports from China. In response, China imposes retaliatory tariffs on energy products, farm equipment, and automobiles from the United States, effective February 10, and export controls on critical minerals. It also adds U.S. companies PVH Group and Illumina Inc to its unreliable entities list and launches a probe into U.S. technology company Google for alleged anti-trust violations.^[154]
  • The State Department orders the closure of all overseas missions of USAID and recalls thousands of USAID staff to the United States ahead of the agency's shutdown.^[155]
  • President Donald Trump announces that the United States will take control of the Gaza Strip in an agreement with Israel. Trump also says Palestinians will have no choice but to leave the territory and that the U.S. military will be in charge of Gaza's reconstruction to turn the area into "The Riviera of the Middle East" for "the world's people."^{[156][157][158]}
  • President Donald Trump signs a presidential memorandum reimposing a policy of maximum pressure against Iran.^[159]
  • Second cabinet of Donald Trump: The United States Senate confirms Pam Bondi as United States Attorney General, making her the third female to run the U.S. Justice Department.^[160]
  • One person is killed and five others are injured after a mass shooting at a warehouse in New Albany, Ohio.^[161]
• February 5
  • The United States Postal Service says it is temporarily refusing inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong effective immediately.^[162]
  • Protests against Donald Trump: Protests occur in cities across the U.S. against Trump, his administration, Elon Musk, and Project 2025. The protests are referred to as 50501.^[163]
• February 6
  • President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court officials that assist investigations into U.S. citizens or those of its allies, namely Israel. A day later, Seventy-nine countries jointly speak out in a statement against the sanctions.^[164][165]
  • Bering Air Flight 445: A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan carrying ten people goes missing on a flight from Unalakleet, Alaska to Nome, Alaska. A search and rescue operation is underway.^[166]
  • NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies says that the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth on 22 December 2032 has increased to 2.3%, or a (1-in-43) chance, following further observations of its trajectory. More observations are planned in the coming months to gather data on the asteroid before it moves too far away from Earth-based telescopes to be accurately observed.^[167]
• February 7
  • United States federal judge of the D.C. District Court Carl J. Nichols temporarily blocks President Donald Trump's executive order to place over 2,200 USAID employees on paid leave.^[168]
  • Vice President JD Vance and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz are announced in charge of a potential TikTok sale.^[169]
  • New York City officials order the closure of all live poultry markets in the city as well as in the surrounding suburban counties of Westchester, Suffolk, and Nassau due to an increase in cases of avian influenza.^[170]
• February 8
  • International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan becomes the first person to have economic and travel sanctions placed on him by the U.S. government following an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump intended to target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of U.S. citizens or U.S. allies.^[171]
  • The renaming of the Boy Scouts of America organization to Scouting America officially takes effect.^[172]
• February 9
  • Super Bowl LIX
    • The Philadelphia Eagles dominate the Kansas City Chiefs, 40–22, to win the Super Bowl, denying the Chiefs bid for a three-peat.^[173]
    • A performer during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show is detained on the field after holding the Sudanese and Palestinian flags that contained the words Sudan and Gaza.^[174]
  • President Donald Trump's authorized airstrike in Cal Miskaad mountains in Bari Region, Puntland, on February 1, is confirmed to have killed ISIS leader Ahmed Maeleminine, a key recruiter and financier for the militant group.^[175]
• February 10
  • President Trump issues an ultimatum to Hamas saying that if all remaining hostages are not released by Saturday then "all hell will break loose" in the Middle East. Earlier Hamas said it will delay the release of more hostages and accused Israel of violating their ceasefire deal.^[176]
  • President Trump signs an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all aluminium and steel imports.^[177]
  • President Trump signs an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, a law that prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.^[178]
  • Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announces that the state had finalized its new execution protocol, allowing executions to be carried out in Louisiana after 15 years (2010).^[179]
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rejects a $97.4 billion offer to purchase the company by a group of investors led by Elon Musk.^[180]
• February 11
  • National Security Adviser Mike Waltz announces that Russia has released Marc Fogel, an American teacher detained since 2021 after Steve Witkoff and several other Trump aides visited Moscow to negotiate an exchange for money launderer Alexander Vinnik.^[181]
  • King Abdullah II of Jordan meets President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. for talks focusing on the president's proposal for the removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and a subsequent United States takeover of the region, with President Trump threatening to withhold aid from Jordan and Egypt if they do not agree to the proposal.^[182]
  • Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announce sanctions on a Russian bulletproof hosting services provider that is allegedly ignoring law enforcement requests, along with two Russians who are operating the network.^[183]
  • Google Calendar confirms it has removed Black History Month, Pride Month and other cultural events from its service, saying the holidays were "not sustainable" for Google's new business model which is rolling back an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).^[184]
• February 12
  • After holding a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump says negotiations to end the war in Ukraine will start immediately.^[185]
  • White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that Belarus has released three detainees, including an American citizen.^[186]
• February 13
  • The Treasury Department sanctions Karim Ahmad Khan, the top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, over his decision to investigate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant regarding their conduct during the Gaza war.^[187]
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.^[188]
  • Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon and five other Justice Department officials resign after being ordered by the second Trump administration to drop a federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.^[189]
  • The Trump administration fires more than 300 of the 1,800 staff from the National Nuclear Security Administration – the agency tasked with safeguarding the U.S. nuclear stockpile.^[190]
• February 14 – The Associated Press (AP) is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely over its continued use of the term "Gulf of Mexico."^[191]

• March 2 – The 97th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, honoring the best in films released in 2024.^[192]
• March 31 – 2025 MLB season: The Athletics will begin their temporary relocation to West Sacramento, California, that is planned to last until 2028, as part of their ongoing relocation to Las Vegas.^[193]
• May 5 – Sean "Diddy" Combs is scheduled to be put on trial for sex trafficking crimes.^[194]
• June 15–July 13 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup will take place in 11 cities across the United States.
• September 9 – The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly will open in New York City.^[195]
• October 14 – Microsoft has set the retirement (end-of-life) date for its Windows 10 operating system on this date.^[196][197] Users will either have to install Windows 11 or use an alternative operating system from Microsoft to receive security updates. However, the third parties programs and LTSC will continue to support it.
• November 4 – Elections for the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia will take place alongside other off-year elections.^[198][199]

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