2024: Year in Review

January 1 - Public Domain Day: Books, films, and other works published in 1928 enter the public domain. The most notable work entering into the public domain is Steamboat Willie, the earliest version of Mickey Mouse, leading to the announcement of multiple works based on this version of the character.

January 1 - Four people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a vehicle attack in Rochester, New York.

January 1 - Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates become BRICS members.

January 1 - The Republic of Artsakh is formally dissolved following the recapture of the Nagorno-Karabakh region by Azerbaijan.

January 1 - A 7.5 Mww earthquake strikes the western coast of Japan (Noto Peninsula), killing at least 504 people and injuring 1,389 others. A further 5 are killed the next day when a Coast Guard aircraft carrying humanitarian aid was involved in a collision with a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 aircraft, destroying both aircraft. All 379 people aboard the passenger jet are evacuated safely.

January 1 - Ethiopia announces an agreement with Somaliland to use the port of Berbera. Ethiopia also says that it will eventually recognize Somaliland's independence, becoming the first country to do so.

January 2 – Harvard University president Claudine Gay announces her resignation following a contentious house hearing on antisemitism and allegations of plagiarism in her earlier academic career.

January 2 – 2023 Marshallese general election: The Legislature of the Marshall Islands elects Hilda Heine as President for a second non-consecutive term during its first session following the general election.

January 3 – A series of documents containing the names of associates of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are made available to the public. A majority of those mentioned are found to not be directly involved in any wrongdoing.

January 3 – 2024 Kerman bombings: An Islamic State double bombing kills 94 people during a memorial event commemorating the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in Kerman, Iran. The bombing was carried out using two briefcase bombs placed at the entrance that were detonated remotely.

January 4 - Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack: Former Proud Boys member Christopher John Worrell is sentenced to 10 years in prison.

January 4 - Two people are killed and six others are injured in a school shooting in Perry, Iowa. The shooter, a 17-year-old student at the school, committed suicide at the scene. A principal who tried to intervene and was shot later died from his injuries on January 14.

January 5 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 suffers an uncontrolled decompression after one of the emergency exit doors on the Boeing 737 MAX 9 blows out, resulting in an emergency landing in Portland and the FAA grounding all 737 Max 9s.

January 7 – Audacy, the largest radio operator in the country, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

January 7 – 2024 Bangladeshi general election: The Awami League, led by incumbent Sheikh Hasina, wins a 4th consecutive term amid protests by opposition parties and a large drop in voter turnout.

January 8 - Clashes break out at the World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Brooklyn, New York City after construction workers for the synagogue leaders attempted to fill in a tunnel that students had illegally dug beneath the building, resulting in the arrest of nine people. The incident causes antisemitic social media posts by far-right and QAnon figures to spread online.

January 8 - The Michigan Wolverines defeat the Washington Huskies by a score of 34–13 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.

January 8 - Said Abdullahi Deni is elected President of Puntland by the Puntland Parliament after three rounds in the 2024 Punttland presidential election.

January 8 - 2024 Ecuadorian conflict: Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declares a state of emergency following the escape of Los Choneros drug cartel leader José Adolfo Macías Villamar from prison. The military was deployed onto the streets and into prisons, while setting a national nighttime curfew.

January 8–10 – A storm complex, which caused $2.7 billion in damage, brought a winter storm to the northern United States and a tornado outbreak to the Gulf Coast.

January 9 – Two Polish MPs: former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski and his then-deputy Maciej Wasik, are arrested by police inside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw following a legal dispute over their conviction and pardon for abuse of power. On January 23rd, President Andrzej Duda pardoned them for the second time, and the police released them from prison.

January 10 - Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie suspends his 2024 campaign for president.

January 10 - Florida-based grocer Publix opens their first Kentucky store near the Gene Snyder Freeway in Louisville, entering their 8th U.S. state of operation.

January 11 - The New England Patriots mutually part ways with longtime head coach Bill Belichick after a notably poor season for the team. The Patriots started 1–5 for the first time since 1995. Following their Week 12 loss to the New York Giants, the Patriots failed to improve on their 8–9 record from 2022. This was the first time the Patriots had back-to-back losing seasons since 1992–1993. The Patriots missed the postseason for the second consecutive year (and third in four seasons). Following a Week 17 loss to the Buffalo Bills, the Patriots finished last in the AFC East for the first time since 2000. The 4–13 record marked Belichick's worst-ever season as an NFL head coach, and the Patriots' worst season since 1992.

January 11 - The Texas National Guard seizes a park in the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas in response to the growing Mexico–United States border crisis and does not allow Border Patrol agents in the area as they previously used the park to detain migrants and instead places their own barbed wire and barriers.

January 11 – Riots break out throughout Papua New Guinea after an alleged rounding error causes pay cuts for police officers and soldiers.

January 12 – Operation Prosperity Guardian: A U.S.-led coalition launches airstrikes at Houthi militant locations in Yemen, marking a retaliation to the Houthis' attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

January 12 - Heartland Signal leaks a video of Texas Governor Greg Abbott making controversial comments about Texas shooting migrants who cross the Mexico–United States border on a Dana Loesch Show which lead to condemnations from Democratic party members and Mexico.

January 13 – Gaza war protests in the United States: The March on Washington for Gaza takes place on the 100th day since the start of the Gaza war, the start of South Africa's genocide case against Israel in the ICJ, and a day after the Yemen missile strikes, attracting what is believed to be over 100,000 protestors.

January 13 – 2024 Taiwanese presidential election: Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party wins with 40% of the vote.

January 14 - The Detroit Lions win their first postseason game since the 1991–92 playoffs with a 24–23 win against the Los Angeles Rams.

January 14 - The Green Bay Packers become the first 7th seed to defeat a 2nd seed in the playoffs since its introduction in the 2020–21 playoffs.

January 14 - Margrethe II formally abdicates as Queen of Denmark on the 52nd anniversary of her accession, with her eldest son Frederik succeeding her as King Frederik X.

January 14 - 2024 Comorian presidential election: Amid an opposition boycott, incumbent president Azali Assoumani wins re-election with 62.9% of the vote and only 16.3% voter turnout.

January 15 – 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries: Ohio businessman Vivek Ramaswamy ends his presidential campaign after securing only 7.7% of the vote in the Iowa caucuses. Former Governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson ends his campaign the next day after receiving less than 1% of the vote in the same election.

January 15 – Following a brief political crisis in the aftermath of the 2023 elections, Bernardo Arévalo is inaugurated as the 52nd President of Guatemala.

January 16 – Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases: A new lawsuit is filed by Kellye Croft against Madison Square Garden Entertainment chairman James L. Dolan, accusing him of pressuring her into unwanted sex back in 2014. She also files a lawsuit against American former film producer Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of sexually assaulting her.

January 16 – Iran carries out a series of missile and drone strikes within Balochistan, Pakistan, claiming that it had targeted the Iranian Baloch militant group Jaish ul-Adl.

January 18 – The United States Congress approves a stopgap bill to extend the deadline for government funding to March 2024, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown, which would have begun at midnight, January 19.

January 18 – Pakistan conducts retaliatory airstrikes on Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province.

January 19 – Alec Baldwin is indicted for involuntary manslaughter after an accidental shooting on the set of Rust in 2021 which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.

January 19 – Japan becomes the 5th country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, with its SLIM mission.

January 20 – At least 60 people are killed across the country after two weeks of winter storms that caused dangerous road conditions and widespread power outages.

January 21 - 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries: Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis suspends his campaign for President after a poor showing in Iowa and waning poll numbers in New Hampshire.

January 21 - A series of shootings take place around Joliet, Illinois, killing eight and injuring one. Two days later, the perpetrator takes his own life after being confronted by law enforcement in Natalia, Texas. He was related to seven of the victims. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in 2024, as well as the deadliest in Illinois history, surpassing the shootings in Highland Park and Palatine, which each killed seven people.

January 24 – During the Standoff at Eagle Pass, part of the broader Mexico–United States border crisis, the Supreme Court rules against Texas for placing barbed wire at the border with Mexico. In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announces that his state would not be following the orders of the court. At least 23 states announce their allegiance to Texas, including Florida, who has sent their own National Guard unit to aid the Texas National Guard and Texas Rangers.

January 24 – 2024 Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash: A Russian Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane carrying (according to Russia) 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, 6 crew members, and 3 guards crashes in Russia's Korochansky District, near the Ukrainian border, killing everyone on board.

January 25 - Convicted murderer Kenneth Smith is executed in the Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama, using nitrogen hypoxia, the first death row inmate to die via this method. Nearly 36 years earlier on March 18, 1988, Smith was convicted of the contract killing of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama.

January 25 - The United States Department of Commerce issues a $15 million bounty for information on Hossein Hatefi Ardakani, an Iranian businessman accused of procuring parts for drones assembled by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that were later sold to Russia.

January 26 - In E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump, the jury awards Carroll $83.3 million after finding the defendant guilty of defamation.

January 26 - The Justice Department finds former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo liable for sexual harassment.

January 26 - Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to break ground on two large data center facilities in Mississippi, marking a $10 billion investment expected to create 1,000 jobs.

January 26 - Gaza war: The UN's International Court of Justice rules that Israel must take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza, but stops short of ordering an immediate halt to operations.

January 26 - 2024 Tuvaluan general election: Kausea Natano, the incumbent Prime Minister of Tuvalu, loses reelection to Parliament. A month later, Feleti Teo was elected prime minister.

January 27 – The US suspends UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) funds after claims come out that 12 staff members took part in the October 7 attacks against Israel in 2023, which included at least 46 American victims.

January 28 – Tower 22 drone attack – An Iranian-backed militant group launches a drone attack on a US base in Jordan, killing three and wounding 47.

January 31 – Sultan of Johor Ibrahim Iskandar ascends the throne as the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

February 1 - Gaza war: The US imposes sanctions on Israeli settlers over the violence in West Bank.

February 1 - Three people are killed when a Beechcraft Bonanza V35 crashes into a waterfront house in Clearwater, Florida. Two of the casualties are on the ground while the third is the pilot. Three other houses are damaged by a fire which results from the crash.

February 1 - The Oregon Supreme Court upholds Ballot Measure 113 by banning ten of the 12 Republican members of the Oregon Senate from being reelected for refusing to attend six weeks’ worth of legislative sessions in order to stall Democratic legislation. The ballot measure passed in 2022 with 68% support and was added to the Constitution of Oregon.

February 2 – The US launches airstrikes on 85 targets in Iraq and Syria in response to a deadly drone attack on a US military base.

February 4 - The 66th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus wins Record of the Year and Midnights by Taylor Swift wins Album of the Year.

February 4 - The schedule for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico, is released. A total of 78 games will be played in the US, including the final.

February 4 - President of Namibia Hage Geingob dies at the age of 82, and is succeeded by his vice-president Nangolo Mbumba.

February 4 - 2024 Salvadoran presidential election: Incumbent President Nayib Bukele wins the election with over 80% of the vote, becoming the first president to be reelected in El Salvador since 1944.

February 6 - Social media network Bluesky, seen as a potential rival to X, is opened for public registrations, dropping its previous invite-only format. It has over 38.5 million total registered users as of August 26, 2025.

February 6 - Toyota announced a $1.3 billion investment in a new Kentucky factory for a three-row electric SUV and EV battery packs.

February 6 – Former President of Chile Sebastián Piñera dies in a helicopter crash at the age of 74.

February 7 - Self-help author Marianne Williamson ends her presidential campaign after losing three Democratic primaries to President Biden.

February 7 - 2024 East Lansdowne shooting: six members of a family are killed while the house is engulfed in fire in East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania following a shooting which injured two police officers.

February 7 - Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center announced plans for a $5 billion campus in the Medical District near Clements University Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

February 7 – 2024 Azerbaijani presidential election: Amid an opposition boycott, President Ilham Aliyev is reelected to a 5th term.

February 8 - Five US Marines are found dead two days after the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter they were in crashed in the mountains outside of San Diego during a routine training flight from Creech Air Force Base to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

February 8 - Joe Biden classified documents incident: Special counsel Robert K. Hur recommends that no charges be brought against President Biden, though notes in Hur's report regarding Biden's failure to recall events prompt controversy regarding his age and memory.

February 8 - Tucker Carlson conducts The Vladimir Putin Interview in Moscow, where Vladimir Putin shares his reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The interview is accused of promoting Russian disinformation and pro-war propaganda.

February 8 - Sixteen-year-old non-binary Oklahoma student Nex Benedict dies after an incident stemming from repeated bullying at her high school due to her gender identity. This results in backlash towards Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction who has defended Oklahoma's anti-LGBT policies, and calls to investigate Nex's death as a hate crime. Investigators later determined Benedict's death was a suicide caused by an overdose of Prozac and Benadryl.

February 8 – 2024 Pakistani general election: Independent politicians, most of whom are members of the banned political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, win a plurality of seats in the National Assembly.

February 9 - Six people, including CEO of Access Bank Herbert Wigwe and former chair of the Nigerian Exchange Group Abimbola Ogunbanjo, are killed when their helicopter crashes near Baker, California en route to Las Vegas for Super Bowl LVIII.

February 9 - Hop-A-Jet Flight 823 suffers a dual engine failure en route from Columbus, Ohio to Naples, Florida and attempts to land on Interstate 75, but this destroys the aircraft and kills the two pilots, though the two passengers and one flight attendant survive.

February 11 – The Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl LVIII against the San Francisco 49ers 25–22 in overtime at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, the second Super Bowl to go into overtime after Super Bowl LI in 2017. The Chiefs are the first repeat champions since the New England Patriots in 2004.

February 11 – 2024 Finnish presidential election: In the closest presidential election in Finnish history, Alexander Stubb is elected president in the second round. Stubb received 51.62% of the vote and Pekka Haavisto received 48.38%. No candidate received 30% during the first round.

February 12 – A shooting takes place on a 4 Train and at Mount Eden Avenue station in New York City, killing one and injuring five.

February 13 – Republican George Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives in December 2023 after an investigation for corruption charges, vacating New York's 3rd congressional district. In the special election, Democrat Tom Suozzi reclaimed his former seat against Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip, flipping the swing district and narrowing the margin of Republican control in Congress.

February 13 – Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is impeached by the House of Representatives.

February 14 – 2024 Indonesian general election: Prabowo Subianto wins the presidential election, and the Democratic Party of Struggle wins the most votes in the legislative election.

February 14 – 2024 Kansas City parade shooting: One person is killed and at least nine are injured after a shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl LVIII championship parade at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. Two armed suspects were arrested at the scene.

February 15 – The US launches six missile-detecting satellites into orbit in response to a "serious national security threat" related to Russia wanting to implement its nuclear capabilities in outer space.

February 15 - Odysseus, the first US lunar lander since the unsuccessful Peregrine Mission One, is launched at the Kennedy Space Center Florida.

February 15 - Scout Motors announced the start of construction on its $2 billion electric SUV plant in South Carolina.

February 16 – Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader, dies under mysterious circumstances at the age of 47.

February 16 - New York civil investigation of The Trump Organization: Judge Arthur Engoron orders Trump and his companies to pay $355 million ($464 million after interest is added) as a result of being found liable for several counts of fraud. Additionally, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric are ordered to each pay $4 million and former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is ordered to pay $1 million. Ten days later, Trump files an appeal of the judge's holding in the case.

February 16 - An official committee that was appointed to represent the plaintiffs in the Sandy Hook lawsuits against Alex Jones unanimously votes to liquidate the far-right-wing conspiracy theorist's assets.

February 17 – Former congressman George Santos sues late night host Jimmy Kimmel for $750,000 on charges of copyright infringement, fraud, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment after Kimmel purchased Cameo videos from Santos through fake names then used them on his show.

February 18 – 2024 Burnsville shooting: Police and medics were fired upon from a home while responding to a domestic incident in Burnsville, Minnesota. Two officers and a firefighter were killed, while another officer suffered a gunshot wound. After opening fire on first responders, the shooter fatally shot himself.

February 19 – The 2024 Daytona 500 is held with William Byron of Axalta's racing team winning.

February 20 – Three passengers who were on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 sue Boeing for $1 billion for negligence, claiming the incident caused them physical injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.

February 21 – President Biden cancels another $1.2 billion of student loan debts for nearly 153,000 people.

February 21 - Capital One announces an agreement to acquire Discover Financial and its namesake credit card network for nearly $35 billion.

February 21 - LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine: The Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law.

February 21 - A ransomware attack cripples Change Healthcare's payment system, disrupting insurance claims and making it difficult for patients to get the prescription medicine that they need.

February 22 – American company Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander becomes the first commercial vehicle to land on the Moon.

February 22 - AT&T suffers from network outages impacting around 71,000 customers, which also affect Verizon and T-Mobile to a smaller degree. The outages were acknowledged, but no reason was given for their occurrence. Two days later, AT&T announced affected customers will be credited $5 on their next bill, the "average cost of a full day of service."

February 22 - Augusta University student Laken Riley is murdered while out on a jog by Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan citizen who entered illegally in 2022. Her murder sparks media attention and debates about immigration.

February 23 - The Biden administration announces over 500 new sanctions on Russian financial institutions, military institutions, sanctions evasion, energy production, and prison officials linked to the death of Alexei Navalny.

February 23 - A high-altitude balloon is detected over Utah, prompting the deployment of fighter aircraft to intercept the object. The origin and purpose of the balloon are unknown, according to US officials.

February 25 – Gaza war protests in the United States: An Air Force member, identified as Aaron Bushnell, commits self-immolation in front of the Embassy of Israel in DC, as a protest against American support of Israel's war against Hamas. He later died of his injuries.

February 26 – The body of Mahogany Jackson is discovered in an illegal dump site in Birmingham, Alabama.

February 27 – The Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas panhandle burns almost 200,000 acres, resulting in a state of emergency for the area.

February 28 – 2024 Haitian jailbreak: A state of emergency is declared by the Haitian government after gangs storm two prisons and demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

February 28 – Mitch McConnell announces that he will step down as Senate Republican leader in January 2025. He's been serving as the Senate Republican leader since 2007.

February 29 – Gaza war: Soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces open fire on a crowd of civilians in Gaza City, killing more than 100 people, as the Palestinian casualties of the war exceed 30,000. An aid convoy entered the northern Gaza Strip on the morning of the incident, with the trucks provided by Palestinian businessmen, and security and organization by Israel. Israel says that its forces felt endangered from the crowds of Palestinians, firing warning shots in the air and then opened fire killing less than ten people, and that the rest were killed in an ensuing stampede. Survivors described the massacre as an ambush, stating that Israeli forces deliberately opened fire as Palestinians approached the aid trucks, resulting in a rush away from the gunfire that added to the death toll. A CNN investigation reported that Israel's claims that the incident had begun after 4:30 a.m. local time cast doubt on its version of events, as it had collected and analyzed footage from survivors, including one video showing that gunfire started seven minutes prior. It also reported that the Israeli military's publicized drone footage misses the moment capturing what caused the crowds to disperse, and that Israel had rejected its requests for the full unedited footage. The name Flour Massacre arises from the fact that many victims were found soaked in both flour and blood.

March 2 – United States support for Israel in the Gaza war: The United States military announces plans to begin airdropping humanitarian aid into Gaza.

March 3 – Caitlin Clark breaks the all-time NCAA Division I college basketball career scoring record that had been held by Pete Maravich with 3,685 points.

March 4 - In Trump v. Anderson, the Supreme Court unanimously rules that states cannot keep presidential candidates off the ballot, overturning the Colorado Supreme Court's decision in Anderson v. Griswold.

March 4 - 2022–2023 Pentagon document leaks: Jack Teixeira, a 22-year-old former member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, pleads guilty to leaking classified Defense Department documents on his Discord server and is sentenced to 16 years and eight months in prison.

March 4 - A Piper PA-32A crashes on I-40 while attempting to land at John C. Tune Airport in Nashville after suffering a mechanical failure. All five passengers on board are killed.

March 5 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issues a new rule capping late fees for credit cards at $8, per Biden's Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.

March 5 - Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signs a bill that adds nitrogen gas and electrocution as execution methods.

March 6 - 2024 United States presidential election: Former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley suspends her 2024 campaign for President after a poor showing on Super Tuesday, leaving Trump the presumptive Republican nominee. Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips also ends his campaign for the Democratic nomination after losing several primaries to President Biden.

March 7 – As the final Nordic country to join the alliance, Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member after Finland a year earlier.

March 7 – President Biden delivers his third State of the Union Address.

March 8 - A highway crash near Dewhurst, Wisconsin involving a van and a semi-tractor kills nine people and injures one.

March 8 - A UH-72 Lakota helicopter crashes while conducting an aviation operation 41 miles west of McAllen, Texas, killing one border patrol agent and two National Guard soldiers and injuring another.

March 8 - Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández is found guilty in a Manhattan court of conspiring with drug traffickers and enabling the transportation of over 400 tons of cocaine from Honduras to the US.

March 9 – Utah adopts its new state flag, 113 years after the adoption of its former flag.

March 10 – 2024 Portuguese legislative election: The Democratic Alliance wins a plurality of seats and forms a minority government amid losses by the incumbent Socialist Party and major gains by the right-wing Chega party.

March 10 - The 96th Academy Awards are held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is nominated for 13 awards and wins seven, including Best Picture. The ceremony draws an average of 19.5 million viewers, a 4% increase from the previous year.

March 10 - Five people are killed during a mass stabbing and murder–suicide in Manoa, Honolulu.

March 10 - An IAI 1125 Astra SP crashes while on approach to Ingalls Field Airport in Hot Springs, Virginia. All five people on board are killed.

March 11 – Haitian acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry announces his pending resignation from both offices amid an ongoing crisis marked by gang warfare in the country.

March 13 – The Artificial Intelligence Act, the world's first comprehensive legal and regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, is passed by the European Union. Applications with unacceptable risks are banned. High-risk applications must comply with security, transparency and quality obligations, and undergo conformity assessments. Limited-risk applications only have transparency obligations. Minimal-risk applications are not regulated. For general-purpose AI, transparency requirements are imposed, with reduced requirements for open-source models, and additional evaluations for high-capability models.

March 13 – The United States deploys a Marine Corps Security Force Regiment platoon to secure the U.S. embassy complex in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and evacuate embassy staff and other Americans citizens amid the ongoing gang war crisis in the country.

March 13–15 – A significant early spring tornado outbreak occurred throughout the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, with the most significant impacts occurring in Indiana and Ohio. The outbreak produced 34 tornadoes and caused $5.9 billion in damage.

March 14 – The United Nations estimates that at least 56% of Palestinian civilians killed in the Gaza war were women and children.

March 14 – SpaceX successfully launches the first Starship rocket, the most powerful rocket ever built, at the Starbase launch site in Boca Chica, Texas after two previous failed attempts. However, the vehicle is lost during reentry.

March 15–17 – 2024 Russian presidential election: Incumbent Vladimir Putin is reelected for a fifth term.

March 16 - 2024 West Portal, San Francisco car accident: An allegedly speeding driver crashed into a bus stop in San Francisco, killing four people, including two toddlers. She was thus arrested afterward.

March 16 – A gunman kills three people in Falls Township, Pennsylvania and escapes in a stolen car. The suspect subsequently travels to Trenton, New Jersey, where he barricades himself with several hostages.

March 18 – Jo-Ann Stores files for chapter 11 bankruptcy after accumulating over $1 billion in debt.

March 19 - In United States v. Texas, the Supreme Court declines to block a Texas Senate bill allowing officials to arrest and deport migrants.

March 19 - Former Mississippi sheriff's deputy Hunter Edward is sentenced to a 20-year term of imprisonment for his role in torturing two African-American men in January 2023.

March 20 – The Biden administration announces new vehicle emission standards for 2027–2032, as it pushes for wider adoption of hybrid and electric vehicles.

March 21 – A man identified as Richard Slayman receives a kidney from a genetically engineered pig at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This medical breakthrough could see the end of dialysis treatment.

March 22 – Islamic State-affiliated gunmen attack concertgoers at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia, killing at least 145 people and injuring 551.

March 24 – 2024 Senegalese presidential election: Bassirou Diomaye Faye is elected president after his party and its former candidate Ousmane Sonko were disqualified.

March 25 – The UN Security Council passes a resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire" in the Gaza war and demanding the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.

March 26 – A container ship collides with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, causing a total collapse of the bridge and the deaths of six people.

March 26 - Abortion in the United States: The Supreme Court announces that it will hear a case on whether to restrict access to mifepristone, a commonly used abortion pill.

March 26 - AESC announced a $1.5 billion expansion of its lithium-ion EV battery manufacturing in Florence County, South Carolina, creating 1,080 new jobs, bringing the total investment to $3.12 billion and supporting 2,700 new jobs.

March 27 – 2024 Rockford stabbings: Four people are killed and seven others are injured during a mass stabbing in Rockford, Illinois.

March 28 - In United States v. Bankman-Fried, the defendant is sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of several counts of wire fraud and money laundering after he scammed $8 billion from investors via his company FTX.

March 28 - A bill that would have legalized recreational cannabis sales in Virginia is vetoed by governor Glenn Youngkin.

March 31 - Bulgaria and Romania become members of the Schengen Area through sea and air routes.

March 31 - 2024 Turkish local elections: CHP wins 37.8% of the vote, marking its first victory in a popular vote since 1977 and the first nationwide defeat for the AKP.

March 31 – Millions of AT&T customers are affected by a data breach that leaked onto the dark web.

April 1 – Israel attacks the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing 16 people.

April 1 - The Supreme Court of Florida rules that the Florida Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, allowing the 15-week abortion ban to remain in effect. The Court's decision also allowed a six-week abortion ban, which had been halted by the Court until a decision was made, to proceed. As a result, the ban would take effect 30 days after the ruling. In the same opinion, the Supreme Court also approved Florida Amendment 4 to proceed to the November 2024 ballot, which would enshrine a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability.

April 1 - Jacob Flickinger, a dual American-Canadian World Central Kitchen aid worker is killed by an Israeli drone strike alongside six other volunteers while delivering aid to the Gaza Strip amid its humanitarian crisis. The attack sparks outrage from the White House and prompts more criticism towards aid worker casualties stemming from Israel's operations.

April 1–3 – A significant tornado outbreak and derecho affected much of the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. The outbreak of 86 tornadoes and the derecho caused $1.8 billion in damage. A total of 32 million people were estimated to be under watches or warnings issued by the National Weather Service, and over 700,000 people were estimated to have lost power.

April 2 – General Electric splits into three independent companies: GE Aerospace, GE Vernova and GE HealthCare.

April 3 – A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 strikes off the eastern coast of Taiwan, with small tsunamis reaching heights of 8–12 inches hitting Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

April 3 – The United States Army Corps of Engineers begins dredging the San Juan Bay in Puerto Rico to open space for a new natural gas terminal that is expected to add $400 million to the local economy.

April 4 – 2024 Kuwaiti general election: Opposition candidates maintain a majority in the National Assembly.

April 4 - Bird flu spreads to cattle herds in at least six U.S. states, while a dairy farm worker is infected in Texas, becoming the second person to ever become infected with the virus in the United States.

April 4 - Researchers at the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument in Arizona release the largest 3D map of the universe featuring more than six million galaxies.

April 5 – Ecuadorian police raid the Mexican embassy in Quito in order to arrest former vice-president Jorge Glas, who had been granted political asylum by Mexico. This action violates the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and Mexico and Nicaragua break off diplomatic relations with Ecuador.

April 5 - A magnitude 4.8 earthquake strikes New Jersey, causing tremors throughout the East Coast.

April 5 - 99 Cents Only Stores begins closing all of its 371 stores in the United States.

April 6 – Peter Pellegrini is elected President of Slovakia in the second round of the 2024 Slovak presidential election.

April 7 – In women's college basketball, South Carolina wins the national championship to complete their perfect 38–0 season, only the 10th perfect season in NCAA women's basketball history.

April 8 – A total solar eclipse is visible across North America.

April 8 - In men's college basketball, Connecticut repeats as national champions, becoming the first program to do so since the Florida Gators did so in 2006 and 2007.

April 9 – After Leo Varadkar resigned, Fine Gael leader Simon Harris becomes Ireland's youngest Taoiseach after a Dáil vote of 88–69 and being appointed by President Michael D. Higgins.

April 9 - James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of convicted Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, are each sentenced to 10–15 years in prison after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter earlier this year, the first parents in the nation to be held accountable for their child's school shooting.

April 9 - Abortion in Arizona: In Planned Parenthood Arizona v. Mayes, the Arizona Supreme Court upholds an 1864 law that disallows most types of abortions.

April 10 – 2024 South Korean legislative election: The Democratic Party and Democratic Alliance wins 176 seats, while the People Power and People Future, to which President Yoon Suk Yeol belongs, wins only 108 seats.

April 10 – At least one person is killed by flooding in Mississippi as severe storms hit the South.

April 11 – Sabrina Carpenter releases her single "Espresso".

April 12 – A man crashes a semi-trailer truck into a Texas Department of Public Safety building, killing one person and injuring 13 others.

April 13 – Iran launches retaliatory strikes against Israel after an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus earlier in the month.

April 16 – 2024 Persian Gulf floods: At least 32 people are killed when heavy rainfall strikes the Middle East, causing flash flooding. This caused many disruptions for Emirates Airlines at Dubai International Airport.

April 17 - 2024 Solomon Islands general election: Incumbent Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's OUR Party wins a plurality of seats.

April 17 - 2024 Croatian parliamentary election: Incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Plenković's Croatian Democratic Union coalition wins a plurality of seats.

April 17 - Impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas: The United States Senate votes to dismiss both impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, by a vote of 51–48 on the first article and 51–49 on the second article. The refusal to hold a trial is in violation of Article I, Section 3, Clause 6 of the Constitution which states that: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.”

April 17 - The Biden administration announces that it will reimpose oil sanctions on Venezuela.

April 17 - Students at Columbia University begin a pro-Palestinian occupation protest on campus. Hundreds are arrested after New York City leadership orders the protests to disperse, and the protesters are accused of antisemitism.

April 18 – In ice hockey, the National Hockey League board approves the relocation of the Arizona Coyotes to Salt Lake City, Utah. The team will play home games at the Delta Center, home of the National Basketball Association's Utah Jazz, until a new arena is complete.

April 19 – Israel conducts airstrikes against Iran, in response to Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel earlier on April 13.

April 19 - Maxwell Azzarello, a 37-year-old man from St. Augustine, Florida, self-immolates in front of the New York Supreme Court in New York City where the New York state criminal trial against Trump is set to begin. He died early the next day.

April 19 - Taylor Swift releases her new double album The Tortured Poets Department. It breaks the record for most-streamed album in a single day and she becomes the most-streamed artist in a single day.

April 19 - Tesla recalls thousands of Cybertrucks due to "safety concerns" involving the truck's accelerator pedals.

April 19 - The U.S. Department of Education releases revisions to Title IX expanding protections to LGBTQ+ students.

April 20 – The House passes a series of bills that would provide $95 billion in military aid to countries including Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

April 23 - After five months with communication problems, NASA receives decipherable data from Voyager 1.

April 23 - The Federal Trade Commission issues a rule that bans non-compete clauses across nearly all industries and professions, prompting a lawsuit over the new rule from the US Chamber of Commerce and its allies the next day.

April 23 - The Department of Justice agrees to pay $138.7 million to those who were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar for the mishandled investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

April 23 - A Douglas DC-4 crashes into the Tanana River in Alaska, shortly after takeoff from Fairbanks, killing two people on board.

April 24 – President Biden signs the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, requiring that ByteDance sell TikTok to an American company in nine months or face the app being banned in the US. In response, ByteDance sues the U.S. government on First Amendment grounds two weeks later. A similar lawsuit is filed by eight TikTok creators on May 14.

April 24 - Toyota announced that it will invest $1.4 billion to assemble a new battery electric vehicle at its Princeton facility in Indiana.

April 25 – Following the resignation of Haiti's acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry, the Transitional Presidential Council takes power as the new head of state of Haiti.

April 25 - Film producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction is overturned by the New York Court of Appeals by a vote of 4–3, and a new trial is ordered. However, Weinstein will remain in prison on a 2022 conviction in California for rape.

April 25 - The Federal Communications Commission votes to restore net neutrality rules implemented by the Obama administration after their repeal in 2017.

April 25 – Amazon Web Services announced its intention to build new data centers in Indiana as part of an $11 billion investment, the largest capital injection into the region ever.

April 25 - The University of Southern California cancels its main commencement ceremony due to safety concerns stemming from Israel–Hamas war protests on their campus.

April 25–27 – The NFL Draft is held in Detroit with the Chicago Bears taking former USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the first overall pick. Over 700,000 people attend the three-day event, breaking the record held by the 2019 draft in Nashville by 100,000.

April 25–28 – A very large, deadly and destructive tornado outbreak occurred across the Midwestern, Southern, and High Plains. Over four days, 164 tornadoes touched down, killed 6 people, injured over 178 others, and caused $1.2 billion in damage. On April 26, a destructive EF4 tornado that struck Elkhorn and Blair in Nebraska and an intense EF3 tornado that struck Minden, Harlan, and Defiance in Iowa, where winds of 224 miles per hour were measured in the tornado. On April 27, a deadly and large EF4 tornado struck Marietta, Oklahoma, and two deadly EF3 tornadoes struck Sulphur, Oklahoma, and Holdenville, Oklahoma.

April 26 – The Louisiana Supreme Court rules 4–3 in favor of St. George, Louisiana leaving Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

April 29 - Floods in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul cause dozens of deaths and leave thousands homeless.

April 29 - 50 people are killed, and 84 are reported missing, when a railway embankment fails near Mai Mahiu, Kenya, adding to the devastation caused by wider floods in Kenya and Tanzania which have caused the deaths of 488 people and the displacement of 503,000.

April 29 - The United States and Mexico agree to clamp down on illegal immigration; Presidents Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador agree to a plan to reduce illegal crossings.

April 29 - 2024 Charlotte shootout: Four law enforcement officers and one gunman are killed and four others are wounded during a shootout in Charlotte, North Carolina.

April 29 - A Powerball jackpot of $1.3 billion is won by a Laotian immigrant battling cancer.

April 29 - Texas Governor Greg Abbott sends a letter to the Texas Education Agency instructing it to ignore President Joe Biden's revisions to Title IX adding protections for LGBTQ+ students.

April 30 – The G7 countries agree to phase out unabated coal power by 2030–2035.

April 30 – A special election was held in New York's 26th congressional district after Brian Higgins resigned to become president of Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo. Democrat Tim Kennedy was elected to succeed him.

April 30 – Judge Juan Merchan fines Donald Trump $9,000 for contempt of court and threatens him with jail if he continues to violate his gag order.

May 1 - Federal judge Catherine Eagles blocks several of North Carolina's restrictions on abortion pill mifepristone, striking down a requirement that the drug only be prescribed by doctors in-person, as well as a requirement for patients to have an in-person follow-up appointment.

May 1 - The United Methodist Church votes 692–51 to repeal a longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy. The vote also forbids superintendents from forbidding a same-sex wedding.

May 1 - Pro-Israel counter-protestors attack the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, throwing objects and attempting to destroy barricades.

May 2 - Florida becomes the first state to ban cultured meat, which is produced from animal cells.

May 2 - Arizona governor Katie Hobbs signs a bill that will allow abortions up to 15 weeks into the pregnancy, reversing the state Supreme Court's decision in Planned Parenthood Arizona v. Mayes from last month.

May 2 - Clothing retailer Rue21 files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after accumulating $194.4 million in debt and announces it will close all of its 540 stores after 54 years in business.

May 3 - Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, is indicted for accepting nearly $600,000 worth of bribes from an Azerbaijan-controlled company and a Mexican bank.

May 3 - Rivian announced plans to invest $1.5 billion to expand its operations in Illinois.

May 3 - More than 2,000 people have been arrested for involvement in the pro-Palestinian university campus protests.

May 3 - The Federal Trade Commission approves ExxonMobil's acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources for $60 billion after concessions.

May 4 – The 150th edition of the Kentucky Derby is held, with American thoroughbred racehorse Mystik Dan winning in a photo finish.

May 5 – 2024 Panamanian general election: José Raúl Mulino is elected president.

May 5 - McLaren driver Lando Norris wins his first Formula One race after placing first in the Miami Grand Prix.

May 5 - Kyle Larson defeats Chris Buescher to win the AdventHealth 400 at the Kansas Speedway in the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history, winning a photo finish by one-thousandth (0.001) of a second.

May 6 – 2024 Chadian presidential election: Mahamat Déby wins election to a full term as president, succeeding his father Idriss Déby.

May 6 - Reactions to 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses: Columbia University cancels its main graduation ceremony due to ongoing the pro-Palestinian protests and occupation on its campus.

May 6 - A radical group identifying as "Rachel Corrie's Ghost Brigade" claims responsibility for setting fire to 15 vehicles belonging to the Portland Police Bureau on May 1. The group stated this act was intended to preemptively prevent the police from dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment at Portland State University.

May 6 - Steward Health Care System, a for-profit hospital chain, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

May 6 - The 2024 Met Gala in New York City takes place with the theme "The Garden of Time," celebrating the Met's exhibit Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.

May 6 - The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opens an investigation into a gender identity policy of the Katy Independent School District in Texas, which board members passed on August 28, 2023 and requires district employees to disclose to parents if a student requests the use of different pronouns or identifies as transgender.

May 6–10 – A tornado outbreak drops 179 tornadoes over five days across the country, notably in Barnsdall and Bartlesville, Oklahoma and Tallahassee, Florida.

May 7 – The Boy Scouts of America announces the renaming of the organization to Scouting America, effective on February 8, 2025.

May 7–11 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is held in Malmö, Sweden. Swiss contestant Nemo wins with the song "The Code".

May 8 – In North Macedonian elections, the right-wing party VMRO-DPMNE wins in a landslide in the parliamentary elections, while its presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is elected as the first female president of the country in the second round of the presidential election.

May 8 - A statue of the late African American civil rights leader Daisy Bates is unveiled at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., representing the state of Arkansas.

May 8 - Researchers at Google DeepMind announce the development of AlphaFold 3, an AI model that can predict the structures of almost all biological molecules and model the interactions between them.

May 8 - Healthcare chain Ascension announces it has been the target of a cyber-attack on its computer systems.

May 8 - Following a similar April 29 letter to the Texas Education Agency, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sends a letter to Texas public university systems and community colleges directing them not to comply with President Joe Biden's revisions to Title IX adding protections for LGBTQ+ students.

May 9 – A record annual increase in atmospheric CO2 is reported from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, with a jump of 4.7 parts per million compared to a year earlier.

May 10 - The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution to grant the State of Palestine the right to be seated among member states in alphabetical order. This will go into effect at the next session of the UN General Assembly on September 10th. The United States opposes the resolution.

May 10 - A series of solar storms and intense solar flares impact the Earth, rated G5 by NOAA, creating aurorae at more southerly and northerly latitudes than usual. This was the first G5 storm since 2003.

May 10 - Shenandoah County Public Schools of Virginia votes to reverse its 2020 decision and restores Confederate military leaders' names to schools.

May 10 - A Pennsylvania jury orders ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed that the company's gasoline and solvents caused him to develop leukemia.

May 11 – Minnesota adopts its new state flag to coincide with the 166th anniversary of its date of statehood.

May 13 - Aftermath of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse: Construction crews use explosives to demolish the remaining parts of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. The next step will be to refloat the MV Dali for removal, which will allow maritime traffic to resume normal operations.

May 13 - Three years after the previous GameStop stock squeeze, Redditors return to artificially inflate GameStop's share price by 75%, to an 18-month high.

May 13 - The Airlines for America trade association, along with major US airlines American, Delta, United, JetBlue, Hawaiian, and Alaska, files a lawsuit against the United States Department of Transportation over a rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees.

May 13 - OpenAI announces a new model of their generative pretrained transformer (GPT) named GPT-4o, capable of visual and video speech recognition and translation.

May 14 - United States Army Major Harrison Mann resigns from the Defense Intelligence Agency over the U.S.'s support for Israel in Gaza.

May 14 - 18 states file a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to block legal protections for transgender workers.

May 14 – President Biden passes tariff increases on Chinese imports, including electric vehicle batteries, computer chips, and medical products.

May 14 - Eight people are killed and 40 others are injured when a bus carrying farmworkers collides with a truck and overturns in Marion County, Florida.

May 14 - Tennessee governor Bill Lee signs into law a bill that would see the death penalty for defendants convicted of child rape.

May 14 - Seafood restaurant chain Red Lobster announces it will close 99 locations across the country. The chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the next week.

May 15 - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore since 2004, is succeeded by former Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong as prime minister, ahead of the next general election to be held by 2025.

May 15 - Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico is shot and hospitalized while meeting with supporters at an event in Handlová.

May 15 - Walgreens says that it will sell a generic version of the anti-overdose medication naloxone for ten dollars cheaper than the brand-name version, Narcan, also available on its shelves.

May 15 - A barge hits the Pelican Island Causeway in Galveston, Texas, causing damage to the bridge and an oil spill in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

May 15 - Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charge two brothers Anton and James Peraire-Bueno, the sons of Jaime Peraire, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, after they were arrested for exploiting the Ethereum blockchain and stealing $25 million worth of cryptocurrency.

May 15 - The United States imposes visa restrictions on over 250 members of the Nicaraguan government along with sanctions on three entities for "repressive action" and failure to control migrant smuggling through Nicaragua.

May 15 - Houston Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco is ejected from the game against the Oakland Athletics and receives a 10-game suspension after foreign substances were found in his glove.

May 15 - The Supreme Court lets Louisiana use a new congressional map with two majority-black congressional districts in the 2024 House of Representatives elections.

May 16 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses 40,000 points for the first time.

May 16 - The European Union opens a formal investigation into Meta for potential breaches in online content rules relating to child safety on Facebook and Instagram, violating the Digital Services Act.

May 16 - Blinken announces a $2 billion additional military aid package for Ukraine, aimed at investing in Ukraine's industrial base.

May 16 - A significant derecho struck the Gulf Coast of the United States from Southeast Texas to Florida, causing widespread damage, particularly in the city of Houston and surrounding metropolitan area.

May 19 - 2024 Dominican Republic general election: Incumbent Luis Abinader is reelected for a second term as president.

May 19 - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian are killed, along with seven other passengers and crew, in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan–Iran border.

May 19 - A coup d'état attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reportedly led by Christian Malanga leads to unrest in Kinshasa. Government soldiers quickly intervene, arresting the coup leaders and reportedly restoring calm.

May 19–27 – A multi-day period of significant tornado outbreaks, along with significant derechos, occurred across the Midwestern United States and the Mississippi Valley. From May 19–27, two derechos occurred and 247 tornadoes touched down, which killed 31 people, injured at least 243 others, and caused $7.3 billion in damage. On May 21st, a large and violent multi-vortex tornado struck Greenfield, Iowa at EF4 intensity; a mobile radar measured winds of 309–318 miles per hour inside the tornado, marking the third time winds of over 300 miles per hour had ever been measured. On May 25th, an intense EF3 tornado struck Rosston, Era, Valley View, and Pilot Point in Texas, killing seven people, making it the deadliest tornado of both the outbreak sequence and in the United States during 2024 and injuring up to 100 others. Due to a malfunction, the tornado sirens in Valley View would not sound before the tornado struck. On May 26th, another intense EF3 tornado struck Eddyville, Crider, Charleston, and Barnsley in Kentucky, which prompted the issuance of four tornado emergencies.

May 20 – The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court seeks arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar over alleged war crimes.

May 20 - The container ship Dali is freed from bridge debris since its initial collision on March 26th and is escorted by tugboats back to the port of Baltimore.

May 20 - Judges grant Julian Assange permission to appeal his extradition order from the United Kingdom to the United States.

May 21 – Republican Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted from his position as speaker of the House in October 2023, resigned from Congress at the end of the year. In the special election for California's 20th congressional district, Republican Vince Fong defeated fellow Republican Mike Boudreaux in a runoff to succeed McCarthy.

May 21 – The Department of Justice files a complaint to sue the state of Oklahoma after the state's lawmakers drafted House Bill 4156, which would criminalize anyone without legal immigration status.

May 22 – President Biden announces a student loans debt cancellation of $7.7 billion for 160,000 people.

May 22 - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and members of the Biden administration to contest EEOC guidance stating that denying employees accommodations for their gender identity is workplace harassment.

May 23 - During a state visit to the U.S. by Kenyan president William Ruto, President Biden announces his intention to designate Kenya as a major non-NATO ally.

May 23 - The Department of Justice, along with 29 states and the District of Columbia, filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment for running an illegal monopoly over live events. A separate consumer class action lawsuit by ticket buyers is filed against the same defendants the next day.

May 24 - The UN's highest court, the ICJ, rules that Israel must halt its military offensive in Rafah, southern Gaza.

May 24 - A major landslide in Papua New Guinea kills 160–2,000+ people, with many more buried.

May 24 - Two Americans, including the daughter of Missouri senator Ben Baker and her husband, are killed by gangs while doing missionary work in Haiti during the ongoing crisis in the country.

May 24 - Families affected by the Uvalde school shooting file a lawsuit against Daniel Defense and Activision Blizzard for creating the DDM4 V7 gun and promoting the weapon through the games in the Call of Duty franchise. They also file a lawsuit against Meta Platforms's social media site Instagram, a product used by the gunman.

May 25 – Anora, directed by Sean Baker, wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the first American film to do so since The Tree of Life in 2011.

May 26 – 2024 Lithuanian presidential election: Incumbent president Gitanas Nausėda wins a landslide victory for a second term in office.

May 26 – 2024 Indianapolis 500: In auto racing, Josef Newgarden wins the Indianapolis 500 for the second consecutive year, becoming the first driver to do so since Hélio Castroneves in 2002.

May 28 – Spain, Ireland and Norway recognize the State of Palestine.

May 28 - Humanitarian aid during the Gaza war: The U.S. removes the Gaza floating pier from the Gaza Strip for repair after its flotilla was damaged in bad weather.

May 28 - One person is killed and seven others are injured in a natural gas explosion at an apartment building in Youngstown, Ohio.

May 29 - 2024 South African general election: The ANC party fails to win a majority of the vote for the first time in South Africa's democratic history.

May 29 - 2024 Malagasy parliamentary election in Madagascar: President Andry Rajoelina's party, Tanora Malagasy Vonona, loses their majority at the National Assembly, winning only 80 seats out of 163.

May 29 – Air Products announced plans to invest $15 billion to build a network of commercial-scale multi-modal hydrogen refueling stations connecting Northern and Southern California.

May 30 – Former President Donald Trump is found guilty on 34 counts in his hush money trial, the first time any American president had been found guilty of a crime.

May 30 - The Department of Labor files a lawsuit against Hyundai Motors over illegal use of child labor in the company's Alabama factory.

May 30 - OpenAI removes online influence operations based in Russia, China, Iran, and Israel, due to the usage of AI to generate propaganda and fake content.

May 30 - 2020–2024 H5N1 outbreak: A third human case of H5N1 bird flu is found in a dairy worker in Michigan.

May 30 - The US and UK navies strike 13 Houthi locations across Yemen, damaging underground facilities and vessels, killing at least two people and wounding ten.

May 30 - A Minneapolis police officer and a civilian are killed, and another police officer and three other people are wounded in a shooting. The shooter was also killed.

June 1 - The 2024 Indian general election, which began on April 19, concludes. In the Lok Sabha, the BJP party loses its outright majority, but its electoral alliance, the National Democratic Alliance, retains its majority.

June 1 - The 2024 Icelandic presidential election is held, with Halla Tómasdóttir elected president of Iceland.

June 1 – Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation submit a SEC filing acknowledging a data breach of customer information potentially affecting 560 million users. Banco Santander and cloud provider Snowflake Inc. are also believed to have been affected by the same data breach.

June 1–29 – The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States, and is won by India.

June 2 – The 2024 Mexican general election is held, with Claudia Sheinbaum elected as president of Mexico. She is the first woman to hold the office and the first to come from a Jewish background.

June 3 – The value of GameStop shares increases by 21% after Keith Gill posts a $116 million investment on Reddit.

June 4 – President Biden enacts an executive order to temporarily suspend asylum claims processing at the Mexico–United States border when the seven-day average exceeds 2,500.

June 5 – Starliner Crewed Flight Test launches atop an Atlas V rocket to the ISS.

June 5 - A Syrian man fires several shots at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and is then shot in the stomach and leg by Lebanese soldiers, and treated at a military hospital.

June 5 - A panel of the United States Food and Drug Administration rejects MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for PTSD.

June 6 - The Department of State sanctions several Georgian Dream politicians with travel bans for passing the "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", threatening further penalties if Georgia continues "anti-democratic activity".

June 6 - SpaceX launches Starship's Integrated Flight Test 4, successfully guiding both the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage to soft water landings in the Gulf of Mexico and the Indian Ocean, respectively.

June 6–9 – The 2024 European Parliament election is held. The EPP, of incumbent Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, retains its status as the largest group in parliament amid notable gains by far-right political groups.

June 7 – The Biden administration passes new federal rules that mandate new vehicles sold in the U.S. have to increase fuel economy in automobiles by 2% per year for 2027 to 2031 for passenger cars and 2029 to 2031 for SUVs and light trucks.

June 9 - 2024 San Marino general election: The Democracy and Freedom alliance, headed by the PDCS, wins a plurality in the Grand and General Council.

June 9 - 2024 Belgian federal election: The New Flemish Alliance remains the largest party in the Chamber of Representatives while Open Vld, the party of outgoing Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, loses seats.

June 9 - June 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election: Boyko Borisov's coalition GERB–SDS wins a plurality of seats but fails to form a stable government.

June 10 – A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President of Malawi Saulos Chilima.

June 10 – After 17 years of litigation, Chiquita Brands International is found liable by a federal jury of financing the far-right paramilitary death squad United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia in the Antioquia and Magdalena Departments of Colombia.

June 11 – A special election was held for Ohio's 6th congressional district following the resignation of Bill Johnson, who accepted the position of president of Youngstown State University. Republican Michael Rulli defeated Democrat Michael Kripchak by a smaller margin than expected.

June 11 – Hunter Biden is convicted of three felony counts of possession of a firearm while under the influence of narcotics, making him the first child of a sitting president to be convicted in a criminal trial.

June 12 – The United Nations' first inquiry into the October 7 attacks and resulting conflict finds that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes.

June 12 - Coach USA, a holding company for many bus services including Megabus, files Chapter 11 bankruptcy and seeks to sell its assets to shed $197.8 million of debt.

June 12 - The National Weather Service issues a rare flash flood emergency in southern Florida for life-threatening flooding conditions only expected once every 500 to 1,000 years.

June 12 - Attorney General Merrick Garland is found in contempt by the House in a vote of 216 to 207. A proposed fine of $10,000 per day fell short in a 204 to 210 vote on July 11th, with four Republicans voting with all Democrats to oppose the measure.

June 12 - The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit by the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre who were seeking reparations.

June 13 - Dozens of hikers are afflicted with an unknown illness during hiking trips near Grand Canyon National Park.

June 13 - In FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the Supreme Court rules against efforts to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone, due to a lack of standing by the plaintiffs.

June 14 – 2024 South African general election: The ANC and other opposition parties agree to form a national unity government, with Cyril Ramaphosa being re-elected President of South Africa.

June 14 – A bankruptcy judge in Houston approves a supplication to liquidate the personal assets of Alex Jones, but rejects the same supplication to liquidate the business assets of InfoWars—a highly prolific fake news website owned and operated by the far-right conspiracy theorist.

June 14 – July 14 – UEFA Euro 2024 is held in Germany, and is won by Spain.

June 15 – Nine people are injured, including two young children, in a shooting at a splash pad in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills.

June 16 - 2024 California wildfires: Around 1,200 people are evacuated from the Hungry Valley area near Los Angeles, California, as the Post Fire spreads through the dry mountains near Interstate 5.

June 16 - The Birmingham Stallions defeat the San Antonio Brahmas to win the inaugural UFL championship. Stallions quarterback Adrian Martinez is named Most Valuable Player.

June 17 - In the 2024 NBA Finals, the Boston Celtics defeat the Dallas Mavericks in five games, winning their 18th overall NBA championship. The Celtics surpass the Los Angeles Lakers to become the team with the most NBA championships.

June 17 - Federal judge Robert S. Lasnik orders BNSF Railway to pay the Swinomish Tribe in Washington state $400 million after the company intentionally trespassed and repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe's reservation.

June 17 - 77th Tony Awards: At the 2024 Tony Awards, Stereophonic wins Best Play and The Outsiders wins Best Musical.

June 17 - Maryland governor Wes Moore pardons over 175,000 people with low-level marijuana convictions.

June 17 - The FTC sues Adobe Inc., accusing it of illegally hiding termination fees for its Creative Cloud software subscriptions which includes Adobe Photoshop as well as in subscriptions for Adobe Acrobat.

June 17–21 – The Northeast and Midwest experience heatwaves in which heat indexes reach 105° F.

June 18 - EV startup Fisker files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and begins selling its assets.

June 18 - Nvidia surpasses Microsoft as the world's most valuable publicly-traded company after its market cap exceeds $3.34 trillion.

June 18 - The Department of Agriculture announces a temporary suspension on imports of mangoes and avocados from Michoacán, Mexico, after an incident that reportedly caused security concerns for safety inspectors.

June 18 - Regan Smith breaks the 100-meter backstroke world record at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis, Indiana.

June 18 - 2024 New Mexico wildfires: At least one person dies, over 500 structures are damaged or destroyed, and several thousand people are forced to evacuate from Ruidoso, New Mexico, after the South Fork Fire burns over 15,000 acres of land.

June 19 - Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signs a bill that makes it the first state to mandate that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public-school classroom.

June 19 - 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Alberto forms in the Gulf of Mexico, the first storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.

June 20 – Researchers announce the discovery of Lokiceratops rangiformis, a dinosaur species named after the Norse god Loki, in the Judith River Formation in Montana. The findings are published in the journal PeerJ.

June 20 – July 14 – The 2024 Copa América is held in the United States, and is won by Argentina.

June 21 - Four people are killed and nine are injured in a mass shooting at a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas.

June 21 - 2024 North America heat waves: At least six people die due to heat-related illness in the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, as temperatures reach 115° F.

June 23 - On the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg announces that his son and heir Guillaume will assume royal duties beginning in October, in preparation for Henri's eventual abdication.

June 23 - 2024 Hajj disaster: More than 1,300 people are reported to have died due to extreme heat during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

June 23 - 2024 Dagestan attacks: Two coordinated attacks occur in the cities of Makhachkala and Derbent in the Republic of Dagestan in southern Russia, injuring 46 and killing 28 people. Two synagogues, two Eastern Orthodox churches, and a traffic police post were attacked simultaneously with automatic weapons and Molotov cocktails.

June 24 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the United Kingdom after being freed from prison in a plea deal with the United States, in which he will be found guilty on one federal charge. He returns to his native Australia two days later.

June 24 - The Florida Panthers win the 2024 Stanley Cup Finals, beating the Edmonton Oilers in seven games, making it their first championship in franchise history. The win comes after losing the previous year's Stanley Cup Finals against the Vegas Golden Knights. The Panthers also avoid becoming the fifth team in National Hockey League history to lose a series despite having a 3-0 series lead, and the second to do so in the Stanley Cup Finals since the 1941–42 Detroit Red Wings.

June 24 - Novo Nordisk announced plans to build a $4.1 billion facility in North Carolina, as demand for its weight-loss drugs has increased.

June 25 – Negotiations on the accession of Moldova and Ukraine to the European Union have officially begun.

June 25 – A special election was held for Colorado's 4th congressional district after Republican Ken Buck resigned early after initially announcing his retirement at the end of the term. Republican Greg Lopez won the election against Democrat Trisha Calvarese and Libertarian Hannah Goodman.

June 26 – A failed coup d'état attempt in La Paz, Bolivia is led by the former General Commander Juan José Zúñiga.

June 26 - The 2024 NBA draft is held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, with the Atlanta Hawks selecting Zaccharie Risacher with the first overall pick.

June 26 – President Biden pardons thousands of former servicemembers who were convicted of a now-repealed military ban on consensual homosexual sex.

June 27 - The National Transportation Safety Board announces sanctions against Boeing after the NTSB investigation into the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug accident, where Boeing allegedly released information that the NTSB did not verify.

June 27 - The Department of Justice charges 193 people, including 76 medical professionals, with participating in healthcare fraud schemes worth $2.75 billion, including unlawful distribution of Adderall and drug addiction treatments.

June 27 - A federal jury rules that the NFL violated antitrust laws by distributing out-of-market games through the premium Sunday Ticket package, awarding damages that accumulate to $4.7 billion between residential and commercial subscribers.

June 27 - A debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is broadcast by CNN in Atlanta. Biden's poor performance raised substantial concerns about whether he would be capable of serving a second term as president.

June 27 - The Supreme Court issues a ruling in Moyle v. United States, dismissing the case and reinstating the ability to perform exceptional emergency abortion care in Idaho, where a formal ban on abortion is in place.

June 28 – 2024 Mongolian parliamentary election: The Mongolian People's Party wins a reduced majority of seats in the State Great Khural amid gains by the Democratic Party.

June 28 - The Supreme Court issues a 6–3 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo which overrules precedent set in the 1984 case Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. reducing the power of federal agencies.

June 28 - Following his debate performance, concerns about President Biden's age and health are raised. His campaign team is accused of withholding information about his condition from Democratic leaders. Multiple Democrats, including current and former members of Congress, statewide officials, journalists, donors, and celebrities called for Biden to suspend his campaign for president, citing concerns about his cognitive ability. Biden suspended his campaign three weeks later.

June 29 - 2024 Mauritanian presidential election: Incumbent president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani wins re-election to a second term.

June 29 - 2024 Borno State bombings: 30 people are killed and 100 are injured when three separate bomb blasts occur in the town of Gwoza in Borno State, Nigeria.

June 29 – The Biden administration expands its Temporary Protected Status program to 309,000 Haitians in the country to February 2026, offering them deportation relief and work permits.

June 30 – Inside Out 2 surpasses $1 billion in worldwide box office earnings in less than three weeks, the fastest of any animated film in history.

July 1 – Hurricane Beryl becomes the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record after devastating the island of Carriacou, Grenada.

July 1 – In Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court rules in a 6–3 decision that former presidents are entitled to absolute immunity from prosecution for official acts that rely on core constitutional powers, taken while in office, presumed immunity for other official acts, and no immunity for unofficial acts.

July 2 - The Department of Homeland Security deports 116 migrants back to China to deter illegal immigration across the Mexican border, representing the nation's first "large charter flight" deportation in the past five years.

July 2 - Rudy Giuliani is disbarred in the state of New York for his efforts in attempting to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.

July 2 - Panama and the US sign a deal to reduce the flow of illegal immigration to the southern United States border through the Darién Gap, with the US covering the costs of repatriating migrants who enter Panama illegally.

July 2 - A dozen resigned United States government officials release a joint statement denouncing President Biden and his administration for their "undeniable complicity" in war crimes against Palestinian civilians by violating federal law to continue sending Israel weapons.

July 3 - At least 26,000 people are forced to evacuate amidst dozens of large wildfires in Northern California.

July 3 - The EPA fines General Motors $145.8 million for excess emissions found in 5.9 million GM vehicles.

July 4 – 2024 United Kingdom general election: Sir Keir Starmer leads the Labour Party to a landslide victory, returning the party to government for the first time in 14 years.

July 4 - Hudson's Bay Company, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, completes a merger and purchases luxury department stores Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman for $2.65 billion.

July 5 – 2024 Iranian presidential election: Masoud Pezeshkian is elected president of Iran.

July 6 – 2024 North America heat waves: Maricopa County investigates over 160 suspected heat-related deaths related to ongoing heat waves across Arizona, California, and Oregon.

July 7 – 2024 French legislative election: The left-wing New Popular Front wins the most seats in the National Assembly, upsetting a first-round victory by the far-right National Rally, but fails to achieve a majority.

July 7 - Skydance Media and Paramount Global announced a definitive agreement to merge in a deal valued at $8 billion.

July 7 - Four volunteer NASA crew members finish the first 378-day Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog mission to simulate living on Mars at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

July 7–11 – Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas, causing at least $6 billion in damage to the state, before continuing across the central United States, where it produced a large and significant tornado outbreak consisting of 68 tornadoes. At least 48 deaths occurred as a result of Beryl.

July 8 – Boeing agrees to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge to avoid going on trial on charges related to two fatal crashes involving its 737 MAX aircraft in 2018 and 2019.

July 9 - The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) is declared locally extinct in Florida as the first US extinction event due to sea level rise.

July 9 - Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines accuses the Iranian government of using social media to covertly encourage and finance pro-Palestinian campus protests, to deepen American political divisions and increase distrust in democratic institutions.

July 9 - Hacktivist collective SiegedSec leaks two gigabytes of data about the Heritage Foundation.

July 9–11 – The 33rd NATO summit is held in Washington, D.C.

July 10 – United States support for Israel in the Gaza war – The Biden administration resumes sending 500-pound bombs to Israel after shipments were suspended in May.

July 12 – Alec Baldwin's manslaughter charges arising from the Rust shooting incident are dismissed due to a Brady violation. Following Brady, the prosecutor must disclose evidence or information that would prove the innocence of the defendant or would enable the defense to more effectively impeach the credibility of government witnesses. Evidence that would serve to reduce the defendant's sentence must also be disclosed by the prosecution. In practice, this doctrine has often proved difficult to enforce. Some states have established their own laws to try to strengthen enforcement against prosecutorial misconduct in this area.

July 13 – While campaigning for the 2024 United States presidential election, former President Donald Trump is shot in the right ear in an assassination attempt at a rally he held near Butler, Pennsylvania. The perpetrator Thomas Matthew Crooks was a progressive Republican who wore masks long after the medical establishment had stopped mandating them. Classmates said that he was often bullied for various reasons, including his quiet demeanor and body odor, as well as for wearing camouflage hunting outfits and surgical masks to school. He had a membership at a local shooting club for at least a year. One person was killed and seven were injured (three from gunfire including Donald Trump and four officers injured by flying debris). A claimed fourth injury from gunfire—U.S. representative Ronny Jackson's nephew—has not been confirmed by independent sources; the sole source is Jackson himself. Crooks' father noticed his mental health declining in the year before the shooting, and particularly in the months after graduation. He later told investigators that he had seen his son talking to himself and dancing around his bedroom late at night, and that his family had a history of mental health and addiction issues. He searched the Internet for information on major depressive disorder and the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan, with authorities finding an arrest photograph of Oxford shooter Ethan Crumbley on his phone. Much of his online activity in the months before the shooting is not known, because he frequently used a virtual private network. In January 2024, Crooks placed a $101.91 order online for more than two gallons of nitromethane, a fuel additive that can be used in explosives, giving his home address for delivery. The package did not arrive promptly. On January 31 at 7:44 a.m., Crooks sent an email to the company asking what happened to the package. He used a number of aliases and encrypted communication accounts to buy firearm supplies and bomb-making material. On July 12th, Crooks went to a shooting range where he was a member to practice firing. Hours before the shooting, Crooks' parents had called the police to report him as missing and expressed concern about his wellbeing. He climbed onto a building that was being used by police as a staging area. Text messages from a police sniper indicate that the police were already aware of him 90 minutes before the shooting. As word spread the next day that he was the gunman, a friend from community college reached out. He texted: "Hey Thomas, you weren't the person who tried to shoot Trump and then got killed right?" The friend was interviewed by The New York Times but requested anonymity out of fear of being associated with Crooks. After the shooting, the FBI uncovered a social media account "believed to be associated with the shooter" with about 700 comments from 2019 to 2020. A public statement from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate described Crooks' activity on social networking services as including comments that "appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes" and "espouse political violence". Abbate noted that the findings were preliminary and that the comments were still in the process of being authenticated.

July 13–16 – An intense sequence of severe weather outbreaks affected much of the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, producing two significant derechoes that each had wind gusts exceeding 100 mph, as well as multiple tornado outbreaks that produced a combined 90 tornadoes.

July 15 – 2024 Rwandan general election: Incumbent Paul Kagame is reelected for a fourth term.

July 15 - Federal judge Aileen Cannon dismisses Trump's classified documents case, ruling that the appointment of Jack Smith had been unconstitutional. Though the special counsel appealed the dismissal, it later chose to wind down the case following Trump's election victory in November 2024, in part due to its long-standing department policy not to prosecute a sitting president.

July 15 - The 2024 Republican National Convention was held at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee until July 18. Trump chose Senator JD Vance from Ohio as his running-mate on the first day. Trump wore a white bandage over his injured ear.

July 16 – Democratic Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey is convicted on all counts, including bribery, by a jury in a federal corruption trial.

July 17 - VF Corporation sells Supreme to the French-Italian eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica for $1.5 billion USD.

July 17 - President Biden tests positive for COVID-19 and goes into self-isolation.

July 18 – Darden Restaurants announces it will acquire Chuy's for $605 million.

July 19 - CrowdStrike launches a faulty software update which causes IT systems worldwide to go down, with the worst impacts affecting airlines.

July 19 - 75 people are killed during the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement. The government of Bangladesh imposes a curfew.

July 21 – Incumbent United States President Joe Biden ends his candidacy in the 2024 United States presidential election. Biden was the first incumbent president to end a re-election campaign before Election Day since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968.

July 21 - Vice President Kamala Harris launches her campaign for president, receiving Biden's support and becoming the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party the next day. This marks the first time in 56 years that a major party nominee was selected outside of the democratic process of primaries and caucuses. In 1968, after President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not run for reelection, his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, was able to secure the Democratic nomination despite not entering any primaries or caucuses.

July 22 – Landslides kill 257 people and bury two villages in Geze Gofa, Gofa Zuria, Ethiopia.

July 23 – China brokers a unity agreement between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to form a single government.

July 23 - Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigns following widespread criticism of her department's actions during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

July 23 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the United States and gives a speech before Congress. Boycotts and protests against his visit occur due to the ongoing Gaza war.

July 25 – Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, is arrested by US federal agents in El Paso, Texas.

July 26 – The 2024 SAG-AFTRA video game strike starts. On June 9, 2025, SAG-AFTRA announced that a tentative agreement had been reached, and on June 11, the strike was suspended. The agreement was overwhelmingly ratified on July 9, 2025, officially ending the strike.

July 26 – August 11 – The 2024 Summer Olympics are held in Paris, France. The controversial opening ceremony and the boxing match of Luca Hámori and Imane Khelif spark international debate. A segment said to be celebrating diversity, and featuring drag, was criticized by Christian organizations and figures for allegedly referencing The Last Supper, which some critics interpreted as mocking Christianity. The Liberté section included a portrayal of Marie Antoinette, in which the queen was shown holding her own severed head in reference to her execution by guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution; the sequence was also held in the Conciergerie, where she was imprisoned, tried and sentenced. The segment was criticized for its grotesque nature and for glorifying violence in the Reign of Terror. During the parade of nations, the South Korean delegation was incorrectly addressed by the French and English announcers as République populaire démocratique de Corée and Democratic People's Republic of Korea – the official designation for North Korea – rather than République de Corée and Republic of Korea. The International Olympic Committee posted an apology on their official website. Imane Khelif has masculine features and there was speculation that she has a Y chromosome and elevated levels of testosterone, but allegedly those claims have never been proven.

July 28 – 2024 Venezuelan presidential election: Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro declares victory against opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia amid alleged irregularities, causing numerous South American states to refuse to acknowledge the results or suspend diplomatic relations with the Maduro government and sparking nationwide protests.

July 30 - At least 334 people are killed, over 200 injured, and 281 missing following landslides in Wayanad district, Kerala, India.

July 30 - Israel carries out an airstrike in the Dahieh suburb of Beirut, Lebanon killing Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, who it accused of ordering the Majdal Shams attack on a soccer field in the Golan Heights that killed 12 Syrian children belonging to the Druze community and injured at least 42 others, with most of the victims being between the ages of 10 and 16.

July 30 - 2024 United Kingdom riots: Far-right riots break out throughout the United Kingdom in response to a mass stabbing in Southport, England the day before. Seventeen-year-old Axel Rudakubana killed three children and injured ten others at a Taylor Swift–themed yoga and dance workshop attended by 26 children. In October 2024, Rudakubana was charged under the Biological Weapons Act 1974 and Terrorism Act 2000 for possession and production of ricin and a PDF copy of a military study of an al-Qaeda training manual. Rudakubana was charged with production of a biological toxin in violation of Section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974. The PDF file found by Merseyside Police on Rudakubana's computer was titled Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants – the al-Qaida Training Manual; Rudakubana had been in possession of the document as early as August 29, 2021. He was referred to the Home Office anti-extremism program Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021. The first time was for researching school shootings during an IT class. The second time was for uploading two images of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to Instagram. And the third time after a teacher noticed he had left two internet tabs open researching the London Bridge terror attacks on a school computer during a lesson. He pleaded guilty to all sixteen charges against him: three counts of murder, ten counts of attempted murder, one count of possession of a knife, one count of ricin production, and one terror-related charge. The prosecution claimed they could not identify the murders as terrorism, but suggested that Rudakubana's motivation may have been "the commission of mass murder as an end in itself". Rudakubana was sentenced to life imprisonment at Liverpool Crown Court on January 23, 2025 with a minimum term of 52 years imprisonment. The start of the sentencing was twice loudly interrupted by Rudakubana pleading for medical assistance. After a warning from the judge, he was removed from the courtroom. His age at the time of the murders meant that he could not be sentenced to a whole life order, for which a person must be aged at least 21. His parents are Evangelical Christian Tutsi originally from Rwanda. The riot was the largest incident of social unrest in England since 2011, when a black man was shot by police. By August 8th at least 177 rioters had been imprisoned, to an average sentence of around two years and up to nine-years, in relation to the unrest. The following month 1,280 arrests and nearly 800 charges had been made, and as of July 2025, the number of arrests increased to 1,840 with 1,103 charges.

July 30 – In Florida v. Benefield, popularly known as the Black Swan case, the jury found Ashley Benefield guilty of the manslaughter of her husband, Douglas Benefield.

July 31 - Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated at his residence in Tehran, Iran.

July 31 - Moussa Dadis Camara, the former military ruler of Guinea, is found guilty of crimes against humanity in the massacres that occurred in 2009 and is sentenced to twenty years in prison by a Guinean court.

August 1 – 2024 American–Russian prisoner exchange: 26 individuals are released from Ankara Esenboğa Airport in the largest prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia since the Cold War.

August 1 - The Utah Supreme Court rules that the state's abortion ban, which has been blocked since June 2022, should continue to be blocked.

August 1 - The Biden administration announces its recognition of opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia of the Democratic Unitary Platform as the legitimate winner of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election instead of President Nicolás Maduro of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.

August 2 – In United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohamm, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin revokes a plea deal with three men who are accused of plotting the September 11 attacks, effectively reinstating it as a death penalty case.

August 3 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam elects Tô Lâm as the new General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, succeeding Nguyễn Phú Trọng, who died on July 19.

August 3 - Princess Iman bint Hussein of Jordan is born. Her father is the Crown Prince and is considered to be a 42nd-generation direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad.

August 3–10 – Hurricane Debby makes landfall in Florida before moving across and affecting the East Coast of the United States. In total, Debby killed 10 people and caused $7 billion in damage.

August 5 – Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina announces her resignation and flees to India following nationwide protests.

August 6 – Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' leader in the Gaza Strip, is appointed as the chairman of Hamas' political bureau.

August 6 - The FBI announces that they have launched an investigation into Tennessee representative Andy Ogles as a result of allegedly fraudulent campaign spending. A search warrant was issued on August 2, and his cell phone had been seized.

August 6 - A wrongful death lawsuit is filed in King County, Washington for $50 million by the family of French deep sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who perished in the Titan submersible implosion while diving to the wreck of the Titanic during the previous calendar year.

August 6 - Recreational cannabis sales begin in Ohio.

August 7 – The Move Forward Party is dissolved and Pita Limjaroenrat, alongside other senior politicians from the party, are banned from politics by the Constitutional Court of Thailand.

August 8 – Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus assumes office as Chief Adviser of an interim government formed after Sheikh Hasina's resignation in Bangladesh.

August 8 – Utah executes convicted murderer and rapist Taberon Honie, the state's first execution since 2010. He murdered and raped his ex-girlfriend's mother, Claudia Benn, in 1998.

August 9 – Voepass Flight 2283, an ATR 72, crashes near Vinhedo, São Paulo, Brazil, killing all 62 people on board.

August 11 – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that the Ukrainian military is conducting a cross-border offensive inside Russia's western Kursk Oblast. Russia says that 76,000 people have been evacuated from the region.

August 14 - The World Health Organization declares monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern for the second time in two years, following the spread of the virus in African countries.

August 14 - The Constitutional Court of Thailand dismisses the Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for illegally appointing a minister to his cabinet who had a prison sentence. Paetongtarn Shinawatra succeeds him as Prime Minister of Thailand.

August 15 – Five people are charged in relation to the death of Friends star Matthew Perry. He drowned on October 28, 2023 while on ketamine.

August 17 – Indonesia's 79th Independence Day celebration is held in Nusantara. The celebration is supposed to inaugurate Nusantara as the new capital of Indonesia, but this does not occur due to delays.

August 19 – Former representative George Santos pleads guilty to identity theft and wire fraud.

August 19–22 – The 2024 Democratic National Convention takes place at the United Center in Chicago, where Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are officially nominated as the party's choice for President and Vice President, respectively, in the upcoming election in November.

August 20 - Federal judge Charles Ralph Simpson III dismisses two felony charges against the two police officers who were involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor, determining that her boyfriend was ultimately responsible for her death by firing at the two law enforcement officials and, thus, prompting them to retaliate.

August 20 - Federal judge Leonie Brinkema rules that people who are positive for HIV cannot be barred from enlisting in the United States Armed Forces.

August 23 – In Solingen, Germany, a Syrian immigrant stabs three people to death, which leads to the intensification of the debate on migration in Germany.

August 23 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his campaign for the presidency and endorses Donald Trump.

August 24 – In Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, 600 civilians are victims of a massacre by Islamists associated with Al-Qaeda.

August 24 – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health places the towns of Douglas, Oxford, Plymouth, Sutton, and Webster on high alert after a patient is diagnosed with mosquito-vectored eastern equine encephalitis in the state's first case since the 2019–2020 outbreak.

August 25 – The Israel Defense Forces begin a series of preemptive strikes against targets in the south of Lebanon.

August 27 - A jury in a Los Angeles federal court finds disbarred attorney Thomas Girardi guilty of four counts of wire fraud after he was accused of stealing $15 million in settlement funds from his clients.

August 27 - Special Counsel Jack Smith issues revised charges against former President Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 election.

August 28 – September 8 – The 2024 Summer Paralympics are held in Paris, France.

August 29 – The US Army issues a rebuke of Donald Trump's presidential campaign over an incident at Arlington National Cemetery, in which a federal employee was "abruptly pushed aside" and Trump posed for a photo opportunity at soldiers' gravestones.

August 30 - The Michigan Supreme Court rules that businesses cannot get state compensation over pandemic closures.

August 30 - The Maryland Supreme Court rules that, after being vacated in 2022, Adnan Masud Syed's convictions and sentences should be reinstated due to procedural errors. He was convicted of murdering Hae Min Lee in 1999 in a case made famous by the podcast 'Serial.'

August 31 – A helicopter crashed in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, killing all 22 occupants on board.

August 31 – The body of American-Israeli citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin is recovered from the Rafah tunnels. Goldberg-Polin had been kidnapped from the Re'im music festival on October 7, 2023, and was held by Hamas for almost a year until his execution one to two days before his body was found.

August 31 – September 9 - Typhoon Yagi is the strongest typhoon in 70 years to strike Vietnam, according to the country’s government, and the strongest typhoon to strike Hainan, China during the meteorological autumn, and the strongest since Rammasun in 2014. It is one of the four Category 5 super typhoons recorded in the South China Sea, alongside Pamela in 1954, Rammasun in 2014 and Rai in 2021. In total, the typhoon caused at least 844 deaths, 2,279 injuries, and left 129 people missing. Yagi also damaged, flooded or destroyed over 741,800 structures, resulting in over $14.7 billion in damage across eight countries.

September 2 – The Brazilian Supreme Court upholds a decision to block the social media platform X (also known as Twitter) over what the Brazilian government determined to be rampant disinformation and Elon Musk's failure to name a legal representative to the country.

September 2 - 2024 Chicago train shooting: Four homeless people are randomly killed during a mass shooting on a CTA train in suburban Chicago.

September 2 - The US seizes a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and flies it from the Dominican Republic to Florida.

September 4 - Apalachee High School shooting: Four people are killed and nine are injured during a mass shooting at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia.

September 4 - A federal indictment alleges that Tennessee-based company Tenet Media, whose employees have included center libertarian left influencer Tim Pool and homosexual libertarian Dave Rubin, has functioned as a Russian government-backed disinformation campaign.

September 5 - Hunter Biden enters an Alford plea to nine federal counts, including tax evasion and filing false tax returns. In an Alford plea a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence, but accepts imposition of a sentence.

September 5 - The US signs a treaty with the European Union, the United Kingdom, and seven other countries, which is the first in history on the use of artificial intelligence systems.

September 6 – Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American International Solidarity Movement activist, is killed while participating in a protest against the IDF near Nablus.

September 7 – 2024 Algerian presidential election: Incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune is reelected for a second term.

September 7 – Interstate 75 Kentucky shooting: Five people are injured when a man opens fire at passing cars on Interstate 75 near London, Kentucky.

September 9–12 – Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana and causes flooding across the Gulf Coast of the United States, causing $1.5 billion in damage.

September 10 – Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris participate in a debate hosted by ABC News at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

September 10 - A jury finds Shawn Laval Smith guilty for the murder of Brianna Kupfer, in Los Angeles, California.

September 12 - Heavy rainfall in Central Europe triggers the worst flooding in the region since 2010.

September 12 - The first commercial spacewalk is conducted by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as part of the Polaris Dawn mission, which also includes the highest altitude orbit by a human crew since the Apollo program.

September 14 – Arizona governor Katie Hobbs signs a bill that repeals the state's 1864 ban on abortion.

September 15 – Ryan Wesley Routh is accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach Golf Club in Florida. Routh is later captured and arrested. His trial began on September 8, 2025, and his jury was selected the following day. On September 11, Routh delivered an opening argument that began with a series of tangential historical references unrelated to his case, which lasted five minutes before Judge Cannon stopped him and ordered the jury out of the room. On September 23rd, Routh was found guilty on all federal counts. The jury deliberated for around two and a half hours. While the verdict was being read in the courtroom, Routh grabbed a black pen and repeatedly attempted to stab himself in the neck, before Marshals tackled him to the ground and picked him up, before dragging him out of the courtroom. Routh faces life in prison, and his sentencing is scheduled for December 18, 2025.

September 16 – Sean "P. Diddy" Combs is arrested in Manhattan and charged with racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.

September 17 - A three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upholds the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking of underage girls in relation to Jeffrey Epstein.

September 17 - California governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill which prohibits the replacement of actors with artificial intelligence under state law.

September 17–18 – Thirty-two people are killed and more than 3,200 are injured after pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah militants and medics explode in two massive cyberattacks. Israel is the presumed perpetrator.

September 18 – Democrat Donald Payne Jr. of New Jersey's 10th congressional district died in April 2024 following a heart attack caused by complications of diabetes. Democrat LaMonica McIver defeated Republican Carmen Bucco in the special election for the fully urban district.

September 18 - Food storage container firm Tupperware files for bankruptcy, amid declining sales.

September 18 - Kentucky governor Andy Beshear issues an executive order to ban the practice of conversion therapy in the state.

September 19 – 2024 Major League Baseball season: Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers becomes the first MLB player in history to join the 50–50 club, stealing over 50 bases and hitting over 50 home runs in a single season.

September 20 – Israel assassinates Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil and ten other senior leaders in Beirut following an intensification of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in the wake of the pager explosions that occurred earlier in the week.

September 20 – South Carolina carries out its first execution since 2011 with convicted murderer Freddie Eugene Owens. In 1997 he and an accomplice killed convenience store clerk Grainger Graves during a robbery.

September 21 – 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election: Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected President of Sri Lanka, with a second round of vote counting held for the first time in Sri Lanka's history.

September 21 – September 2024 Birmingham shooting: Four people are killed and 17 are injured in a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama.

September 22 – 2024 Major League Baseball season: The Chicago White Sox become the first American League team to reach 120 losses in a season and second in MLB history after the National League's 1962 New York Mets.

September 23 – The deadliest day of the Hezbollah–Israel conflict since 2006 occurs, with 569 people killed and 1,835 wounded by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon.

September 24 - Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is sentenced to 24 months in jail for fraud charges.

September 24 - Marcellus Williams is executed in Missouri for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, despite calls from the victim's family and the prosecutor to spare his life.

September 25 – New York City mayor Eric Adams is indicted following federal corruption investigations.

September 26 – Hurricane Helene, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Maria in 2017, makes landfall in Florida as a category four hurricane. It has a death toll of 236 and leaves more than 685 missing.

September 26 – The Nevada Supreme Court orders the dismissal of the sex crime trial against Nathan Chasing Horse. His deputy public defender had argued that some evidence presented to the grand jury, including an improper definition of grooming that was presented without expert testimony, had tainted the state's case. And that prosecutors failed to provide the grand jury with exculpatory evidence, including inconsistent statements made by one of the victims.

September 27 – The Israeli Air Force bombs the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, killing several people, including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

September 27 – September sees the greatest number of inmates executed at five, within a one-week span since July 2003 with the execution of Alan Eugene Miller. He was convicted of the August 1999 murders of three men in Pelham, Alabama, and was sentenced to death in 2000.

September 27–30 – Hurricane Helene kills at least 215 and leaves 685 people missing in the southeast.

September 29 – 2024 Austrian legislative election: Far-right Freedom Party secures a historical victory, but does not reach a majority in the National Council. The results are deemed the first far-right win since World War II.

September 30 – The UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power for electric generation, after 142 years of using the energy source.

October 1 - The Israel Defense Forces invade southern Lebanon, escalating its conflict against Hezbollah.

October 1 - The Japanese parliament elects Shigeru Ishiba as the new prime minister of Japan, with members from the Liberal Democratic Party forming the majority. Following his appointment, he reveals his cabinet and calls for a snap election on October 27, securing a national mandate.

October 1 - Iran attacks Israel with ballistic missiles as a response to Israel's assassination of Hassan Nasrallah and Ismail Haniyeh.

October 1 - Jimmy Carter turns 100 years old, making him the first U.S. president to become a centenarian. He died on December 29 after nearly two years in hospice care due to melanoma that metastasized to his brain and liver.

October 1 - The vice-presidential candidates, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator JD Vance, debate in New York City which is hosted by CBS News.

October 1 - 2024 United States port strike: Dockworkers at 36 ports begin three days of strike action, due to disagreements over compensation and the use of automation.

October 1 - California officially bans fracking.

October 3–20 – The 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup is held in the United Arab Emirates, and is won by New Zealand.

October 6 - The 2024 Kazakh nuclear power referendum is held and approved.

October 6 - 2024 Tunisian presidential election: Incumbent Kais Saied is reelected for a second term.

October 7 – Hurricane Milton becomes the fourth most intense hurricane in the Atlantic Basin, and the most intense storm in the Gulf of Mexico tying with Hurricane Rita in 2005. Milton is also the first hurricane to reach a pressure below 900 millibars in nearly 20 years.

October 8 - The EPA sets a 10-year deadline to replace all lead water pipes in the United States.

October 9 – 2024 Mozambican general election: Daniel Chapo is elected president while the ruling FRELIMO party retains a majority in the Assembly of the Republic.

October 12 – The long-period comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), described as the "comet of the century", makes its closest approach to Earth.

October 13 – SpaceX achieves the first successful return and capture of a Super Heavy booster from Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever to fly.

October 14 – The Europa Clipper spacecraft is launched to investigate Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. The spacecraft used a gravity assist from Mars on March 1, 2025, and it will use a gravity assist from Earth on December 3, 2026, before arriving at Europa in April 2030. The spacecraft will then perform a series of flybys of Europa while orbiting Jupiter.

October 16 – Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas, is killed in a gunfight with Israeli forces in Rafah.

October 20 - The 2024 Moldovan European Union membership constitutional referendum is held and narrowly approved.

October 20 - Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka are inaugurated as the president and vice president of Indonesia.

October 21 – The National Assembly of Vietnam elects Lương Cường as the new president of Vietnam. He replaced Tô Lâm, who was formally promoted to the general secretary of the Communist Party.

October 24 – The first case of the 2024 Kwango province disease outbreak is reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

October 26 - Israel launches airstrikes against Iran in retaliation to Iran's ballistic missile attacks earlier in the month.

October 26 - 2024 Georgian parliamentary election: Amid suspicions of interference, ruling pro-Russian party Georgian Dream wins a majority.

October 27 - 2024 Japanese general election: The governing LDP loses its parliamentary majority for the first time since 2009, but still wins the most seats. The CDP wins its best result in party history.

October 27 - October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election: Boyko Borsiov's coalition GERB-SDS successfully forms a government after 6 snap elections.

October 27 - 2024 Lithuanian parliamentary election: The leftist opposition Social Democratic Party of Lithuania wins a majority.

October 29 - 2024 Spanish floods: Spain experiences its worst flooding in half a century, with over 200 killed and many more missing, as a year's worth of rain falls in eight hours.

October 30 - 2024 Botswana general election: The ruling BDP party is voted out of power, ending 58 years of uninterrupted governance. Duma Boko of the UDC party is elected President of Botswana.

November 3 – 2024 Moldovan presidential election: Incumbent Maia Sandu is re-elected for a second term.

November 5 - 2024 United States presidential election: Former U.S. President Donald Trump defeats incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris to win a second nonconsecutive term. Trump became the second person in American history to win a second nonconsecutive term, after Grover Cleveland in 1892.

November 5 - Following the death of California senator Dianne Feinstein in September 2023, governor Gavin Newsom called for a special election to be held concurrently with the scheduled regular election for the same seat. Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey advanced to the general election through a nonpartisan blanket primary and Schiff wins with 58% of the vote.

November 5 - Nebraska held a special election for its Class 2 Senate seat following the resignation of Ben Sasse in January 2023 to serve as president of the University of Florida. Incumbent Republican senator Pete Ricketts, who was appointed by Governor Jim Pillen, sought for a full term against Democrat Preston Love Jr. Ricketts wins with 62% of the vote.

November 5 - Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee died from pancreatic cancer in July 2024 while serving her 15th term in Texas's 18th congressional district. The sole Democratic candidate for the special election is Erica Lee Carter, the daughter of Lee. Carter wins with nearly 68% of the vote.

November 5 - Republican Mike Gallagher, who chaired the recently formed House Select Committee on China, resigned from Congress in April 2024 over his opposition to the impeachment of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The special election for Wisconsin's 8th congressional district was held between Republican Tony Wied and Democrat Kristin Lyerly. Wied wins with 57% of the vote.

November 5 - 2024 Palauan general election: Incumbent Surangel Whipps Jr. is reelected for a second term as president.

November 5 - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismisses FDP leader Christian Lindner from his position as finance minister, leading to two other FDP ministers resigning and the collapse of the governing coalition.

November 9 – A suicide bombing at the Quetta railway station in Balochistan, Pakistan kills at least 26 people. The bombing was orchestrated by the Balochistan Liberation Army, and is the first time that the organization had attacked the center of Quetta.

November 10 – 2024 Mauritian general election: The electoral alliance Lepep of incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth is defeated by that of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, with the latter taking all but two seats.

November 11–22 – The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP29, is held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

November 12 – Justin Welby announces his resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury following the publication of a report critical of his handling of the abuse of children within the Church of England by John Smyth.

November 13 – 2024 Somaliland presidential election: Opposition candidate Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi of the Waddani party is elected president.

November 14 – 2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election: President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power coalition wins a supermajority in the 17th Parliament of Sri Lanka.

November 15 – The spotted hyena is rediscovered in the Elba Protected Area of Southeast Egypt, 5,000 years after the species was believed to have been extirpated from the region.

November 16 - The 2024 Gabonese constitutional referendum is held and approved.

November 16 - French-Algerian dissident writer Boualem Sansal is put in custody by Algerian authorities after his landing in Algiers.

November 17 – 2024 Senegalese parliamentary election: President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's party PASTEF wins an absolute majority at the National Assembly.

November 21 - The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif on accusations of war crimes committed during the Gaza war.

November 21 - Terrorists in Peshawar, Pakistan, ambush a group of vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims, killing 46 and injuring 20.

November 21 - Researchers using the Very Large Telescope announce the first-ever "close-up" image of a star outside the Milky Way Galaxy, WOH G64.

November 24 – 2024 Uruguayan general election: Leftist opposition candidate Yamandú Orsi is elected president.

November 26 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that a ceasefire deal has been agreed to end fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

November 27 – 2024 Namibian general election: Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of the SWAPO party is elected as the first female president of Namibia.

November 29 – 2024 Irish general election: Centre-right party Fianna Fáil remains the largest party in Dáil Éireann, increasing its number of seats to 48.

November 30 - 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election: Opposition party Social Democratic Alliance wins 15 seats in the Althing, with the incumbent Independence Party winning 14 seats. However, no party achieved a majority.

November 30 - Syrian civil war: Opposition forces seize control of most of Aleppo, Syria, prompting the first Russian airstrikes on the city since 2016.

December 1 – 2024 Romanian parliamentary election: The incumbent National Coalition for Romania wins a plurality of votes, with far-right parties making substantial gains.

December 3 – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law during a late-night address broadcast live on YTN television, accusing the country's main opposition Democratic Party of sympathizing with North Korea and engaging in anti-state activities.

December 4 - 2024 French political crisis: Michel Barnier becomes the first prime minister of France to lose a motion of no-confidence since Georges Pompidou in 1962.

December 4 - Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, is shot and killed by a lone gunman in Midtown Manhattan, sparking debate and criticism of the health insurance industry.

December 6 – 2024 Romanian presidential election: The Constitutional Court of Romania annuls the results of the first round, amid accusations of Russian interference after the unexpected advancement of pro-Russian candidate Călin Georgescu to the runoff.

December 7 - 2024 Ghanaian general election: John Mahama of the NDC is elected president for a second non-consecutive term.

December 7 - The Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens to the public after previously being damaged by a structural fire in 2019.

December 8 – Syrian civil war: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flees from Damascus to Moscow after being overthrown, ending his presidency and the Ba'athist Syria regime after a total of 61 years. The Syrian opposition forms the Syrian transitional government as a provisional government.

December 11 – FIFA announces that Morocco, Portugal and Spain will jointly host the 2030 World Cup, with anniversary matches to be held in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, while Saudi Arabia is confirmed as the host for 2034.

December 12 – Indian chess prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju defeats former world champion Ding Liren in the 2024 World Chess Championship, breaking the previous age record of 22 set by Garry Kasparov by becoming champion at 18 years, 195 days old.

December 14 - 2024 Georgian presidential election: Mikheil Kavelashvili of People's Power is elected unopposed.

December 14 - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's powers and duties are suspended after MPs vote to impeach him, following his martial law declaration the previous week.

December 14 - Cyclone Chido makes landfall in Mayotte, causing at least 172 deaths and bringing devastating damage to the island.

December 17 – The capital of Vanuatu, Port Vila, suffers extensive damage after a Mw 7.3 earthquake. At least 16 people are killed.

December 19 - The Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán has granted political asylum to Polish MP of Law and Justice Marcin Romanowski, who is wanted on the European Arrest Warrant for being accused of defrauding 100 million zł from the Fundusz Sprawiedliwości (Justice Fund) when he was deputy minister of justice during the PiS government.

December 19 - Mazan rapes trial: The Judicial Court in Avignon, France, finds Dominique Pelicot guilty of the aggravated rape of his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot and imposes the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The 50 other defendants in the case are also convicted of crimes ranging from attempted rape to aggravated rape, and receive prison sentences ranging from three to 15 years.

December 20 – Six people are killed, while another 323 are injured, after a car is driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.

December 21 – Thirty-nine people died and another seven are injured after a multiple-vehicle collision occurs on the BR-116 highway in Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is the deadliest traffic accident on federal highways in Brazil since 2007, when numbers were first monitored.

December 24 - The 2025 Jubilee in the Catholic Church begins.

December 24 - The Parker Solar Probe breaks the previous record set in 2018 for the closest artificial object to the Sun by reaching 3.8 million miles from the surface, becoming the closest and first man-made object to approach and "touch" the Sun. Its beacon signal was received on the 26th, showing that it had survived the passage through the corona.

December 25 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, an Embraer ERJ-190AR, crashes in Kazakhstan. Twenty-nine out of the 67 on board survive the crash.

December 27 – Acting President of South Korea Han Duck-soo is impeached by MPs for failing to promulgate two bills related to president Yoon's legal proceedings. He is succeeded by deputy prime minister Choi Sang-mok.

December 29 - Jeju Air Flight 2216, a Boeing 737-800 passenger flight from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, veers off the runway at Muan International Airport and crashes into a barrier, killing 179 people. Two injured survivors are reported.

December 29 - A truck carrying passengers falls off a bridge over the Ganale Doria River in Bona Zuria, Sidama Region, Ethiopia, killing 71 people and injuring 4 others.

December 29 – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter dies at the age of 100 in Plains, Georgia.

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