2022: Year in Review

January 1 - Following the 2018 enactment of the Music Modernization Act, all sound recordings fixed before 1923 enter the public domain in the U.S.; alongside that, books, films, and other works published in 1926 enter the public domain as well.

January 1 – The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the largest free trade area in the world, comes into effect for Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

January 2 – Da Hoss, a champion Thoroughbred gelding best known for winning the Breeders' Cup Mile two times, dies at age 29.

January 2 – Abdalla Hamdok resigns as Prime Minister of Sudan amid deadly protests.

January 3 - Apple Inc. becomes the first publicly traded company to exceed a market value of $3 trillion.

January 3 - Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is found guilty of defrauding investors.

January 3 - COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: The number of daily infections in the U.S. exceeds one million for the first time, with a total of 1.08 million reported cases, driven largely by the Omicron variant.

January 4 – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States—all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—issue a rare joint statement affirming that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."

January 5 – Twelve people are killed and two others injured in a fire at a converted apartment complex in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

January 5 - Lawrence Brooks, supercentenarian and nation's oldest living man and oldest World War II veteran, dies at age 112.

January 5 – A nationwide state of emergency is declared in Kazakhstan in response to the 2022 Kazakh unrest. The cabinet of prime minister Askar Mamin resigns, while president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev removes former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, widely regarded as being the real power in the country, from his position as Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan.

January 6 – The CSTO deploys a "peacekeeping" mission in Kazakhstan, including Russian paratroopers, following a request by Kazakh president Tokayev.

January 7 – The three defendants convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery are sentenced to life in prison. Both McMichaels are sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, while William Bryan is sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 30 years.

January 7 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 300 million worldwide.

January 9 – Seventeen people are killed and at least 44 others injured in a fire at an apartment complex in The Bronx, New York City, New York.

January 9 - Bob Saget, comedian and television presenter (America's Funniest Home Videos) and actor (Full House, How I Met Your Mother), dies at age 65 after falling in a hotel room.

January 9–February 6 – The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations is held in Cameroon, with Senegal winning their first championship.

January 10 - The United States Mint announces they have started shipping the first of the American Women quarters, starting with poet Maya Angelou, the first African American woman to be featured on a U.S. quarter.

January 10 - 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship: Georgia defeats Alabama to win the national championship, its first since 1980.

January 10 - The world's first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient is reported at University of Maryland Medical Center.

January 10 - Robert Durst, real estate executive and convicted murderer (subject of The Jinx), dies at age 78 of cardiac arrest.

January 12 - Everett Lee, violinist, and conductor, dies at age 105.

January 13 – COVID-19 vaccination in the United States: The Supreme Court blocks the Biden administration from enforcing its vaccine-or-test requirements for large private companies. However, it allows a vaccine mandate to stand for medical facilities that take Medicare or Medicaid payments.

January 15 - Glenn Youngkin is sworn in as governor of Virginia. Youngkin subsequently signs multiple executive orders, including barring the teaching of critical race theory in public schools, creating a commission to help fight against antisemitism, and enacting various measures to combat human trafficking.

January 15 - A gunman takes multiple people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel, a Jewish synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. He is later shot and killed by police, with no other fatalities and all four hostages being rescued.

January 15 – A large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai, a submarine volcano in Tonga, triggers tsunami warnings in Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United States.

January 16 - Charles McGee, fighter pilot (Air Force/Army Air Forces) and member of the Tuskegee Airmen and Congressional Gold Medal recipient, dies at age 102.

January 16 - Jeremy Sivits, army reservist and convicted war criminal, dies at age 42 from COVID-19.  He was one of several soldiers charged and convicted by the U.S. Army in connection with the 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Baghdad, Iraq, during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

January 16 - Moses J. Moseley, an American actor and writer and model known for his work on the series The Walking Dead, dies at age 31 from a gunshot wound.

January 16 – World No. 1 tennis champion Novak Djokovic is deported from Australia following a high-profile legal case regarding his COVID-19 vaccination status, preventing his participation in the 2022 Australian Open.

January 17 - Patricia Kenworthy Nuckols, Hall of Fame field hockey player (national team) and WASP pilot, dies at age 100.

January 18 - Microsoft purchases Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The deal is the largest acquisition of a tech company in history.

January 19 – COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: The Biden Administration is reported to be freely providing 400 million N95 masks to Americans to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

January 20 - Meat Loaf, an American rock singer and actor with a powerful wide-ranging voice, dies at age 74 from COVID-19.  He was famous for his theatrical live shows and is on the list of best-selling music artists. While growing up, he attended church with his mother and studied the Bible, which influenced his work. Several of his songs, such as "40 Days" and "Fall from Grace", have religious themes. He prayed every night.  In 1997, he performed at an inaugural ball during the second inauguration of Bill Clinton, but after that he supported Republicans.

January 20 - Popcorn Deelites, an American thoroughbred race horse best known for his career in film, dies at age 23.

January 21 - Louie Anderson, comedian and actor and game show host, dies at age 68 from Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

January 23 - Tropical Storm Ana kills 115 people in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique, days after a series of floods killed 11 people in Madagascar.

January 23 - A coup d'état in Burkina Faso removes president Roch Kaboré from power. The Burkinabé military cites the government's failure to contain activities of Islamist militants within the country as a reason for the coup.

January 27 – January 31 – The Northeast experiences a major blizzard which stretches from Delaware to Nova Scotia.

January 27 - Matthew Reeves, known for the 1996 murder of Willie Johnson, is executed by lethal injection at the age 44.  Reeves' case generated attention due to claims he was intellectually disabled, with an IQ score in the 60s.

January 28 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 10 billion.

January 30 - Art Cooley, biology teacher and naturalist and expedition leader and co-founder of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), dies at age 87.

January 30 - Cheslie Kryst, television presenter and beauty queen, dies at age 30 by jumping from a high-rise apartment building in Midtown Manhattan.

January 30 – 2022 Portuguese legislative election: The Socialist Party, led by António Costa, wins an "unexpected" majority of 117 seats.

February 1 – February 9 – February 2022 North American winter storm: A major winter storm, known colloquially as Winter Storm Landon or the Groundhog Snowstorm, affects much of the eastern and Midwest from Texas to Maine, with Alabama receiving concurrent tornadoes as well.

February 3 – The share price of Meta falls by 26.4%, with Facebook losing $230bn in its market value, the biggest one-day loss in history for a US company. This follows an earnings report showing the company's first ever drop in daily user numbers.

February 3 - Manuel Bromberg, artist and Guggenheim Fellow and World War II veteran and Professor Emeritus of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz, dies at age 104.

February 3 – Lani Forbes, an American author of young adult novels most known for her fantasy series Age of the Seventh Sun, dies at age 34 from stage IV high grade neuroendocrine carcinoma.

February 3 – Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is killed in Atme during a counter-terrorism raid by U.S. special forces in north-western Syria.

February 4 – COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: The cumulative death toll from the virus exceeds 900,000.

February 4 - Ashley Bryan, children's author, and illustrator, dies at age 98 of congestive heart failure.

February 4 - Kyle Mullen, football player and SEAL candidate, dies at age 24 following the "Hell Week" portion of Navy SEAL training.

February 4 – China and Russia issue a joint statement opposing further NATO expansion, expressing "serious concerns" about the AUKUS security pact, and pledging to cooperate with each other on a range of issues.

February 4–20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics are held in Beijing, China, making it the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.

February 5 - Santonio Beard, former football player for the Alabama Crimson Tide, dies at age 41 from a gunshot wound.  He was involved with illegal drugs.  He briefly played in the NFL for the Packers, Raiders, and Broncos.

February 5 - Oscar Chaplin III, Olympic weightlifter, dies at age 41.

February 5 – Cyclone Batsirai kills a total of 123 people across Madagascar, Mauritius, and Réunion two weeks after Tropical Storm Ana killed 115 people in the same region.

February 6 - Haven J. Barlow, former member of the Utah House of Representatives and Utah Senate, dies at age 100.

February 7 – Freedom Convoy 2022: Protesters at the Ambassador Bridge, connecting Ontario with Detroit, Michigan, and one of the busiest international border crossings in North America, blockade the border crossing in response to vaccine mandates for truckers re-entering Canada. Four days later, on February 11, the Ontario Superior Court grants an injunction to remove protesters from the bridge.

February 9 – The biggest breakthrough in fusion energy since 1997 is reported at the Joint European Torus in Oxford, the UK, with 59 megajoules produced over five seconds (11 megawatts of power), more than double the previous record.

February 12 - Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film director and producer, dies at age 75.  Films he directed include Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Dave (1993), and Junior (1994). Reitman also served as producer for such films as National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Space Jam (1996), and Private Parts (1997).  In 2014, he said "I've always been something of a conservative-slash-libertarian."

February 13 – 2021 NFL season: The Los Angeles Rams win Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium, defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 23–20, the second consecutive Super Bowl won and played at one of the teams' home fields.

February 13 - John Keston, British-born stage actor and runner, dies at age 97.  He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II.  At age 76, he set a world age record when he ran a 3:22:59 marathon in the Portland Marathon.  At ages 80 and 85, Keston set world age records for 12-kilometers in the Bloomsday Run in Spokane, Washington.

February 15 – NASA warns that sea levels in the U.S. may rise as much over the next 30 years as during the previous 100 years.

February 15 - P. J. O'Rourke, libertarian humorist and journalist and author, dies at age 74 from lung cancer.  He typed his manuscripts on an IBM Selectric typewriter, though he denied being a Luddite, asserting that his short attention span would have made focusing on writing on a computer difficult.

February 16 - Gail Halvorsen, American pilot, dies at age 101 from respiratory failure.  He was born in Salt Lake City and died in Provo, Utah.  He is best known as “The Candy Bomber" for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.  Halvorsen's operation dropped over 23 tons of candy to the residents of Berlin.

February 17 – Representative Jim Hagedorn of Minnesota's 1st congressional district dies at age 59 after a battle with kidney cancer.

February 17 - Gilbert Postelle, mass murderer, dies at age 35 by lethal injection.  On May 30, 2005, Memorial Day, Postelle, his brother David Postelle, father Brad Postelle, and another man, Randall Wade Byus, shot and killed four people in a "blitz attack" at a home in Oklahoma City.

February 17 - Martin Tolchin, journalist and author and co-founder of The Hill and Politico, dies at age 93 from cancer.  He attended the University of Utah and was in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

February 17 - Clarence Williams, football player for the Florida State Seminoles and Buffalo Bills, dies at age 47 in a traffic collision.  His nickname was Pooh Bear.

February 18 - Brad Johnson, model for Marlboro Man and actor, dies at age 62 of COVID-19 complications.

February 18 - Lindsey Pearlman, actress for General Hospital and Chicago Justice, dies at age 43 from suicide by intentional overdose of sodium nitrite.

February 19 - David Boggs, electrical and radio engineer, and co-inventor of Ethernet, dies at age 71 from heart failure.

February 19 - Nightbirde, singer-songwriter, dies at age 31 from cancer.  Nightbirde auditioned on America's Got Talent in 2021, where she received a Golden Buzzer for her original song "It's OK".  Her real name was Jane Kristen Marczewski.

February 20 - Bob Beckel, political analyst, and pundit, dies at age 73.  Friends and colleagues paid tribute to Beckel including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Cal Thomas.  He was an original co-host of The Five.  He originally supported abortion, but after reading the Bible he changed his view.

February 21–24 – Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree declaring the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and, despite international condemnation and sanctions, begins a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

February 22 - The Amazing Johnathan, magician and stand-up comedian, dies at age 63 of heart failure.

February 24 - The Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 fall sharply in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Oil prices exceed $100 a barrel for the first time since 2014.

February 24 - President Biden announces new, stronger sanctions that will "impose severe cost on the Russian economy, both immediately and over time." He condemns President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, calling him an "aggressor".

February 24 - Gary North, Christian social theorist, and economist, dies at age 80 from prostate cancer.  He supported the establishment and enforcement of Bible-based religious law, a view which put him in conflict with other libertarians. He believed that capital punishment is appropriate punishment for male homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, abortion, and witchcraft.

February 25 – President Biden nominates District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer.

February 26 - President Biden signs an order to provide $600 million of military assistance to Ukraine.

February 26 - The US and its allies commit to removing Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system, as well as imposing measures on the Russian Central Bank and further restrictions on Russian elites.

February 26 - Snootie Wild, rapper, dies at age 36 from gunshot wounds.  He spent four years in prison from the age of 21 to 25.  His real name was LePreston Porter III.

February 27 - Richard C. Blum, investor, and husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, dies at age 86 from lung cancer.

February 27 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Putin orders Russia's nuclear deterrent forces to be on "special alert", their highest level, in response to what he calls "aggressive statements" by NATO.  The move is condemned by the US.

February 27 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: European nations ban Russian flights in their airspace.

February 27 - In a constitutional referendum, Belarus votes to revoke its non-nuclear status and to allow the country to host Russian forces permanently.

February 28 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change. It concludes that many impacts are on the verge of becoming "irreversible".

February 28 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian and Ukrainian officials meet on the Belarus-Ukraine border for the first round of peace talks, with no resolution.

February 28 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Football governing bodies FIFA and UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions.

February 28 - 2022 Russian financial crisis: In an unprecedented move, Switzerland, Monaco, Singapore and South Korea impose unilateral sanctions over Russia including the introduction of export controls and asset freezes.

March 1 – President Biden gives his first official State of the Union Address.

March 1 - Katie Meyer, Stanford University soccer player, dies at age 22 by suicide.  In 2015, she was featured in the Soccer Superstar reality show on Nickelodeon.

March 1 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: World Athletics bans both Russia and Belarus from competing in all of its events.

March 1 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: In an emergency session, United Nations member states pass a resolution deploring Russia's invasion of Ukraine and calling for the immediate withdrawal of its forces.

March 2 - Autherine Lucy, civil rights activist and first black student to attend the University of Alabama, dies at age 92.  In 2010 a clock tower was erected in her honor on its campus.  Her grandniece, Nikema Williams, is a member of the House of Representatives and chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia.

March 2 - Shane Olivea, former football player for the San Diego Chargers, dies at age 40 from hypertensive heart disease contributed by obesity.  During his playing career, he became addicted to pain killers.

March 2 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia seizes its first large city, the Black Sea port of Kherson, as shelling intensifies across many parts of Ukraine, including civilian areas.

March 2 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: The United Nations reports that over a million refugees have now fled from Ukraine to other countries.

March 2 - The International Criminal Court begins an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine.

March 3 - Thomas B. Hayward, Navy admiral and chief of naval operations, dies at age 97.  One of Hayward's squadron mates in VF-51 was future astronaut Neil Armstrong, who became his lifelong friend.  He had success in the zero tolerance "Not in my Navy" drug program.

March 3 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia is condemned by world leaders following an attack by its troops on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – the largest in Europe – which led to a fire at the site.

March 3 - The National Assembly of Armenia elects incumbent minister of High-Tech Industry and former mayor of Yerevan, Vahagn Khachaturyan, as president of Armenia following the resignation of Armen Sarkissian.

March 4 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: An Afghan man on behalf of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province commits a suicide attack at a Shia mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing 63 people.

March 4–13 – The 2022 Winter Paralympics are held in Beijing, China, making it the first city to host both Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics.

March 5 – Researchers in the Antarctic find Endurance, one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks, which sank in 1915 during Ernest Shackleton's exploration.

March 7 – The Supreme Court of the United States denies the petition for a writ of certiorari to review an appeal of last year's bombshell ruling on the part of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that released Bill Cosby by both vacating his convictions due to the rape of Andrea Constand as well as barring any future prosecution over such crime. No line of reasoning is provided by any of the justices.

March 7 – COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 6 million.

March 8 – Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is indicted on conspiracy charges of obstructing the U.S. Congress during the January 6 attack at the United States Capitol.

March 8 - David Bennett Sr., first person to undergo a genetically modified heart xenotransplantation, dies at age 57.  He was given a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig because he was ineligible for a standard human heart transplant. The pig had undergone specific gene editing to remove enzymes responsible for producing sugar antigens that lead to hyperacute organ rejection in humans. The US medical regulator gave special dispensation to carry out the procedure under compassionate use criteria.  He died two months after the transplantation.

March 8 - Johnny Grier, football official and first black referee in the NFL in 1988, dies at age 74.  He officiated in one Super Bowl, Super Bowl XXII in 1988, which was the same game in which Doug Williams became the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl.

March 8 - Gyo Obata, architect dies at age 99.  He designed several notable buildings, including the McDonnell Planetarium and GROW Pavilion at the Saint Louis Science Center, the Independence Temple of the Community of Christ church, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois.  His father Chiura was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher at Berkeley.

March 8 - Sargur Srihari, Indian-American scientist, dies at age 72 from complications of glioblastoma.  The principal impact of his work has been in handwritten address reading systems and in computer forensics.

March 8 – The US and UK announce a ban on Russian oil, while the EU announces a two-thirds reduction in its demand for Russian gas.

March 9 - Donald Pinkel, pediatrician and first director and CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital from 1962–1973, dies at age 95.  Pinkel made contributions to cures for several forms of childhood cancer, including leukemia.

March 9 - 2022 South Korean presidential election: People Power Party candidate Yoon Suk-yeol is narrowly elected President of South Korea.

March 9 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia is condemned by world leaders following an air strike in Mariupol that destroys a hospital including a maternity and children's ward.

March 10 – The 2022 MLB Lockout comes to an end after 99 days after a new CBA is agreed to, with the season delaying its start to April 7 but still playing all 162 games.

March 10 - Robert Cardenas, Mexican-born air force brigadier general, dies at age 102 on his birthday.

March 10 - Emilio Delgado, Sesame Street actor, dies at age 81 from multiple myeloma.  Delgado joined the cast in 1971 and remained until his contract was not renewed in late 2016, as part of Sesame Workshop's retooling of the series.

March 10 - Mario Gigante, mobster from the Genovese crime family, dies at age 98.

March 10 - Odalis Pérez, Dominican-born baseball player, dies at age 44 after falling from a ladder.  Pérez was alone at home at the time of death.

March 10 – The National Assembly of Hungary elects former minister for Family Affairs, Katalin Novák, as president of Hungary in a 137–51 vote.  Novák is the first woman to hold the presidency, as well as the youngest president in the history of Hungary, elected at the age of 44.

March 11 - Brad Martin, country singer, dies at age 48.

March 11 - Cora Faith Walker, member of the Missouri House of Representatives, dies at age 37 from non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.

March 11 – Gabriel Boric is sworn in as President of Chile. He becomes the youngest head of state in the nation's history and the first to be born during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

March 12 – 2022 Turkmenistan presidential election: Serdar Berdimuhamedow, son of former President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, wins with 89% of the total votes.

March 13 - William Hurt, American actor, dies at age 71 from prostate cancer.  He starred in A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Tuck Everlasting, The Village, Syriana, Into the Wild, The Incredible Hulk, Robin Hood (2010), Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Black Widow.

March 13 - Brent Renaud, 50, photojournalist and writer and filmmaker, dies at age 50.  According to Ukrainian officials, he was killed on by Russian soldiers while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Irpin city near Kyiv.

March 14 - Steve Wilhite, computer scientist, dies at age 74 from COVID-19.  He worked at CompuServe and was the engineering lead on the team that created the GIF image file format in 1987. GIF went on to become the de facto standard for 8-bit color images on the Internet until PNG (1996) became a widely supported alternative.  On the pronunciation, he said “It is a soft 'G', pronounced 'jif'.”

March 15 - Amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the Senate passes a resolution condemning President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal.

March 15 - Russia announces sanctions on several U.S. officials, banning President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and others from entering the country.

March 15 - Arnold W. Braswell, Air Force lieutenant general and veteran of the Korean War and the Vietnam War, dies at age 96.

March 15 - Marrio Grier, football player for the New England Patriots, dies at age 50.

March 15 - Marilyn Miglin, Czechoslovakian-born entrepreneur, and television host on the Home Shopping Network, dies at age 83 from complications of a stroke.  She has been referred to as the "Queen of Makeovers".  Miglin garnered significant media attention as the widow of Lee Miglin, a business tycoon and philanthropist who was murdered in 1997 by the spree killer Andrew Cunanan.  Her second husband died only months after their wedding.

March 15 - Eugene Parker, solar physicist, dies at age 94.  In the 1950s he proposed the existence of the solar wind and that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral, predictions that were later confirmed by spacecraft measurements. In 1987, Parker proposed the existence of nanoflares, a leading candidate to explain the coronal heating problem.  In 2017, NASA named its Parker Solar Probe in his honor, the first NASA spacecraft named after a living person.

March 16 - Mish Michaels, Indian-born meteorologist for The Weather Channel, dies at age 53.

March 16 – 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: A Russian airstrike on the Mariupol Theatre in Mariupol kills an estimated 600 civilians sheltering inside.

March 18 - Eugene E. Habiger, USAF four-star general, Commander in Chief for the United States Strategic Command, and Director of Security and Emergency Operations, U.S. Department of Energy, dies at age 82.  He was a command pilot with more than 5,000 flying hours, primarily in bomber aircraft. During the Vietnam War, he flew 150 combat missions and participated in the B-52 Arc Light operations.

March 18 - Don Young, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Alaska Senate, and Alaska House of Representatives, dies at age 88 while on a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle.  He was the longest-serving Republican in congressional history, having been the U.S. representative for Alaska's at-large congressional district for 49 years.  He was replaced by Democrat Mary Peltola.

March 20 - Brent Petrus, football player for the New York Dragons of the AFL, dies at age 46.

March 20 - John V. Roach, microcomputer pioneer who the led development of the TRS-80 desktop computer, dies at age 83.

March 21 – COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana: New Orleans lifts its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for bars and restaurants.

March 21 – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing all 133 people on board.

March 22 - Grindstone, a Thoroughbred racehorse known for winning the 1996 Kentucky Derby, dies at age 29.  Grindstone was retired five days after his Kentucky Derby victory, when a bone chip was discovered in his knee.  He was the first horse since Bubbling Over in 1926 to be retired immediately following a win in the Kentucky Derby.

March 23 - Madeleine Albright, Czech-born politician, and first female U.S. Secretary of State, dies at age 84 from cancer.  Albright was a co-investor with Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and George Soros in a $350 million investment vehicle called Helios Towers Africa, which intends to buy or build thousands of mobile phone towers in Africa.

March 23 - Charles G. Boyd, Air Force four-star general, dies at age 83 from lung cancer.  Boyd was a highly decorated combat pilot who served in Vietnam and is the only Vietnam War prisoner of war to reach the four-star rank.  A command pilot, with over 2,400 flight hours, he flew F-100s and F-105s in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He was shot down on April 22, 1966 while on his 105th mission.  Boyd endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election, the first candidate he had ever publicly endorsed.

March 23 - Edward Johnson III, businessman, dies at age 91.  He and his daughter Abigail Johnson, owned and ran Fidelity Investments and Fidelity International. In April 2021, his net worth was estimated at $8.2 billion.  He was ranked by Forbes as the 57th richest person in America.  He served in the United States Army.

March 24 – In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams lifts the vaccine mandate for unvaccinated athletes from teams like the New York Yankees, New York Mets, and Brooklyn Nets. This clears the way for many New York-based athletes to participate in home games.

March 24 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: NATO announces that four new battlegroups totaling 40,000 troops will be deployed in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, along with enhanced readiness for potential chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.

March 25 – In college basketball, Saint Peter's becomes the first 15th seed to advance to the Elite Eight following a 67-64 win against Purdue.

March 25 - Taylor Hawkins, Hall of Fame musician and drummer for the Foo Fighters, dies at age 50 after suffering from chest pain.  Colombian authorities announced that a preliminary urine toxicology test indicated that Hawkins had ten substances in his system at the time of his death, including opioids, benzodiazepines, tricyclic antidepressants, and THC.  Before joining the band in 1997, he was a touring drummer for Alanis Morissette.  Along with the other members of Foo Fighters, Hawkins starred as himself in the comedy horror film Studio 666, released on February 25, 2022.  He posthumously appears on select tracks on Ozzy Osbourne's 2022 album Patient Number 9.

March 26 – U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska's 1st congressional district resigns from Congress after a California jury convicts him of lying to authorities about an illegal campaign donation from a foreign national, effective March 31.

March 26 - Keaton Pierce, singer and frontman for Too Close to Touch, dies at age 31 due to complications brought on by acute pancreatitis.

March 27 – The 94th Academy Awards, hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes, are held at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Sian Heder's CODA is awarded Best Picture, along with an additional two awards, including Troy Kotsur for Best Supporting Actor. Denis Villeneuve's Dune receives the most awards with six, while Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog leads the nominations with twelve, with Campion winning Best Director.  During the show, Will Smith slaps Chris Rock on stage, after the comedian makes a joke about his wife's alopecia; Smith later apologizes.  The telecast garners 60% stronger viewership than the 2021 ceremony, though remains the second-least-viewed ceremony since Nielsen began keeping records, with 16.62 million viewers.

March 27 – The M23 offensive begins in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

March 28 – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which among other provisions, would ban certain discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in school classrooms from kindergarten to third grade. The law went into effect on July 1 and is known by its critics, especially supporters of the Democratic Party, as the Don't Say Gay bill.

March 29 – President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, which makes lynching a federal crime.

March 29 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is admitted to the East African Community.

March 30 – The United States Men's National Team qualifies for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, their first appearance since the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

March 31 – Expo 2020 closes in Dubai after a 6-month run; originally scheduled for April 10, 2021, it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 1 - All data from the 1950 U.S. Census is released to the public.

April 1 - Amazon workers at the JFK8 in Staten Island vote 2,654–2,131 to form the Amazon Labor Union, making them the first workers to unionize.

April 3 – A mass shooting occurs in Sacramento, California. Six people are killed and twelve others are injured.

April 3 - Gerda Weissmann Klein, Polish-born writer, and human rights activist, dies at age 97.  Both of her parents and her older brother Arthur were murdered in the Holocaust.  Gerda was deemed fit for work and sent to a labor camp. As she and others boarded trucks, Gerda jumped out in a frantic effort to reunite with her mother who was slated for a death camp. According to Weissmann Klein's account, Moshe Merin, head of the local Jewish Council Judenrat, threw her back in her truck, saying "You are too young to die."  Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust, All but My Life (1957), was adapted for the 1995 short film, One Survivor Remembers, which received an Academy Award and an Emmy Award, and was selected for the National Film Registry. She married Kurt Klein in 1946.

April 3 - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: As Russia's forces retreat from areas near Kyiv, it is accused by Ukraine of war crimes, amid mounting evidence of indiscriminate civilian killings, including the Bucha massacre.

April 3 - The second round of voting of the 2022 Costa Rican general election is held, and Social Democratic Progress Party presidential candidate Rodrigo Chaves Robles is elected president.

April 6 – The first known dinosaur fossil linked to the very day of the Chicxulub impact is reported.

April 7 - The Senate unanimously passes legislation to ban imports of oil, gas, and coal from Russia.

April 7 - Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first black woman confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice in a 53–47 vote.  Three Republicans voted for her: Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney.

April 9 - Dwayne Haskins, football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins, dies at age 24 after he was struck by a dump truck while attempting to cross Interstate 595 near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on foot after his rental car ran out of gas.

April 10 - John Drew, basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks and Utah Jazz, dies at age 67 from Stage IV bone cancer.  He played eleven seasons in the NBA, was a two-time NBA All-Star, and was the first player banned under the substance abuse policy instituted by league commissioner David Stern.  He set the Alabama High School Athletic Association career scoring average record with 41 points per game.  Drew was traded along with Freeman Williams and cash to the Utah Jazz on September 2, 1982, in exchange for Dominique Wilkins.  He went on to play three seasons with the franchise.  He finished his NBA career with 15,291 points and averages of 20.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per game.

April 11 - Wayne Cooper, NBA player for the Golden State Warriors, Utah Jazz, Dallas Mavericks, Portland Trail Blazers, Denver Nuggets, dies at age 65 from kidney disease.  He was the Denver Nuggets’ all-time leader in blocks when he left the franchise in 1989.  After his playing career ended, he worked as an executive with the Trail Blazers and Sacramento Kings.  Throughout his NBA career, Cooper played in 984 games and scored a total of 7,777 points in the regular season.  He appeared in the 1990 NBA Finals and 1992 NBA Finals, both with the Trail Blazers.

April 12 - 2022 New York City Subway attack: Twenty-nine people are injured, 10 by gunfire, in a mass shooting at 36th Street station, in Brooklyn, New York.

April 12 - 2022 Major League Baseball season: In baseball, San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken becomes the first woman to coach on the field during a Major League Baseball regular season game during the team's matchup against the San Diego Padres.

April 12 - Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signs into law a near-total abortion ban, except for cases when the mother's health is in danger.

April 12 - New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin resigns after being indicted for bribery, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and two counts of falsification of records.

April 12 - South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is impeached over his 2020 car crash, in which he killed a pedestrian but initially said he might have struck a deer or another large animal.

April 12 - Gilbert Gottfried, actor and comedian, dies at age 67 from recurrent ventricular tachycardia, complicated by type II myotonic dystrophy.  He had not made his condition public.  He was known for voicing Iago in the Aladdin animated franchise, and the Aflac Duck.  The documentary Gilbert (2017) explored his life and career; it won the Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2017 deadCENTER Film Festival.  Three weeks after the September 11 attacks, Gottfried joked that he had intended to catch a plane but could not get a direct flight because "they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first". This was one of the first public examples of 9/11 humor. Audience members responded with hisses and a cry of "too soon!".

April 12 - Cedric McMillan, bodybuilder, dies at age 44 of a heart attack. His last victory was the 2017 Arnold Classic.  McMillan was one of the leading bodybuilders of the 21st century, with a classic physique that recalls the 'golden age' of bodybuilding over the larger physiques of the present era.  McMillan resided in Columbia, South Carolina, where he was a sergeant first class and an instructor at Fort Jackson, SC.  McMillan joined the US Army after high school.

April 12 - Shirley Spork, golfer and co-founder of the LPGA Tour, dies at age 94.  Spork finished second at the 1962 LPGA Championship.  As a player, she started in her early teens and continued to play golf into her nineties.  Two weeks before Spork passed, it was announced that she, along with the other 12 founders of the tour, would be inducted into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame.  She was an only child and never married.

April 13 – A Kentucky bill banning abortion after 15 weeks of gestation (styled on Mississippi's bill) and restricting its access to minors comes into force after the state legislature overrides the veto by Governor Andy Beshear.

April 13 - Two people are killed and 200 homes are reportedly damaged during the McBride Fire in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

April 13 - Tim Feerick, rock bassist for Dance Gavin Dance, dies at age 33 from a fentanyl overdose.  The band has achieved four top-twenty albums in the US, including one top 10, and have become one of the most popular music groups in post-hardcore.

April 13 - Laura Harris Hales, writer, historian, and podcaster, dies at age 54 from pancreatic cancer at her home in Kaysville, Utah.  Hales and her second husband, Brian C. Hales, published extensively on Joseph Smith and his polygamy and maintain the website JosephSmithsPolygamy.org.  Hales edited a series of essays, A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History, that provide complex context and answers for troubling aspects of the LDS Church's past.  “There is a need for a broader discussion of 19th-century Latter-day Saint women who cry out for identities beyond a wife number or an age,” she said in an interview with the church's website From the Desk discussing the era of polygamy in the Latter-Day Saints. “Filtering their lives only through their relationships to their husbands does little to resolve the silences of women’s history.”  She divorced her first husband Brian Dursteler in 2005; the couple had five children.

April 14 - Rio Hackford, American actor, dies at age 51 of uveal melanoma.  He was known for playing the recurring role of Toby in the American drama television series Treme.  He also appeared in Jonah Hex and The Mandalorian.  He began his career in 1990, first appearing in the film Pretty Woman, where he played the uncredited role of a street junkie.  He was the son of film director Taylor Hackford.

April 15 - Bob Chinn, restaurateur, dies at age 99.  His most well-known creation is Bob Chinn's Crab House, in Wheeling, Illinois, which opened in 1982 and was ranked by Forbes magazine in August 2012 as the top grossing restaurant in America with an estimated $24 million in revenue.  Chinn was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1923 to Chinese immigrant parents from Taishan, Guangdong.  He would move with his family during the Great Depression to Chicago where the family owned the New Wilson Village, an Uptown restaurant.  Chinn would later serve in the US Army as part of an artillery unit during World War II.  After the war he started several of his own restaurants. Bob Chinn's Crab House is his 14th and most successful establishment and was opened in 1982.

April 16 – The inaugural 2022 USFL season begins with the Birmingham Stallions taking on the New Jersey Generals, marking the return of the USFL for the first time since 1985.

April 16 - Zippy Chippy, thoroughbred racehorse, dies at age 30.  He was a gelding who is notable for being winless in 100 races.  He was featured in the 2020 children's picture book, The True Story of Zippy Chippy: The Little Horse That Couldn't.  He was previously featured in the 2016 book The Legend of Zippy Chippy: Life Lessons from Horse Racing’s Most Lovable Loser.

April 17 – 2022 Pittsburgh shooting – Two people are killed and 14 are injured in a shooting in Pittsburgh.

April 17 - Midnight Bourbon, thoroughbred racehorse, dies suddenly at age 4 from an "acute gastrointestinal situation".  He won the 2021 Lecomte Stakes and came second in the 2021 Preakness Stakes and Travers Stakes and 2022 Saudi Cup.  His sire Tiznow is the only horse to win the Breeders' Cup Classic race twice.

April 18 – Federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle strikes down the federal mask mandate on public transportation, ruling that the CDC failed to follow proper rule-making procedures.

April 19 – Governor Ron DeSantis suggests that the Florida legislature revoke Disney World's special self-governing privileges over its 25,000-acre (10,000-hectare) property—privileges that were granted to the company in 1967. The move was generally interpreted as retaliation against Disney for opposing the state's Parental Rights in Education Act.

April 19 - Brad Ashford, Nebraska politician and one term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, dies at age 72 from brain cancer.

April 20 - Ralph Kiser, reality television personality, dies at age 56 from a heart attack.  He was a contestant on Survivor: Redemption Island which was filmed in 2010 in Nicaragua and premiered in 2011, marking the 22nd season of the series.  He was the 12th person voted out and was a farmer from Lebanon, Virginia.

April 21 - Carl Wayne Buntion, convicted murderer, dies at age 78 from a lethal injection.  He became the oldest inmate to be executed in Texas.  When he was a child, his father murdered a man in front of one of his sons and was violent towards his whole family.  In one incident, he smashed his wife's teeth.  Buntion sustained broken bones from the abuse and said he had post-traumatic stress disorder because of it.  One of his brothers served a twenty-year sentence for an unrelated crime.  In 1990, Buntion was the passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over by 37-year-old Houston Police Department officer James Irby.  He began speaking with the driver, and Buntion exited the vehicle and shot Irby once in the head.  Irby fell to the ground, and Buntion shot him twice in the back. Buntion fled the scene, shooting at others who were nearby.  After killing Irby, he attempted to shoot at a driver during a carjacking attempt, fired at another officer and held another person at gunpoint before he was arrested.  At the time of the shooting, Buntion had been on parole, after serving thirteen months of a fifteen-year sentence for sexually assaulting a child. In 1971, his twin brother, Kenneth Buntion, was killed by two police officers during a shootout. At the time, Buntion had supposedly vowed to avenge his brother's death. In addition, he had allegedly told a companion that he would rather shoot it out with police than be sent back to prison.  At one point, Buntion was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.  During his time on death row, Buntion found religion and spent time reading his Bible.

April 23 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 21–0, marking it the largest defeat in Pirates history and the largest victory in Cubs history.

April 23 - Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera becomes the 33rd member of the 3,000 hit club, and the first Venezuelan-born player to join.

April 23 - Orrin Hatch, Utah politician and member of the U.S. Senate, dies at age 88 from complications of a stroke he had the week prior.  Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican U.S. senator in history, overtaking Ted Stevens, until Chuck Grassley surpassed him in 2023.  He was chair of the Senate Finance Committee from 2015 to 2019, and led efforts to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.  Hatch, who grew up in poverty, was the first in his family to attend college; he attended Brigham Young University and earned a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1959. He also fought 11 bouts as an amateur boxer.  In 1962, Hatch received a Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.  Hatch has stated that during law school, he and his young family resided in a refurbished chicken coop behind his parents' house.

April 25 – After weeks of speculation, Elon Musk proposes to acquire social media website Twitter for $44 billion.

April 25 - Andrew Woolfolk, Hall of Fame saxophonist for Earth, Wind & Fire, dies at age 71 after a long illness.  In 2017, Woolfolk was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame.

April 26 - Luke Allen, baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Colorado Rockies, dies at age 43.

April 26 - Daniel Dolan, Catholic sedevacantist bishop, dies at age 70.  Sedevacantism (Latin: Sedevacantismus) is a doctrinal position within traditionalist Catholicism, which holds that the present occupier of the Holy See is not a valid pope due to the Pope's espousal of one or more heresies and that, for lack of a valid pope, the See of Rome is vacant.

April 28 - The Bureau of Economic Analysis releases data showing that in the first quarter of 2022 GDP declined at an annual rate of 1.4%, marking the first time GDP shrank since the second quarter of 2020.

April 29 – Casey White prison escape: Assisted by prison guard Vicky White (no relation), both escape the Lauderdale County jail in Alabama.

April 30 - Naomi Judd, country singer, dies at age 76 from suicide with a firearm.  In 1980, she and her daughter Wynonna (born Christina Claire) formed the duo known as The Judds, which became a very successful country music act, winning five Grammy Awards and nine Country Music Association awards. The Judds ceased performing in 1991 after Naomi was diagnosed with hepatitis; while Wynonna continued to perform as a solo artist, she occasionally reunited with her mother for tours as The Judds.  A day after her death, she and Wynonna were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

May 1 - Millie Bailey, World War II veteran (WAC) and civil servant, dies at age 104.  She was a fundraiser for education, health, and military service personnel. Bailey was one of the first African American officers in the Women's Army Corps and served as a commander of the Women's Colored Detachment. Bailey was a division director in the Social Security Administration.  She knew historian John Hope Franklin from her upbringing in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Speaking of her experiences, Bailey shared she did not experience gender discrimination but that the troops were racially segregated.  In contrast, Bailey also shared that her commanding general, a white man, treated her with kindness while she was at a training camp in San Antonio.  From 1982 to 1993, Bailey served on the Maryland Health Resources Planning Commission and was involved with the approval of the first Magnetic resonance imaging and CT scanners in the state.  Bailey met her future husband, William Bailey, on April 10, 1943, the same day she was commissioned.  They married after leaving the U.S. Army. The couple had no children. In 1970, they moved to Columbia, Maryland, where Bailey resided for the rest of her life. She enjoyed traveling and had been to fifty countries as of 2013.  For her 100th birthday wish, Bailey expressed a desire for true equality for future generations.  In 2020, she went skydiving at the age of 102.

May 1 - Kathy Boudin, political activist for Weather Underground and convicted murderer in the 1981 Brink's robbery, dies at age 78 from cancer.  The radical leftist served 23 years in prison. The robbery resulted in the killing of two Nyack, New York, police officers and one security guard, and serious injury to another security guard.  Boudin was a founding member of the militant Weather Underground organization, which engaged in bombings of government buildings to express opposition to U.S. foreign policy and racism. She was released on parole in 2003 and after earning a doctorate became an adjunct professor at Columbia University.  Her paternal grandparents had emigrated from Russia and Austria.  Her great-uncle was Marxist theorist Louis B. Boudin, while her brother is conservative U.S. Judge Michael Boudin. Her mother’s brother-in-law was radical journalist I.F. Stone.  Her son Chesa Boudin was raised by former Weatherman leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.  Kathy Boudin was a model for the title role in David Mamet's play The Anarchist (2012).  She also was a model for Willy Holtzman's Off-Broadway play Something You Did (2008).  Boudin was an inspiration for the character Merry in Philip Roth's American Pastoral.  Her son was the District Attorney of San Francisco, and he was recalled with 55% of the vote.  He was heavily criticized for mismanagement of the office and for his softness on crime.

May 1 - Jerry verDorn, soap opera actor for One Life to Live and Guiding Light, dies at age 72 from cancer.  VerDorn became one of Guiding Light's longest-running cast members, debuting in the role on March 19, 1979 and portraying the character of Ross for over 26 years. He won Daytime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in 1995 and again in 1996. VerDorn also portrayed Ross in a 1983 television movie, The Cradle Will Fall.  On January 8, 2013, verDorn became the first actor to sign on for the revival of One Life to Live that aired on The Online Network.

May 2 - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis convenes a grand jury to start a process to decide whether to indict former President Donald Trump over his role in allegedly pressuring Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election results.

May 2 - A bombshell report by Politico leaks the first version of draft opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States. Written for the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Associate Justice Samuel Alito writes a majority opinion overturning the landmark decisions in the cases of both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which would thereby remove federal protections for abortion access.  On January 19, 2023 the Supreme Court released a report saying it had still not found the leaker.

May 2 - Kailia Posey, beauty pageant contestant and reality show contestant on Toddlers & Tiaras, dies at age 16 from suicide by hanging at a park in Blaine, Washington.  When she was five years old, she became the subject of the "Grinning Girl" internet meme.  Posey won the title of Miss Lynden Teen in 2021.

May 2 - Rob Stein, political strategist, dies at age 78.  He launched the Democracy Alliance, which provided seed money to America Votes, Media Matters, and the Center for American Progress. Stein was instrumental in replicating Republican financial strategies in the Democratic Party.

May 3 – Chief Justice John Roberts responds to the bombshell report from the previous day by both confirming that the first draft of the opinion is authentic and ordering the Marshal of the United States Supreme Court to commence an investigation into the source of the leak.

May 3 - Carman L. Deck, convicted murderer, dies at age 56 by lethal injection.  He was officially charged and arrested for six felonies. Among those felonies were a count of first-degree robbery, a count of first-degree burglary, two counts of armed criminal action, and two counts of first-degree murder.  He was involved in the United States Supreme Court case Deck v. Missouri.  In a 7–2 opinion delivered by Justice Breyer, the court held that it is against due process, a right prescribed by the 5th and 14th Amendments, to shackle a defendant in the sentencing portion of a trial unless the shackling relates to a specific defendant and certain state interests.  In the dissent, delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas and joined by Justice Scalia, it was stated that shackling Deck was not excessive as he had already been convicted, and since the jury knew of Deck's conviction, his shackling would not have shocked the members of the jury.  Regarding the shackles biasing the jury, Thomas stated, “shackles may undermine the factfinding process only if seeing a convicted murderer in them is prejudicial.”

May 4 – The Federal Reserve raises its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point from a range between 0.25 percent and 0.50 percent to a range between 0.75 percent to 1 percent, the biggest increase since May 2000.

May 5 - Justin Constantine, Marine Corp lieutenant colonel and attorney, dies at age 52.  While deployed to Iraq as a Civil Affairs officer attached to a Marine infantry battalion for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2006, he suffered a gunshot wound to the head, from which he recovered. He then went on to be an inspirational speaker and executive at a firm that helps veterans find jobs.  He served on the board of directors of the Wounded Warrior Project was a brand ambassador for JDog Junk Removal.  He was painted by former President George W. Bush for his book "Portraits of Courage".  Constantine joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1997 during his second year of law school at the University of Denver. While on active duty, he served as a Judge Advocate specializing in criminal law and was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, and Camp Pendleton, California.  He left active duty in 2004 but volunteered as a reservist for deployment to Iraq in 2006.

May 5 - Du'Vonta Lampkin, football player for the Tennessee Titans and Massachusetts Pirates, dies at age 25 after being shot during a robbery.

May 5 - Kevin Samuels, YouTuber, dies at age 57 after chest pains caused by hypertension.  He rose to popularity in 2020 and was considered a polarizing figure based on his YouTube and Instagram live streams discussing modern society and relationships.  He studied chemical engineering at the University of Oklahoma, but was not able to graduate due to having cancer at age 21.  He accumulated 1.4 million subscribers on YouTube, 1.2 million followers on Instagram and thousands on several other online platforms like Twitter and TikTok.  The New York Times wrote he built an image as a "plain-spoken, hypermasculine authority" who advocated for "strict gender roles" in which men assumed predominance.  In addition, he strongly criticized the black community for failing to meet traditional values, especially concerning its high out-of-wedlock birth rate and relatively low marriage rate.  Samuels was married and divorced twice, and had a daughter.

May 6 - George Pérez, comic book artist and writer, dies at age 67 due to complications from pancreatic cancer.  He came to prominence in the 1970s penciling Fantastic Four and The Avengers for Marvel Comics. In the 1980s he penciled The New Teen Titans, which became one of DC Comics' top-selling series.  He was known for his detailed and realistic rendering, and his facility with complex crowd scenes.  He was married but had no children.

May 8 - John R. Cherry III, film director and screenwriter, dies at age 73 from Parkinson's disease.  He was most notable for creating the character of Ernest P. Worrell, played by Jim Varney.  His son Josh appeared in Ernest in the Army as Corporal Davis.  Cherry retired the Ernest character after Varney's declining health made it impossible for him to continue in the role (Varney died in 2000).

May 8 - Harry Dornbrand, aerospace engineer, dies at age 99.  He was a leading figure in the development of satellite technologies during the early space race era.  The technologies and projects he developed and managed for Fairchild and NASA in the 1960s and 1970s were critical for the advancement of satellite technology worldwide and pioneered new applications like geosynchronous satellite television broadcasting and orbital scientific experimentation. He was a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 1974 he was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for his success managing the ATS-6 satellite program; the highest honor awarded to a non-government employee by that organization.

May 8 - Fred Ward, American actor and producer, dies at age 79.  His roles included Escape from Alcatraz, The Right Stuff, Tremors, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, and Sweet Home Alabama.  He was part Cherokee.  His father was an alcoholic criminal who was repeatedly imprisoned and his mother left him when Fred was three.  He was then raised by his grandmother until his mother had rebuilt her life and remarried a carnival worker.  Before acting, Ward spent three years in the United States Air Force. He was also a boxer (breaking his nose three times) and worked as a lumberjack in Alaska, a janitor, and a short-order cook. He studied acting at New York's Herbert Berghof Studio after serving in the U.S. Air Force. While living in Rome, he dubbed Italian movies into English and appeared in films by neorealist director Roberto Rossellini.  Ward married his 3rd wife Marie-France Boisselle in 1995 and she filed for divorce in August 2013, but they reconciled later that year.

May 9 – Casey White prison escape: Casey White is caught in Evansville, Indiana alongside former corrections officer Vicky White during their prison break. Vicky later takes her own life and Casey is sent back to Alabama where he was being held. Casey's trial is scheduled to begin on December 12.

May 9 - John L. Canley, Marine Corp Gunnery Sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient, dies at age 84 from cancer.  He was a recipient of the United States military's highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in January/February 1968 during the Battle of Huế during the Vietnam War.  At the time of this action Canley was a gunnery sergeant with Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. Canley was originally awarded the Navy Cross but this was upgraded to the Medal of Honor, which was presented on October 17, 2018 by President Donald Trump. The Expeditionary Sea Base USS John L. Canley (ESB-6) is named for him.  His daughter Patricia Sargent performed the christening of the 784-foot ship on June 26, 2022.

May 9 - Midge Decter, non-fiction writer, dies at age 94.  Originally a liberal, she was one of the pioneers of the neoconservative movement in the 1970s and 1980s.  Her family was Jewish.  She was also a founder of the Independent Women's Forum as an alternative to feminist tenets.  Decter served on the national advisory board of Accuracy in Media.  In 2008, she received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.  Her second husband was Norman Podhertz and their son is John Podhertz.

May 9 - John Leo, journalist, dies at age 86 from Parkinson’s disease and COVID-19.  He was noted for authoring columns in the National Catholic Reporter and U.S. News & World Report, as well as for his reporting with The New York Times and Time magazine. He later became editor-in-chief of "Minding the Campus", a conservative-libertarian web site focusing on America's colleges and universities.  After retiring from journalism, he joined the Manhattan Institute as a senior fellow in 2007.  Leo served on the board of advisers of the Columbia Journalism Review for a decade and on the church-state committee of the American Civil Liberties Union for two years.

May 9 - Adreian Payne, basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Juventas Utina in Lithuania, dies at age 31 after being shot by Lawrence Dority.  During the 2013–14 college basketball season, Payne's friendship with Lacey Holsworth, an 8-year-old cancer patient, gained national media attention.  Their friendship started when Payne met Holsworth during a team-sponsored hospital visit in 2011 and the two began to text and talk frequently afterward.  Holsworth, who had neuroblastoma, accompanied Payne at center court on Senior Night and helped him cut down the nets after 2013–14 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team won the Big Ten men's basketball tournament.  Holsworth, also known as "Princess Lacey", died from her cancer on April 8, 2014.  He played 107 games in the NBA and averaged 4 points and 2.9 rebounds.

May 11 - Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian-born American journalist for Al Jazeera, dies at age 51.  While covering a raid by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on the Jenin Refugee camp in the West Bank, Abu Akleh, who was wearing a blue vest with "PRESS" written on it, was shot, and killed.  She worked as a reporter for the Arabic-language channel for 25 years, and was one of the most prominent names across the Middle East for her decades of reporting in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Over the course of her career, she reported on numerous major events affecting Palestinians, while also analyzing Israeli politics. Her televised reporting and distinctive sign-offs became common knowledge, and, as a leading journalist in the Arab world, she was a source of inspiration for many other Palestinians and Arabs, particularly as a role model for Arab women intent on pursuing careers in journalism.

May 11 - Clarence Dixon, convicted murderer, dies at age 66 by lethal injection.  He was convicted of the 1978 murder of 21-year-old Deana Lynne Bowdoin in Tempe, Arizona. The murder went unsolved until 2001, when DNA profiling linked him to the crime. Dixon, who was serving a life sentence for a 1986 sexual assault conviction, was found guilty of Bowdoin's murder, and was formally sentenced to death on January 24, 2008.

May 11 - Trevor Strnad, singer for The Black Dahlia Murder, dies at age 41.  His cause of death has not been released, but a statement suggested that it may have been a suicide.  The band’s name is derived from the 1947 unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, often referred to as Black Dahlia.

May 11 - Randy Weaver, survivalist who lived at Ruby Ridge mountain range in Idaho, dies at age 74 after being sick for a month.  In 1992 his wife and son were killed by federal agents.  His family eventually received a total of $3.10 million in compensation.  'Educated' author Tara Westover's grandfather Gene was friends with the Weaver family.  Partially as a result of reading the 1978 book The Late Great Planet Earth, the couple began to harbor more fundamentalist beliefs, with his wife Vicki believing that the apocalypse was imminent.  The siege and standoff were ultimately resolved by civilian negotiator Bo Gritz who was instrumental in getting Weaver to allow family friend Kevin Harris to get medical attention.  In April 1996, Weaver accompanied Bo Gritz to Jordan, Montana, where Gritz was to attempt to negotiate a conclusion to the Montana Freemen standoff. However, Weaver was not allowed by the FBI to enter the Freemen's holdout.  In 1998, Weaver published “The Federal Siege at Ruby Ridge: In Our Own Words”, which he partly sold in person at gun shows.  On June 18, 2007, Weaver participated in a press conference with tax protesters Edward and Elaine Brown on the front porch of their home in Plainfield, New Hampshire.  He declared, "I ain't afraid of dying no more. I'm curious about the afterlife, and I'm an atheist."  Randy Weaver and the siege at Ruby Ridge have been the focus of several documentaries.

May 12 – The Senate seeks to pass a bill of bipartisan support on aid to Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Senator Rand Paul blocks the bill from obtaining a speedy vote.

May 12 - Larry Holley, college basketball coach for William Jewell Cardinals, Central Methodist Eagles, and Northwest Missouri State Bearcats, dies at age 76.  His 919 career wins made him one of only 10 four-year college coaches to amass 900 career wins, and he won 61% of his games. He ranks first all-time in career wins among four-year, college coaches coaching only at Missouri colleges and universities.  Holley's teams won 20 games in a season 24 times and have posted both a 45-game conference winning streak and a 43-game home court winning streak.  He received 14 Coach of the Year awards and was elected to the Greater Kansas City Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, the Missouri Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, the NAIA Hall of Fame and the William Jewell College Athletic Hall of Fame.

May 12 - Robert McFarlane, lieutenant colonel and national security advisor under Reagan, dies at age 84 from a lung condition.  Within the Reagan administration, McFarlane was a leading architect of the Strategic Defense Initiative, a project intended to defend the US from Soviet ballistic missile attacks.  He resigned as National Security Adviser in late 1985 because of disagreements with other administration figures but remained involved in negotiations with Iran and with Hezbollah.  McFarlane was a central figure in the Iran–Contra affair, an operation in which the Reagan administration funneled weapons to Iran and diverted the profits to illegally fund right-wing rebels in Nicaragua. When the scheme came to light, administration officials implemented a plan to insulate Reagan and senior officials by focusing blame on McFarlane.  He ultimately pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor counts and admitted that he had hidden information about the Reagan administration's support of the Contras from Congress. Suffering from guilt over his role in the scheme and feeling betrayed by Reagan, who, McFarlane later wrote, "approved every single action I ever took" but "lacked the moral conviction and intellectual courage to stand up in our defense and in defense of his policy." McFarlane attempted suicide in 1987.  He was later pardoned, along with several other figures in the Iran-Contra scandal, by President George H. W. Bush shortly before he left office.  After his pardon, McFarlane operated a consulting business. He was investigated by the FBI in 2009 over concerns that he was illegally lobbying on behalf of the Sudanese government of Omar al-Bashir but was not charged with any crime.  McFarlane was the son of Texas Democratic Congressman William McFarlane.  Robert McFarlane was criticized for having involved the United States armed forces in the Lebanon Civil War with gunship bombardment of Lebanese opposition forces which may have led to the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing where 241 American servicemen were killed.  He was an advisor to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.

May 13 – Federal judge Liles C. Burke blocks the implementation of a law in the state of Alabama that criminalizes prescribing gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors.

May 13 - Lil Keed, rapper, dies at age 24 of eosinophilia.  His real name was Raqhid Jevon Render.  His song "Nameless" reached number 42 on the Billboard Hip Hop/R&B Songs Airplay chart.  After the death of his close friend Rudy, Render started taking rapping seriously in 2016.  He has 6 brothers and 1 sister; his younger brother is rapper Lil Gotit.  Despite his parents separating at an early age, both were present in Render's upbringing. During his teenage years, Keed worked briefly at Subway and McDonald's.  Render had a daughter named Naychur.

May 14 - Across the country, thousands of people organize to protest the leaked draft from the Supreme Court in defense of abortion rights.

May 14 - A shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York leaves ten people dead. The 18-year-old gunman livestreamed the carnage on Twitch. Reports indicate that this was motivated by white supremacy and a manifesto shows that the gunman cites other white supremacist terrorists from past shootings. Once convinced against committing suicide, the suspect is promptly arrested.

May 15 – A shooting at a Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods, California leaves one person dead. The suspect was arrested and authorities determined that the hate crime was motivated by tensions and disputes related to Political status of Taiwan and China.

May 16 - The Supreme Court rules that section 304 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which limits the amount of money that can be donated to a campaign after an election for the purposes of repaying a political candidate who self-funded such campaign, is unconstitutional.

May 16 - COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: The official death toll since the start of the pandemic exceeds one million.

May 16 - Hilarion, Canadian-born bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, dies at age 74 following a lengthy period of ill health.  His parents were Ukrainian immigrants; he spoke their language at home, but his schooling was in English.  He walked two and a half miles to school each day.  From a young age, around 6 or 7, he knew that he wanted to become a priest.

May 16 - Epaminondas Stassinopoulos, ethnic Greek, German-born American astrophysicist, writer, and World War II resistance member, dies at age 101.  He served as the Head of the Radiation Physics Office at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center until 2006, when he transitioned to Emeritus status until 2021. He was the author of numerous papers and articles in the field of space radiation.  He spent his childhood in Berlin, Brandenburg, where his grandfather Johann von Paschalides had been knighted by Kaiser Wilhelm II for supplying the German Army with tobacco during World War I. Stassinopoulos and his older brother John were assaulted by the Hitler Youth in 1935, and, after recovering in a hospital, were sent to Athens, Greece, in 1935 to escape Nazism. In Greece, Stassinopoulos served as a member of the Greek resistance (the EKKA resistance movement and the 2nd Bureau for Intelligence and Counterintelligence) after the Axis occupation of Greece in 1941 in the Hellenic State.  After being drafted to serve in the 1st Infantry Division of the Greek Army during the Greek Civil War from 1946 to 1949, and fighting in the battles of Grammos-Vitsi, Malimathi, Konitsa, and on the Albanian border; Stassinopoulos studied law, and then emigrated to the United States in 1954 with his wife and infant daughter.  He has three grandchildren.

May 17 – The United States House of Representatives holds a hearing on UFOs, the first such hearing in over fifty years.

May 17 - Marnie Schulenburg, soap opera actress for As the World Turns, One Life to Live, and Tainted Dreams, dies at age 37 from metastatic breast cancer.  She was married and had a daughter.

May 18 - An adult male in Massachusetts becomes the first person in the U.S. to be infected during a new outbreak of monkeypox, as growing case numbers are reported in several other countries.

May 18 - President Joe Biden invokes the Defense Production Act of 1950 to address a shortage of baby formula across the country.

May 19 - The Department of Energy announces a multibillion-dollar project to encourage the development of carbon dioxide removal technologies.

May 19 - The United States Senate passes another $40 billion in aid to Ukraine.

May 19 - My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell is sanctioned by federal judge Carl J. Nichols for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic.

May 20 – A tornado touches down in Gaylord, Michigan, killing two people and injuring another 44 as well as leaving thousands without electricity and causing widespread property damage.

May 21 – Federal judge Robert R. Summerhays grants a nationwide preliminary injunction to a group of state attorneys generals that sued the Biden administration over its plans to end Title 42, ruling that the federal government cannot end the policy while the broader legal challenge plays out in court.

May 23 - Anaheim mayor Harry Sidhu resigns due to an investigation by the FBI over various federal crimes.

May 23 - The last public payphone is removed from New York City and transferred to a museum.

May 24 – In one of the deadliest school shootings in American history, nineteen children and two adults are killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The 18-year-old shooter is killed at the scene in a shootout with police.

May 25 – Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk: Twitter shareholders bring a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk for market manipulation over his attempted acquisition of the social media platform.

May 26 - In response to the Robb Elementary School shooting, students around the country walk out of classes to protest inaction over gun violence on the part of the government.

May 26 - The Southern Baptist Convention releases a lengthy list consisting of the identities of its ministers who had engaged in sexual abuse for more than a decade.

May 26 - Broadcom announces it will purchase VMware in a $61 billion cash and stock deal, which becomes the second-largest M&A deal announced this year.

May 26 - Ray Liotta, American actor known for Goodfellas, Something Wild, and Field of Dreams, and Emmy winner for a guest role in ER, dies at age 67 in his sleep.  Having been abandoned at an orphanage, he was adopted at the age of six months by township clerk Mary (née Edgar) and auto-parts store owner Alfred Liotta.  His adoptive parents were of Italian and Scottish descent.  Alfred was a personnel director and president of a local Democratic Party club.  His adoptive parents each unsuccessfully ran for local political office; he recalled attending parades to hand out flyers for his father's run.  Liotta had a sister, Linda, who was also adopted. He said that he knew he was adopted as a young child, and presented a show-and-tell report on it for kindergarten.  He hired a private detective to locate his biological Irish mother in the 2000s, from whom he learned his family was mostly of Scottish descent.  He had one biological sister, one biological half-brother, and five biological half-sisters.  Liotta grew up in a Roman Catholic household in Union, New Jersey, although his family was not especially religious.  They attended church and he received first communion and was confirmed, but the family did not pray much. He occasionally used prayer in his daily life, telling an interviewer, "if I'm in a fix I'll pray ... if I'm feeling uncomfortable about something I'll say "Our Father's" and "Hail Marys" to this day."

May 27 - The National Rifle Association holds its annual convention in Houston, Texas. In the wake of the shooting at Robb Elementary School three days earlier, the pro-gun convention is met with protests from residents.

May 27 - The United States Forest Service admits that it started the two forest fires that escalated into the largest wildfire in New Mexico state history. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is subsequently compelled to demand the federal government to take full responsibility for the disaster.

May 29 - The Department of Justice announces an investigation into the shooting at Robb Elementary School that happened five days earlier.

May 30 – Frontier is announced by Oak Ridge National Laboratory as the world's first exascale supercomputer.

May 30 - Jeff Gladney, football player for the Minnesota Vikings and TCU Horned Frogs, dies at age 25 in a car crash that also killed his girlfriend.  He had one son.  Gladney was released from the Vikings on August 3, 2021, after his indictment for domestic violence.  In March 2022, he was found not guilty of the charges and signed with the Arizona Cardinals.

June 1 - Depp v. Heard: A jury in Virginia finds both Amber Heard and Johnny Depp liable for defamation; Depp is awarded $15 million while Heard is awarded $2 million.

June 1 - A grand jury in New York indicts Payton Gendron, the gunman in the mass shooting in Buffalo from the previous month, on both hate crime and terrorism charges.

June 1 - Marion Barber III, football player for the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears, dies at age 38 of heat stroke.  He often exercised in "sauna-like conditions", and he had set the thermostat in his apartment to 91°F before he died. His death was ruled an accident.  He was the older brother of former Houston Texans safety Dominique Barber and Minnesota Golden Gophers linebacker Thomas Barber, and the son of former New York Jets running back Marion Barber Jr. He was also a cousin of Peyton Barber.  In baseball, he was an Honorable Mention All-Conference center fielder. In his first and only track season, Barber qualified for the 2001 Minnesota State Class AA Championships in the 100 meters. He finished the season with a 100m time of 10.9 seconds.  In 2014, Barber was detained by police and given a mental evaluation following an incident.  In 2019, Barber was arrested on two counts of criminal mischief for causing damage to two cars while he was running. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to one year of probation, 60 hours of community service, and a $2,000 fine in April 2022.

June 1 - Barry Sussman, newspaper editor, dies at age 87 due to gastrointestinal bleeding.  He was city news editor at The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate break-in and supervised much of the reporting on the Watergate scandal.

June 2 - Former attorney Michael Avenatti is sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding Stormy Daniels.

June 2 - The New York Court of Appeals upholds the conviction of disgraced film producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein as well as his sentence of twenty-three years in prison for rape.

June 2 - Norm Pattis, defense attorney for far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, asks to be dropped from the defamation case against his client over his conspiracy theories related to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

June 2 - Gonzalo Lopez, mass murderer, dies at age 46 after being shot by police.  He was a prison escapee who killed a total of six people in separate murders in 2005 and 2022.  In 2005, Lopez kidnapped and murdered a man in Weslaco, Texas. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison.  In May 2022, Lopez received international attention when he escaped from prison custody by assaulting a corrections officer and fleeing from a prison bus. He became a wanted fugitive and evaded authorities for three weeks. On June 2, Lopez broke into a ranch and murdered five people from the same family, including three children, before stealing weapons and a pickup truck. Later that same day, police spotted Lopez and engaged in a shootout with him after a high-speed chase, where he was fatally shot during the exchange of gunfire.  In 2005 Lopez was working for the La Mana drug cartel based in Tamaulipas, Mexico.  According to Lopez, the La Mana leader, Juan Lerma, had ordered them to kidnap 37-year-old Jose Guadalupe Ramirez because he owed the cartel $40,000. The cartel had supposedly fronted Ramirez with marijuana and cocaine, which he never repaid to them.  On June 6, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced it would be suspending inmate transports as it "conducts a comprehensive review of its transportation procedures."

June 3 – Former Trump aide Peter Navarro is indicted by a federal grand jury for "contempt of Congress" and defying a subpoena issued by the January 6 committee.

June 3 - Robert L. Backman, member of the Utah House of Representatives, dies at age 100.  He was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1978 until his death.  Backman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, but spent much of his youth in South Africa, where his father, LeGrand Backman, was president of the LDS Church's South African Mission. After returning to Utah for his last year of high school, Backman later served as a missionary in the church's Northern States Mission, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Backman served in the U.S. Army in the Philippines during the Second World War. Following the war, he enrolled at the law school at the University of Utah. He was a member of the Utah House of Representatives for two terms.  Backman married Virginia Pickett in 1941 at the Salt Lake Temple and they had seven daughters; she died in 1999.  He later married Janet Woodbury.  Backman is the only man to serve two non-consecutive terms as the general president of the Young Men.

June 3 - Ann Turner Cook, author and Gerber Baby model, dies at age 95.  Born in Westport, Connecticut, she was the daughter of Bethel (Burson) and syndicated cartoonist Leslie Turner, who drew the comic strip Captain Easy for decades.  The family's neighbor was the artist Dorothy Hope Smith, who did a charcoal drawing of Ann when she was a baby. In 1928, when Gerber announced it was looking for baby images for its upcoming line of baby food, Smith's drawing was submitted and subsequently chosen. It was trademarked in 1931.  The drawing of Ann Turner Cook has since been used on virtually all Gerber baby food packaging.  Cook's identity was a secret until 1978.  In 1990, Cook appeared as a guest on To Tell the Truth in a one-on-one segment.  Cook taught at Oak Hill elementary school in Florida, and then at Madison Junior High School, in Tampa, Florida.  In 1966, she joined the English Department of Tampa's Hillsborough High School, where she eventually rose to being the school's department chairwoman.  Students there dedicated the 1972 Hilsborean school yearbook to Cook, who sponsored the book. In it, students described her as "a teacher who really communicates with the students" and who, "without any complaints ... has stayed late, worked nights, and with quiet efficiency supported her staff in their monumental task".  After retiring from teaching, Cook became a novelist. A member of the Mystery Writers of America, she was the author of the Brandy O'Bannon series of mystery novels set on Florida's Gulf Coast.  Her husband died in 2004 and they have four children.

June 3 - John Pier Roemer, Wisconsin lawyer and judge, dies at age 68 after being shot in his home by Douglas K. Uhde.  The killer had appeared in Roemer's court in 2005 and was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for armed burglary with a dangerous weapon.  After killing Roemer, Uhde shot himself, but was still alive when discovered by police. Uhde died at a nearby hospital four days later.  Uhde was described by police as a likely "grievance collector" and had a list of other targets which included Democratic Wisconsin governor Tony Evers, Democratic Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, and Republican U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell.  Judge Roemer was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army Reserve and served in the Reserves until retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2002.  Roemer prevailed in the Spring 2004 election, receiving 62% of the vote.  He took office in August 2004 and was re-elected without opposition in 2010 and 2016. He retired shortly after the start of his third term, in August 2017, to spend more time with his ailing wife who died in 2018.  They had three sons.  Roemer was active in the St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mauston, Wisconsin.

June 4 - Nate Miller, basketball player for Ironi Nahariya, Ironi Ramat Gan, and Incheon ET Land Elephants, dies at age 34 from asthma.  He played college basketball for the UNC Wilmington Seahawks and Bowling Green Falcons.  Miller played professionally in Spain, Israel, Mexico, and Argentina before he finished his career in South Korea following the 2018–19 season.  Miller returned to his hometown of Springfield, Ohio, after his playing career and ran an organization called MillerzElite Basketball that hosted basketball camps for children.

June 4 - Alec John Such, bassist and founding member of Bon Jovi, dies at age 70 after using the bathroom and going back to bed.  As their bass player from 1983 to 1994, he played on their first five albums.

June 5 - Trouble, American rapper, dies at age 34 after being shot during a home invasion at the Georgia apartment of a female companion.  His real name was Mariel Semonte Orr.  He was born in Atlanta and started rapping at the age of 14.

June 6 - A 24th lawsuit is filed in Harris County against Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson over sexual misconduct allegations.

June 6 - Attorney Thomas J. Henry files a lawsuit in a Texas district court on behalf of four families of victims in the Robb Elementary School shooting. Levied against the estate of the suspected gunman, the lawsuit is a part of the investigation into the massacre.

June 8 - COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: Florida reports the first cases of the Omicron BA.4 variant at the Premier Medical Laboratory Services in three patients in Miami-Dade County.

June 8 - Justice Brett Kavanaugh survives an attempted murder from California resident Nicholas John Roske. The FBI raids the home of Roske the next day.

June 8 - Lawyers representing dozens of previously abused Olympic gymnasts announce that they intend to seek $1 billion from the FBI. The basis for their lawsuit is that the agency failed to intervene against Larry Nassar when it was initially informed about the sexual abuse on the part of the former osteopathic physician that he committed while serving for years as the team doctor of the United States women's national artistic gymnastics team.

June 9 - COVID-19 pandemic: In Maryland, Governor Larry Hogan outlines a long-term preparedness plan on how the state will deal with COVID-19 including a focus on treatments that would keep people out of hospitals how the state would respond to future variants.

June 9 - The FBI arrests Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley and raids his home. His arrest and the raid on his home are predicated on misdemeanor charges for his participation in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

June 9 - The Supreme Court issues a decision which limits the ability to sue officials for violations of rights.

June 10 - COVID-19 pandemic: The Biden administration announces that the U.S. has lifted COVID-19 testing restrictions for international travel.

June 10 - Texas Federal judge Christopher Lopez dismisses the case of the bankruptcy protection for radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as his attempt to avoid the Sandy Hook lawsuits.

June 11 - Thirty-one Patriot Front members are arrested for conspiring to riot near a pride parade in the city of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

June 11 - Thousands of people attend a rally on the National Mall in response to a recent surge in mass shootings.

June 12 – The United States Senate reaches an agreement on a bipartisan gun control legislation.

June 15 - A widespread heat wave affects at least 120 million Americans in the central and southern regions of the country with several areas reaching 100 °F and thousands losing electricity.

June 15 - Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis announces the reestablishment of the Florida State Guard over 70 years after it was disbanded in 1947 and names retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Chris Graham as its new director.

June 15 - The Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve agree to raise interest rates by 0.75%, the highest increase in interest rates since 1994.

June 16 - In addition to the open letter, an investor in Dogecoin sues Elon Musk for $258 billion over allegedly running a pyramid scheme.

June 16 - FIFA officially names the sixteen venues to host matches during the 2026 World Cup, including eleven US venues.

June 17 - In a reversal from a 2018 decision, the Iowa Supreme Court holds that abortion is not a protected right in the state.

June 17 - The Supreme Court rules that California's Private Attorneys General Act does not preempt the Federal Arbitration Act and therefore mostly allows for companies to compel claims brought under the act into arbitration if an arbitration clause exists with respect to the claim. The decision is widely seen as a win for corporations and employers.

June 18 – The CDC unanimously approves COVID-19 vaccines for children under five, including infants and toddlers.

June 19 – The Republican Party of Texas holds its party's convention in Houston. Attendees approved many controversial resolutions, including the assertion that President Joe Biden "was not legitimately elected", calling for the full repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, declaring homosexuality as "an abnormal lifestyle choice", as well as promoting Texan secession from the union.

June 20 – President Biden calls on Congress to pass a three-month-long gas and diesel tax holiday as a proposal to lower the cost of fuel.

June 21 - The Supreme Court rules that Maine's exclusion of religious schools from tuition assistance programs violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

June 21 - The South Dakota Senate votes to convict Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg on two impeachment charges relating to his fatal September 2020 car crash, thus removing him from office. He is the first official in South Dakota's history to be impeached and convicted.

June 23 - The Supreme Court rules that New York's requirement for a need to carry a firearm in public violates the Second Amendment.

June 23 - The Supreme Court also rules that law enforcement cannot be sued over Miranda rights violations. It does not overturn the 1966 case Miranda v. Arizona, but does weaken it to an extent.

June 23 - The FBI raids the home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark in connection to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

June 23 - The Senate passes the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first major gun reform legislation in decades.

June 24 - The Supreme Court rules that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion, thus overruling the 1973 case Roe v. Wade, and its related 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Protests erupt across nearly every major city in the United States.

June 24 - The House passes the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

June 24 - The Arizona Senate is evacuated after police used tear gas to disperse a mob of pro-choice protesters in opposition to the overruling of Roe v. Wade and teachers, opposing an education funding bill after the rioters try to breach security and enter the Arizona State Capitol.

June 25 - President Biden signs the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act bill into law.

June 26 – 2022 Stanley Cup Finals: The Colorado Avalanche defeat the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games to win their first Stanley Cup since the 2000–2001 season and third overall. Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar wins the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoffs MVP.

June 27 - The Supreme Court rules that schools and public employers cannot regulate employees exercising religion. The ruling in this case overturns that of the 1971 case Lemon v. Kurtzman, by the same court.

June 27 - Police in Akron, Ohio shoot and kill Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, after a traffic stop. Walker is shot at nearly 90 times and hit with 46 bullets; his death is met with subsequent protests.

June 28 - The National Center for Education Statistics issues a report in which it finds that school shootings have risen to a 20-year high during the 2021–2022 academic year.

June 28 - Ghislaine Maxwell receives a 20-year sentence for charges related to sex trafficking and sexual abuse.

June 28 - Former House Rep. Jeff Fortenberry receives a two-year probation sentence for lying to the FBI regarding campaign finance violations.

June 28 - The Nevada Supreme Court rules that ranked voting in the state can go to ballot, but both tax petitions and vouchers are unable to go to ballot.

June 29 – The Supreme Court rules that states can prosecute non-tribal cases in Indian country, partially overturning a similar case in 2020.

June 30 - The Supreme Court rules that the Environmental Protection Agency is limited in its capacity to regulate power plants' carbon emissions under federal law.

June 30 - The Supreme Court also allows the Biden administration to end the Trump-era Remain in Mexico policy.

June 30 - Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn into the Supreme Court, becoming the first black woman to serve on the court.

June 30 - Bitcoin falls below $19,000 amid mounting pressure of economic concerns.

June 30 - A mass shooting targeting police officers occurs in Allen, Kentucky, killing three officers and injuring three more, along with one non-officer. The alleged shooter is arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder of a police officer.

July 1 - The drug charges trial of Phoenix Mercury player Brittney Griner begins near Moscow, Russia.

July 1 - A law in the state of Minnesota legalizing beverages and edibles which are infused with THC takes effect.

July 4 – A mass shooting occurs at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Seven people are killed and 25 others are injured.

July 5 - Governor Kathy Hochul signs legislation to extend a two-year mayoral control over city schools into state law. The law itself was previously established in the state back in 2020.

July 5 - 2022–23 NHL season: The San Jose Sharks hire Mike Grier as general manager, making him the first black person to serve as an NHL general manager.

July 6 - Senator Lindsey Graham vows to challenge a subpoena by a grand jury seeking his testimony in the criminal investigation about interference on the part of former President Donald Trump into the 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia.

July 6 - New York judge Arthur Engoron fines the former appraiser of The Trump Organization $10,000 per day until it complies with subpoenas filed against it by the state's Attorney General. This is made to supplement yesterday's ruling which held the organization in contempt of court for ignoring subpoenas by the office of the Attorney General for the state.

July 6 - Deputy Chairmen of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev threatens that Russia could reclaim Alaska if the United States tries to "dispose of our resources" by supporting a special court to litigate war crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

July 6 - Nye County, Nevada becomes the first American county to offer ballots in the Shoshone language.

July 6 - North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signs an executive order to protect access to abortion by shielding out-of-state patients from extradition to other states as well as preventing state agencies from aiding such extradition.

July 7 - Derek Chauvin is sentenced to 21 years in federal prison over the murder of George Floyd.

July 7 - Federal judge Jon S. Tigar issues a ruling that restores federal protections under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 that had been previously gutted by the Trump administration.

July 7 - Theranos executive Sunny Balwani is found guilty on all 12 charges for defrauding Theranos patients and investors.

July 8 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that putting an absentee ballot inside of an unlocked drop box or giving it to someone else who will put it inside of an unlocked drop box is allowed, but putting it inside of a locked drop box is not allowed unless an election official is present when the ballot is placed.

July 8 - Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk: Musk attempts to formally terminate his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter. According to a statement that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the basis for dropping the deal is that the business that runs the social media platform has not lived up to its contractual obligations.

July 8 - President Biden signs an executive order to protect access to abortion across the country in response to Dobbs v. Jackson.

July 8 – Former Prime Minister of Japan and longest-serving Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a public speech in the city of Nara, Japan.  He was 67.  He married Akie Matsuzaki in 1987.

July 10 – President Biden says that he is considering the declaration of a public health emergency over the lack of access to abortion and weighing the possibility of funding by the federal government in response to the earlier decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the matter.

July 11 - The first image from the James Webb Space Telescope is published by NASA.

July 11 - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that voters will be allowed to use the state's expanded early and mail-in voting rules in the September primary.

July 12 - California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill to allow gun violence victims to sue the manufacturers of such guns.

July 12 - Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk: Twitter files suit against Musk in the Delaware Court of Chancery to force Musk to complete the acquisition.

July 13 - Quest Diagnostics announces the nationwide availability of a diagnostic test for monkeypox, as the number of reported infections approaches 1,000 in the United States.

July 13 - Inflation rises to a record 9.1 percent.

July 14 – Texas attorney general Ken Paxton sues the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent it from mandating that hospitals must perform abortions when the life of the mother is at risk, even if state law does not allow for such exception.

July 15 – The International Olympic Committee announces that it will posthumously reinstate the gold medals that Native American Jim Thorpe had won in the 1912 Summer Olympics. The medals were previously stripped back in 1913 over violations of Olympic rules.

July 16 - The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline adopts the new three-digit N11 code of 9-8-8.

July 16 - A video of a costumed performer dressed as Rosita at Sesame Place Philadelphia goes viral for the performer refusing to hug two black girls while greeting a white girl, sparking outrage across the country. The park issued two apologies for the incident.

July 17 - A nearly eighty-page preliminary report into the Robb Elementary School shooting is released. The report concludes that "systemic failures" prompted the magnitude of the massacre at the school.

July 17 - Federal judge Charles E. Atchley Jr. issues a preliminary injunction to block the enforcement of an executive order by the Biden administration which seeks to protect LGBT individuals from educational and workplace discrimination at the federal level of government.

July 18 – The trial of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon begins. Bannon faces criminal charges for contempt of Congress after defying the January 6 committee, which is investigating the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

July 19 - A protest about abortion at the Supreme Court building results in the arrests of seventeen lawmakers who attended the rally, including Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar amongst others.

July 19 - Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk: In a win for Twitter, the Delaware Court of Chancery grants Twitter's request to expedite its lawsuit against Musk and hold a five-day trial in October.

July 19 - The House passes the Respect for Marriage Act, which federally protects discrimination against LGBT individuals in what is widely seen as a defensive measure against Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas questioning the legitimacy of Obergefell v. Hodges in his concurring opinion to Dobbs v. Jackson. Forty-seven Republicans joined the unanimous Democrat caucus.

July 19 - The CDC's independent advisory panel unanimously recommends the use of the Novavax-developed COVID-19 vaccine. CDC director Rochelle Walensky later endorses the new vaccine.

July 20 - New York Supreme Court justice Thomas Farber orders Rudy Giuliani to appear before a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia tasked with investigating possible illegal intervention in the 2020 Presidential election.

July 20 - A federal investigation into Amazon is opened by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration after the death of one of its New Jersey warehouse workers during the company's Prime Day event.

July 20 - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill allowing for veterans and active soldiers to apply for teaching jobs within the state without the need for teaching credentials.

July 21 - The House votes to codify federal access to contraception, with eight Republicans supporting the measure.

July 21 - In the country's first major cryptocurrency insider trading investigation, the SEC charges former Coinbase executive Ishan Wahi and two others with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

July 21 - The country's first polio case in nearly 10 years is reported in Rockland County, New York.

July 22 - Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is found guilty of contempt of Congress after defying subpoenas by the January 6 committee. The guilty verdict is the first successfully prosecuted case of contempt of Congress since the Watergate scandal.

July 22 - California Governor Gavin Newsom signs Senate Bill 1327 into law. Modeled after the Texas Heartbeat Act, the law enables private citizens to bring civil action against anyone who manufactures, distributes, transports or imports assault weapons or ghost guns, for a minimum of $10,000 as well as attorney’s fees.

July 22 - Vince McMahon announces he will be stepping down as the head of WWE after hush money and sexual harassment allegations. He will be succeeded by his daughter Stephanie and WWE president Nick Khan as interim co-CEOs.

July 24 - Governor Newsom declares a state of emergency over the Oak Fire in Yosemite National Park.

July 24 - The July–August 2022 United States floods begin.

July 26 – Attorney General Merrick Garland announces that the Department of Justice is investigating Donald Trump's actions in relation to the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

July 27 - In a reversal, Senator Joe Manchin announces he has reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Schumer on taxes and climate.

July 27 - The Senate passes the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act by a vote of 64–33, which allocates $280 billion in funding for scientific development and increasing the nation's competitive ability against mainland China. Notably, $52 billion would go towards the development of integrated circuits and semiconductor fabrication plants. The House passes the bill the following day in a mostly-partisan vote, and Biden signs the bill on August 9.

July 27 - The Federal Reserve announces an interest rate hike of 0.75% for the second time in a row, to combat a historic inflation surge. The Dow Jones, S&P, and Nasdaq Composite all close higher this day.

July 27 - Spirit Airlines shareholders vote to pull out of a merger agreement with Frontier Airlines. The airline announces its merger with JetBlue during the following day.

July 28 - China–United States relations – President Biden speaks virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping amid rising tensions and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's expected visit to Taiwan. The two leaders discussed Taiwan, the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the global economy.

July 28 - A series of flash floods in parts of Eastern Kentucky kill 37 people.

July 28 - The Department of Education announces that it plans to cancel student loans en masse, but the decision of implementation lies with President Biden.

July 29 - West Nile virus in the United States: Colorado reports their first West Nile virus of this year in a person from Delta County.

July 29 - 2022 monkeypox outbreak: New York Governor Kathy Hochul declares a state emergency over monkeypox, as the number of cases in New York reaches 1,383. This is more than a quarter of the 5,189 total cases in the U.S.

August 1 - The Central Intelligence Agency conducts a drone strike in Afghanistan, killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri.

August 1 - A defendant who was convicted on charges related to the January 6 United States Capitol attack receives a seven-year prison sentence, the longest sentence to date for a defendant regarding the riots.

August 1 - 2022 monkeypox outbreak: California and Illinois declare a state of emergency over the monkeypox outbreak, following New York the previous week.

August 2 - Taiwan–United States relations – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi becomes the highest-ranking U.S. official in the last 25 years to visit Taiwan, despite warnings from both China and Biden of rising tensions.

August 2 - Kansas citizens vote to reject a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would remove protections for abortion rights.

August 2 - The Department of Justice sues Idaho for its ban on abortion being a violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. When announcing the lawsuit, Attorney General Garland argues that Idaho's abortion ban prevents doctors from aborting pregnancies even if the health of the mother is put into jeopardy.

August 2 - A bombshell report argues that Equifax issued wrong credit scores to millions of Americans this past spring to a point where interest rates and mortgage loans were altered.

August 2 - The Senate passes the PACT Act in an 86–11 vote, which expands veteran health care to cover injuries from burn pits. Biden signs the law eight days later.

August 3 - In a widely watched lawsuit, radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones concedes that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was "100% real" after meeting the members of the victims' families yesterday. Jones is later ordered by a jury to pay at least $4.1 million in compensatory damages and an additional $45.2 million in punitive damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, parents of victim Jesse Lewis.

August 3 - U.S. Representative Jackie Walorski for Indiana's 2nd congressional district dies in a car crash along with two of her staffers.

August 3 - The Senate votes to ratify Sweden and Finland into NATO.

August 3 - President Biden signs another executive order encompassing various abortion access protections.

August 3 - Eleven LIV Golf players led by Phil Mickelson file a lawsuit against PGA Tour, accusing it of being an illegal monopoly over professional golf.

August 4 - Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner is found guilty on drug charges in a Russian court and is subsequently sentenced to nine years in prison.

August 4 - The Justice Department announces federal charges against four of the police officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor.

August 4 - The US declares a national health emergency over the 2022 monkeypox outbreak.

August 4 - Florida governor Ron DeSantis suspends Tampa state prosecutor Andrew Warren over his refusal to enforce Florida's abortion ban.

August 4 - A judge orders Kevin Spacey to pay $31 million to House of Cards producers for the costs involved in removing him from the series following sexual misconduct allegations against him.

August 5 - The July jobs report is released, showing that the national unemployment rate fell to 3.5% along with the economy adding 528,000 new jobs. The data far surpass economists' expectations.

August 5 - China–United States relations – China sanctions Speaker Pelosi in retaliation over her visit to Taiwan.

August 5 - The Rappahannock tribe reacquires its ancestral land in Virginia after 400 years.

August 6 – The New York State Department of Health warns that hundreds of people might be infected with polio.

August 7 – The Senate passes the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 in a 51–50 vote with Vice-President Kamala Harris breaking the tie for its passage.

August 8 – FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: The FBI executes a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of former President Donald Trump, seeking boxes of classified documents that Trump allegedly took from the White House.

August 9 – A three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit makes a unanimous ruling that Donald Trump's tax records can be transferred by law enforcement from the IRS to the United States House Committee on Ways and Means.

August 10 - Former President Trump invokes the Fifth Amendment regarding a deposition by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

August 10 - The consumer price index report is released showing that inflation rose by 8.5% that month, which is less than expected and considered a sign inflation is easing.

August 10 - 2022 monkeypox outbreak: The number of reported cases nationwide exceeds 10,000.

August 11 - The national average gas price has dropped below $4 per gallon for the first time since March.

August 11 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice moves to unseal the search warrant used to seize documents from Mar-a-Lago.

August 11 - The NBA announces the retirement of the number 6 leaguewide to honor the late Bill Russell, a first for the league.

August 11 - The CDC loosens its guidelines for COVID-19, commenting that coronavirus is no longer in a state where it "severely disrupts our daily lives".

August 11 - The United States Postal Service announces that it will raise prices for postage starting in October for holiday shipping. The rate hikes will return to normal levels in January 2023.

August 12 - Author Salman Rushdie is attacked by a man during an on-stage interview at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. Rushdie and interviewer Henry Reese are swiftly airlifted to a local hospital, with Rushdie sustaining apparent stab wounds to his neck and arm while Reese suffers a minor injury to the head. The suspect is arrested at the scene and is charged with attempted murder the following day.

August 12 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: The Department of Justice wins its bid to unseal the search warrant against Donald Trump, revealing that the former president had stored documents regarding nuclear weapons at Mar-a-Lago, which prompts the Justice Department to place him under investigation for alleged violations of federal statutes such as the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

August 12 - State supreme courts in Idaho and Louisiana defend abortion bans, with Idaho's ruling that its near-total abortion ban can go into effect beginning on August 25, and Louisiana's rejecting an appeal to overturn its ban.

August 12 - OSHA opens a second investigation into Amazon following the deaths of two more people at the company's warehouses.

August 12 - The Southern Baptist Convention says that some of its major parts are facing investigations by the Department of Justice regarding revelations of widespread sexual abuse by the clergy.

August 12 - San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatís Jr. is suspended for 80 games for violating Major League Baseball's policy on performance-enhancing drugs.

August 13 - The Great Lakes Water Authority issues an advisory in Michigan for people to boil their drinking water after a crack opens in a critical pipe. Nearly one million people across twenty-three communities are affected.

August 13 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: armed Trump supporters protest the operation outside of the FBI building located in Phoenix, Arizona.

August 14 – Taiwan–United States relations – A congressional delegation led by Senator Ed Markey visits Taiwan.

August 15 - More than 13,000 Home Run Inn pizzas are recalled by the federal government for being potentially tainted with metal.

August 15 - Thousands of Capri Sun pouches are also recalled by The Kraft Heinz Company over the possible contamination with a cleaning solution.

August 16 - President Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into federal law.

August 16 - In a nationwide effort known as Operation Cross Country, the FBI rescues more than 200 people, including 84 children, who are victims of human trafficking.

August 16 - U.S. Representative Liz Cheney loses her Wyoming seat to Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman.

August 16 - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signs an executive order to ban the practice of conversion therapy in the state.

August 17 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces an overhaul of operations so that the agency can respond to a crisis in public health more quickly than before.

August 17 - Kids for cash scandal: Two former judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails are ordered by federal judge Christopher C. Conner to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized.

August 17 - Federal judge Dan A. Polster rules that Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart must pay $650 million to two Ohio counties for their responsibility in the opioid epidemic.

August 18 - Allen Weisselberg, the Chief Financial Officer of The Trump Organization, pleads guilty to tax violations.

August 18 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: Federal judge Bruce Reinhart allows a portion of the affidavit that formed the basis for the raid to be unsealed.

August 18 - Starbucks unions: Federal judge Sheryl H. Lipman rules that Starbucks must reinstate fired employees in Tennessee who attempted to unionize.

August 18 - Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson is suspended for 11 games for the 2022 NFL season and is fined $5 million by the NFL.

August 19 – A Michigan judge blocks county prosecutors from enforcing the state's 1931 ban on abortion.

August 22 - Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci announces that he will retire at the end of the year.

August 22 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: Donald Trump sues the federal government over the law enforcement raid to have a neutral third party review the documents acquired in the search.

August 22 - Oracle is sued in a class action lawsuit alleging that the company has operated and profited from a "surveillance machine" monitoring 5 billion people.

August 24 - President Biden announces that he will cancel $10,000 in student loans for all borrowers who earn under $125,000 per year, and an additional $10,000 for those who received Pell Grants.

August 24 - Utah sues the federal government over restoring the size of two Indigenous national monuments after they were downsized by former president Trump.

August 24 - Federal judge B. Lynn Winmill rules that Idaho's abortion ban partially violates federal law.

August 25 - California announces a ban on the sale of new gasoline cars after 2035.

August 25 - Dominion Voting Systems files motions to depose multiple Fox News personalities in its defamation lawsuit against the network, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Jeanine Pirro.

August 25 - A North Dakota judge blocks the state's ban on abortion one day before it is set to go into effect.

August 26 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: The Department of Justice reveals the partially redacted affidavit to justify the raid.

August 26 - Moderna files a patent infringement against Pfizer and BioNTech regarding both companies' jointly-developed COVID vaccine.

August 27 – Football punter Matt Araiza is cut from the Buffalo Bills due to gang rape allegations and a subsequent lawsuit.

August 29 - Capitol rioter and Proud Boys member Joshua Pruitt is sentenced to 55 months in prison, the largest sentence given out to that point.

August 29 - Jackson, Mississippi, enacts a state of emergency over lower water pressure and water infrastructure failure.

August 29 - California's legislature passes the FAST Recovery Act (AB 257), which in multiple methods sets to improve working conditions and raise wages for fast-food workers.

August 30 - Texas reports an immunocompromised patient has suffered the first US death in the monkeypox outbreak.

August 30 - Bad Bunny becomes the first non-English speaking artist to win the MTV Video Music Awards' artist of the year award.

August 30 - Mikhail Gorbachev, 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies at age 91 after a severe and prolonged illness.  He supported glasnost ("openness").

August 31 - A Gallup poll finds that more Americans are smoking cannabis than cigarettes for the first time in the nation's history.

August 31 - Federal judge James D. Peterson rules that Wisconsin voters with disabilities can designate a person to help them to return their ballots.

September 1 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: Federal judge Aileen Cannon orders a more detailed list of property seized by the FBI during the raid. She releases a detailed list of what was seized the following day.

September 1 - A former NYPD officer who participated in the January 6 Capitol attack is sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting a Capitol police officer.

September 1 - President Biden delivers a primetime speech at Independence Hall blasting Donald Trump and his movement, claiming Trump is "determined to take this country backwards".

September 2 - The August jobs report is released, showing that Americans by and large are generally re-entering the workforce. Unemployment rises to 3.7 percent.

September 2 - Starbucks unions: New York City sues the coffee giant for firing a union organizer.

September 2 - The Biden administration pauses the distribution of COVID tests due to a lack of funding.

September 4 – Cloudflare blocks access to Kiwi Farms due to an increase in threats posted on the site, a move which eventually leads to the site's takedown.

September 5 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: Federal judge Cannon grants Donald Trump's request to appoint a special master to review the documents.

September 5 - A series of floods wrack both Indiana and Georgia, killing at least one.

September 6 - Due to his role in January 6 United States Capitol attack, a state judge in New Mexico removes an Otero County commissioner and permanently bars him from holding future office.

September 6 - The Mosquito Fire, California's largest wildfire this season, ignites, destroying 78 buildings. Pacific Gas and Electric is currently under a criminal investigation by the Forest Service and subject to various civil suits.

September 7 - Former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama's official portraits are unveiled.

September 7 - Michigan judge Elizabeth L. Gleicher rules that the state's criminal ban on abortion is unconstitutional.

September 7 - Las Vegas police arrest Clark County public administrator Robert Telles in connection with the alleged murder of investigative journalist Jeff German.

September 7 - Federal judge Reed O'Connor issues a ruling that the Affordable Care Act's requirement to cover HIV-prevention drugs are unconstitutional.

September 7 - 2022 Memphis shootings: Four people are killed and three others are injured in a four-hour shooting spree that was streamed on Facebook Live.

September 8 - Steve Bannon surrenders to prosecutors in New York over fraud charges.

September 8 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms dies at Balmoral Castle in Scotland at the age of 96. Her son Charles III succeeds her as King.  Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female monarch in history.  Elizabeth was the first monarch to die in Scotland since James V in 1542.  Her death certificate recorded her cause of death as "old age".

September 8 - President Biden orders flags at half-staff for ten days in response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II and pays tribute to the late monarch, calling her "a stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States." Many other U.S. politicians offer their tributes including former presidents.

September 9 – Federal judge Donald M. Middlebrooks dismisses Donald Trump's lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.

September 10 – Visa, Mastercard, and American Express all announce gun sales on their payment systems will be separately categorized and be easier to track, a win for gun control advocates.

September 11 – President Biden delivers a speech remembering the 9/11 terrorist attacks and its victims on the twenty-first anniversary of the event.

September 12 - The largest strike of private sector nurses in the history of the country begins in Minnesota.

September 13 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 1,276 points, or just under 4%, after an August inflation report, effectively erasing a recent period of rising stocks.

September 13 - West Virginia passes a near-total abortion ban in both houses of its legislature. Governor Jim Justice signs the bill into law on September 16.

September 13 - Senator Lindsey Graham introduced legislation that would ban abortion nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the patient.

September 13 – Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, dies at age 91.  His death was reported as an assisted suicide procedure, which is legal in Switzerland.  Godard's legal advisor said that he had "multiple disabling pathologies", but a family member said that "He was not sick, he was simply exhausted".  His body was cremated and there was no funeral service.  He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s.  He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.

September 14 - Amtrak announces that it is suspending all long-distance routes in preparation for a possible railroad strike.

September 14 - Mortgage loans hit a nationwide average interest rate of 6% for the first time since 2008.

September 14 - California sues Amazon for violations of its antitrust and unfair competition laws.

September 14 - Martha's Vineyard migrant crisis: Florida governor Ron DeSantis sends about fifty migrants from Florida to Massachusetts in what observers describe as a "political stunt" by the governor. Despite being told that they were bound for the city of Boston, the migrants instead arrive on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

September 15 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announces that it will begin to regulate buy now, pay later companies.

September 15 - Uber suffers a data breach of its internal servers.

September 17 - President Biden travels to London, UK, to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II the following day.

September 17 - Air New Zealand launches the first non-stop flight between Auckland and New York City's JFK airport.

September 18 – Hurricane Fiona hits Puerto Rico as a Category 1 hurricane, flooding the landscape, destroying the power grid, and wrecking other infrastructure across the entire island.

September 19 – The US and Taliban complete a prisoner exchange, with American contractor Mark Frerichs being freed in exchange for the US releasing drug trafficker Bashir Noorzai.

September 20 – Martha's Vineyard migrant crisis: Migrants file a class action lawsuit against Governor DeSantis.

September 21 - New York attorney general Letitia James files a $250 million civil fraud suit against Donald, Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka Trump, as well as The Trump Organization.

September 21 - The Federal Reserve hikes interest rates for the third time by 0.75% to combat the ongoing inflation surge.

September 21 - The House votes to amend the Electoral Count Act in response to the January 6 attack.

September 21 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: A three-judge panel on the 11th circuit rules that the Justice Department can regain access to the classified records seized during trial.

September 22 - Murder of George Floyd: Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane is sentenced to three years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter.

September 22 - FedEx announces it will raise shipping rates by approximately 7-8%.

September 22 - Federal judge Diane Humetewa rules that the subpoena by January 6th Committee to get the cell phone data from Arizona Republican Party chairwoman Kelli Ward and her husband can proceed.

September 26 – NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully collides with an asteroid.

September 28 – Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Florida, directly hitting the Fort Myers area as a Category 4 storm on the Saffir–Simpson scale. Florida's Sanibel and Pine Islands are cut off from the mainland, and Ian becomes the deadliest hurricane to hit the state since 1935 and the country since 2005's Hurricane Katrina.

September 29 - Highland Park parade shooting: The families of the victims file lawsuits against the manufacturer of the firearm that was used to commit the shooting, two gun stores, the father of the shooter, and the shooter himself.

September 29 - The Department of Education partly reverses its earlier decision to forgive student loans.

September 30 – 2022 Major League Baseball season: The Seattle Mariners make the playoffs following a game-winning home run from Cal Raleigh, ending their 21-year playoff drought.

October 2 – The USPS increases its shipping rates until January 22, 2023.

October 3 – The SEC collects a fine of over $1 million from Kim Kardashian over promoting cryptocurrency on her Instagram page.

October 4 – In baseball, Aaron Judge hits his 62nd home run this season, passing Roger Maris' American League record.

October 5 – A three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rules that DACA is illegal, but it allows the policy to be left intact for close to 600,000 migrants.

October 6 - President Biden pardons all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession.

October 6 - Federal judge Emmet G. Sullivan rules that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's changes to the USPS prior to the 2020 United States presidential election had harmed USPS mail delivery. The 65-page decision also puts countermeasures in place to prevent DeJoy from implementing such changes ever again.

October 7 - Robb Elementary School shooting: The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District suspends its entire police force, and the superintendent resigns several hours later.

October 7 - The Arizona Court of Appeals blocks enforcement of the state's abortion ban.

October 10 – President of the Los Angeles City Council Nury Martinez resigns from her position as president while continuing to be a council member due to leaked audio of racist remarks on her own part. She would then go on to resign from her council seat two days later.

October 11 – NASA confirms that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was successful in its goal. Dimorphos was knocked out of its orbit by thirty-two minutes, much more than the ten minutes that the space agency anticipated.

October 11 – Dame Angela Lansbury, Irish-British American actress and singer, dies at age 96.  Her roles included: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Sweeney Todd, The King and I, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Murder, She Wrote, Beauty and the Beast (1991), Anastasia (1997), Nanny McPhee (2005) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).

October 12 – Alex Jones is ordered by a jury in Connecticut to pay $965 million to the families of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting due to his promotion of conspiracy theories in regards to the mass shooting. It is the largest payout that has ever been incurred by a civil defendant in the history of the state.

October 13 - The Social Security Administration announces an 8.1% cost of living adjustment to begin in 2023, citing ongoing inflation. It is the largest increase since 1981.

October 13 - The Supreme Court declines Trump's request for it to intervene in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.

October 13 - Immediately after its final public hearing before the midterms, the January 6th Committee votes to subpoena former president Trump. The subpoena is formally issued on October 21.

October 13 - Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk: The federal government initiates an investigation into Elon Musk over his conduct in the attempt to acquire the social media platform.

October 13 - For the first time in the history of the state, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game cancels the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea.

October 13 - Federal judge Joseph Robert Goodwin blocks a federal law which prohibits the possession of a firearm with a tampered serial number.

October 13 - A mass shooting occurs in a suburban neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina. Five people are killed, and two others are injured. The suspect is detained after being cornered by police at a nearby residence.

October 17 - Kanye West announces he is purchasing the social media network Parler after being suspended by Twitter and Meta Platforms.[470] He later pulled out of the acquisition, though, on December 2.

October 17 - President Biden announces the launch of the website for student loan debt forgiveness.

October 18 – The Office of Science and Technology Policy initiates a five-year plan to research methods against global warming by reflecting light from the Sun away from the planet.

October 19 – In a legal defeat for Donald Trump, federal judge David O. Carter orders emails between John Eastman and Trump to be turned over to House investigators.

October 21 – Federal judge Carl J. Nichols sentences Steve Bannon to four months in jail and a fine of $6,500 for willfully disobeying a subpoena as part of the January 6 commission.

October 22 – Federal judge Henry Autrey issues a stay to temporarily block President Biden's student loan debt forgiveness.

October 26 - Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot: A jury in Michigan issues guilty verdicts for three men who aided in the kidnapping plot.

October 26 - Meta Platforms reports another earnings miss, losing 23% of its market value the next trading day. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg subsequently announces mass layoffs for 11,000 employees the following month, or 13% of its entire workforce.

October 27 - Elon Musk completes his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.

October 27 - A federal three-judge panel in D.C. rules that Trump's tax returns must be delivered to House investigators. The returns are delivered to the House Committee on Ways and Means on November 30.

October 28 — Speaker Pelosi's husband Paul is attacked during an early morning break-in at the couple's San Francisco residence.

October 31 - Indiana State Police announces the arrest of a suspect in the murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German.

October 31 - Federal judge Florence Y. Pan blocks the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.

November 2 - The Federal Reserve hikes interest rates by 0.75% to 3.75-4%, their highest levels since 2008.

November 2 - Nikolas Cruz is sentenced to thirty-four life sentences for committing the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting back in 2018.

November 7 – A single ticket in Altadena, California, wins a world record $2.02 billion Powerball jackpot.

November 10 - DC Attorney General Karl Racine files suit against the NFL, commissioner Roger Goodell, the Washington Commanders, and Commander’s owner Daniel Snyder, claiming that the parties deceived DC residents on a recent toxic culture investigation.

November 10 - Alex Jones is further ordered to pay an additional $473 million to the Sandy Hook victims' families.

November 11 – FTX, amidst its collapse, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

November 12 – 2022 Dallas airshow mid-air collision: Two World War II-era planes collide in mid-air at the Wings Over Dallas airshow, killing six people.

November 13 - A shooting occurs at the University of Virginia in which three people are killed, and two others are injured. The suspect is arrested and charged with three counts of second-degree murder as well as three counts of using a handgun in the alleged commission of a felony.

November 13 - A mass stabbing occurs in Moscow, Idaho in which four University of Idaho students are killed in off-campus housing.

November 14 – The Department of Transportation fines six airlines a combined $7.25 million for extreme delays in processing passenger refunds.

November 15 - Georgia's abortion ban is temporarily overturned by one of its Fulton County courts, though reinstated on November 23.

November 15 - Federal judge Emmet G. Sullivan rules that Title 42 expulsion is a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and no longer enforceable.

November 15 - Former President Trump announces he is running for president again in the 2024 election.

November 16 - NASA launches Artemis 1 after a series of delays, the maiden flight for the Space Launch System.

November 16 - Yale and Harvard's law schools both pull out of the U.S. News college rankings in what is seen as the list's biggest challenge yet.

November 16 - Congress passes the Speak Out Act, which bans non-disclosure agreements in events of sexual assault.

November 16 - The FDA approves a cultured meat product for the first time.

November 17 – NASA concludes its Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) test, stating it to be a "huge success".

November 18 – Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for criminal fraud in connection to her role as CEO of Theranos.

November 19 – A mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBT+ nightclub leaves five people dead and 25 injured.

November 22 - The Supreme Court unanimously allows Trump's tax returns to be delivered to House investigators.

November 22 - A mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, kills six victims as well as the perpetrator.

November 28 – December 13 – Mauna Loa erupts continuously, its first in 38 years.

November 29 - Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes is convicted by a federal jury of committing seditious conspiracy during January 6.

November 29 - 2022 FIFA World Cup: The national men's soccer team defeats Iran by a score of 1–0 and advances to the knockout round. The victory is celebrated across both the United States and by Iranian protestors demonstrating against Ayatollah Khamenei.

November 29 - NYC mayor Eric Adams announces that law enforcement and first responders are now encouraged to involuntarily commit those in mental health crisis.

November 29 - San Francisco approves the deployment of robots capable of using lethal force in policing.

November 30 - The House Democratic Caucus elects Hakeem Jeffries to be its leader in the 118th congress; Jeffries will become the first black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress.

November 30 - Prince William and Princess Catherine of Wales begin a multi-day visit to Boston and are greeted by mayor Michelle Wu.

November 30 - Jiang Zemin, 9th General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and 5th President of China, dies at age 96 from leukemia and multiple organ failures.

December 1 - FBI search of Mar-a-Lago – In a major defeat for Trump, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling, thereby halting the special master review of seized material.

December 1 - President Biden hosts French President Emmanuel Macron for a state visit, his first as President of the United States.

December 2 – The Air Force and Northrop Grumman publicly unveil the B-21 Raider, set to become the first new American stealth bomber in 30 years.

December 5 – The TSA extends the deadline for Real ID Act compliance by two years. The new date of compliance is in May 2025.

December 6 – The Trump Organization through two subsidiaries was convicted by a jury for committing tax fraud and falsifying business records.

December 7 – An oil leak in the Keystone Pipeline shuts down the pipeline.

December 8 - Viktor Bout–Brittney Griner prisoner exchange: WNBA player Brittney Griner returns to the United States as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia, who received arms dealer Viktor Bout back from US custody. Griner had recently been sentenced to nine years in prison for possession of a small amount of cannabis oil.

December 8 - Missouri legalizes marijuana, becoming the 20th US state to do so.

December 9 – Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema leaves the Democratic Party to become an Independent.

December 11 - Karen Bass is sworn in by Vice President Harris as the first female mayor of Los Angeles.

December 11 - The US makes an arrest in connection with the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

December 12 – Bankruptcy of FTX: The US files criminal charges against Sam Bankman-Fried; he is subsequently arrested in The Bahamas and due to be extradited.

December 13 - The Department of Energy announces US scientists have made the first net-gain of energy from a fusion power experiment.

December 13 - President Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, which federally protects same-sex and interracial marriages by requiring states to recognize each other’s marriage standards.

December 14 – The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.5 percentage points. The new federal funds rate is at 4.4%.

December 15 – The Kentucky Supreme Court strikes down a law which permitted tax credits for private school donations, a move seen as a blow to school choice.

December 16 - President Biden and Congress agree to fund the government for an additional week to avoid a government shutdown.

December 16 - The TSA releases data showing that 2022 had a record number of firearm confiscations, at around 6,600.

December 16 - Starbucks unions: Baristas begin a three-day nationwide strike, protesting the company's efforts to combat labor unions.

December 19 – The January 6 Committee recommends to the Department of Justice criminal charges, including inciting an insurrection, for former President Donald Trump and other associates.

December 20 - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Ferndale, California, causing substantial damage including gas leaks and power outages.  Two people died due to "medical emergencies" and seventeen others were injured.

December 20 - The House Committee on Ways and Means authorizes the public release for some of Donald Trump's personal and corporate tax returns. Four years of Trump's returns during his presidency are released to the public on December 30.

December 21 – December 26 – A major winter storm hits much of the Midwest and northeast. 50 are killed across the country.

December 21 – Ukraine–United States relations – In his first foreign trip since the start of Russia's invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Washington, DC to meet with President Biden and speak to Congress to ask for more financial support in the conflict with Russia.

December 22 – The January 6 Committee releases its full report on the attack on the Capitol.

December 24 – Beginning this day, Southwest Airlines, due to the winter storm, cancels over 60% of their flights across the next couple days, stranding thousands across the country.

December 29 - Pelé, Brazilian soccer player, dies at age 82 of kidney failure, heart failure, bronchopneumonia, and colon adenocarcinoma. He was survived by his 100-year-old mother, Celeste, who, given her advanced age, was not aware of her son's death.

December 31 - Pope Benedict XVI dies at age 95.  His long-time secretary, Georg Gänswein, reported that his last words were "Signore ti amo" (Italian for 'Lord, I love you').  He was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013.  Benedict chose to be known as "Pope emeritus" upon his resignation, and he retained this title until his death in December 2022.  His resignation was the first by a pope since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first on a pope's initiative since Celestine V in 1294. He was succeeded by Francis and moved into the newly renovated Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City for his retirement. In addition to his native German language, Benedict had some level of proficiency in French, Italian, English, and Spanish. He also knew Portuguese, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, and Biblical Greek.  He was a member of several social science academies, such as the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He played the piano and preferred Mozart and Bach.

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