The
Federal Trade Commission under chair
Lina Khan has also played a more proactive role in the economics of America, with Khan blocking many mergers and acquisitions, including one between airlines
JetBlue and
Spirit.[1] In business, the American economy is currently undergoing a
bull market, with
Nvidia in particular, due to demand for its chips in the use of
artificial intelligence, becoming the third largest publicly-traded company by market capitalization, and partially enabling major American stock indices such as the
S&P 500 to achieve record highs.[2] Nvidia's success story, though was contrasted by a series of safety failures, malfunctions, and crashes involving passenger aircraft designed and assembled by
Boeing, among the most notable this year including
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 where a door plug blew out.[3][4] Additionally, radio operator
Audacy, for-profit hospital chain
Steward Health Care System, retailers
Jo-Ann Stores and
rue21, seafood restaurant chain
Red Lobster, bussing company
Coach USA, and electric vehicle maker
Fisker Inc. have filed bankruptcy.
Concerning state governments, 11 states and two territories will hold gubernatorial elections, and most states and territories will hold elections for their legislatures. Many major cities, including
Baltimore,
Las Vegas,
Honolulu,
Milwaukee,
Miami,
Phoenix,
San Diego, and
San Francisco will also elect their mayors.
January 3 – A series of documents containing the names of associates of sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein are made available to the public. A majority of those mentioned are found to not be directly involved in any wrongdoing.[14]
Perry High School shooting: Two people are killed and six others are injured in a school shooting in
Perry, Iowa. The shooter, a 17-year-old-student at the school, committed suicide at the scene.[16] A principal who tried to intervene and was shot later died from his injuries on January 14.[17]
Clashes break out at the World Headquarters of the
Chabad-Lubavitch movement in
Brooklyn,
New York City after construction workers for the synagogue leaders attempted to fill in a tunnel that students had illegally dug beneath the building, resulting in the arrest of nine people.[20] The incident causes
antisemitic social media posts by
far-right and
QAnon figures to spread online.[21][22]
The United States
seizes control and later sinks [
simple] an Iranian
dhow, which was transporting supplies to the
Houthi movement. The operation resulted in the entire crew of the vessel being captured as well as two US Navy SEALs being lost at sea.[26][27]
January 18 – The
United States Congress approves a stopgap bill to extend the deadline for government funding to March 2024, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown, which would have begun at midnight, January 19.[39]
January 20 – At least 60 people are killed across the country after
two weeks of winter storms that caused dangerous road conditions and widespread power outages that could take weeks to fix.[41]
AWS announced plans to break ground on two large data center facilities in
Mississippi, marking a $10 billion investment expected to create 1,000 jobs.[49]
Three people are killed when a
Beechcraft Bonanza V35 crashes into a waterfront house in
Clearwater, Florida. Two of the casualties are on the ground while the third is the pilot. Three other houses are damaged by a fire which results from the crash.[52]
The
Oregon Supreme Court upholds
Ballot Measure 113 by banning ten of the twelve Republican members of the
Oregon Senate for refusing to attend six weeks worth of legislative sessions in order to stall Democratic legislation.[53]
February 4 – The schedule for the
2026 FIFA World Cup which will be co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico is released. A total of 78 games will be played in the US, including the
final.[54]
February 6
Social media network
Bluesky, seen as a potential rival to
X, is opened for public registrations, dropping its previous invite-only format.[55]
Toyota announced a $1.3 billion investment in a new Kentucky factory for a three-row electric SUV and EV battery packs.[56]
Joe Biden classified documents incident: Special counsel
Robert K. Hur recommends that no charges be brought against President Biden, though notes in Hur's report regarding Biden's failure to recall events prompts controversy regarding his age and memory.[61]
Three males go on an apparent random
shooting spree in southeastern
Los Angeles County, killing four, including a teenager, and wounding another teenager.[71]
The US launches six missile-detecting
satellites into orbit in response to a "serious national security threat" related to Russia wanting to implement its
nuclear capabilities in
outer space.[77][78]
An official committee which was appointed to represent the plaintiffs in the
Sandy Hook lawsuits against
Alex Jones unanimously votes to liquidate the far right-wing conspiracy theorist's assets.[84]
February 17 – Former congressman
George Santos sues late night host
Jimmy Kimmel for $750,000 on charges of copyright infringement, fraud, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment after Kimmel purchased
Cameo videos from Santos through fake names then used them on
his show.[85]
February 18 –
2024 Burnsville shooting: Police and medics were fired upon from a home while responding to a domestic incident in
Burnsville, Minnesota. Two officers and a firefighter were killed while another officer suffered a gunshot wound.[86] After opening fire on first responders, the shooter fatally shot himself.[87]
A
ransomware attack cripples
Change Healthcare's payment system, disrupting insurance claims and making it difficult for patients to get the prescription medicine that they need.[93][94][95]
February 22
AT&T suffers from
network outages impacting around 71,000 customers, which also affect
Verizon and
T-Mobile to a smaller degree. The outages were acknowledged but no reason was given for their occurrence.[96] Two days later, AT&T announced affected customers will be credited $5 on their next bill, the "average cost of a full day of service."[97]
The Biden administration announces over 500 new sanctions on Russian financial institutions, military institutions, sanctions evasion, energy production, and prison officials linked to the
death of Alexei Navalny.[101]
A
high-altitude balloon is detected over
Utah, prompting the deployment of
fighter aircraft to intercept the object. The origin and purpose of the balloon are unknown, according to US officials.[102]
A Piper PA-32A crashes on
I-40 while attempting to land at
John C. Tune Airport in Nashville after suffering a mechanical failure. All five passengers are killed on board.[111]
A highway crash near
Dewhurst, Wisconsin involving a van and a semi-tractor kills nine people and injures one.[119]
A
UH-72 Lakota helicopter crashes while conducting an aviation operation 41 miles west of
McAllen, Texas, killing one border patrol agent and two
National Guard soldiers and injuring another.[120]
AESC announced a $1.5 billion expansion of its lithium-ion EV battery manufacturing in
Florence County, South Carolina, creating 1,080 new jobs, bringing the total investment to $3.12 billion and supporting 2,700 new jobs.[143]
In United States v. Bankman-Fried,
the defendant is sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of several counts of wire fraud and money laundering after he scammed $8 billion from investors via his company
FTX.[145]
March 31 – Millions of
AT&T customers are affected by a data breach that leaked onto the dark web.[147]
April
April 1
The
Supreme Court of Florida rules that the
Florida Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, allowing the 15-week abortion ban to remain in effect. The Court's decision also allowed six week abortion ban, which had been halted by the Court until a decision was made, to proceed. As a result, the ban would take effect 30 days after the ruling. In the same opinion, the Supreme Court also approved
Florida Amendment 4 to proceed to the November 2024 ballot, which would enshrine a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability.[148]
Bird flu spreads to
cattle herds in at least six U.S. states, while a
dairy farm worker is infected in
Texas, becoming the second person to ever become infected with the virus in the United States.[154]
April 7 – In women's college basketball,
South Carolina wins the
national championship to complete their perfect 38–0 season, only the 10th perfect season in NCAA women's basketball history.[160]
April 8
A
total solar eclipse is viewable in the central and northeastern US, with the path of total eclipse over parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.[161]
Aftermath of the
Oxford High School shooting: James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of convicted Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, are each sentenced to 10–15 years in prison after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter earlier this year, the first parents in the nation to be held accountable for their child's school shooting.[163]
Film producer
Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction is overturned by the
New York Court of Appeals by a vote of 4–3, and a new trial is ordered. However, Weinstein will still remain in prison on a 2022 conviction in
California for rape.[193]
AWS announced its intention to build new data centers in Indiana as part of an $11 billion investment, the largest capital injection into the region ever.[196]
April 30 – Judge
Juan Merchan fines
Donald Trump $9,000 for contempt of court, and threatens him with jail if he continues to violate his gag order.[208]
May
May 1
Federal judge
Catherine Eagles blocks several of North Carolina's restrictions on abortion pill
mifepristone, striking down a requirement that the drug only be prescribed by doctors in-person, as well as a requirement for patients to have an in-person follow-up appointment.[209]
Clothing retailer
Rue21 files for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy after accumulating $194.4 million in debt and announces it will close all of its 540 stores after 54 years in business.[215][216]
A radical group identifying as "
Rachel Corrie's Ghost Brigade" claims responsibility for setting fire to 15 vehicles belonging to the
Portland Police Bureau on May 1. The group stated this act was intended to preemptively prevent the police from dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment at
Portland State University.[226]
The
Department of Education’s
Office for Civil Rights opens an investigation into a gender identity policy of the
Katy Independent School District in Texas, which board members passed on August 28, 2023 and requires district employees to disclose to parents if a student requests the use of different pronouns or identifies as transgender.[230]
May 7 – The
Boy Scouts of America announces the renaming of the organization to Scouting America on February 8, 2025.[231]
Researchers at
Google DeepMind announce the development of
AlphaFold 3, an AI model that can predict the structures of almost all biological molecules and model the interactions between them.[234]
Healthcare chain
Ascension announces it has been the target of a cyber attack on its computer systems.[235]
Following a similar April 29 letter to the Texas Education Agency, Texas Governor
Greg Abbott sends a letter to Texas public university systems and community colleges directing them not to comply with U.S. President
Joe Biden's revisions to
Title IX adding protections for LGBTQ+ students.[237]
Microsoft announced plans to invest $3.3 billion by the end of 2026 to develop a datacenter campus in
Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The project is expected to create 2,300 union construction jobs in the area by 2025.[238]
Actor
Steve Buscemi is assaulted by a random passer-by in New York City, sustaining an injury that requires hospital treatment.[239]
A
Pennsylvania jury orders
ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed that the company's gasoline and solvents caused him to develop
leukemia.[244]
May 11 –
Minnesota adopts its
new state flag to coincide with the 166th anniversary of its date of statehood.[245]
Walgreens says that it will sell a generic version of the anti-overdose medication
naloxone for ten dollars cheaper than the brand-name version, Narcan, also available on its shelves.[259]
The United States imposes visa restrictions on over 250 members of the
Nicaraguan government along with sanctions on three entities for "repressive action" and failure to control
migrant smuggling through Nicaragua.[263]
Crook County, Oregon votes in favor of Measure 7–86
Greater Idaho movement.[277][278] This makes it the 13th county in Oregon that has passed a similar ballot measure resulting in the majority of Counties in the proposed Greater Idaho map having voted in favor.
May 29 –
Air Products announced plans to invest $15 billion to build a network of commercial-scale multi-modal hydrogen refueling stations connecting Northern and Southern California.[293]
May 30
Three
Black men sue
American Airlines for "blatant and egregious racial discrimination" in a
federal court after the airline removed eight individual Black men from one flight after complaints about their body odor.[294]
2024 Minneapolis shooting: A
Minneapolis police officer and a civilian are killed and another police officer and three other people are wounded in a shootout. The shooter was also killed.[305]
June 1 –
Ticketmaster and parent company
Live Nation submit a
SEC filing acknowledging a data breach of customer information potentially affecting 560 million users.
Banco Santander and cloud provider
Snowflake Inc. are also believed to have been affected by the same data breach.[309]
The
Department of State sanctions several
Georgian Dream politicians with travel bans for passing the "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", threatening further penalties if
Georgia continues "anti-democratic activity".[317]
Compass Datacenters launched its first hyperscale data center campus in
Illinois, planning to build five data centers on the 200-acre site. The project will create 1,000 local jobs and is set to be a $10 billion investment.[330]
The
Department of Agriculture announces a temporary suspension on imports of mangoes and avocados from
Michoacán, Mexico, after an incident that reportedly caused security concerns for safety inspectors.[340]
2024 New Mexico wildfires: At least one person dies, over 500 structures are damaged or destroyed, and several thousand people are forced to evacuate from
Ruidoso, New Mexico, after the South Fork Fire burns over 15,000 acres of land.[342]
Louisiana Governor
Jeff Landry signs a bill that makes it the first state to mandate that the
Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.[344][345][346]
WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange enters a plea deal with the
U.S. Justice Department, in which he will be found guilty on one federal charge in exchange for his release back to Australia. He is freed the next day.[353]
The
Department of Justice charges 193 people, including 76 medical professionals, with participating in healthcare fraud schemes worth $2.75 billion, including unlawful distribution of
Adderall and drug addiction treatments.[360]
A federal jury rules that the
NFL violated anti-trust laws by distributing out of market games through the premium
Sunday Ticket package, awarding damages which accumulate to $4.7 billion between residential and commercial subscribers.[361]
Panama–United States relations:
Panama and the U.S. sign a deal to reduce the flow of illegal immigration to the southern United States border through the
Darién Gap, with the U.S. covering the costs of
repatriating migrants who enter Panama illegally.[372]
The
Federal Trade Commission under chair
Lina Khan has also played a more proactive role in the economics of America, with Khan blocking many mergers and acquisitions, including one between airlines
JetBlue and
Spirit.[1] In business, the American economy is currently undergoing a
bull market, with
Nvidia in particular, due to demand for its chips in the use of
artificial intelligence, becoming the third largest publicly-traded company by market capitalization, and partially enabling major American stock indices such as the
S&P 500 to achieve record highs.[2] Nvidia's success story, though was contrasted by a series of safety failures, malfunctions, and crashes involving passenger aircraft designed and assembled by
Boeing, among the most notable this year including
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 where a door plug blew out.[3][4] Additionally, radio operator
Audacy, for-profit hospital chain
Steward Health Care System, retailers
Jo-Ann Stores and
rue21, seafood restaurant chain
Red Lobster, bussing company
Coach USA, and electric vehicle maker
Fisker Inc. have filed bankruptcy.
Concerning state governments, 11 states and two territories will hold gubernatorial elections, and most states and territories will hold elections for their legislatures. Many major cities, including
Baltimore,
Las Vegas,
Honolulu,
Milwaukee,
Miami,
Phoenix,
San Diego, and
San Francisco will also elect their mayors.
January 3 – A series of documents containing the names of associates of sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein are made available to the public. A majority of those mentioned are found to not be directly involved in any wrongdoing.[14]
Perry High School shooting: Two people are killed and six others are injured in a school shooting in
Perry, Iowa. The shooter, a 17-year-old-student at the school, committed suicide at the scene.[16] A principal who tried to intervene and was shot later died from his injuries on January 14.[17]
Clashes break out at the World Headquarters of the
Chabad-Lubavitch movement in
Brooklyn,
New York City after construction workers for the synagogue leaders attempted to fill in a tunnel that students had illegally dug beneath the building, resulting in the arrest of nine people.[20] The incident causes
antisemitic social media posts by
far-right and
QAnon figures to spread online.[21][22]
The United States
seizes control and later sinks [
simple] an Iranian
dhow, which was transporting supplies to the
Houthi movement. The operation resulted in the entire crew of the vessel being captured as well as two US Navy SEALs being lost at sea.[26][27]
January 18 – The
United States Congress approves a stopgap bill to extend the deadline for government funding to March 2024, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown, which would have begun at midnight, January 19.[39]
January 20 – At least 60 people are killed across the country after
two weeks of winter storms that caused dangerous road conditions and widespread power outages that could take weeks to fix.[41]
AWS announced plans to break ground on two large data center facilities in
Mississippi, marking a $10 billion investment expected to create 1,000 jobs.[49]
Three people are killed when a
Beechcraft Bonanza V35 crashes into a waterfront house in
Clearwater, Florida. Two of the casualties are on the ground while the third is the pilot. Three other houses are damaged by a fire which results from the crash.[52]
The
Oregon Supreme Court upholds
Ballot Measure 113 by banning ten of the twelve Republican members of the
Oregon Senate for refusing to attend six weeks worth of legislative sessions in order to stall Democratic legislation.[53]
February 4 – The schedule for the
2026 FIFA World Cup which will be co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico is released. A total of 78 games will be played in the US, including the
final.[54]
February 6
Social media network
Bluesky, seen as a potential rival to
X, is opened for public registrations, dropping its previous invite-only format.[55]
Toyota announced a $1.3 billion investment in a new Kentucky factory for a three-row electric SUV and EV battery packs.[56]
Joe Biden classified documents incident: Special counsel
Robert K. Hur recommends that no charges be brought against President Biden, though notes in Hur's report regarding Biden's failure to recall events prompts controversy regarding his age and memory.[61]
Three males go on an apparent random
shooting spree in southeastern
Los Angeles County, killing four, including a teenager, and wounding another teenager.[71]
The US launches six missile-detecting
satellites into orbit in response to a "serious national security threat" related to Russia wanting to implement its
nuclear capabilities in
outer space.[77][78]
An official committee which was appointed to represent the plaintiffs in the
Sandy Hook lawsuits against
Alex Jones unanimously votes to liquidate the far right-wing conspiracy theorist's assets.[84]
February 17 – Former congressman
George Santos sues late night host
Jimmy Kimmel for $750,000 on charges of copyright infringement, fraud, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment after Kimmel purchased
Cameo videos from Santos through fake names then used them on
his show.[85]
February 18 –
2024 Burnsville shooting: Police and medics were fired upon from a home while responding to a domestic incident in
Burnsville, Minnesota. Two officers and a firefighter were killed while another officer suffered a gunshot wound.[86] After opening fire on first responders, the shooter fatally shot himself.[87]
A
ransomware attack cripples
Change Healthcare's payment system, disrupting insurance claims and making it difficult for patients to get the prescription medicine that they need.[93][94][95]
February 22
AT&T suffers from
network outages impacting around 71,000 customers, which also affect
Verizon and
T-Mobile to a smaller degree. The outages were acknowledged but no reason was given for their occurrence.[96] Two days later, AT&T announced affected customers will be credited $5 on their next bill, the "average cost of a full day of service."[97]
The Biden administration announces over 500 new sanctions on Russian financial institutions, military institutions, sanctions evasion, energy production, and prison officials linked to the
death of Alexei Navalny.[101]
A
high-altitude balloon is detected over
Utah, prompting the deployment of
fighter aircraft to intercept the object. The origin and purpose of the balloon are unknown, according to US officials.[102]
A Piper PA-32A crashes on
I-40 while attempting to land at
John C. Tune Airport in Nashville after suffering a mechanical failure. All five passengers are killed on board.[111]
A highway crash near
Dewhurst, Wisconsin involving a van and a semi-tractor kills nine people and injures one.[119]
A
UH-72 Lakota helicopter crashes while conducting an aviation operation 41 miles west of
McAllen, Texas, killing one border patrol agent and two
National Guard soldiers and injuring another.[120]
AESC announced a $1.5 billion expansion of its lithium-ion EV battery manufacturing in
Florence County, South Carolina, creating 1,080 new jobs, bringing the total investment to $3.12 billion and supporting 2,700 new jobs.[143]
In United States v. Bankman-Fried,
the defendant is sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of several counts of wire fraud and money laundering after he scammed $8 billion from investors via his company
FTX.[145]
March 31 – Millions of
AT&T customers are affected by a data breach that leaked onto the dark web.[147]
April
April 1
The
Supreme Court of Florida rules that the
Florida Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, allowing the 15-week abortion ban to remain in effect. The Court's decision also allowed six week abortion ban, which had been halted by the Court until a decision was made, to proceed. As a result, the ban would take effect 30 days after the ruling. In the same opinion, the Supreme Court also approved
Florida Amendment 4 to proceed to the November 2024 ballot, which would enshrine a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability.[148]
Bird flu spreads to
cattle herds in at least six U.S. states, while a
dairy farm worker is infected in
Texas, becoming the second person to ever become infected with the virus in the United States.[154]
April 7 – In women's college basketball,
South Carolina wins the
national championship to complete their perfect 38–0 season, only the 10th perfect season in NCAA women's basketball history.[160]
April 8
A
total solar eclipse is viewable in the central and northeastern US, with the path of total eclipse over parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.[161]
Aftermath of the
Oxford High School shooting: James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of convicted Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, are each sentenced to 10–15 years in prison after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter earlier this year, the first parents in the nation to be held accountable for their child's school shooting.[163]
Film producer
Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction is overturned by the
New York Court of Appeals by a vote of 4–3, and a new trial is ordered. However, Weinstein will still remain in prison on a 2022 conviction in
California for rape.[193]
AWS announced its intention to build new data centers in Indiana as part of an $11 billion investment, the largest capital injection into the region ever.[196]
April 30 – Judge
Juan Merchan fines
Donald Trump $9,000 for contempt of court, and threatens him with jail if he continues to violate his gag order.[208]
May
May 1
Federal judge
Catherine Eagles blocks several of North Carolina's restrictions on abortion pill
mifepristone, striking down a requirement that the drug only be prescribed by doctors in-person, as well as a requirement for patients to have an in-person follow-up appointment.[209]
Clothing retailer
Rue21 files for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy after accumulating $194.4 million in debt and announces it will close all of its 540 stores after 54 years in business.[215][216]
A radical group identifying as "
Rachel Corrie's Ghost Brigade" claims responsibility for setting fire to 15 vehicles belonging to the
Portland Police Bureau on May 1. The group stated this act was intended to preemptively prevent the police from dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment at
Portland State University.[226]
The
Department of Education’s
Office for Civil Rights opens an investigation into a gender identity policy of the
Katy Independent School District in Texas, which board members passed on August 28, 2023 and requires district employees to disclose to parents if a student requests the use of different pronouns or identifies as transgender.[230]
May 7 – The
Boy Scouts of America announces the renaming of the organization to Scouting America on February 8, 2025.[231]
Researchers at
Google DeepMind announce the development of
AlphaFold 3, an AI model that can predict the structures of almost all biological molecules and model the interactions between them.[234]
Healthcare chain
Ascension announces it has been the target of a cyber attack on its computer systems.[235]
Following a similar April 29 letter to the Texas Education Agency, Texas Governor
Greg Abbott sends a letter to Texas public university systems and community colleges directing them not to comply with U.S. President
Joe Biden's revisions to
Title IX adding protections for LGBTQ+ students.[237]
Microsoft announced plans to invest $3.3 billion by the end of 2026 to develop a datacenter campus in
Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The project is expected to create 2,300 union construction jobs in the area by 2025.[238]
Actor
Steve Buscemi is assaulted by a random passer-by in New York City, sustaining an injury that requires hospital treatment.[239]
A
Pennsylvania jury orders
ExxonMobil to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed that the company's gasoline and solvents caused him to develop
leukemia.[244]
May 11 –
Minnesota adopts its
new state flag to coincide with the 166th anniversary of its date of statehood.[245]
Walgreens says that it will sell a generic version of the anti-overdose medication
naloxone for ten dollars cheaper than the brand-name version, Narcan, also available on its shelves.[259]
The United States imposes visa restrictions on over 250 members of the
Nicaraguan government along with sanctions on three entities for "repressive action" and failure to control
migrant smuggling through Nicaragua.[263]
Crook County, Oregon votes in favor of Measure 7–86
Greater Idaho movement.[277][278] This makes it the 13th county in Oregon that has passed a similar ballot measure resulting in the majority of Counties in the proposed Greater Idaho map having voted in favor.
May 29 –
Air Products announced plans to invest $15 billion to build a network of commercial-scale multi-modal hydrogen refueling stations connecting Northern and Southern California.[293]
May 30
Three
Black men sue
American Airlines for "blatant and egregious racial discrimination" in a
federal court after the airline removed eight individual Black men from one flight after complaints about their body odor.[294]
2024 Minneapolis shooting: A
Minneapolis police officer and a civilian are killed and another police officer and three other people are wounded in a shootout. The shooter was also killed.[305]
June 1 –
Ticketmaster and parent company
Live Nation submit a
SEC filing acknowledging a data breach of customer information potentially affecting 560 million users.
Banco Santander and cloud provider
Snowflake Inc. are also believed to have been affected by the same data breach.[309]
The
Department of State sanctions several
Georgian Dream politicians with travel bans for passing the "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", threatening further penalties if
Georgia continues "anti-democratic activity".[317]
Compass Datacenters launched its first hyperscale data center campus in
Illinois, planning to build five data centers on the 200-acre site. The project will create 1,000 local jobs and is set to be a $10 billion investment.[330]
The
Department of Agriculture announces a temporary suspension on imports of mangoes and avocados from
Michoacán, Mexico, after an incident that reportedly caused security concerns for safety inspectors.[340]
2024 New Mexico wildfires: At least one person dies, over 500 structures are damaged or destroyed, and several thousand people are forced to evacuate from
Ruidoso, New Mexico, after the South Fork Fire burns over 15,000 acres of land.[342]
Louisiana Governor
Jeff Landry signs a bill that makes it the first state to mandate that the
Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.[344][345][346]
WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange enters a plea deal with the
U.S. Justice Department, in which he will be found guilty on one federal charge in exchange for his release back to Australia. He is freed the next day.[353]
The
Department of Justice charges 193 people, including 76 medical professionals, with participating in healthcare fraud schemes worth $2.75 billion, including unlawful distribution of
Adderall and drug addiction treatments.[360]
A federal jury rules that the
NFL violated anti-trust laws by distributing out of market games through the premium
Sunday Ticket package, awarding damages which accumulate to $4.7 billion between residential and commercial subscribers.[361]
Panama–United States relations:
Panama and the U.S. sign a deal to reduce the flow of illegal immigration to the southern United States border through the
Darién Gap, with the U.S. covering the costs of
repatriating migrants who enter Panama illegally.[372]