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2015 San Bernardino attack: 14 people are killed in a terrorist attack at a facility for the mentally disabled in San Bernardino, California. It is the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in 2015, and the deadliest since 2012. An E. coli outbreak involving over one dozen states and 150 000 products took place. December 3
- Charlie Hebdo Attack in Paris
- Germanwings Plane Crash
- Deaths by Police Officers
- Amtrak Train Crash
- Prison Escape in New York
- Charleston Church Shooting
- On-Air Shooting in Virginia
- Major Murder Trials
- European Refugee Crisis
- Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Terror struck in Paris one week into the New Year when a group of men with extensive ties to terrorist organizations targeted the officesof a famed satirical newspaper. Two men shot their way into the offices of Charlie Hebdo while a third waited near the getaway car. The shooters forced their way into the publication's offices, killing a maintenan...
A major aviation mystery in 2015 differed from the series of crashes the previous year in that the plane’s recording device led investigators to a suspect shortly after the deadly crash: the co-pilot. The recording from inside the cockpit of Germanwings Flight 9525 during the March 24 flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf indicated that co-pilot Andr...
The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin led to the creation of #BlackLivesMatter in 2013, and the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner among others by police officers in Missouri and New York, respectively, carried the outrage through 2014. It was the deaths of Walter Scott and Freddie Gray, both at the...
A train derailment in Philadelphia killed eight and injured more than 200 Amtrak passengers in May after the Northeast Regional train sped around a curve and went off the track. The train’s engineer. who survived, could not explain what caused the deadly crash. The National Transportation Safety Board led the investigation into the accident and det...
One of the biggest stories of the summer seemed like something straight out of a Hollywood movie. It involved two prisoners, a sexual liaison with a prison worker who smuggled toolshidden in frozen meat and a midnight escape with a smiley-faced getaway note. David Sweat and Richard Matt, both convicted murderers, escaped from the maximum security C...
One of this year’s deadliest mass shootings struck a particularly heartbreaking chord because of its location: inside a church. The shooting at Charleston’s historic Emanuel AME Church in June caused national mourning and outrage, after a 21-year-old, reportedly with white supremacist beliefs, attended a Bible study session at the famed predominant...
The gunman in another tragic shooting claimed it was the racism of the Charleston church shooting that prompted him to create a scene of carnage in the late summer. Vester Lee Flanagan, a disgruntled former news anchor, shot two of his former colleagues while they were on the air on location for a Roanoke, Virginia, TV station. The Aug. 26 shooting...
Four of the biggest trials of the year all resulted in guilty verdicts and one of those murderers now faces a death sentence. The first verdict came in February when Eddie Ray Routh was found guilty of killing “American Sniper” Chris Kyleand his friend Chad Littlefield. Though Kyle was well-known before the trial because of his bestselling book, th...
Tens of thousands of people fleeing war-torn Syria and other areas in the Middle East and Africa spent much of this summer making the laborious, and dangerous, trek through Europe toward countries including Germany and Sweden in hopes of finding asylum. The influx of refugee families prompted international disputes and policy shifts as countries su...
The Supreme Court made a landmark decision in June, voting to allow same-sex couples to marry nationwide. The 5-4 decision was praised by many, including President Obama, who called it a “victory for America.”But not everyone was pleased with the decision. A county clerk in Kentucky became a touchstone for the national debate after she claimed it w...
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By Ana Swanson. December 23, 2015 at 6:30 a.m. EST. This year held a lot of surprises, from shocking incidents of terrorism and mass violence to Donald Trump's ascendancy in the polls. Below are...
21 de dez. de 2015 · They weren’t all necessarily the biggest or most impactful stories, especially in a year that had the U.S. reopening its embassy in Cuba, a newly belligerent Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
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9 de set. de 2015 · Here is a look back at the events of 2015. Notable U.S. Events: January 31 - Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, is found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub full of water.
28 de dez. de 2015 · Still there’s no question Donald Trump is the big political story of 2015. Click here for more on Trump’s political views. 2. SCOTUS legalizes gay marriage and upholds Obamacare. This year was...
11 de dez. de 2015 · 1. The majority of America is no longer middle class. For the first time in four decades, the share of Americans living in middle-income households fell below 51 percent in 2015, according to an analysis of government data by the Pew Research Center.
