January 5 – Groundbreaking and construction begin on the $68 billion California High-Speed Rail System, with the new transportation line planning to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco by 2029, reaching speeds of up to 200 mph (320 km/h).[11]
January 26–27 – A blizzard hits the Northeast, shutting down major cities including New York City and Boston, with up to 60 million people affected.[28]
U.S. officials announce that in light of the Houthitakeover of the Yemeni capital city of Sana'a and the resignation of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, the United States will be closing its embassy in Yemen. All American diplomats working in Yemen are advised to evacuate.[35]
NBC announces that NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams has been suspended for six months due to revelations that he greatly embellished stories of his role in a helicopter incident in Iraq on the air.[36]
A Moscow-based security software company, the Kaspersky Lab, discovers the NSA's ability to hide spying software in hard drives made by several top manufacturers in the computers of users from 30 different countries.[45]
A federal district court judge in Brownsville, Texas, temporarily halts President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration, allowing Texas and 25 other states to file a lawsuit opposing the orders.[46]
In stock car racing, Joey Logano wins the Daytona 500 (extended to 203 laps due to a green-white-checkered finish), making him the second youngest winner of the race after Trevor Bayne, and giving Team Penske their second Daytona 500 victory. Jeff Gordon (in his final season as a full-time driver) leads the most laps with a total of 87 out of 200 and also wins his second pole for the race, and his first since 1999.[49]
Former CIA director and U.S. Army officer David Petraeus pleads guilty in federal court to a charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified information.[62]
March 19 – Scientists, including an inventor of CRISPR, urge a worldwide moratorium on using gene editing methods to genetically engineer the human genome in a way that can be inherited, writing "scientists should avoid even attempting, in lax jurisdictions, germline genome modification for clinical application in humans" until the full implications "are discussed among scientific and governmental organizations.".[73][74][75][76]
The US Army charges US Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan from June 2009 until his release in May 2014, with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.[81][82]
April 4 – Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, is shot and killed by a police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina. The officer, Michael Slager, is charged with Scott's murder. The event was filmed by a bystander.[87]
The sentencing retrial of Joia Arias concludes in Arizona. Arias had been convicted of the murder of Travis Alexander in 2013 and is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, having narrowly avoided the death penalty.[95]
April 14 – President Barack Obama moves forward with removing Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list in light of his efforts to normalize relations with the country.[97]
April 23 – Shayna Hubers is convicted of the 2012 murder of her boyfriend Ryan Poston in Lexington, Kentucky. Hubers had shot Poston six times and tried to claim she acted in self-defense.[98]
In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court rules in favor of states' right to ban elected judges from soliciting campaign contributions for their own campaigns, the first instance of the court supporting regulations on campaign financing in recent years.[103]
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft concludes its four-year orbital mission over Mercury by crashing into the planet[107][108] at 3:26 p.m. EDT (1926 GMT) at 14,080 km/h (8,750 mph) at 54.4° N, 149.9° W, near the crater Janáček.[109] NASA confirmed the unobserved impact when the Deep Space Network failed to detect a signal from the spacecraft's beacon, confirming its demise.[110]
May 12 – An Amtrak train derails in the Philadelphia neighborhood for Port Richmond, causing cars to roll over and killing at least 8 people and injuring over 200. The train was later found to have been going nearly twice the speed limit at the time of the incident.[121][122]
May 19 – The Federal Trade Commission alleges that four leading cancer charities conned donors out of $187 million over the course of four years, donating only 3% of the money to actual cancer research.[125]
Unidentified criminals use an online service run by the Internal Revenue Service to access the tax information of over 100,000 American taxpayers.[131]
American courts indict fourteen members of FIFA with charges of fraud, money laundering, and racketeering involving tens of millions of dollars over the course of 24 years.[133]
NebraskaGovernorPete Ricketts's veto on state legislators' vote to ban the death penalty in the state is overridden, making Nebraska the first Republican-controlled state to ban the death penalty since 1973.[134]
The USA Freedom Act passes the Senate after several delays and revisions since its inception and is signed into law by President Barack Obama. Though the law does restrict government surveillance under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, it does not completely end bulk collection of American phone metadata, which will now be collected by phone companies who may give information to the NSA voluntarily under the bill.[140][141]
Christopher Monfort is convicted of the 2009 Murder of Timothy Brenton, a Seattle police officer. Brenton had been ambushed and shot by Monfort while sitting in his police car. The perpetrator, motivated by an anti-police agenda, was also convicted of two counts of attempted murder and arson.[149]
A pool party in McKinney, Texas receives attention when police officer Eric Casebolt is filmed restraining an unarmed teenage girl on the ground and pointing his weapon at other bystanders. Amid heated debate in the media, Casebolt later resigns.[150]
June 10 – Dee Dee Blanchard is murdered by her daughter Gypsy Rose and her daughter's boyfriend. Dee Dee had abused her daughter for many years, forcing her to use a wheelchair and to pretend to be ill.[156]
June 18 – Four months after Lester Holt was named interim weeknight anchor of NBC Nightly News in the wake of preceding anchor Brian Williams' suspension for his misrepresentation of certain events, NBC News makes the move permanent, with Holt assuming full-time weeknight duties effective June 22. Holt, who had previously anchored Nightly News' Saturday and Sunday editions from 2007 until Williams' suspension, becomes the first African-American to serve as the sole lead anchor of a weeknight network newscast.[165][166]
June 23 – Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announces that the US will position tanks and heavy weapons in eastern and central Europe in response to Russia's continued military involvement in Ukraine.[168]
The US Justice Department begins investigating "possible unlawful coordination by some airlines" in the United States to keep plane ticket prices high.[185]
Illegal immigrant Francisco Sanchez is suspected to have killed 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco, sparking criticism of U.S. immigration policy.[187]
July 2
BP agrees to pay the Department of Justice an $18.7 billion settlement in reparation for the 2010 BP oil spill that dumped over 125 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The settlement is the largest paid by a single company in US history.[188]
July 3 – The Swiss experimentalsolar-powered aircraftSolar Impulse completes its 118-hour non-stop flight from Japan, landing in Hawaii. It is the longest successful flight of a solar-powered aircraft in history.[191]
Iran and a coalition including the United States come to an agreement on the nuclear program of Iran after numerous months of debate, agreeing to lift the United Nations Security Council's sanctions against Iran in exchange for the reduction of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98 percent for the next 15 years.[195]
July 17–21 – The Cajon Pass wildfire spreads across 4,250 acres (1,720 ha) in the Mojave Desert near the towns of Victorville and Hesperia, north of San Bernardino and south of Bakersfield in the state of California, destroying seven homes (one damaged), 16 out buildings (four damaged), and 74 vehicles[201] and also injuring three people.[202]
Verizon employees in nine states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia) and Washington, D.C. vote to go on strike on August 1 if disputes between the union and the company result in no new contracts.[211]
Nike agrees to pay a combined $2.4 million to consumers of Nike+ FuelBand over false advertising.[212]
August 4 – A street-corner sized sinkhole forms at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 64th Street in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, New York City, around 7:30 am, destroying the street corner. The northbound N Broadway Local train is delayed; there is at least one disconnected pipe and gas lines are being repaired by National Grid workers, and the police have cordoned off the area. No fatalities or injuries have been reported.[217]
August 6
The first debate before the 2016 Republican Primaries is held.[citation needed]
August 7 – The jury in the penalty phase of the trial of Aurora shooterJames Holmes reaches a verdict to sentence him to a life in prison without parole[219] for killing 12 and injuring 70 during the attack at Century 16 Theatres in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012.[220] after they reject the death penalty.[220]
August 20 – After an axe attack on cinema-goers in Tennessee earlier in the month, American movie theater chain Regal Entertainment Group announces that it will now perform security bag checks at all its theater venues.[224]
August 26 – News reporter Alison Parker and camera operator Adam Ward are shot and killed on live television during an interview in Moneta, Virginia. The shooter, Vester Lee Flanagan (a former colleague of Parker and Ward at station WDBJ in Roanoke), commits suicide several hours later.[226]
August 27
Officials report that, in the month of July, California residents reduced their water use by 31.3%, exceeding the 25% mandate put in place by GovernorJerry Brown in response to the ongoing drought in the state.[227]
August 28 – Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman resigns from his position in response to the growing information coming out of the site's hacking incident a month earlier.[229]
Phoenix Sundown is arrested in San Diego, California for mailing a package to an underage girl to Abby Lee Dance Company the site of the television reality show Dance Moms.
2015 Utah floods: Widespread flooding in southern Utah claims at least 20 lives.
September 16 – After sharp criticism and accusations of racial profiling, police in Irving, Texas, drop charges on 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, who was suspended from MacArthur High School after authorities believed a reassembled digital clock he brought to school was a makeshift bomb. President Barack Obama also extends an invitation to Mohamed to the White House.[241]
September 18 – German car manufacturing company Volkswagen is directed by the Obama administration to recall about 500,000 vehicles in the United States after the company is accused of installing software in its diesel-powered cars that allow emissions of 40 times as much polluting exhaust pipe gas as is allowed by the Clean Air Act.[242]
September 22 – County clerkKim Davis once again faces legal action after four couples ask a judge to order Davis to reissue their marriage licenses after she removed her name from them.[248]
September 28 – NASA announces that there is strong evidence that liquid waterflows onMars during the summer months, increasing the chance of sustainable life on the planet.[250]
October
October – The unemployment rate drops to 5%, the lowest since April 2008 and the same as when the Great Recession started in December 2007.
October 22 – Hillary Clinton testifies for a second time before the Benghazi Committee and answered members' questions for more than eight hours in a public hearing.
A video surfaces online of a student being violently pulled from her chair in a classroom by a police officer at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina, prompting public outcry and an investigation.[261]
President Barack Obama orders up to fifty US special operations ground troops to be deployed in Syria to fight Islamic State militants.[265]
Under new rules from the United States Sentencing Commission, nonviolent drug offenders with reduced jail sentences begin to be released from prison, with the first of many waves totaling nearly 6,000 people, about 1,700 of which are illegal immigrants and may face deportation.[266]
November 11 – A suspect is arrested by University of Missouri police for making racially charged violent threats on social media as the university protests continue to gain media attention.[272]
November 12 – NASA scientists report that human-made carbon dioxide (CO2) continues to increase above levels not seen in hundreds of thousands of years: currently, about half of the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels remains in the atmosphere and is not absorbed by vegetation and the oceans.[273][274][275][276]
November 13 – The US Department of Defense announces their belief that an American airstrike in Syria killed Mohammed Emwazi, better known as Jihadi John, who is responsible for numerous recorded beheadings of several hostages of the Islamic State, including American citizens.[277]
November 22 – The 2015 New Orleans shooting took place at Bunny Friend playground in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana.[279] In conjunction with the music video recorded at an impromptu unauthorized block party,[280] 17 people were injured, with Joseph "Moe" Allen identified as a suspect.[281]
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.
December 30 – An arrest warrant issued for comedian Bill Cosby for the alleged drugging and sexual assault of an employee at Temple University in 2004, following over a year of dozens of similar allegations. Cosby remains free on $1 million bail until his trial begins.[293]
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