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Federal Deficit $587 billion       Federal Debt $19,955 billion (19.9 trillion)

Life Expectancy: 78.8 years (76.3 for men - 81.2 for women)
Gold Platinum Silver
1585.50 864 16.63
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 19827.25
227,000 were added to the labor market in January 2017.

Since President Donald John Trump Took Office

March 12, 2020 - Unleaded 2.089 - Premium 2.489
Coronavirus in the U.S.
Confirmed Cases Deaths Mortality Rate Vaccine Doses Distributed
24,403,070 405,400 35,761,800
Changed DoD Poliy on Landmines
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah aka Abu Muhammad al-Masri the Al-Qaeda second in command is dead. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State is dead.
Major General Qassim Soleimani is dead.
Jamal al-Badwadi, involved in the attack on the USS Cole, is dead.
August 2019 - A U.S. airstrike killed Hamza bin Laden.
Life Expectancy: 78.99 years
Federal Deficit $3.1 trillion
Federal Debt $27.814 Trillion
U.S. GDP Growth Rate
'17 Qtr 1 '17 Qtr 2 '17 Qtr 3 '17 Qtr 4 '18 Qtr 1 '18 Qtr 2 '18 Qtr 3 '18 Qtr 4 '19 Qtr 1 '19 Qtr 2 '19 Qtr 3 '19 Qtr 4 '20 Qtr 1
2.3 2.2 3.2 3.5 2.5 3.5 2.9 1.1 3.1 2.0 1.9 2.1 4.8
GDP Growth over 3% annual July - December 2017.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: Unemployment: %      Jobs gained/lost =        Hourly Earning increase/decrease = 
Gold Platinum Silver
1870.90 1105 25.82
Military retirees received a 2.8% increase on January 1, 2019.
Military retirees will receive a 1.6% increase on January 1, 2020.
Social Security recipients received a 2.8% increase on January 1, 2019.
Social Security recipients will receive a 1.3% increase on January 1, 2020.
FEMA is allowed to give assistance to Churches and religious schools.
The USMC & U.S. Navy banned the Confederate battle flag displays in all public spaces.
June 11, 2020 - Issued Executive order calling International Criminal Court claims to jurisdiction over U.S. personnel illegitimate.The U.S. had a larger decline than any other country in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019The United States was a net oil exporter in 2018
America's wealth $100 Trillion
2018 - Reporters Without Borders ranked the U.S. 48th in the world with a score of 25.69 on the World Press Freedom Index. February 27, 2018 - President Trump reached a $3.9 billion deal with Boeing for the purchase of 2 presidential jets
August 13, 2020 - Israel and The United Arab Emirates established full diplomatic ties.
April 8, 2019 - U.S. designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist organizaton.
March 25, 2019 - U.S. recognizes Israeli's soverignty over the Golan Heights.
December 5, 2017 - U.S. recognizes Israeli's capital as Jerusalem. The U.S. Embassy opened in Jerusalem on May 14,2018.
November 11, 2017 - All honorably discharged U.S. veterans given online exchange privileges.
The remains of 200 U.S. soldiers MIA from the Korean War have been returned from North Korea.
The Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller as Special Counsel.
DoD began Fiscal Year 2019 with Funding
The SEC reached an agreement with Tesla, Inc. and Elon Musk, CEO and Chairman of Tesla, Inc. where Musk will step down as Chairman and pay $20 million in penalties. Tesla, Inc. will also pay $20 million in penalties. The Islamic State no longer controls territory. 20,000 square miles of Iraq and Syria cleared of ISIS from January 2017 - March 2019

AFGHANISTAN

February 9, 2020 - Enemy action killed Sgt. 1st Class Javier Jaguar Gutierrez & Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Rey Rodriguez. January 11, 2020 - An IED attack killed Staff Sgt. Ian P. McLaughlin & Pfc. Miguel A. Villalon.
December 23, 2019 - Enemy action killed Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Goble. September 16, 2019 - Enemy small arms fire killed Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin.
September 5, 2019 - A VBIED attack killed Sgt. 1st Class Elis A. Barreto Ortiz
August 29, 2019 - Enemy action killed Sgt. 1st Class Dustin B. Ard
August 21, 2019 - Enemy small arms fire killed Master Sgt. Luis F. DeLeon-Figueroa & Master Sgt. Jose J. Gonzalez July 31, 2019 - Pfc. Brandon Jay Kreischer & Spc. Michael Isaiah Nance died in a combat related incident.
July 13, 2019 - Enemy small arms fire killed Sgt. Maj. James G. Sartor
June 25, 2019 - Enemy small arms fire killed Master Sgt. Micheal B. Riley & Sgt. James G. Johnston
April 8, 2019 - An IED attack killed Cpl. Robert A. Hendriks, Sgt. Benjamin S. Hines, Staff Sgt. Christopher K.A. Slutman, and wounded 3 other Marines.
March 22, 2019 - Enemy action killed Spc. Joseph P. Collette & Sgt. 1st Class Will D. Lindsay.
January 22, 2019 - Enemy small arms fire killed Staff Sgt. Joshua Z. Beale
January 13, 2019 - Small arms fire mortally wounded Sgt. Cameron A. Meddock. he died in Landstuhl, Germany on January 17, 2019.
November 27, 2018 - An IED attack killed Army Capt. Andrew Patrick Ross, Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Michael Emond, Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, and Sgt. Jason Mitchell McClary wounded 2 other service members and a civilian contractor.
November 24, 2018 - Enemy action killed Sgt. Leandro A.S. Jasso
November 3, 2018 - Small arms fire from an insider attack killed Maj. Brent R. Taylor.
October 4, 2018 - An IED attack killed Spc. James A. Slape.
September 3, 2018 - Enemy small arms fire killed Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy A. Bolyard.
August 12, 2018 - An IED killed Staff Sgt. Reymund Rarogal Transfiguracion.
July 7, 2018 - Enemy small arms fire killed Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Andrew Celiz.
July 7, 2018 - A turncoat Afghan solder killed Cpl. Joseph Maciel.
April 30, 2018 - Enemy small arms fire killed Spc. Gabriel D. Conde.
January 20, 2018 - A Taliban attack on a hotel killed 22 people, including 4 Americans. The dead included Glenn Selig. Two other Americans were wounded.
January 1, 2018 - Enemy small arms fire killed Sgt. 1st Class Mihail Golin.
 November 4, 2017 - Enemy action killed Sgt. 1st Class, Stephen B. Cribben.
August 16, 2017 - An IED attack killed Staff Sgt. Aaron R. Butler.
August 2, 2017 - A VBIED attack killed Sgt. Jonathon Michael Hunter & Spc. Christopher Michael Harris
July 3, 2017 - Enemy action killed Pfc. Hansen B. Kirkpatrick.
June 10, 2017 - An Afghan soldier killed Sgt. Eric M. Houck, Sgt. William M. Bays, Corporal Dillon C. Baldridge, and wounded another soldier.
April 27, 2017 - Enemy small arms fire killed Sgt. Joshua P. Rodgers & Sgt. Cameron H. Thomas
April 8, 2017 - Enemy small arms fire killed Staff Sgt. Mark R. De Alencar

SYRIA

January 16, 2019 - A bombing attack killed Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan R. Farmer, Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon M. Kent, and DOD civilian Scott A. Wirtz. Three service members were wounded.
March 30, 2018 - An IED attack killed Master Sgt. Jonathan J. Dunbar.

IRAQ

March 11,2020 - A Katyusha rocket attack killed Army Spc. Juan Miguel Mendez Covarrubias & Air Force Staff Sgt. Marshal D. Roberts and Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon of the British Army.
March 9, 2020 - Enemy action killed Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo & Capt. Moises A. Navas.
August 10, 2019 - Enemy small arms fire killed Gunnery Sergeant Scott A. Koppenhafer
October 1, 2017 - An IED attack killed Spc. Alexander W. Missildine
August 13, 2017 - Enemy action killed Sgt. Roshain Euvince Brooks & Spc. Allen Levi Stigler Jr. and wounded 5 others.
April 29, 2017 - Enemy action killed 1st Lt. Weston C. Lee

SOMALIA

June 8, 2018 - A mortar round killed Staff Sgt. Alexander W. ConradAn enemy attack with mortar and small arms wounded 4 other U.S. Service Members and member of a partner force.
May 5, 2017 - Enemy action killed Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Kyle Milliken

NIGER

October 4, 2017 - Enemy fire killed Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wrightand Sgt. LaDavid T. Johnson. Two other service member was wounded. Two Nigerien soldiers were also killed in the incident.An attack killed Spc Henry J. Mayfield Jr. and two civilian contractors.
January 15, 2019 - Jason Spindler was among 14 people killed in a terrorist attack in Nairobi.

YEMEN

January 28, 2017 - Al-Qaeda forces killed Chief Special Warfare Operator William "Ryan" Owens.

SPAIN

August 17, 2017 - Jared Tucker was killed in a terrorist attack in Barcelona.

TAJIKISTAN

A car ramming attack killed Americans Lauren Georghegan and Jan Austin, a Swiss and a Dutch national.

U.S.A.

April 18, 2017 - A shooting attack killed 3 in Fresno, CA.
October 31, 2017 - A truck and gun attack killed Nicholas Cleves, Darren Drake, Ann-Laure Decadt, Ariel Erlij, Hernan Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damian Pagnucco, Hernan Ferruchi, and wounded 15 in Manhattan.

Other Terrorism

[U.S.A.] - June 21, 2017 - A knife attack at an airport in Flint, Michigan wounded Police Lieutenant Jeff Neville. Canadian, Amor Ftouhi, has been arrested.

Unrest

Rioting January 6, 2021 - Washington, DC.
Rioting January 1, 2021 - Portland.
Rioting October - Philadelphia.
Rioting May-June 2020
Minneapolis St. Paul New York Atlanta Louisville
Richmond Hollywood Fargo Omaha Tulsa
Dallas San Francisco Tampa Phoenix Portland
Wilmington Columbia Pittsburgh Kansas City Charlotte
May 30- June 2, 2020 - Rioting in Los Angeles, Seattle, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Detroit, Wasington DC, Philadelphia, Miami, Las Vegas, Cleveland, Denver, Des Moines, Dallas, Indianapolis.
August 5, 2018 - Rioting in Portsmouth.
July 2018 - Violence at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
July 2018 - Rioting in Philadelphia.
September 16, 2017 - Rioting in St. Louis.
August 28, 2017 - Rioting at the University of California at Berkeley.
August 12, 2017 - Rioting in Charlottesville, Virginia, 3 dead, 35 injured.
February 1, 2017 - Rioting at the University of California at Berkeley.

Release

May 2020 - Bryan Nerren was released from an Indian prison.
October 31, 2020 - A commando team rescued Philip Walton in Niger. December 7, 2019 - Iran released Xiyue Wang in exchange for Professor Massoud Soleimani
January 25, 2019 - Danny Burch recovered from captivity in Yemen. October 12, 2018 - Turkey released Rev. Andrew Brunson
May 27, 2018 - Venezuela released Joshua Holt.
May 9, 2018 - North Korea released Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song.
November 14, 2017 - Cody Riley, Jalen Hill, and LiAngelo Ball, arrested in China for shoplifting.
June 13, 2017 - Otto Warmbier, arrested in North Korea in March 2016. He was in a coma and died on June 19, 2017. April 21, 2017 - Aya Hijazi released from Egyptian custody.

Pardons

Clemency

Assault

Greg Gianforte attacked reporter Ben Jacobs.

Deaths

Thomas Bowers - Former head of Deutche Bank's American wealth-management division.
U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings.
Vice Admiral Scott Stearney found dead at his residence in Bahrain
Federal prosecutor Beranton J. Whisenant Jr. found dead on a Florida beach.
Republican donor Peter W. Smih
Eric Chase Bolling
Natash Veselnitskaya
Jamal Khashoggi, Salah Muhammad al-Tubaigy
Jeffrey Epstein
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet
Herman Cain

Execution

Daniel Lewis Lee - 7/14/2020

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