2018
138 verified events recorded in 2018.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-12-18 | Judge Sullivan's Harsh Questioning of Flynn at Sentencing - "Arguably You Sold Your Country Out"
4 src Michael Flynn · Judge Emmet Sullivan · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-18 | New York Judge Orders Trump Foundation Dissolved, Assets Distributed to Charities
3 src Saliann Scarpulla · Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Barbara Underwood | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-18 | Trump Foundation Admits to Misusing Charity Funds, Agrees to Dissolve Under Court Supervision
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Barbara Underwood · New York Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Resigns Facing 18 Federal Investigations
3 src Ryan Zinke · Donald Trump · Department of Interior · David Bernhardt | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | New York Times Investigation Exposes McKinsey's Work Raising Stature of Authoritarian Governments
6 src McKinsey & Company · Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · The New York Times · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-13 | Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Conspiring as Russian Agent, Admits Years-Long Clandestine Influence Scheme
2 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · Department of Justice · Paul Erickson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-10 | University of Phoenix Enrollment Collapses 80% After Fraud Investigations - $191M FTC Settlement
3 src University of Phoenix · Apollo Education Group · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-06 | NYPD Begins Secret Trial of Clearview AI Facial Recognition Technology
2 src NYPD · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-01 | Investigation Reveals McKinsey Advised Both Puerto Rico Fiscal Board and Hedge Fund Creditors Through Whitebox Advisors Holding $140 Million in Bonds
4 src McKinsey & Company · MIO Partners · Whitebox Advisors · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-29 | Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Lying to Congress About Trump Tower Moscow Timeline
4 src Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Dmitry Peskov · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-28 | KESMA: Orbán Issues Decree Creating Single Foundation Absorbing 476 Hungarian Media Outlets by Sovereign Exemption from Competition Review
13 src Viktor Orbán · Lőrinc Mészáros · István Garancsi · Zoltán Spéder · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-27 | Georgia Purges 1.4 Million Voters Under Exact Match System
3 src Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Georgia Secretary of State Office · Common Cause Georgia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-20 | Trump Defends Saudi Arabia Despite CIA High-Confidence Finding MBS Ordered Khashoggi Murder - "Maybe He Did, Maybe He Didn't"
4 src Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Central Intelligence Agency · King Salman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-15 | Mexican Journalists Targeted with Pegasus Days After Colleague's Assassination
2 src Javier Valdez Cárdenas · Andrés Villarreal · Ismael Bojórquez · Citizen Lab · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-13 | Amazon Selects NYC and Arlington for HQ2—Extracting at Least $4.6 Billion in Subsidies
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Andrew Cuomo · Bill de Blasio · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Facebook Admits Platform Used to "Incite Offline Violence" in Myanmar Genocide, Implements No Systemic Changes
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · United Nations · Rohingya Muslims · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Florida Voters Approve Amendment 4 Restoring Voting Rights to 1.4 Million with Felony Convictions
4 src Florida voters · Desmond Meade · Florida Rights Restoration Coalition | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Michigan Voters Approve Independent Redistricting Commission, Ending Partisan Gerrymandering
4 src Voters Not Politicians · Michigan voters | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-01 | Northrop Grumman Pays $31.65 Million for Fraudulent Overbilling of Air Force Contracts
3 src Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Air Force · Defense Criminal Investigative Service · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-29 | Lion Air Flight 610 Crashes Due to Boeing 737 MAX MCAS System Malfunction
4 src Lion Air · Boeing · MCAS system · 189 victims · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-27 | Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre: Gab-Radicalized Gunman Kills 11 in Deadliest Antisemitic Attack in US History
3 src Robert Bowers · HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) · Tree of Life Congregation | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-23 | Trump Calls Saudi Khashoggi Explanation "Worst Cover-Up Ever" But Signals He Won't Hold MBS Accountable
4 src Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Mike Pompeo · Saudi Arabia government | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-22 | Trump Adopts 'Invasion' Rhetoric Mainstreaming Great Replacement Theory Before Midterms
4 src Donald Trump · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-21 | McKinsey Claims It's 'Horrified' After Saudi Dissident Report Made Public
3 src McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · Saudi Arabia · Omar Abdulaziz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-17 | Kathryn Ruemmler Sends Epstein 2:20 AM Photo of Nader with MBS — Intelligence-Sharing Tempo Documented (EFTA02618825)
2 src Jeffrey Epstein · Kathryn Ruemmler · George Nader · Mohammed bin Salman | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-16 | AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition
4 src AbbVie · Amgen · Samsung Bioepis · Mylan · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-16 | China Approves 16 Trademarks for Ivanka Trump During Trade War
3 src Ivanka Trump · Chinese Government · China National Intellectual Property Administration · White House · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-11 | Trump Vows to Continue Raytheon, Lockheed Arms Sales Despite Khashoggi Murder and Yemen Atrocities
4 src Donald Trump · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-06 | Senate Confirms Kavanaugh 50-48 Despite Sexual Assault Allegations and Severely Limited FBI Investigation
4 src Brett Kavanaugh · Susan Collins · Joe Manchin · Lisa Murkowski · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 But Eliminates Bonuses and Stock Options
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Jamal Khashoggi Murdered Inside Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by 15-Member Hit Squad Sent by Crown Prince MBS
4 src Jamal Khashoggi · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Turkish intelligence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Saudi Crown Prince's Entourage Books Trump Hotel During Khashoggi Crisis
4 src Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Trump International Hotel New York · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-01 | Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Refuses to Recuse From Overseeing His Own Governor Election
4 src Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Brad Raffensperger | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-01 | Operation Faithful Patriot deploys 5,200 active-duty troops to border
4 src 101st Airborne Division · Military police battalions · Combat engineers · Pentagon · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-27 | Christine Blasey Ford Delivers Credible, Emotional Testimony Alleging Kavanaugh Sexual Assault, He Responds with Partisan Rant
4 src Christine Blasey Ford · Brett Kavanaugh · Lindsey Graham · Chuck Grassley · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-26 | Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video Leaked - Exposes Systematic Union Suppression Program
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-17 | Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly
2 src Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice · Makan Delrahim · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-13 | Federal Circuit Affirms Palantir's DCGS-A Win: FASA Commercial-Item Preference Is Judicially Enforceable
6 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Army · Court of Federal Claims · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-12 | CMS Administrator Seema Verma Spent $5 Million in Taxpayer Funds on GOP Consultants to Boost Personal Profile
3 src Seema Verma · Frank Pallone | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-06 | McKinsey Holds Lavish Corporate Retreat in Kashgar Four Miles from Uyghur Concentration Camps
3 src McKinsey & Company · China · Xinjiang · Uyghurs | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-05 | Bernie Sanders Introduces "Stop BEZOS Act" Targeting Amazon Wages
3 src Bernie Sanders · Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ro Khanna | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-21 | Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Campaign Finance Violations, Implicates Trump as "Individual-1"
3 src Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Stormy Daniels · Karen McDougal | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-21 | Rep. Duncan Hunter and Wife Indicted for $250,000 Campaign Finance Fraud
3 src Duncan Hunter · Margaret Hunter | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-14 | Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Invests $15M in Carbyne, Connecting Epstein-Barak Surveillance Network to Erik Prince Operations
5 src Peter Thiel · Erik Prince · Lital Leshem · Jeffrey Epstein · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-09 | US-Made Bomb Kills 40 Children on School Bus in Yemen, Triggering International Outrage
4 src Lockheed Martin · Raytheon · General Dynamics · Saudi Arabia · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-08 | Rep. Chris Collins Indicted for Insider Trading
4 src Chris Collins · Cameron Collins · Stephen Zarsky · Innate Immunotherapeutics | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Kushner Receives $1.28B Qatar Bailout After Blockade Reversal
3 src Jared Kushner · Qatar Investment Authority · Brookfield Property Partners · Charles Kushner · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Qatar-Linked Brookfield Bails Out Kushner's 666 Fifth Avenue for $1.28 Billion
3 src Jared Kushner · Kushner Companies · Brookfield Asset Management · Qatar Investment Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-02 | SEC Drops ExxonMobil Climate Investigation Under Trump Administration
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · ExxonMobil · Donald Trump · Rex Tillerson | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | 200+ Palantir Employees Sign Letter Protesting Company's ICE Contracts; External Protesters Demonstrate
4 src Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tech Workers Coalition · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Guo Wengui Begins Funding Steve Bannon Operations
3 src Guo Wengui · Miles Guo · Steve Bannon · Guo Media · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Trump Administration Expands 'Junk Insurance' Short-Term Plans to Undermine ACA
7 src Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · U.S. Department of Labor · Department of the Treasury · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-26 | ACLU test reveals Amazon Rekognition misidentified 28 Congress members as criminals, showing racial bias
4 src American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-20 | Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak Charged in 1MDB Scandal
4 src Najib Razak · Jho Low · Rosmah Mansor · Tim Leissner · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-19 | Senate Votes 98-0 to Reject Putin's Request to Interrogate U.S. Officials in Bipartisan Rebuke of Trump
4 src Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · Chuck Schumer · Michael McFaul · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-18 | EU Fines Google Record €4.34B for Android Monopoly Abuse Through Bundling
4 src Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-17 | Trump Claims He Misspoke "Would" Instead of "Wouldn't" in Implausible Helsinki Walkback Attempt
3 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-16 | FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Refers Sinclair-Tribune Merger to Hearing Over "Serious Concerns" About Sham Divestitures and Misrepresentation
5 src Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Sinclair Broadcast Group · Tribune Media · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-16 | Trump Sides with Putin Over U.S. Intelligence at Helsinki Summit, Attacks Own Agencies
4 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Dan Coats · John Brennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-15 | FBI Arrests Maria Butina for Conspiring to Act as Russian Agent to Infiltrate Conservative Organizations
3 src Maria Butina · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Alexander Torshin · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-13 | HHS Inspector General Finds Tom Price Violated Federal Travel Rules, Wasted $341,000 on Private Jets
4 src Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General · Tom Price · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-13 | Mueller Indicts 12 GRU Officers for Hacking DNC and Democratic Campaign Infrastructure
3 src Robert Mueller · Russian Intelligence (GRU) · Russian Military Intelligence · Democratic National Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-12 | Tech Workers Coalition: Establishing Digital Resistance Infrastructure
3 src Tech Workers Coalition · Silicon Valley Employees · Digital Rights Advocates · Rachel Melendes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-09 | Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Becomes Acting EPA Administrator After Pruitt Resignation
4 src Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Faegre Baker Daniels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-06 | McKinsey Agrees to Repay $74 Million to South Africa's Eskom After State Capture Scandal
3 src McKinsey & Company · Eskom · South Africa · Gupta Family · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-05 | EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid 14 Federal Investigations
3 src Scott Pruitt · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Andrew Wheeler | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-01 | IRS Launches Virtual Currency Compliance Campaign Using Chainalysis
2 src Internal Revenue Service · Chainalysis · IRS Criminal Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-27 | Janus v. AFSCME - Supreme Court Strikes Down Public Sector Union Fees, Targeting Teachers' Unions
6 src Justice Samuel Alito · Justice Neil Gorsuch · National Right to Work Foundation · State Policy Network · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-26 | New York Times Discloses McKinsey's $20 Million ICE Contract: Employee Outrage and Internal Crisis
2 src McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kevin Sneader · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-23 | Peter Thiel Receives First Putin Meeting Invitation Through Russian Diplomat
3 src Peter Thiel · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · Christian Angermayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-20 | Trump Signs Executive Order "Ending" Family Separation After International Outcry
4 src Donald Trump · Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-15 | Amazon aggressively pitches Rekognition facial recognition to ICE during family separation crisis
4 src Amazon · AWS · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-15 | Northrop Grumman Wins $217 Million Cyber Warfare Contract for Unified Platform
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Cyber Command · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-14 | New York AG Sues Trump Foundation for "Persistent Illegal Conduct" and Coordinating with Campaign
3 src Barbara Underwood · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-11 | Net Neutrality Repeal Officially Takes Effect, Permitting ISPs to Throttle, Block, and Prioritize Content for Payment
3 src Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-11 | Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Aggressive "Use It Or Lose It" Voter Purge System
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor · Jon Husted | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-07 | Bayer Completes $63 Billion Monsanto Acquisition: Agricultural Seeds and Chemicals Consolidate Into Big Four Oligopoly
3 src Bayer AG · Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-06 | Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion, Creating Solid Rocket Motor Monopoly
3 src Northrop Grumman · Orbital ATK · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-01 | Trump Family Separation Policy Detains 5,500 Children in Cages
3 src Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Jeff Sessions · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-31 | European Court Finds Romania and Lithuania Hosted CIA Torture Sites, Orders Damages
4 src European Court of Human Rights · Romania · Lithuania · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-28 | China grants waves of Ivanka Trump trademarks as she serves in White House; ethics watchdogs flag conflicts
4 src Ivanka Trump · Ivanka Trump Marks LLC · China National Intellectual Property Administration | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-24 | Trump Signs Dodd-Frank Rollback Raising 'Systemically Important' Bank Threshold from $50B to $250B After Industry Lobbying Blitz
3 src Donald Trump · Greg Becker · Silicon Valley Bank · Mike Crapo · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-21 | Epic Systems v. Lewis: Supreme Court Allows Mandatory Arbitration Blocking Class Action Labor Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Federalist Society · Corporate employers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-16 | Michigan State University Agrees to $500 Million Settlement with 332 Nassar Survivors—Largest University Sexual Abuse Settlement in History
4 src Michigan State University · Lou Anna Simon · John Engler · Larry Nassar · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-15 | Kansas City Fed Approves Reserve Trust Master Account After Alleged Intervention
3 src Sarah Bloom Raskin · Reserve Trust Company · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Esther George · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-14 | Seattle Passes Head Tax on Large Employers—Amazon Threatens Expansion Halt, Washington Post Editorial Aligns with Owner's Interests
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Washington Post · Seattle City Council · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-13 | Trump Reverses ZTE Sanctions After $500M China Loan to Trump Project
3 src Donald Trump · ZTE Corporation · China · Trump Organization · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-10 | Kirstjen Nielsen Defends Family Separation as Deterrent, Later Denies Policy Exists
4 src Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-08 | Armenian Parliament Confirms Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister, Completing Velvet Revolution
3 src Nikol Pashinyan · Armenian Civil Society · Republican Party of Armenia · Armenian Parliament | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-08 | Armenian Velvet Revolution Succeeds: Anti-Corruption Movement Achieves Peaceful Transition
3 src Nikol Pashinyan · Serzh Sargsyan · Armenian Civil Society · Civil Contract Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-08 | Ring launches Neighbors app creating crowdsourced surveillance network
3 src Ring · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-04 | Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market
3 src Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-01 | Bornstein Admits Trump Dictated 2015 Health Letter; Confirms 2017 Records Seizure
6 src Harold Bornstein · Donald Trump · Keith Schiller · Alan Garten | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-01 | U.S. Lifts Argentina Tariffs While Trump Seeks Trademarks
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Argentina | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-22 | Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 23 at Yemen Wedding, Majority Women and Children
4 src Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-22 | UAE Installs Pegasus Spyware on Khashoggi's Wife's Phone Months Before His Murder
3 src Hanan Elatr · Jamal Khashoggi · UAE Government · NSO Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-10 | Judge Finalizes Trump University Settlement After Appeal Resolved, Victims Receive Payments
3 src Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-10 | Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress on Cambridge Analytica and Russian Interference
3 src Mark Zuckerberg · US Congress · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-06 | Jeff Sessions Announces "Zero Tolerance" Policy Designed to Separate Families
4 src Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-01 | Operation Guardian Support deploys 4,000 National Guard to border
4 src National Guard · U.S. Border Patrol · Pentagon | confirmed |