NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces the selection of two new Discovery Program space exploration missions: Lucy, a mission to several Jupiter trojan asteroids, and Psyche, a mission to the asteroid 16 Psyche, which is believed to be the exposed core of an early protoplanet. Both missions are scheduled for launch in the early 2020s.
2017 Chicago torture incident Chicago Police arrest four African-American suspects after they stream a video on Facebook showing themselves torturing and scalping a bound and gagged, kidnapped, white man with a mental disorder. The four suspects will face elevated hate crime charges.
Presidential transition of Donald Trump Trump nominates Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton to head the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Trump nominates Omarosa Manigault, former contestant on "The Apprentice", as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison.
2017 Brooklyn train crash A commuter train from the Long Island Rail Road derails during the morning rush hour in Brooklyn, New York, injuring 103 people.