2020 Republican Party presidential primaries Former Illinois representative Joe Walsh suspends his presidential campaign, following his poor performance in the Iowa caucuses.
President U.S. President Donald Trump fires National Security Council advisor Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and E.U. ambassador Gordon Sondland, who both testified as witnesses at the impeachment inquiry against him. Vindman's twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, an Army JAG officer also part of the National Security Council staff, is also fired.
2019 El Paso shooting Patrick Crusius, accused of perpetrating the 2019 El Paso shooting, is charged with 90 counts of federal hate crimes. Under the new charges, he could face the death penalty.
Manish Shah Manish Shah, a general practitioner in the United Kingdom, is given three life sentences at the Old Bailey for 90 sexual assaults on 24 of his female patients.
Esperanza Base Esperanza Base on the Antarctic Peninsula reaches a temperature of 18.3 C, the hottest on record for continental Antarctica.
COVID-19 pandemic Royal Caribbean Cruises bans China, Hong Kong or Macau passport holders from boarding its ships amid concerns over the pandemic.
Italy confirms that an Italian man has contracted the virus, after he visited his girlfriend in Wuhan.
Li Wenliang, the doctor who tried to issue the first warnings about the pandemic, dies after contracting the virus.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping declares "people's war" on the coronavirus pandemic.
Winter Storm Kade Heavy snowfall blankets much of the north-eastern United States. More than 1 foot of snowfall is reported widely, with up to 2 feet recorded in parts of Maine and Vermont.
High winds, gusting up to 90 miles per hour, strike New England as Winter Storm Kade intensifies upon its exit into the Atlantic Ocean.
Batterygate Apple Inc. is fined €25 million by French regulatory agency General Directorate of Competition, Consumption & Repression of Frauds for deliberately slowing down older iPhone models. The fine amounts to less than 0.003% of Apple Inc.'s current worth.