On January 29, a mid-air collision occurred near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, involving American Airlines Flight 5342, a Bombardier CRJ700 operated by PSA for American Airlines, and a United States Army Black Hawk helicopter. Both the passenger plane and the helicopter crashed into the Potomac River, located just outside the U.S. capital, Washington D.C. Officials said there were no survivors.
On January 20, the day of Donald Trump"s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States, he enacted an executive order entitled "Defending Women from Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government", declaring that the United States government would only recognize male and female as sexes, withdrawing the recognition of other gender identities.
The lawyer of United States president-elect Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court on December 27 to pause enforcement of a law which could ban TikTok to enable him "...to pursue a political resolution".
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