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2025 in the United States

The following is a list of events of the year 2025 in the United States.

Following his election victory in November 2024, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States and began his second, nonconsecutive term on January 20. The beginning of his term saw him extensively use executive orders and give increased authority to Elon Musk through the Department of Government Efficiency, leading to mass layoffs of the federal workforce and attempts to eliminate agencies such as USAID. These policies have drawn dozens of lawsuits that have challenged their legality. Trump's return to the presidency also saw the US increase enforcement against illegal immigration through the usage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well as deportations, a general retreat from corporate America promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, increased support for Israel in the Gaza war in addition to direct airstrikes against Iran in June and fluctuating but high increases on tariffs across some of America's trading partners. The Trump Administration worked for negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal. A formalized Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal was reached between Israel and Hamas.

In January, southern California and particularly Greater Los Angeles experienced widespread wildfires, and the Texas Hill Country experienced devastating floods in July. American news media has paid significantly more attention to aviation accidents, both within American borders as well as one in India. Furthermore, March witnessed a blizzard spread across the US and Canada, and under both the Biden administration and Trump's HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., American companies, politics and culture have paid increasing attention to food coloring as part of the Make America Healthy Again movement.

The number of executions in 2025 became the highest number to be carried out in the United States in 16 years.

Incumbents

Federal government

State governments

Elections

Elections were held on November 4 of this year. The off-year election included gubernatorial and state legislative elections in a few states, as well as numerous mayoral races, and a variety of other local offices on the ballot.

Off-cycle elections

Special elections

Referendums

Events

January

February

  • February 2
  • The 67th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, honoring the best in music from September 2023 to August 2024. "Not Like Us" by Kendrick Lamar wins Record of the Year while Cowboy Carter by Beyoncé wins Album of the Year.
  • Thousands of demonstrators protest against immigration policies implemented by Trump in downtown Los Angeles, blocking the Hollywood Freeway.
  • The Puntland military spokersperson claims that US airstrikes against ISIL have killed 46 fighters in the Cal Miskaad Mountains, a remote area in northeastern region Bari, Somalia.
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels to Panama in his first foreign trip in the position and urges Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino to reduce Chinese influence in the Panama Canal. In response, Mulino said that his country won't renew its contracts with China's Belt and Road Initiative when they expire.
  • In ice hockey, Jonathan Quick becomes the first American-born goalie to reach 400 wins.
  • February 3
  • Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Trump announce they have agreed to delay 25% of tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month in exchange for boosting security along their respective borders.
  • Elon Musk announces that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will be shut down and merged into the State Department.
  • Trump says he is stopping funding to South Africa over a land seizure law.
  • Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele makes an offer to Secretary of State Marco Rubio to accept convicted "dangerous American criminals" and incarcerate them at the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador in exchange for a fee.
  • February 4
  • The US implements a 10% across-the-board tariff on Chinese products and eliminates the de minimis exemption for exports from China. In response, China imposes retaliatory tariffs on energy products, farm equipment, and automobiles from the US, effective February 10, and export controls on critical minerals. It also adds US-based PVH Group and Illumina Inc. to its unreliable entities list and launches a probe into technology company Google for alleged anti-trust violations.
  • The State Department orders the closure of all overseas missions of USAID and recalls thousands of USAID staff to the US ahead of the agency's shutdown.
  • Trump announces that the US will take control of the Gaza Strip in an agreement with Israel. Trump also says Palestinians will have no choice but to leave the territory and that the US military will be in charge of Gaza's reconstruction to turn the area into "The Riviera of the Middle East" for "the world's people."
  • Trump signs a presidential memorandum reimposing a policy of maximum pressure against Iran.
  • The Senate confirms Pam Bondi as US Attorney General, making her the third female to run the Justice Department.
  • Two people are killed and four others are injured after a mass shooting at a warehouse in New Albany, Ohio.
  • February 5
  • The Postal Service says it is temporarily refusing inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong effective immediately.
  • Protests against Trump: Protests occur in cities across the US against Trump, his administration, Elon Musk, and Project 2025. The protests are referred to as 50501.
  • February 6
  • Trump signs an executive order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court officials that assist investigations into US citizens or those of its allies, namely Israel. A day later, 79 countries jointly speak out in a statement against the sanctions.
  • Bering Air Flight 445: A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan carrying ten people in Alaska goes missing on a flight from Unalakleet to Nome.
  • NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies says that the probability of asteroid impacting Earth on 22 December 2032 has increased to 2.3%, or a (1-in-43) chance, following further observations of its trajectory. More observations are planned in the coming months to gather data on the asteroid before it moves too far away from Earth-based telescopes to be accurately observed.

March

April

May

June

  • June 1 – 2025 Boulder fire attack: Police arrest a man who allegedly attacked pro-Israel demonstrators with Molotov cocktails at Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, which injured seven people, including the perpetrator.
  • June 4
  • Trump signs Proclamation 10949, which bans nationals from 12 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East, from entering the US.
  • Contrary to all other member nations, the US vetoes a UN Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

July

August

  • August 1
  • Recreational cannabis sales begin in Delaware.
  • The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it will shut down in 2026.
  • August 2 – The Office of Special Counsel begins investigating former assistant U.S. attorney Jack Smith, alleging he violated the Hatch Act during his investigations of President Trump prior to Trump's election.
  • August 4
  • The Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas, Nevada, announces they have unionized every major casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip for the first time in the city's history after successfully making first-ever deals with The Venetian and Fontainebleu.
  • The Texas House of Representatives vote to issue civil arrest warrants for more than 50 Democratic representatives who left the state in order to block a vote on a U.S. House of Representatives map that would give Republicans more seats. In Texas, at least 100 of the 150 representatives must be in the state for a vote. The civil arrest warrants only apply in Texas and are largely symbolic.
  • August 5
  • Federal judge Timothy L. Brooks from the District Court of Arkansas blocks an Arkansas law requiring a copy of the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public schools and government buildings, which was signed into law by governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders last year.
  • Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces the withdrawal of $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines targeted at diseases such as the flu and COVID-19, stating that "mRNA technology poses more risks than benefits for these respiratory viruses".
  • August 6 – The DHS announces it is removing age restrictions for new hires at ICE.
  • August 7
  • OpenAI launches GPT-5, a new and upgraded version of ChatGPT, featuring "PhD-level intelligence".
  • Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook presents a gift to Donald Trump of a glass plaque (from Corning Inc., Harrodsburg, Kentucky) with a 24-karat bullion gold display base (from Utah), and announces a $100 billion commitment to U.S. manufacturing, amidst a Trump plan to impose an import tariff of 100% on semiconductor chips, a 25% tariff on Apple, 50% tariffs on Indian imports (exempting smartphones) and after Apple's 2025 February $500 billion investment commitment over the next five years, the aiming to hire 20,000 new employees, and manufacture AI servers. On August 6, Trump said Apple will dodge the new tariffs on semiconductors.
  • August 9
  • A 17-year-old is arrested after three people are injured in a shooting during a dispute outside a Raising Cane's restaurant in New York City's Times Square.
  • Roblox Schlep ban controversy: The Roblox YouTuber Schlep receives a cease-and-desist letter from Roblox Corporation and is threatened with legal action for catching predators on the platform. This leads to protests both in Roblox games and in real life.

September

  • September 8
  • The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan fails to overturn E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump, which found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. The court rejects his argument that the January 2024 verdict should be overturned because he deserved presidential immunity from Carroll's lawsuit.
  • The House Oversight Committee releases a "birthday book" compiled for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, which includes a note allegedly signed by President Donald Trump; the White House denies its authenticity. The book is part of a larger trove of estate documents provided to the committee, containing Epstein's will and personal address book with contacts from politics, business, and entertainment.
  • September 9 – The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York City.
  • September 10 – Charlie Kirk, a right-wing activist and influential ally of President Trump, is assassinated at a campus event in Utah.
  • September 11
  • The FBI release images of a "person of interest" in the Charlie Kirk assassination. A high-powered rifle is found in a wooded area, along with a "footwear impression... and a forearm imprint".
  • Former Representative Madison Cawthorn is arrested in Florida after failing to attend a court date relating to his failure to drive with a valid license.
  • NASA has begun blocking Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining in its space programs.
  • September 12 – A 22-year-old male suspect is arrested in connection with Charlie Kirk's assassination.

October

  • October 1
  • 2025 United States federal government shutdown: A shutdown of the federal government begins, the first since 2018, after senators fail to agree on a last-minute funding bill. It lasts until November 12, making it the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. History.
  • Part of a 17-storey residential building in the Bronx area of New York collapses, in what the fire department calls a "major emergency". No injuries are reported.
  • According to Forbes, Elon Musk becomes the first person in history to exceed a net worth of half a trillion dollars, briefly reaching the milestone before slipping back down to $499bn.
  • Two people are critically injured when two CRJ-900 jets, one operated by Delta Air Lines and the other by Endeavor Air, collide on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.
  • October 2
  • Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleads guilty to child sex abuse and is given a 10-year prison sentence, but will serve only six months in an Oklahoma jail.
  • A major fire breaks out at the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo, California.
  • October 3 – Rapper and music industry mogul Sean Combs is sentenced to 50 months in prison (with time served) and given a $500,000 fine after being convicted on prostitution-related charges involving his two ex-girlfriends.
  • October 4 – The house of Diane Goodstein, a South Carolina Circuit Court judge recently criticised by the Trump administration, is burned down. Three members of her family, including her husband, former Democratic state senator Arnold Goodstein, and their son, are hospitalized with serious injuries.
  • October 5 – President Trump expresses frustration about a ruling by District Court Judge Karin Immergut, whom he appointed during his first term, preventing him from deploying troops to Portland, Oregon.
  • October 6
  • The Supreme Court rejects an appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell against her sex-trafficking conviction, meaning her 20-year prison sentence will remain in place, unless a presidential pardon is made.
  • A medical helicopter crashes onto U.S. Route 50 in Sacramento, California, injuring the pilot and two workers on board.
  • October 7 – Warrantless arrests by ICE in the Chicago area are ruled unlawful by a federal judge.
  • October 8 – Trump announces that Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement and signed the first phase of a peace deal. Under this deal, all remaining hostages are to be released in exchange for 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 250 serving life sentences, within 72 hours. Israel will also withdraw its forces to pre-designated lines within the Gaza Strip.
  • October 9 – Attorney General of New York Letitia James is indicted on mortgage fraud charges in federal court in Virginia.
  • October 10
  • Sixteen people are killed, and several others injured, after a huge blast at a military explosives facility in Tennessee.
  • The White House accuses the Nobel Committee of placing "politics over peace" for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan pro-democracy activist María Machado, instead of President Trump.
  • Six people are killed in a mass shooting at a homecoming event in Leland, Mississippi.
  • October 11 – About 700 employees are reinstated at the Department of Health and Human Services reportedly after they were fired in error.
  • October 12 – Four people are killed in a mass shooting at a bar on St. Helena Island in South Carolina.
  • October 13 – Andrew Giuliani director of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Task Force announces a drone security system for the 2028 Olympics and the 250th anniversary of the US.
  • October 14
  • Politico publishes thousands of leaked Telegram messages, revealing young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
  • The retirement (end-of-life) of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system occurs on this date. Users will either have to install Windows 11 or use an alternative operating system from Microsoft to receive security updates. However, third-party programs and LTSC will continue to support it.
  • October 15 – Following a series of deadly U.S. strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean, Trump confirms that the CIA is conducting covert operations in Venezuela.

November

  • November 23 – The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reported to have been shut down, eight months ahead of schedule, though President Trump and his administration dispute this.
  • November 24 – A federal judge dismisses cases against ex-FBI boss James Comey and NY attorney general Letitia James.
  • November 25 – The Department of Interior announces an entrance fee increase for all international visitors to national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and "resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026" including Trump's birthday.
  • November 26
  • A Georgia prosecutor officially drops the racketeering case against President Trump and others for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
  • The Washington state government fines Regence Blue Shield $550,000 for failing to provide mental health coverage comparable to its medical or surgical coverage.
  • Washington, D.C., shooting: Two National Guardsmen are shot a few blocks away from the White House in Washington DC. One of the victims, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, succumbs to her injuries the following day, while the other, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, is left "fighting for his life" in hospital. A suspect, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is taken into custody.
  • November 27 – Trump announces that the US will "permanently pause migration" from all "third world countries".
  • November 28 – U.S. officials and legal experts raise accusations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have committed war crimes by ordering a follow-up strike to kill survivors of a September 2 strike on a suspected drug–smuggling boat in the Caribbean, after the first missile attack reportedly left two people clinging to the wreckage.
  • November 29 – 2025 Stockton shooting: Four people are killed and eleven others injured in a mass shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, California.
  • November 30 – President Trump announces via Truth Social that he would pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

December

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