Completion Date: 5 May 2023
Medium: Paint & ink on acid-free mount-board
Dimensions: 51 x 76cm (20 x 30 inches)
US daily news headlines for April 2023.
Figure: Libertas, the Roman Goddess of Liberty.
Crown: Bears seven spikes (as per the Statue of Liberty) symbolizing the seven oceans and seven continents of the world.
Interstitial text: Random words from the US Constitution.
01 April 2023
S&P500: 4,124
Bitcoin: 28,475
CO2: 422.69
USD/EUR: 1.08
Fed Funds Rate: 4.83%
Biden: 42.6%
30 April 2023
S&P500: 4,169
Bitcoin: 29,252
CO2: 424.47
USD/EUR: 1.10
Fed Funds Rate: 4.83%
Biden: 43.0%
01 April
Trump prepares to surrender in New York
02 April
Trump ramps up rhetoric as legal walls close in
03 April
Inflation fear as oil surges
04 April
Trump prepares for arraignment
05 April
Trump becomes first US president to be criminally indicted
06 April
DeSantis escalates Disney dispute
07 April
US acknowledges Afghanistan evacuation should have started sooner
08 April
Judge invalidates FDA approval of the abortion pill Mifepristone
09 April
Lindsey Graham warns of crisis unfolding over Taiwan
10 April
US & Philippines hold biggest ever joint military drills
11 April
Interest rates likely to fall to pre-Covid levels, IMF predicts
12 April
Biden visits Ireland
13 April
Trump sues former lawyer Michael Cohen for $500m
14 April
US airman to appear in court over intelligence leak
15 April
Supreme Court keeps abortion pill available for now
16 April
Judge in Proud Boys trial rejects claims of government misconduct
17 April
FBI makes arrests over alleged secret Chinese ‘police stations’ in New York
18 April
Last-minute $787.5 million settlement in Dominion-Fox News case
19 April
Fox suit could embolden Dominion in its other defamation cases
20 April
Supreme Court delays decision on abortion pill, preserving access for now
21 April
U.S. Says it will begin training Ukraine on Abrams tanks within weeks
22 April
Biden has had the fewest news conferences since Reagan
23 April
US diplomats evacuated from Sudan
24 April
Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News
25 April
Biden launches 2024 re-election campaign
26 April
House Republicans, pushing past divisions, press for debt Limit vote
27 April
Appeals court upholds Florida voting restrictions approved by GOP lawmakers
28 April
Pence testifies about Trump and the Capitol riot
29 April
Prosecutors in Jan. 6 case step up inquiry Into Trump fund-raising
30 April
New California rule would ban sale of diesel trucks by 2036
