[568] News Headlines (Jan 2025)

Completion Date: 02 February 2025
Medium: Paint & ink on acid-free mount-board
Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm (27.5 x 19.7 inches)

News Headlines – January 2025

01 Jan 2025
S&P500: 5,884
Bitcoin $: 94,513
CO2: 425.72
USD/EUR: 1.25
Fed Funds Rate: 4.33%
Biden popularity: 37.4%

31 Jan 2025
S&P500: 6 040
Bitcoin $: 102 434
CO2: 426.7
USD/EUR: 1.24%
Fed Funds Rate: 4.33
Biden popularity: 37.0%

01 Jan
10 killed in New Orleans as driver rams crowd

02 Jan
S-Korean officials retreat from attempt to detain president

03 Jan
Trump to be sentenced over hush money case but judge signals no jail time

04 Jan
Russia vows retaliation after saying it downed US-made missiles

05 Jan
Ukraine launches new offensive in Russia’s Kursk region

06 Jan
Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister

07 Jan
Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers

08 Jan
L.A. wildfires spread

09 Jan
Most destructive blaze in LA history rages on as new fires break out

10 Jan
US announces $25m reward for arrest of Venezuela’s Maduro

11 Jan
Trump avoids prison or fine in hush-money case sentencing

12 Jan
China’s trade surplus reaches a record of nearly $1 trillion

13 Jan
Norway on track to be first country to hit 100% electric vehicle sales

14 Jan
Trump would have been convicted of election interference, DoJ report says

15 Jan
S Korea impeached president arrested after investigators scale walls

16 Jan
Biden gives warnings on climate and oligarchy in farewell speech

17 Jan
Gaza ceasefire deal agreed by Israel and Hamas

18 Jan
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban law

19 Jan
First hostages are released as Gaza cease-fire begins

20 Jan
Trump sworn in as 47th president

21 Jan
Trump pardons nearly 1,600 people over Capitol riot and begins exit from Paris climate deal

22 Jan
All refugee travel to the US suspended after Trump halts admissions programme

23 Jan
Trump tells Putin to end ‘ridiculous war’ in Ukraine or face new sanctions

24 Jan
Trump politicises wildfire aid for California

25 Jan
Hamas releases four Israeli hostages

26 Jan
Pete Hegseth confirmed as US defence secretary in tie-breaking vote

27 Jan
200,000 return to north Gaza in first two hours of crossing opening, says official

28 Jan
Nvidia shares sink as Chinese AI app spooks markets

29 Jan
US judge temporarily blocks Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans

30 Jan
Fatal midair collision between American Airlines jet and Army helicopter

31 Jan
Canada, Mexico and China face tariffs on 01 Feb says White House