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The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred.. With the dominant political story of this year being the 2024 presidential election, much attention had focused on Democratic incumbent Joe Biden's upcoming rematch against Republican Donald Trump, who Biden defeated four years earlier.
August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. Russian military sources claim that Ukrainian forces have destroyed or damaged all three bridges over the Seym river in western Russia, potentially trapping Russian forces between the river, the Ukrainian border, and advancing Ukrainian forces. Eastern Ukraine campaign. Pokrovsk offensive, Battle of Toretsk
The United States Department of Labor issues a significant estimate correction stating that the U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs between April 2023 and March 2024 than what was initially reported in July, the largest estimate revision since 2009.
2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege. An al-Shabaab member blows himself up outside a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing three guards and two security forces. Six gunmen then stormed the hotel in 13-hour siege, causing a gunfight with the army in which three soldiers and the six attackers are killed.
2024 Noto earthquake. The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on January 1, increases to 215 people, with 28 others still missing. (NHK) Ten people are killed and six others are missing after an accident at a coal mine in Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
Current events/2024 August 11. At least one person is killed and eleven others are injured in an Islamic State minibus bombing in Dasht-e-Barchi, Kabul, Afghanistan. (DW) Two people, including a 4-year-old child, are killed and three others are injured in a Russian KN-23 ballistic missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
Current events/2024 August 5. At least five United States personnel are injured when two missiles strike the joint American – Iraqi Al Asad Airbase in al-Anbar Governorate, Iraq. (Reuters) Israel returns 89 decomposed, unidentifiable Palestinian bodies to the Gaza Ministry of Health. (Al Jazeera)
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from April 2024. Seven volunteers from the World Central Kitchen, including six British, Polish, Australian and Palestinian nationals and a dual American - Canadian citizen, are killed in an Israeli airstrike south of Deir el-Balah.