July 29 - The US Senate confirms Robert McDonald as the new Veterans Affairs secretary.Īugust 2 - A specially equipped medical plane carrying Ebola patient Dr. Witness accounts differ as to whether he was gasping for air or snoring as he died. After he is injected it takes him nearly two hours to die. July 23 - Arizona uses a new combination of drugs in the execution of convicted murderer Joseph Woods. Garner’s death is later ruled a homicide by the New York medical examiner.
JEric Garner, an unarmed black man, dies after a white police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, puts him in a chokehold. July 8 - Washington state begins allowing the sale of marijuana for recreational purposes. June 30 - The Supreme Court rules that some companies can refuse insurance coverage for contraceptives due to religious objections. June 30 - President Obama says he is starting “a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress,” in response to a surge of unaccompanied children crossing the border. GM is also offering money to those injured. June 30 - GM announces compensation of at least $1 million to families of at least 13 people who died as a result of a faulty ignition switch. June 2 - The city council in Seattle, Washington, votes to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. June 1 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Illinois. In exchange for Bergdahl’s release, five detainees at Guantanamo Bay are released to Qatar. May 31 - President Barack Obama announces the release of prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl, held for five years by a militant group linked to the Taliban. May 30 - Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigns. May 27 - President Barack Obama announces that 9,800 troops will remain in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of most troops at the end of 2014. Santa Barbara, killing four men and two women before taking his own life. May 23 - Elliot Rodger goes on a killing spree near the campus of U.C. May 20 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Pennsylvania. May 19 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Oregon. March 22 - A mudslide near Oso, Washington, kills 43 people.Īpril 2 - Army Specialist Ivan Lopez kills three people at Fort Hood in Texas before taking his own life.Īpril 22 - The Supreme Court upholds a Michigan law banning the use of racial criteria in college admissions.Īpril 29 - Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett dies of an apparent heart attack during a botched execution by lethal injection.Īpril 29 - The NBA bans Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life in response to a leaked recording in which Sterling made racist remarks. This is according to an internal document from the US Department of Veterans Affairs that deals with patients diagnosed with cancer in 20, obtained exclusively by CNN.įebruary 14 - General Motors recalls 780,000 vehicles due to faulty ignition switches. January 30 - CNN reports that at least 19 veterans have died due to delays in simple medical screenings like colonoscopies or endoscopies, at various VA hospitals or clinics. January 17 - President Barack Obama announces changes to the National Security Agency and its surveillance programs. According to witness Alan Johnson of the Columbus Dispatch, the whole execution process took 24 minutes, and McGuire appeared to be gasping for air for 10 to 13 minutes.
The state used a combination of the drug midazolam, a sedative, and the painkiller hydromorphone, according to the state corrections department. January 16 - Ohio executes inmate Dennis McGuire with a new combination of drugs, due to the unavailability of drugs such as pentobarbital. Approximately 300,000 people in nine counties are told not to use their tap water. January 9 - Chemicals begin leaking from a tank owned by Freedom Industries into the Elk River in West Virginia. January 6 - The Senate votes to confirm Janet Yellen as the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. January 1 - The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act goes into effect. January 1 - Colorado legalizes the purchase of marijuana for recreational purposes. Here is a look back at the events of 2014.
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