Every Year Around This Time, Breaking News Breaks Us
A timeline of the worst news period of the year, starting in 2016
It’s not just you. For the past four years, the kind of breaking news that wakes you at 4 a.m. and makes your heart drop has taken place in late September and early October.
But recently, it’s all seemed so much worse, right? Here’s a trip down memory lane of the soul-crushing news events that seem to happen, like a curse, every year around this time. And yes, it all began in 2016.
2019
September 24: Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the House of Representatives will begin a formal impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. A whistleblower alleged that the president withheld $400 million in aid to Ukraine in a quid pro quo move to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate the business dealings of Hunter Biden.
2018
September 27: Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
October 2: Journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered by Saudi assassins at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.
October 6: The Senate votes to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
