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[edit]- 12 December 2024 – World Chess Championship 2024
- Gukesh Dommaraju defeats Ding Liren to win the World Chess Championship 7½-6½, becoming the youngest ever chess champion at the age of 18 years. (Sportstar)
- 25 November 2024 –
- The World Chess Championship 2024 starts in Singapore, with Ding Liren winning with black against Gukesh Dommaraju. (FIDE)
- 20 January 2025 – January 6 United States Capitol attack
- United States President Donald Trump formally pardons around 1,500 defendants who had been criminally charged with involvement in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Fourteen convicted individuals have their sentences commuted to time served. (NBC News)
- 20 January 2025 – 2024 Kolkata rape and murder
- A court in Kolkata, India, sentences a 33-year-old police volunteer to life in prison for raping and murdering a medical trainee in August 2024. (DW)
- 20 January 2025 – 2024 Southport stabbing
- Axel Rudakubana pleads guilty to all 16 charges, including three charges of murder in relation to a mass stabbing in Southport, Merseyside, England, in July 2024. Rudakubana is expected to be sentenced on Thursday. (ITV News)
- 20 January 2025 – Presidency of Joe Biden
- Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for his siblings, former Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack prior to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Biden also commutes the sentence of Indigenous activist and convicted murderer Leonard Peltier. (BBC News) (HuffPost)
- 20 January 2025 – Second presidency of Donald Trump
- Trump signs an executive order to delay enforcement of the law banning TikTok in the United States for 75 days. (CNN)
- 19 January 2025 – 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol