On June 17th in 2015, Dylan Roof walked into a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

He attended a Bible study with the assembled members.

After an hour of study and conversation, and as the group began to pray, Roof stood up and emptied a firearm and murdered nine people.

On January 16, 2016,

then President Barack Obama officially declared a public health crisis in Flint, Michigan.

Corroated pipes from the Flint River exposed the poor and mostly black residents of Flint to lead poisoning.

October 1, 2017.

64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened the window from his 32-floor room at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas

and rained gunfire on concert goers below, killing 59 people, and wounding more than 500.

October 2, 2018.

Veteran U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Despite months of denials from the Saudi government, investigations revealed that Mr. Khashoggi was restrained and drugged, causing him to overdose.

His body was dismembered and disposed of.

August 2019.

The world briefly paid attention to a scientific report that revealed more than 74,000 fires had already blazed in the Amazon, doubling the total from the prior year.

Increasingly hot and dry weather in the Amazon fueled the fires set by loggers to clear

the most important ecosystem on

the planet for further industrial use, contributing to the vicious cycle of climate change.

In January of 2020, President Donald Trump authorized the assassination of Iranian general

Qasim Soleimani by drone strike. The strike occurred on January 3rd, murdering arguably the

most powerful and popular figure in Iran, but on Iraqi soil, along with five Iraqis and four Iranian

nationals. And on August 15, 2021, the American flag was removed from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,

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