2025-2026 Current Affairs

January

1 - Donald Trump = Time Person of the Year

3 - Canada = 51st State banter. US keen to buy Greenland. Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

5 - Tommy Robinson gets visibility due to grooming gangs

6 - Trudeau resigns. Kier Starmer = grooming gang enabler

7 - Musk goes after Kier Starmer. Rottnest seaplane crash

8 - Zuck = will stop factchecking. 10th anniversary of Charlie Hebdo attack

9 - Jimmy Carter funeral. UK Labour vote against grooming gang investigation. LA fires

10 - Telstra + Starling DTD announcement. Judge Merchan discharges Trump

11 - Grok helped diagnose broken wrist

12 - Former Labour MP Ivor Caplin arrested

15 - Pete Hegseth confirmation hearings

17 - On this day in 2009 - Zim released the 100T$ bank note

18 - Yellen announces that the US is out of $

20 - Trump inauguration - inside the Capitol

21 - Biden has pardoned all his family. Trump pardon all J6ers

22 - DeepSeek solves Guntas covid riddle. Ross Ulbrecht pardoned

23 - South Africa land expropriation bill signed by Ramaphosa

24 - BoJ raises rates 25bps to 0.5%

25 - Alberta covid response report out. DeepSeek = 3% of the hardware cost

26 - Nvidea down 10%. OpenAI release Operator

27 - DeepSeek release Janus-Pro

29 - Grok 3 coming