Portal:Current events/2024 March 4
Appearance
March 4, 2024
(Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Haitian crisis
- Gangs exchange gunfire with police and soldiers in an attempt to seize control of Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Four people are killed and 21 others are injured in a fire at a nursing home in Bedburg-Hau, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (AP)
Law and crime
- Trump v. Anderson
- The US Supreme Court unanimously overturns the Colorado Supreme Court ruling removing former US President Donald Trump from the Colorado presidential primary ballot, based on the lack of authority of states to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution "against federal officeholders and candidates". (The New York Times)
- Four people are killed and three others are injured in a shooting at a house party in King City, California, United States. (New York Post)
- Argentine state news agency Télam is closed after 80 years and police surround its offices in Buenos Aires a week after president Javier Milei threatened to close the agency. (Reuters)
Politics and elections