Minor United States events in 2022

For more significant and general American events, births, and deaths, see 2022 in the United States.

This article encompasses minor events involving or within the United States during the year 2022.

January

• January 1
  • The Marshall Fire is extinguished, being ignited the previous year. The fire is the most destructive in Colorado's history.
  • The Kentucky Wildcats defeat the Iowa Hawkeyes by a score of 20 to 17 in the 2022 Citrus Bowl.
• January 2 – Twitter permanently suspends the personal account of U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for violating policies on misinformation about COVID-19.
• January 4
  • Hundreds are stranded on Interstate 95 between Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., in a standstill for over 24 hours following heavy snowfall in Virginia.
  • Kansas State defeats LSU by a score of 42 to 20 in the 2022 Texas Bowl.
• January 9 – The 79th Golden Globe Awards are held privately and announced on Twitter amid protests against the lack of diversity at the awards. The Power of the Dog, Succession, and West Side Story each win three awards.
• January 14 – A mass shooting hospitalizes six at W.O.W. Hall in Oregon.
• January 15
  • Tsunami warnings are issued for states on the Pacific coast, following the eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai, a submarine volcano in Tonga.
  • An Asian-American named Michelle Go is fatally pushed into an arriving New York Subway car by a homeless man, in what is widely seen as an act of anti-Chinese racism.
• January 20 – January 30 – The 2022 Sundance Film Festival is held, with Navalny winning the Festival Favorite prize.
• January 24 – D'Monterrio Gibson is shot and killed while delivering FedEx packages by a father and son. The incident was widely compared to the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
• January 27 – January 31 – The Northeast experiences a major blizzard which stretches from Delaware to Canada's Nova Scotia.
• January 27 – Justice Stephen Breyer announces to the public he will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of its term in June. He is later replaced by Ketanji Brown Jackson.
• January 28 – The Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh collapses in the early morning, right before Biden is scheduled to make a visit to the city to promote his infrastructure plan.
• January 29 – Nine are killed and a tenth critically injured in a major automobile accident in North Las Vegas, Nevada.

February

• February 1 – February 9 – February 2022 North American winter storm: A major winter storm, known colloquially as Winter Storm Landon or the Groundhog Snowstorm, affects much of the eastern and Midwest from Texas to Maine, with Alabama receiving concurrent tornadoes as well.
• February 2 – Killing of Amir Locke: A Minnesota SWAT team fatally shot 22-year old Amir Locke while executing a no-knock warrant. The city eventually outlawed no-knock warrants the following April.
• February 3 – The share price of Meta falls by 26.4%, with Facebook losing $230bn in its market value, the biggest one-day loss in history for a US company. This follows an earnings report showing the company's first ever drop in daily user numbers.
• February 4
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: A study by the CDC finds that surgical masks worn at indoor public venues can reduce the chances of testing positive for COVID-19 by 66%, while tight-fitting N95 masks can reduce the odds of infection by 83%.
  • During a speech before the Federalist Society in Orlando, Florida, former Vice President Mike Pence refutes claims by former President Donald Trump, saying he did not have authority to overturn electoral college votes
  • Biden enacts Executive Order 14063, which requires that all federal construction projects have project labor agreements.
• February 11
  • Biden signs Executive Order 14064, which authorizes the use of frozen assets to assist Afghan refugees.
  • The Biden Administration urges all Americans in Ukraine to leave the country immediately amid the buildup of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• February 15 – 2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections: Residents of San Francisco County overwhelmingly recall three of the seven board members, making it San Francisco's first successful recall since 1914.
• February 19 – At a protest in response to Amir Locke's death, a mass shooting occurs in Portland, Oregon, killing one and injuring five others.
• February 20 – In NASCAR, rookie Austin Cindric wins the Daytona 500 in the race's 65th running.
• February 21 – China–United States relations: Citing sales to Taiwan, the Government of the People's Republic sanctions American defense corporations Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies.
• February 24
  • Three former officers involved in the murder of George Floyd (J Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao) are found guilty by a federal jury for civil rights violations.
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: the Federal Government deploys 7,000 troops to Germany in response to Putin's invasion.
• February 25 – The America First Political Action Conference is held. Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene appears as a surprise guest speaker at the conference, as do Paul Gosar, Wendy Rogers Republican member of the Arizona Senate, and lieutenant governor of Idaho Janice McGeachin.
• February 27 – 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Protests against the war and rallies in support of Ukraine are held across the country.

March

• March 8 – In American football, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers signs a four-year, $200 million contract, making him the highest paid player in the National Football League.
• March 9
  • A 25-year-old woman in North Texas files a lawsuit against Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, accusing him of being her biological father and paying her mother to keep the information secret.
  • Biden signs Executive Order 14067, which targets cryptocurrency with regard to national security.
• March 19 – The Dumas shooting in Arkansas kills one and injures 26 others.
• March 24 – A fire breaks out at the Empower Field at Mile High stadium in Denver, Colorado.
• March 25 – A 14-year-old boy dies after falling off a drop tower ride at the Icon Park near International Drive in Orlando, Florida. The teen is later identified as Tyre Sampson.
• March 30 – Bruce Willis announces his retirement from acting due to aphasia, a brain disorder affecting speech and writing abilities.

April

• April 8 – Will Smith is banned from attending the Oscars and other AMPAS events for 10 years following the slapping incident at the 94th Academy Awards.
• April 9 – Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins dies in a vehicle collision with a dump truck off of Interstate 595 in South Florida.
• April 14 – Two bandits break into the house of Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser. Before escaping, they loot items and damage items that they attempt to steal as well as burn the house. The estate is also lit on fire.
• April 19 – NASA publishes its Planetary Science Decadal Survey for 2023–2032. The future mission recommendations include a Uranus orbiter, the first visit to the planet since 1986.
• April 20 – Netflix loses more than one-third of its share value, following news that the streaming giant has lost 200,000 subscribers and is expecting to lose a further two million in the next quarter.
• April 21 – Carl Wayne Buntion is executed for the 1990 murder of police officer James Irby, becoming the oldest inmate put to death in Texas, at the age of 78.
• April 28 – Andrew Fahie, Premier of the British Virgin Islands, is arrested along with two others in a drug sting by the DEA in Miami. He is charged with conspiracy to import more than 5 kg (11 lb) of cocaine into the US and conspiring to commit money laundering.
• April 29 – The Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio, celebrates its 50th anniversary on this date.

May

• May 1 – Oregon Route 224 reopens after being closed during the 2020 Oregon wildfires.
• May 3
  • In California, an anti-abortion activist is detained by the San Francisco Police Department after a video is posted depicting him climbing to the top of the Salesforce Tower.
  • Chief Justice John Roberts responds to the bombshell report from the previous day by both confirming that the first draft of the opinion is authentic and ordering the Marshal of the Supreme Court to commence an investigation into the source of the leak.
• May 8 – The office of an anti-abortion group known as Wisconsin Family Action in Madison, Wisconsin is looted. A Molotov cocktail is discovered. Madison police investigates the incident as arson.
• May 10
  • An earthquake with a measurement of 4.2 magnitude on the Richter scale happens in the morning near Yellowstone.
  • More chalk writing appears on the sidewalk in front of the house of Senator Susan Collins.
• May 11 – Entertainer Andy Dick is arrested by law enforcement at a camping ground in Orange County, California for felony sexual battery.
• May 27 – Paramount Pictures releases Top Gun: Maverick, 36 years after the original Top Gun. It receives universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike, with most calling it the most thrilling blockbuster in years, and it goes on to gross over $1.4 billion worldwide, making history as the first film in Hollywood history to be number one at the box office on both Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend.
• May 28 – Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, is arrested by law enforcement for driving under the influence of alcohol. He is later sentenced in August by a judge to serve five days in jail as well as three years on probation.

June

• June 1 – John Hinckley Jr., the American who attempted to assassinate former President Ronald Reagan, is granted full freedom.
• June 2 – CEO of CNN Chris Licht sends an internal memo in which he announces that there will be major changes to the editorial strategy of the media outlet in the upcoming months. These include the conservative use of the "breaking news" banner as well as creating a new beat about "Guns in America" amongst other improvements.
• June 6 – Caroline Dawn Pennington, the CEO of a local animal rescue non-profit in Columbia, turns herself into the police after the corpses of thirty animals, twenty-eight dogs and two cats, are found in her home. She is charged with thirty counts of ill-treatment of animals.
• June 8
  • California resident Nicholas John Roske is arrested for attempting to murder Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
  • A crash involving a V-22 Osprey of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing kills five people in Glamis, California.
• June 9 – Axios reports that CNN is evaluating whether its hosts who grew in prominence during the Trump administration can adapt to the new priority of the media outlet to be less partisan than it used to be during the company presidency of Jeff Zucker.
• June 10 – James Anastasio, a New York Rangers fan from Staten Island, is arrested after a video is seen of him knocking out a Tampa Bay Lightning fan following the Game 5 loss at the Madison Square Garden. The fan is expected to face assault charges following the video.
• June 13 – Chief Lee White of the Police Department for Coeur d'Alene, Idaho reports that death threats have been sent by far-right extremists to the local officers after arresting nearly three dozen members of Patriot Front just two days earlier.
• June 16
  • A group of production crew members for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is taken into custody at a congressional office building in Washington, D.C. They were there to interview congressional members and staffers for a segment on the show. Generally attributed to confusion about authorization and clearance, seven crew members were arrested for unlawful entry in the incident.
  • The Verge reports that SpaceX employees have circulated an open letter via an internal chat room complaining about CEO Elon Musk. In the letter, the employees express that Musk's "behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us" and they offer suggestions in response to this sentiment.
• June 17
  • SpaceX retaliates against its workers by firing at least five employees who signed onto yesterday's open letter in which business employees repudiate Elon Musk's public behavior.
  • Charles Sutherland of Baltimore, Maryland is arrested on two counts of malicious destruction of property and hate crimes for defacing public buildings. He is wanted for writing "groomer" on two nearby public libraries.
  • The Michigan Supreme Court denies an appeal by Larry Nassar for a shorter sentence under state law.
  • Priti Patel, the British home secretary, approves the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States. Assange's legal defense team vows to appeal.
  • A jury finds Bill Cosby liable of sexually assaulting then sixteen-year-old girl Judith "Judy" Huth at the Playboy Mansionin 1975. He is subsequently ordered to pay US$500,000 in financial compensation to the victim. This is the first legal ruling against the disgraced celebrity since his release from prison nearly one full year ago.
• June 21 – RED Air Flight 203 crash-lands at Miami International Airport, leaving three people injured.
• June 22 – Former gubernatorial candidate and Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida Andrew Gillum is charged on several counts, including wire fraud and perjury.
• June 25 – Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers promises to grant executive clemency to anyone in the state who is charged with having an abortion under an 1849 state law.
• June 26
  • While campaigning for his son's gubernatorial bid, Rudy Giuliani is assaulted by a local supermarket worker on Staten Island.
  • An Amtrak train collides with a car in Brentwood, California. Three people are killed and two people are injured. This is the first major incident for the railroad business in the country during a two-day period of time.
• June 27
• An Amtrak train travelling from Los Angeles to Chicago derails after colliding with a dump truck in Mendon, Missouri at 12:42 p.m. local time. Out of the 255 people on board, 243 passengers and 12 crew members, there are at least three deaths and fifty people who are reported as being injured. This is the second major incident for the railroad business in the country during the past two days.
• At least 46 people are found dead in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas. Another 16 others are hospitalized.
• June 29
  • Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, is sentenced to 20 months (one year, eight months) in prison for campaign finance violations.
  • Singer R. Kelly is sentenced to 30 years in prison for federal sex crimes.

July

• July 2
  • A rare orchid that was thought for the past 120 years to be extinct is rediscovered in Vermont. As of this date, 1902 was the year of its last documented sighting in the state.
  • The corpses of four people are found by the police inside of Vadnais Lake in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota. Three bodies are those of children and one body is that of a woman. Law enforcement surmises that this is a case of quadruple homicide.
• July 3 – A disaster occurs at an air show in Battle Creek, Michigan. The driver of a truck that was powered by jet engines dies after the vehicle lost control and caught on fire.
• July 4
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom issues a pardon for a woman who was handed a sentence of life in prison over fatally shooting her abuser while she was still a teenager back in the 1990s.
  • Mayor Dan Horrigan of Akron, Ohio cancels the local firework celebration that was scheduled for the day and sets a 9:00 p.m. curfew for the downtown area due to the societal backlash over the killing of Jayland Walker that happened exactly one week earlier.
  • The Kentucky Supreme Court denies the request by State Attorney General Daniel Cameron to enforce the state's trigger law on abortion.
  • The petition by MoveOn in support of impeaching Associate Justice Clarence Thomas reaches one million signatures.
• July 6
  • Governor Greg Abbott authorizes the state forces to return migrants to the Mexico-United States border.
  • Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh is pressured out of a local restaurant in Washington, D.C. over backlash to the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn abortion.
  • Eric Holder, the murderer of Nipsey Hussle, is found guilty of first-degree murder.
  • Kenneth Petty, the husband of Nicki Minaj, is sentenced to house arrest for failing to register as a sex offender.
  • The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBS) reports that an explosion destroyed a portion of Georgia Guidestones, a controversial landmark located in Elbert County, Georgia. The incident is reported as a bombing that is said to have occurred at 4:00 a.m. local time.
  • The Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds an earlier ruling by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals about self-defense in the Chrystul Kizer case.
• July 7
  • A 67-year-old Florida man named David George Hannon is sentenced by federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle to a three-year period of probation as well as US$7,000 fine for threatening to kill Representative Ilhan Omar.
  • Arizona governor Doug Ducey signs a bill to ban close recording of law enforcement into state law.
  • Governor Newsom announces that the state of California will produce its own insulin.
  • Sacha Baron Cohen wins the lawsuit that was levied by twice former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Courtand 2017 special election Republican nominee Roy Moore.
• July 9 – A 23-year-old American tourist in Italy falls into Mount Vesuvius after accidentally dropping his phone into the volcanic crater while trying to take a selfie. He sustains only minor injuries after retrieving the device and is rescued by park authorities shortly thereafter.
• July 11
  • Federal judge Jon S. Tigar rules that Subway can be sued for deceiving its customers by selling tuna containing other fish and animal products.
  • A series of shootings occur at several 7-Eleven locations in Southern California during their free slurpee day.
• July 13
  • Depp v. Heard: Amber Heard loses her appeal to overturn the verdict in the defamation case against Johnny Depp; Judge Penney S. Azcarate rejects the claims of her attorneys that a mistrial is warranted over issues related to one of the jurors.
  • Former National Security Advisor and former Ambassador to the United Nations John Boltonadmits that he helped to plan coup d'états in other countries.
• July 14
  • The Shooters Grill restaurant, owned by Representative Lauren Boebert, will close after the landlord of the establishment refuses to renew the lease. Boebert confirms the closing.
  • Alex Murdaugh, a member of the prominent Murdaugh family of lawyers, is charged by authorities with the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
• July 15 – A corpse that was buried in a cemetery located in Blairstown, New Jersey is identified as Princess Doe, a woman who was killed forty years earlier. The suspect, who is serving a twenty-year sentence in prison for conviction on two counts of homicide, is charged with her murder.
• July 21
  • President Biden tests positive for COVID-19, experiencing "very mild symptoms".
  • Thomas K. Lane, one of the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the murder of George Floyd, is sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
  • Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee in the 2022 New York gubernatorial election, is attacked at a campaign event in Perinton, New York. A man got on the stage while Zeldin was giving a speech and attacked him, pulling a blade out in the process. The man is subdued and taken into custody, while Zeldin is uninjured.
• July 22 – Baked Alaska pleads guilty to his involvement in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
• July 26 – The first hearing to determine the extent of the remedy for liability by Alex Jones begins.
• July 27
  • Murder of George Floyd: Two of the three remaining former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd are sentenced to federal prison. J. Alexander Kueng receives a three-year sentence, and Tou Thao is sentenced to three and a half years. Both disgraced cops will be placed on supervised release for two years after they serve their respective times in prison.
  • Spirit Airlines shareholders vote to pull out of a merger agreement with Frontier Airlines. The airline announces its merger with JetBlue during the following day.
  • Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) historically announces its first revenue decline as a public company.
• July 28 – In response to questioning while under oath, Owen Shroyer, who is the host of "The War Room" segment on Infowars, admits that no attempt to verify the authenticity of a false story about Neil Heslin, a father who lost one of his children in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, was ever made whatsoever.
• July 29
  • ExxonMobil and Chevron, the two largest oil companies based in the US, report record profits of $17 billion and $11 billion respectively. The earnings announcements, nearly simultaneous with the additional record profits announced by other Big Oil companies like Shell and BP, are scrutinized by consumer advocacy groups.
  • In the midst of a lawsuit filed against Alex Jones and his website InfoWars by relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims, InfoWars' parent company Free Speech Systems files for bankruptcy.
• July 30 – President Biden tests positive for COVID-19 after having been previously tested negative just the other day.

August

• August 2
  • Federal judge Amit Meha dismisses Donald Trump's "immunity" claim against three lawsuits brought by Capitol Police officers who blame him for their injuries in the January 6th attack.
  • An arbitrator rules that Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson should be suspended for six games due to sexual misconduct, inciting outrage from the general public and the NFL, which appealed the ruling the next day.
• August 3 – The US imposes sanctions on Alina Kabaeva, the alleged girlfriend of Vladimir Putin.
• August 5
  • Alex Jones is further ordered by the court to pay an additional US$45.2 million in punitive damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis.
  • Actress Anne Heche is critically injured in a car accident that happens in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles.
• August 8
  • Killing of Gabby Petito: The family of Gabby Petito files a wrongful death lawsuit against the police department of Moab, Utah.
  • Murder of Ahmaud Arbery: Gregory and Travis McMichael are each handed a second life in prison sentence on hate crime charges in federal court, on top of the sentences at the state level.
  • The January 6 Committee obtains the text messages that were accidentally leaked by the defense attorney for Alex Jones to the attorney for Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis.
• August 9
  • A grand jury declines to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham for her false report which lead to the lynching of Emmett Till that happened nearly seventy years ago.
  • The Ramsey County Board of Directors settles a lawsuit with eight African-American law enforcement officials who were barred from guarding Derek Chauvin, agreeing to pay US$1.455 million.
  • Rapper Fetty Wap is arrested in Newark for threatening someone over FaceTime by using a gun while out on bail. He pleads guilty to the charge on August 22.
• August 10
  • Colorado discontinues its sales tax on diapers, incontinence products, and menstrual products.
  • The Department of Justice charges Iranian national Shahram Poursafi for conspiring to assassinate former national security advisor John Bolton. Poursafi remains at large.
  • Stacey Abrams, the Democratic Party nominee for the upcoming gubernatorial election in Georgia, U.S., tests positive for COVID-19.
• August 11
  • A standoff occurs at an FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio between law enforcement and an armed suspect who was trying to break into the building. After several hours, the suspect is killed.
  • The Los Angeles Police Department announces an investigation into actress Anne Heche for allegedly driving under the influence. In a separate act, a spokesperson who represents Heche informs the public that the actress is not expected to survive in her current condition. Heche is declared brain dead the following day, and the LAPD closes the investigation upon her death.
• August 12 – California becomes the first state to provide school lunches to all students for free.
• August 14
  • A man drives his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol and opens fire before fatally shooting himself; his mother described Richard A. York III as having traumatic brain injury from high school football & stated that he was being treated for a mental illness.
  • Three people are shot by a suspect in a car at Six Flags in Gurnee, Illinois.
  • A meteoroid is seen and heard plummeting into the atmosphere of Earth over northern Utah and southern Idaho.
• August 15
  • FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: Adam Bies, a 46-year-old man, is charged in Pennsylvania with influencing, impeding, or retaliating against federal law enforcement officials.
  • Murder of George Floyd: J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao reject a plea deal, prompting their trial on October 24, 2022.
  • Federal judge Leigh Martin May rejects a bid by Senator Lindsey Graham to refrain from testifying before a grand jury.
  • A federal bankruptcy court in Connecticut ordered the Sandy Hook lawsuit against Alex Jones to proceed back to trial in the Connecticut Superior Court.
  • Rapper ASAP Rocky is charged with assaulting one of his friends with a semiautomatic firearm back in November 2021.
• August 16
  • The Biden administration approves billions of dollars in loan discharges for ITT Technical Institute alumni on the basis that they were misled about their career prospects after graduation.
  • Former U.S. Representative TJ Cox is arrested and charged with multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
  • 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping: A parole board under the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitationgrants parole to Frederick Newhall Woods IV, the main perpetrator of the kidnapping plot.
• August 17 – A Colorado judge orders lawyer Jenna Ellis to testify before a grand jury investigating whether former president Trump committed illegal acts during and after the 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia.

• August 21 – A three-judge panel on the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit grants an appeal by Senator Lindsey Graham to postpone the subpoena which requires testimony on the part of the South Carolina senator in the criminal investigation against Donald Trump.
• August 22
  • Robb Elementary School shooting: Victims and survivors sue law enforcement agencies and a gun manufacturer for US$27 billion over the May 24 shooting.
  • Teachers within Columbus City Schools begin a strike in protest of multiple of their grievances before the school's board not being addressed.
• August 23
  • Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot: Two men are convicted of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction in the foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. One of the men is also convicted of another explosives charge.
  • Killing of Breonna Taylor: former Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett pleads guilty to helping falsify a search warrant which led to Taylor's killing.
• August 25
  • Incidents at Six Flags parks: Around 16 passengers on the El Toro wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure are injured after a train jerked forward while trying to unload passengers. The roller coaster closes for the night.
  • FBI search of Mar-a-Lago: Federal judge Bruce Reinhart orders the DOJ to release a redacted version of the search affidavit.
  • Two Florida residents plead guilty to stealing the diary of Ashley Biden and selling it to Project Veritas.
• August 29 – NASA postpones the scheduled launch of Artemis 1 until September 3 due to technical difficulties. This is the first time that liftoff for the spacecraft is delayed.
• August 31 – The Arizona Supreme Court rules that the state Senate can keep hundreds of secret emails and other records related to the audit of the 2020 presidential election in the state.

September

• September 1 – Former Idaho state lawmaker Aaron von Ehlinger is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the rape of a 19-year-old state legislative intern.
• September 2 – Gustavo Arnal, the CFO of Bed Bath & Beyond, dies by suicide by jumping from his balcony at 56 Leonard Street in New York City.
• September 4
  • A floatplane crashes in Washington state's Mutiny Bay, with the Coast Guard concluding all ten passengers had died after two days of searching.
  • Scott McLaughlin wins IndyCar's 2022 Grand Prix of Portland.
• September 6 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture approves a new purple tomato, genetically modified to alter its color and enhance its nutritional quality.
• September 12
  • The Justice Department issues 40 subpoenas as part of its criminal investigation into January 6.
  • Rapper PnB Rock is fatally shot at Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles in Los Angeles.
  • Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk: Twitter shareholders vote in favor of selling the company to Musk.
• September 14
  • R. Kelly is convicted by a federal jury on child pornography charges, though acquitted of his conspiracy to obstruct justice charges.
  • The Supreme Court rejects an emergency supplication by Yeshiva University to ban a campus club in support of the LGBT community because both parties have at least two remaining avenues for judicial relief in state courts.
  • New York City FC wins the 2022 Campeones Cup against Atlas F.C..
• September 15
  • Cardi B is sentenced to fifteen days of community service for a violent altercation that happened at a New York strip club back in 2018.
  • Two buses of migrants arrive outside of the house of Vice President Kamala Harris.
  • The FBI makes an arrest in connection with an August 30 conspiracy to bomb the Boston Children's Hospital.
• September 16 – The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway's longest running musical, announces that it will close in February 2023.
• September 17 – NASCAR runs the 2022 Bass Pro Shops Night Race, with Chris Buescher winning.
• September 18 – 18-year old Cayler Ellingson is rammed to death in McHenry, North Dakota, by a driver under the influence. Trump criticized the media for little coverage of Ellingson's death.
• September 21 – In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Biden slams Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, saying Putin has violated the Charter of the United Nations.
• September 23 – WWJ (AM) radio host Jim Matthews is killed by hammer. The suspect is arrested in Matthews' basement in the middle of a heroin overdose.
• September 24
  • Three people are shot at Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. The shooting is declared as a "mass casualty incident".
  • NASCAR runs the 2022 Andy's Frozen Custard 300, with Noah Gragson winning and tying Sam Ard's record for the most consecutive wins.
• September 25
  • Shots are fired at a Chuck E. Cheese in Tampa, Florida. Three people are arrested and no injuries are reported.
  • NASCAR runs the 2022 Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500, with Tyler Reddick winning.
• September 27
  • A strike begins at San Francisco International Airport instigated by flight attendants and airport food workers, ending on September 29 as a tentative deal is reached.
  • A mass shooting occurs at a football scrimmage outside Roxborough High School in Philadelphia, killing one 14-year old and wounding 4 others.
• September 28 – 2022 Oakland school shooting: Six are injured at Oakland's King Estates School Complex, a site shared by three high schools.
• September 30 – The judge in Arizona who allowed a law banning all abortion in the state refuses to put her decision on hold.

October

• October 1 – Firefly Aerospace launches a series of small satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
• October 2 – Chinese entrepreneur Liu Qiangdong settles a lawsuit over his alleged rape of a female student at the University of Minnesota that happened back in 2018.
• October 3
  • Stanley Black & Decker cuts about 1,000 jobs.
  • The Supreme Court rejects two notable cases from appearing on its docket for its 2022 term after commencing the term yesterday.
    • The court rejects a legal attempt by CEO of My Pillow Mike Lindell to block the defamation lawsuit over his conspiracy theories against Dominion Voting Systems in the 2020 United States presidential election.
    • The court rejects a case about the ban on bump stocks that was implemented by the Trump administration back in 2018.
• October 5 – The bridge connecting Pine Island in Lee County, Florida, reopens to the public after undergoing repairs from damage caused by Hurricane Ian.
• October 6 – A stabbing on the Las Vegas Strip kills one and injures five others.
• October 8 – Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital reach a US$165 million settlement with 147 women who were all victims of Robert A. Hadden. This settlement follows another US$71.5 million settlement in 2021 between the hospital system and 79 women who were patients of Hadden.
• October 9 – A shooting occurs in Shirley, New York outside the home of Representative Lee Zeldin (R-New York, 1st District), who is running for governor of the state; two people are injured.
• October 11 – The Supreme Court rejects an appeal by Dylann Roof for committing the Charleston church shooting. No line of reasoning is provided by any of the justices.

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