OCTOBER Claudia Sheinbaum made history, becoming the fi rst female president of Mexico and the fi rst Jewish person elected to that offi ce. Her fi rst major challenge: tackling Mexico’s homicide rate, one of the highest in the world.
IN MEMORIAM We said goodbye to 1 Phil Donahue, 88, daytime TV talk show pioneer; 2 Lily Ebert, 100, holocaust survivor and unlikely TikTok phenomenon; 3 James Earl Jones, 93, legendary actor; 4 Ethel Kennedy, 96, widow of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and mother of 11; 5 Kris Kristoff erson, 88, veteran, singer-songwriter, Rhodes scholar, and activist; 6 Willie Mays, 93, the “Say Hey Kid” and baseball’s greatest-ever center fielder; 7 Alexei Navalny, 47, Russian opposition leader who died under mysterious circumstances in a remote gulag; 8 Quincy Jones, 91, legendary music producer who shaped pop and jazz, defining music for decades; 9 Donald Sutherland, 88, after acclaimed six-decade career with roles in M*A*S*H, Don’t Look Now, and The Hunger Games; 10 Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 96, taboo-breaking sex therapist whose explicit radio show Sexually Speaking propelled her to national fame.
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AIR SCARE It was a year of crisis for Boeing, the embattled airline manu- facturer, that began when the door of an Alaskan Airways 737 jet fl ew open mid-fl ight, raising questions about the company’s safety standards and leading to the resignation in March of its CEO. The plane landed safely, but dozens of passengers were hurt.
FREE Actor Alec Baldwin cried as he was cleared in July of involuntary man- slaughter charges in the 2021 death of a cinematographer during the fi lming of the Western Rust three years ago. The judge in New Mexico dismissed the case based on the misconduct of police and prosecutors over the withholding of evidence from the defense.
SKY HIGH Elon Musk’s SpaceX planned to launch 148 rockets this year — one every two-and-a-half days — as it dominates space exploration and transportation with reusable launch vehicles amid its goal of colonizing Mars. It has also found success with its Starlink satellites bringing global cellphone service to remote locations.
FREEDOM WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the U.S. Federal Court- house in the Northern Mariana Islands in June, after pleading guilty to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and dis- seminate national defense information. A judge freed Assange in a plea deal that ends years of legal drama for the Austra- lian editor.
EXCHANGE President Joe Biden watches as Evan Gershkovich greets his mother, Ella Milman, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, in August. The Wall Street Journal reporter, along with former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, were among a dozen prisoners freed from Rus- sia as part of a 24-person exchange — the largest such swap in post-Soviet history.
ONE AND DONE Vice President Ka- mala Harris shakes hands with former President Donald Trump in September during their one and only presiden- tial debate, held in Philadelphia. The moderators of the contentious debate, hosted by ABC News, were widely panned for confronting Trump and not Harris over their answers.
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