Portal:Current events/2018 March 1
March 1, 2018 (Thursday)
Business and economy
- Presidency of Donald Trump
- U.S. President Donald Trump announces plans to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. (BBC), (The Hill)
Law and crime
- Crime in Norway, Crime in the United States
- Police in Oslo, Norway, say that the FBI is assisting in the investigation into two forged nominations of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The impersonator allegedly used the same stolen identity twice. (Newser), (The Washington Post)
- Terrorism in Turkey
Politics and elections
- Politics of Iraq
- The Parliament of Iraq votes to oblige the federal government to set a schedule for the withdrawal of foreign troops. (Iraq News)
- Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- An alleged Senate Intelligence Committee report states that a House Intelligence Committee Republican was behind the leak to Fox News of private text messages between a Russian-connected lawyer and Senator Mark Warner, the committee vice-chairman, concerning an attempt to contact Christopher Steele, author of the Trump–Russia dossier. Committee chairman Richard Burr later denied the leak report. (The New York Times), (Slate) (The Hill)
- 2018 opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina
- Argentine President Mauricio Macri delivers a speech in the Congress to start the regular sessions for 2018. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Discoveries of exoplanets
- NASA astronomers use the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes in research implying that "hot Saturn" (high surface-atmosphere temperatures and gas giant-mass) exoplanet WASP-39b, located 700 light-years from Earth, has a large amount of water molecules in its atmosphere. (NASA)
Sports
- 2018 NHL Stadium Series
- The Washington Capitals defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in a special outdoor hockey match, 5–2, at the Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. (The Washington Post)