Portal:Current events/2019 February 9

February 9, 2019 (Saturday)

Disasters and accidents

2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu crash
- The family of pilot David Ibbotson launch a GoFundMe campaign to locate and recover his body, raising thousands of pounds within hours. Footballer Emiliano Sala's body was recently found in the wreckage and recovered two weeks after the plane first went missing. (BBC News)
2018–19 North American winter
- Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area receive 10 inches (25 cm) of snow, the most in 70 years. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

2020 United States presidential election, 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- Elizabeth Warren 2020 presidential campaign
  - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren announces her intention to run for President of the United States in the 2020 United States presidential election. (CNN)
2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
- Venezuela's interim President Juan Guaidó says he will not rule out seeking the help of the United States military to remove Nicolás Maduro from power. (AFP via France 24)
- Venezuelan authorities claim that a U.S.-owned air freight company delivered a crate of weapons to the international airport in Valencia to be used in "terrorist actions" against the Maduro government. The air charter business involved, 21 Air, denies the charges. (Chicago Tribune)

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