Gun violence in the U.S. is a global outlier; firearms kill more Americans than they do people in any comparable nation. In May, 10 Black people were shot to death in a racist massacre at a supermarket in Buffalo. Among the victims was 65-year-old Celestine Chaney, who was buying ingredients for a favorite indulgence, strawberry shortcake. At her funeral, her granddaughter Charon Reed, 24, held her own son:
Ten days after the Buffalo shooting, 19 children and two teachers were shot to death at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. A bullet ripped through a fourth-grade math notebook belonging to one of the victims, 10-year-old Uziyah Garcia:
The Jan. 6 committee used television as a way to achieve maximum impact in June. “This was TV meant to break through, and to matter,” The Times’s chief television critic, James Poniewozik, wrote:
Ukraine’s military surprised most experts by not only staving off defeat but also forcing Russian soldiers to retreat in parts of the country. Here, an artillery unit from Ukraine’s 58th Brigade fired at Russian infantry in August in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine:
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, several state laws changed to further restrict abortion procedures. Catrina Rainey had learned in May that one of the twins she was carrying had a severe birth defect, was unlikely to live past six months outside the womb and could threaten the viability of the other twin. She underwent a termination of the unhealthy fetus to protect the healthy sibling. It was one of the last such procedures performed in Ohio, which outlawed them after the Supreme Court’s ruling. Rainey, James Packwood and their 9-year-old son at home in August, one month before her due date:
Serena Williams said farewell at the U.S. Open in September after announcing she was stepping back from tennis:
Intense heat in Britain, floods in Pakistan, a major winter storm that swept the U.S.: The effects of extreme weather became more common in 2022. In South Korea in September, a survivor was pulled from a flooded underground parking lot:
Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as House speaker, announced in November that she would step down from Democratic leadership after this congressional term:
A mourner waved a pride flag at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting last month at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs that killed five people:
We got a new glimpse of the ancient universe. The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space observatory ever built, offered a spectacular view of our nascent cosmos:
