CTP: Rounding Up 2014 - Major American News Events From January to March

This was a year of record high stock markets, the legalization of marijuana, revelations of more surveillance than previously known, Governors being caught up in scandals, Obamacare taxes coming into effect, numerous shootings, crimes and even riots.

What’s the most important? Obamacare taxes coming into effect, an explosion at a nuclear waste treatment facility in New Mexico, a chemical spill leading to a water ban in West Virginia, heightened security concerns as suspicious white powder was found at 5 Superbowl hotels, talk of a politician from Kentucky trying to bribe his opponent to drop out of the race while another headline asks if California will break up into 6 states, military cuts, while other headlines note that America finished in 3rd place in the total Sochi winter Olympic Medal count, and the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan of numerous crimes, more mass shootings and even riots.