Ups and Downs of 2014
The Senate votes to confirm Janet Yellen as the first woman to head the Federal Reserve.
Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Oregon.
The XXII Winter Olympics take place in Sochi, Russia.
Israel declares Operation Protective Edge against Hamas.

A mudslide near Oso, Washington, kills 43 people.
Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, dies after a white police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, puts him in a chokehold.
Dr. Martin Salia dies at Nebraska Medical Center.
ISIS takes control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city.

North Korea releases U.S. citizen Jeffrey Fowle after detaining him in June.
Air Asia Flight 8501, with 162 people aboard, crashes while flying from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore.
The European Space Agency successfully lands a probe named Philae on a comet 310 million miles from Earth.
ISIS releases a video showing the beheading of hostage Alan Henning.