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The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that around 1,110 people have been missing since the wildfires that affected Maui, Hawaii, United States.
2023-08-23

A lab in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, is placed on temporary lockdown by the CDC after several vials labeled "smallpox" are discovered in a freezer.
2021-11-18

The United States approves the release of Saifullah Paracha, a 73-year-old Pakistani man who is currently the oldest prisoner held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He is expected to be formally released in the next few months.
2021-05-17

The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States rises by 2,371 in a single day to 30,800, the highest number of COVID-19 linked deaths reported in any country in a single day, as total cases rise to 635,000.
2020-04-15

Supreme Court Justice Christian Zerpa of Venezuela defects to the United States and denounces the Government of Venezuela for rigging the election.
2019-01-6

The United States imposes sanctions on 18 "Magnitsky list" Russians accused of human rights violations. Russia threatens to retaliate.
2013-04-12

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announces that he is to leave the office in March.
2013-01-16

U.S. president Barack Obama strongly condemns the "outrageous attack" that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other U.S. citizens in Benghazi, Libya, saying that the United States rejects denigration of religious beliefs but also rejects the "senseless violence that killed the US diplomat".
2012-09-12

The United States government run National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) claims 2010 could be the warmest year on record since 1880.
2010-07-17

The United Kingdom and United States decide last year's release from a Scottish prison of Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was "a mistake".
2010-07-16