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The Food and Drug Administration gives full approval to the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first vaccine in the U.S. to be granted full licensure and thereby giving businesses, schools and universities more confidence to adopt vaccine mandates.
2021-08-23

The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States exceeds 200,000.
2020-09-22

Dozens of masked protesters set fire to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Tegucigalpa, amid a second day of mass anti-government protests in Honduras.
2019-06-1

The United States announces a 10% tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to start on September 24, increasing to 25% by the end of the year, and threatens tariffs on an additional $267 billion worth of imports if China retaliates.
2018-09-17

An apparent ambush in Niger near the Malian border leaves three U.S. Special Forces soldiers and five Nigerien soldiers dead during a joint patrol.
2017-10-4

A United States drone strike kills two alleged militants in the Kurram district of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
2017-03-2

Six suspected militants are killed in a United States drone attack in the tribal area of North Waziristan.
2015-09-1

The world's first gun produced by Defense Distributed using a 3-D printer is fired successfully in Austin, Texas, United States. Security officials worry that such plastic weapons could evade detection at airport screenings.
2013-05-5

Iranian sources citing Ash-Shabaab say a U.S. drone attack killed eight people in Kismayo, south Somalia.
2012-09-7

Taoiseach Brian Cowen departs for the United States ahead of his Saint Patrick's Day engagements with President Barack Obama.
2010-03-12