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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces that the United States will provide Ukraine with a $725 million weapons package.
2024-12-2

The Houthis claim to have shot down a United States MQ-9 Reaper drone in the Red Sea.
2024-02-19

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accuses the United States of supporting "the PKK terrorists", following the killing of 13 Turkish hostages held captive in Kurdistan Region. Turkey also summons the U.S. ambassador David M. Satterfield in response to the killings.
2021-02-15

The United States formally no longer recognizes Alexander Lukashenko as President of Belarus, according to a U.S. Department of State statement. A State Department spokesperson calls for a new "free and fair election" in Belarus under independent observation.
2020-09-23

Tesla Inc. withdraws from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board's probe of a fatal Model X crash in California. Tesla had drawn the NTSB's ire by releasing information publicly about its view of the case and about the car's Autopilot feature, something the Board does not allow during active investigations.
2018-04-12

Ex National Football League player Darren Sharper is sentenced to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping two women in the American city of Los Angeles, California. Sharper has been accused of attacking a dozen women across the United States.
2016-11-29

The United States and the United Kingdom call for, "within hours," an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Yemen to end the violence following last week's Saudi airstrikes, based on bad information, that killed around 140 people.
2016-10-16

Sears Holdings Corporation announces plans to close over 100 Sears and K-Mart stores in the United States.
2011-12-27

The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency downgrades the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. [https:--www.reuters.com-article-2011-08-06-us-usa-debt-downgrade-idUSTRE7746VF20110806 (Reuters)] [http:--www.ajc.com-business-s-p-downgrades-us-1080498.html (AP via "Atlanta Journal-Constitution")]date=July 2019
2011-08-5

Palestinian leaders express disappointment at the refusal of the Middle East Quartet — United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia — to hear their call for unilateral statehood and failure to take a strong stance on Israel's settlement construction at its February 5 meeting in Munich.
2011-02-6