Sources: AP via Salon
The United States accuses the Rapid Support Forces of committing genocide in Sudan during the ongoing civil war and imposes sanctions on the group's leader Hemedti. 2025-01-7
The United Auto Workers and General Motors ratify a contract to end the strike at General Motors plants across the United States. 2023-11-17
Afghanistan releases American engineer Mark Frerichs in exchange for Afghan drug lord Bashir Noorzai, who has been held by the United States on drug charges since April 2005. 2022-09-19
The Taliban says that it plans to suspend attacks in southern Afghanistan if the United States promises to halt all strikes and night raids in keeping with the peace agreement signed in February. 2020-10-16
The United States Justice Department charges 44-year old Elena Khusyaynova of Saint Petersburg with conspiracy to defraud the United States for managing the financing of the social media troll operation that included the Internet Research Agency. 2018-10-19
The United States ended a six-year Central-African hunt for Joseph Kony. 2017-04-26
U.S.-based monitoring group 38 North says satellite imagery of North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site indicates that preparation for a sixth nuclear weapons test is underway. 2017-04-13
The United States announces that it will transfer nine Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to Saudi Arabia. 2016-04-16
87-year-old American comedian Don Rickles is recovering after treatment for a leg infection of necrotizing fasciitis, better known as a flesh-eating disease. 2013-12-7
Schools in the American state of Wisconsin close as teachers attend rallies against proposals to limit collective bargaining for state employees. 2011-02-17