Sources: AP via Salon
Two people are killed in a plane crash near Chino, California, United States. 2024-06-15
Brazil surpasses five million COVID-19 cases, becoming the third country to reach that milestone after the United States and India. 2020-10-7
In the United States, inmates in 17 states go on strike to protest prison labor conditions. 2018-08-21
An explosive device is hurled at the United States embassy in Kiev. 2017-06-8
The United Launch Alliance successfully launches NASA's OSIRIS-REx from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida. The mission is to study asteroid 101955 Bennu and in 2023 to return a sample to Earth for detailed analysis. If successful, OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid. 2016-09-8
British Prime Minister David Cameron, under pressure from Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Foreign Affairs Committee, will not ask for a vote by Parliament to join the U.S. airstrikes in Syria. 2015-11-5
The United States launches a prosecution against Liberty Reserve, based in Costa Rica, for money laundering worth $6 billion. 2013-05-28
American weekly news magazine "Newsweek" announces it will cease print publication on December 31 and will move to an online-only format. 2012-10-18
Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, imprisoned by the United States on charges of disclosing government information to the general public, is found competent to stand trial by a "panel of experts", despite having earlier been thought of as a "suicide risk" and having his clothes removed. 2011-04-30
A United States jury rules that Citigroup did not mislead Terra Firma Capital Partners in its bid for music group EMI. 2010-11-4