Sources: BBC
The Cuban coast guard trades fire with an American marked speedboat registered in Florida 1 nmi mi off of Cuba. According to Cuban government sources, the boat's occupants fired on coast guard personnel who approached it for identification, and injured a coast guard commander in the shootout, with returning fire killing four and injuring six unidentified gunmen. 2026-02-25
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, celebrates his 100th birthday, becoming the first centenarian former U.S. president. 2024-10-1
The Pentagon rejects an offer from Poland's foreign ministry to "deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets" to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America" for transfer to the Ukrainian Air Force. 2022-03-9
ISIL releases purported footage of the October 2017 attack on American special forces in Tongo Tongo, Niger. 2018-03-5
British-born American Oliver Hart and Finnish Bengt Holmström win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on the science of contracts. 2016-10-10
The American state of California prepares for its worst storm in five years with schools closed in the San Francisco Bay Area. 2014-12-11
North Korea authorities announce a new nuclear weapon and long range missile test, threatening their publicly manifested arch-enemy, the United States, as their primary target. 2013-01-24
Citing nuclear sanctions, the United States of America deny visas to 20 out of 160 Iranian officials, of which two are ministers, impeaching diplomats' attendance at next week's United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. 2012-09-23
Moody's warns the United States that it faces a downgrade in its credit rating before 2014 if the government fails to act on managing its debt. 2012-09-11
Nations including the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, the People's Republic of China, Russia, Italy and Greece evacuate their citizens from Libya. 2011-02-23