Sources: BBC
Over 45,000 dockworkers of the International Longshoremen's Association operating at thirty-six United States ports, primarily along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, begin a labor strike, following the failure of the ports to reach a deal for worker compensation and a ban on automation. 2024-10-1
The United States imposes sanctions on Evghenia Guțul, the pro-Russian governor of Moldova's Gagauzia region. 2024-06-12
North Korea warns of a "Christmas gift" if the United States does not come up with an agreement by the end of the year. 2019-12-23
Intelligence officials in the United States share evidence that North Korea has continued to develop nuclear weapons, despite promises made at the 2018 North Korea–United States summit. 2018-07-30
The Nobel Prize committee awards American Richard Thaler the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for his contributions to behavioral economics." His work focuses on the psychology of the human conflict of what we plan for the financial present versus what we plan for the future. 2017-10-9
A U.S. F-15 shoots down an Iranian Shahed 129 drone near the Jordan–Syria border where U.S. ground forces are based. 2017-06-20
American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. 2016-10-13
February 2013 Great Plains blizzard: A 71-year-old man is killed in Woodward, Oklahoma, United States, when his roof collapses after a powerful winter storm affecting much of the central United States. 2013-02-26
Newly released cables show the United States lobbied Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, causing Rolls-Royce to lose an important contract. 2010-12-5
Fourteen people are killed in United States drone attacks in North Waziristan, Pakistan. 2010-11-7