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Eighteen attorneys general, representing seventeen U.S. states and Washington DC, sue the Trump administration over migrant family separations at the U.S. border with Mexico. The litigants demand around 2,000 migrant children be reunited with their families.
2018-06-26

United States President Donald Trump approves the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
2017-03-24

TransCanada, the firm that unsuccessfully applied for cross-border permission to build the Keystone XL pipeline, files a lawsuit against the United States alleging that the refusal of permission violated the North American Free Trade Agreement.
2016-01-6

U.S. President Barack Obama announces that the State Department has rejected TransCanada's application to complete the Keystone XL pipeline.
2015-11-6

TransCanada Corp asks the United States Department of State to suspend its review of the Keystone XL pipeline while it negotiates with the US state of Nebraska about the route. If granted, the delay (according to Reuters) would almost certainly mean the decision on the project will be made by a future president.
2015-11-2

Barack Obama, the President of the United States, vetoes a bill approving the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline between Canadian oil sands and refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
2015-02-24

Occupy DC activists are banned from camping in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza in the US capital Washington DC.
2012-01-30

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration claim to have disrupted an alleged terrorist plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador and bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington DC with possible links to Iran.
2011-10-11

Flash flood warnings are issued in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland.
2011-09-7

Anti-Iraq War demonstrators are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC including Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
2011-03-19