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Two people are killed and four more injured during a vehicle-ramming attack outside a restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The perpetrator's motive is unknown.
2024-09-1

The death toll from the wildfires increases to 53, all in the town of Lahaina in western Maui, Hawaii, United States.
2023-08-10

Three people are killed and two others are injured by a mass shooting at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
2022-11-13

U.S. Attorney General William Barr, in a letter to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, declares that Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, members of "The Beatles" ISIL cell, will not be given the death penalty if found guilty. Prior attempts by the United States to get the UK Home Office to cooperate on the terrorists' prosecution had been stymied due to the latter's long-standing policy of refusing to extradite citizens or aid in their prosecution if the death penalty was sought.
2020-08-19

The United States is to deploy troops to Somalia for the first time since 1994 to help train the Somali Armed Forces in their conflict with al-Shabaab insurgents.
2017-04-14

The American city of Fort Collins, Colorado, announces its intention to appeal a federal judge's ruling that blocked the city’s ban on women appearing topless in public.
2017-03-23

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe makes a landmark visit to Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, offering "sincere and everlasting condolences" to the victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese empire on December 7, 1941.
2016-12-27

Russia has announced that it will ask permission to fly unarmed surveillance planes over the United States citing the Open Skies Treaty.
2016-02-22

The U.S. is to deploy 300 troops to Cameroon as part of a stepped-up effort to counter Boko Haram in the region.
2015-10-14

A Soyuz capsule carrying astronauts Chris Hadfield of Canada, Thomas Marshburn of the United States and Roman Romanenko of Russia of Expedition 35 back from the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan.
2013-05-14