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Three people are killed and 14 others are injured in a mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Three people are also hit by cars, with one person later dying.
2022-06-5

The United States, the European Union, and NATO leaders react to emerging reports of the massacre in Bucha, accusing the Russian Armed Forces of war crimes and calling for more sanctions against Russia.
2022-04-3

"The Washington Post" reports that U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned President Trump about the threats posed by COVID-19 in January and February, but administration officials say they "just couldn't get him to do anything about it."
2020-03-20

The human rights group International Rights Advocates formally launches a lawsuit in the United States against Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. (Google), Tesla, Inc., Dell and Microsoft on behalf of 14 Congolese families whose children died or were injured in Copperbelt mines that supply cobalt for the firms' lithium-ion battery products.
2019-12-16

United States State Department blocks the sale of firearms to the Philippines due to concerns of human rights violations.
2016-11-2

Kurdish forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes, capture several villages in an offensive to retake the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants, who overran it more than a year ago. The operation aims to cordon off the town, take control of Islamic State supply routes, and establish a buffer zone to protect the town from artillery, according to the Kurdish national security council.
2015-11-12

American electronics company Apple Inc. and Korean company Samsung Electronics agree to end their patent litigation outside the United States.
2014-08-6

T-Mobile USA removes the contract requirement from its mobile phone payment plans, becoming the first of the four major national wireless carriers in the U.S. to do so.
2013-03-26

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announces that he is to leave for treatment in the United States.
2012-01-22

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC loses a patent infringement case in the United States, with the United States International Trade Commission ruling that Apple Inc.'s iPhone technology does not violate HTC's patents.
2011-10-18