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Jeh Johnson, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, warns Americans to take a threat by Somalia-based al-Shabab to attack shopping malls in the US, United Kingdom, and Canada seriously.
2015-02-22

North Korea holds a trial for American tourist Matthew Miller who was detained in April and sentences him to six years of hard labor.
2014-09-14

A spokesman for the White House confirms that a video showing American journalist Steven Sotloff being beheaded is authentic.
2014-09-3

North Korea announces that it arrested an American tourist last month for alleged inappropriate behaviour.
2014-06-6

After a failed U.S. extradition request Hong Kong says does not fully comply with the law, U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Moscow.
2013-06-23

American country music singer George Jones dies at the age of 81.
2013-04-26

American singer Kitty Wells, the "Queen of country music" and the first female singer to have a number one song on the country charts with "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", dies of complications of a stroke.
2012-07-16

American economists Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims win the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
2011-10-10

The President of the United States Barack Obama urges Americans in the path of the hurricane to take appropriate precautions for a "historic storm".
2011-08-26

United States country music singer Willie Nelson is charged with marijuana possession. [http:--entertainment.msn.com-news-article.aspx?news=613867&affid=100055 (AP via MSN)]date=November 2019
2010-11-26