Sources: MarketWatch
The Biden administration officially withdraws two major legislative plans that would have granted student loan forgiveness to more than 30 million Americans. 2024-12-23
Elon Musk announces that he has selected NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO for X Corp., the owner of Twitter. 2023-05-12
Militants raid a community of nuns in Kaya, Sanmatenga Province, Burkina Faso, kidnapping an American. 2022-04-5
A Qatar Airways charter flight carrying 200 passengers, including Afghans and Americans, departs from Kabul International Airport to Qatar. 2021-09-19
U.S. president Joe Biden addresses the United States for a second time this week. During the address, Biden said that the U.S. will evacuate any Americans who want to return to the U.S. He also announces that 18,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan in the past few weeks, and that 5,700 people were evacuated in the past 24 hours. 2021-08-20
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 1 million Americans have received the vaccines. 2020-12-23
Yousuf Rasheed, CEO of the Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan, is killed by unknown gunmen in Kabul. His driver is also shot and later died of his wounds. It is the latest targeted killing of a prominent Afghan figure. 2020-12-23
The Trump administration announces that they have secured the release of Mikael Gidada and Sandra Loli, two Americans that have been held hostage by Houthi rebels in Yemen for 16 months. 2020-10-14
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says that the two captured American mercenaries accused of organizing an armed incursion into Venezuela will be tried in the country by its civil courts. United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. government will "use every tool that we have available to try to get them back." 2020-05-6
American actor Paul Walker ("The Fast and the Furious" franchise) is one of two killed in a car accident after attending a charity event in Santa Clarita, California. 2013-11-30