Sources: USA Today
The United States Coast Guard intercepts and seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela after previously seizing another last week. 2025-12-20
The Dominican Republic permits the United States to use the Las Américas International Airport in Punta Caucedo, Santo Domingo, and the San Isidro Air Base to support Operation Southern Spear targeting alleged drug traffickers linked by the U.S. to Venezuelan authorities. 2025-11-26
United States officials report that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was pre-warned by Israel about the military operation in Lebanon occurring later that day, and claim that they received no prior details about the nature of the attack. 2024-09-19
North Korea conducts drills simulating a nuclear counterattack in response to joint amphibious landing exercises by the United States and South Korea. 2023-03-20
Twelve people are killed and two others are injured in a fire at a row house converted into apartments in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 2022-01-5
The Nobel Prize committee awards American Richard Thaler the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for his contributions to behavioral economics." His work focuses on the psychology of the human conflict of what we plan for the financial present versus what we plan for the future. 2017-10-9
Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obaidi updates the death toll from Friday's friendly fire airstrike near Fallujah to 10, one officer and nine soldiers. U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter says it appears an American jet conducted the strike. Carter called Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to express condolences. 2015-12-19
The British High Court rules that Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other suspected terrorists can be immediately extradited to the United States to face trial on charges of terrorism. 2012-10-5
The United States resumes shipping armaments to Bahrain, after a pause that coincided with the ongoing popular uprising against the Bahraini regime. 2012-05-12
Protesters gather outside the Egyptian embassy in Amman in support of "the people of Egypt" and calling on the United States: "do not interfere". 2011-01-29