Sources: CNN
The United States lifts a $10 million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of Afghan warlord Sirajuddin Haqqani after the Taliban released an American citizen who had been kept in captivity for two years. 2025-03-22
The United States gives Ukraine permission to strike Russian territory near Kharkiv Oblast with U.S.-supplied weapons, but not with long-range missiles. 2024-05-30
China launches its third aircraft carrier, the "Fujian", during a ceremony in Shanghai, further enhancing the country's ability to project its military abroad. China now has the second most aircraft carriers of any country, behind only the United States, which has eleven aircraft carriers. 2022-06-17
The United States and Mexico reach common ground on key trade terms in the North American Free Trade Agreement. Canada has yet to sign off on the agreement. 2018-08-27
Mexican federal police and migration agents find 136 migrants in a locked truck abandoned near a freeway in Veracruz. Without water or food, the people from the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, including dozens of minors, were "en route" to the United States. 2018-03-30
13 people are shot and injured during a drive-by shooting in Washington, D.C., United States. 2013-03-11
A major snowstorm occurs in the Midwestern United States leading to two deaths so far. 2013-02-21
The sunken German U-Boat "U-550" is discovered off the coast of Massachusetts, United States. 2012-07-28
A United States military commission sentences Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to eight more years in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of an American soldier in 2002. 2010-10-31
2 Yemenis are released from custody in Amsterdam, having been arrested after being suspected by the United States of plotting a terrorist act. No evidence was found against the men. 2010-09-1