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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 216 children have died this flu season in the United States, making it the deadliest since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
2025-05-2

A car crashes into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, California, United States, and its driver is shot dead by police.
2023-10-9

The United States sends additional troops and equipment to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti in preparation for a possible evacuation of Americans from Sudan.
2023-04-20

The United States orders the evacuation of its embassy staff in Kyiv.
2022-02-12

Two WYFF journalists, Mike McCormick and Aaron Smeltzer, are killed after a tree crushes their car as they covered the storm in North Carolina, United States.
2018-05-29

The Health Information Trust Alliance, a nonprofit industry group, warns that hospitals in the United States must prepare for more ransomware attacks. A review late last year of some 30 mid-sized U.S. hospitals found 52 percent were infected with malicious software. This week, an attack on MedStar Health forced the largest healthcare provider in the Washington, D.C. area, to shut down much of its computer network.
2016-04-3

On January 18, 2016, the British Parliament will debate a petition, signed by more than 560,000 people, calling for the Home Secretary to ban United States Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump from entering the United Kingdom because of 'hate speech' that is unacceptable behavior, non-conducive to the public good. The conclusion reached by the lawmakers will not be binding on the UK government.
2016-01-5

America's largest seven-day newspaper, "The New York Times", breaking with the tradition that front pages belong to the news department, publishes Saturday morning's edition with the first front page editorial since 1920. The editorial calls for tighter gun control laws after the shootings in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and San Bernardino, California, over the past eight days. [https:--www.nytimes.com-2015-12-05-us-gun-debate-yields-page-1-editorial.html?_r=0 "(The New York Times)"], [https:--www.washingtonpost.com-news-wonk-wp-2015-12-05-the-new-york-times-has-rare-front-page-editorial-calling-u-s-gun-laws-a-national-disgrace- ("The Washington Post")], [https:--www.theguardian.com-media-2015-dec-05-gun-control-new-york-times-ront-page-editorial-first-time-since-1920-san-bernardino "(The Guardian)"]
2015-12-5

American rock duo The White Stripes announce that they are breaking up.
2011-02-2

The US, UK, France and Germany ban all air freight from Yemen at their respective countries' airports following the discovery of two explosive packages.
2010-10-31