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The United States wins a bronze medal in women's rugby, their first ever medal in the sport at the Olympics.
2024-07-30

Around 120 people are rescued from a breakaway ice floe on Upper Red Lake near Bemidji, Minnesota, United States.
2023-12-29

An 8.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Alaska, with at least two strong aftershocks (6.2 and 5.6) and prompting tsunami warnings. It is the strongest earthquake to hit the United States since the 1965 Rat Islands earthquake, which also occurred off the Alaskan coast.
2021-07-28

The total number of children infected with COVID-19 in the United States since the pandemic began there in mid-March surpasses 500,000.
2020-09-8

The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocks the redrawing of Ohio and Michigan electoral maps while it prepares to rule on whether or not partisan gerrymandering is constitutional. Lower federal courts ordered Michigan and Ohio electoral maps to be redrawn before the 2020 United States presidential election.
2019-05-24

Russia and the United States veto a British-sponsored United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire between the Libyan National Army and forces loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord.
2019-04-19

For the first time in 25 years, the United States abstains in a United Nations vote calling for an end to its Cuban economic embargo.
2016-10-26

Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang goes on trial in Beijing for online social commentary critical of the ruling Communist Party.
2015-12-14

Germany expels the Berlin station chief of the United States Central Intelligence Agency following a series of spy scandals.
2014-07-10

A roadside bomb kills 4 United States troops in eastern Afghanistan.
2010-08-31