We have started to collect the most important news related to United States in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
North Korea test-fires two medium-range missiles, just hours after the US, South Korea and Japan met in the Netherlands for talks.
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US chipmaker Intel steps up its investment in wearable technology with the acquisition of Basis Science, a firm known for its health tracking services and devices.
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The Japanese and South Korean leaders hold their first official meeting following a rift over Japan's stance on its wartime aggression in Asia.
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Rescue efforts continue after a landslide in the US state of Washington killed at least 14 people.
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US President Barack Obama says Russia is acting "not out of strength, but out of weakness" in Ukraine, and warns of further sanctions.
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The US Supreme Court hears a challenge to the president's 2010 health law that turns on whether for-profit companies can exercise religious beliefs.
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A fire has engulfed a large apartment building in Houston, Texas in the US.
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President Barack Obama urges Americans to pray for victims of the Washington state mudslide as officials predict the death toll of 14 will rise.
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Lithuania's energy minister calls on the US Senate to speed-up natural gas exports to Europe, in order to challenge Russia's dominance.
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Authorities in the US state of Washington confirm at least 14 people were killed in Saturday's landslide, as the list of missing grows to 176.
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A 12-year-old US Girl Scout breaks the organisation's national record by selling 18,107 boxes of cookies over a period of seven weeks.
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President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to end bulk collection of US phone records by the National Security Agency senior officials say.
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Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom, who is fighting extradition to the US, announces plans to list his new file-sharing firm on the stock market.
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A civilian is killed by security forces after he shot dead a US sailor on board a destroyer docked at a Virginia naval base.
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Aerial footage shows the damage caused by a landslide in the US town of Oso, which has killed at least 14 people.
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A previously unseen short story by US writer Tennessee Williams, inspired in part by an old college girlfriend, is published for the first time.
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Venezuela strips a leading opposition congresswoman of her mandate after speech before the Organization of American States last week.
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Authorities say they have 108 reports of people missing or unaccounted for after Saturday's huge landslide in the north-western US state of Washington.
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Authorities in the US state of Washington have found six more bodies after Saturday's huge landslide, bringing the number known to have been killed to 14, say police.
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Ex-US President Jimmy Carter says he hand-writes letters to foreign leaders in an effort to evade what he described as pervasive surveillance.
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A US convicted child molester is charged with sending a threatening letter to President Barack Obama, albeit posted to the wrong address.
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Sci-fi thriller Divergent, the latest young adult movie franchise, beats Muppets Most Wanted to top the US and Canadian box office chart.
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Dave Brockie, lead singer with the heavy metal band, has been found dead at his home in the US.
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Hopes are fading that any more survivors will be found after a huge landslide in the US state of Washington that has claimed at least eight lives.
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Japan agrees to turn over part of its stockpile of nuclear material to the United States at a nuclear summit in the Hague
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The US is sending military aircraft and more special forces to hunt Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, officials say.
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US film, TV and stage actor James Rebhorn, whose career included Homeland and Meet the Parents, dies at the age of 65 after a battle with skin cancer.
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Net freedom could suffer after the US steps back from its role as ultimate overseer of the global network, says former US President Bill Clinton.
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China demands a clear explanation from the United States following reports that it infiltrated the servers of the Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei.
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Rescuers searching the area of Saturday's massive mudslide in the US state of Washington find eight bodies, with a number of people still missing.
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Mexico's first mariachi academy plans global domination
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US First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters visit the Great Wall of China on the fourth day of their week-long visit to the country.
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North Korea test fires dozens of rockets on Saturday and Sunday, in an apparent display of anger over US-Seoul military drills.
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US players adapt to Libya's rough style of basketball
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The US says it has returned the rogue tanker Morning Glory - filled with oil at a rebel-held port - to Libya after a Navy Seals operation.
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Michigan becomes the latest US state in recent months to overturn a ban on gay marriage - in a case brought by two female nurses.
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Credit Suisse agrees to pay $885m over claims it mis-sold mortgage products to US firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before the financial crisis.
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Police in the US state of Hawaii ask the legislature to keep a measure in the law allowing undercover investigators to have sex with prostitutes.
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The horrific toll of cheap and plentiful heroin on US families
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US President Barack Obama has announced further sanctions against Russia over its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
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US President Barack Obama announces further sanctions on Russian individuals close to Vladimir Putin and a Russian bank over the crisis in Crimea.
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The Chinese internet giant Alibaba invests $215m (£130m) in the US-based free mobile messaging service Tango.
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US markets rise a day after the Federal Reserve hinted it might raise interest rates as soon as 2015.
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A US Army general who pleaded guilty to inappropriate relationships with subordinates avoids jail time but is docked $20,000 (£12,122) in pay.
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More than 100 suspected illegal immigrants are rescued from a Texas "stash" house where smugglers allegedly held them pending payment.
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US First Lady Michelle Obama is in China for a week-long visit that will include stops in Beijing and Chengdu.
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The US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen hints that interest rates in the US could start to rise in early 2015.
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Four BBC correspondents explain the lack of water in their areas.
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Broken lives of immigrants deported back across US border
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Scientists in the US announce the discovery of a new species of dinosaur. The fossils offer further clues to how the dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago.
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A man US prosecutors say was al-Qaeda's spokesman after 9/11 testifies Osama Bin Laden wanted him "to deliver a message to the world".
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The design and manufacture of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is safe, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says.
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A police dashboard camera catches the moment a truck flies off a highway in Iowa, US, narrowly missing other vehicles.
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Japanese carmaker Toyota agrees a $1.2bn settlement with US regulators after a four-year inquiry into its reporting of safety issues.
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Guatemala's ex-President Alfonso Portillo says he took bribes from Taiwan and pleads guilty to a money laundering charge in a court in the US.
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Russia tells the US that Western sanctions over the Crimea dispute are unacceptable and will have "consequences".
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More than 250 of Marlene Dietrich's belongings are going up for auction including a letter to her from American writer Ernest Hemmingway.
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US researchers develop a new way to detect performance-enhancing drugs that they say is 1,000 times more sensitive than current tests.
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The US government has built a system that can record every single phone call made over a month in an undisclosed foreign country, US media report.
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Officials in the US dismantle one of the largest online networks sharing indecent images of children, the Department of Homeland Security says.
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Shares of US computing firm Oracle fall more than 5% in after-hours trading on weaker than expected earnings.
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New York's attorney general calls for curbs on certain services provided to high-frequency traders by trading platforms.
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US car manufacturer General Motors appoints veteran insider Jeff Boyer to a new senior post to oversee vehicle safety and recalls.
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US actor Kevin Spacey is to star in a one-man show at London's Old Vic to mark 10 years as artistic director of the institution.
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A train company in the US has released CCTV footage of a near-miss in California.
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South Korea grants approval to US firm Caesars Entertainment to open a casino with Indonesian conglomerate Lippo near Incheon airport outside Seoul.
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US Navy Seals have taken control of a tanker full of oil loaded from a rebel-held port in Libya, the Pentagon says.
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US war heroes denied medals for decades
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How an Indian is shaking up America's TV industry
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A US Army general accused of sex crimes pleads guilty to lesser counts, as prosecutors drop the most serious charges against him.
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The world's largest St Patrick's Day parade kicks off under a cloud of boycotts over the organisers' refusal to include openly gay groups.
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One of Cameroon's best-known singers, who spent three years in jail for his role in anti-government protests, has died in exile in the US.
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US car manufacturer General Motors expects to spend nearly $300m (£180m) in the first quarter to repair vehicles affected by its recent recalls.
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US President Barack Obama tells Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas he must take risks for peace, as the deadline for a final deal with Israel nears.
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US factory output rebounds in February, helped by a recovery in car and consumer goods manufacturing.
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Los Angeles broadcaster KCBS was in the middle of a morning news programme when a 4.4-magnitude earthquake shook the city.
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High-octane action film Need For Speed is beaten at the US box office by animated adventure Peabody & Sherman.
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announces plans for a flotation in the US, saying the move will make it "a more global company".
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BBC reporter James Reynolds visits US-backed Watan FM radio, based in Istanbul, which helps exiled Syrians broadcast across the border into Syria.
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Some of the US's top country music acts including Dixie Chicks and Zac Brown Band play for 15,000 fans at London's Country to Country festival.
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Venezuela's President Maduro urges the US to discuss "peace and sovereignty" with Union of South American Nations (Unasur) mediation.
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US town toasts fake patron saint who 'banished grasshoppers'
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The death of Chinese activist Cao Shunli in hospital detention prompts protests from the US and human rights groups.
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A court in Pakistan cuts by 10 years the prison sentence handed down to a doctor alleged to have helped the US locate Osama Bin Laden.
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A US grand jury re-indicts Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, days after a judge dropped virtually identical charges - India says it is "disappointed".
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A horse had to be lifted 150 feet into the air by helicopter after it fell into a crevasse in Arcadia, California, following a hiking accident.
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Venezuela's Foreign Minister Elias Jaua accuses the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, of inciting violence and calls him a "murderer".
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Maintenance and safety lapses were at the root of a lorry fire that shut down the only US underground nuclear waste repository, a report finds.
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China's largest Twitter-like service Sina Weibo unveils plans to sell shares to raise $500m (£300m) on the US stock market.
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A Texas man who claimed to be the US Navy sailor kissing a nurse in an iconic end of World War Two photo dies at the age of 86.
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A US regulator sues 16 banks - including some of the world's largest - for allegedly manipulating the London interbank offered rate (Libor).
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The co-founder of frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry is sentenced to seven years in prison for beating a homeless man in Los Angeles with a tyre iron.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry has held talks on Ukraine with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
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A popular Connecticut teacher who shot dead a masked knife-wielding intruder who turned out to be his adoptive son will not be charged, police say.
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US and Russian envoys hold key talks in London on the Ukraine crisis, as Sunday's disputed referendum in Crimea looms.
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The US sends search crews to the Indian Ocean, after claims emerge that the missing Malaysian airliner may have flown longer than thought.
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US President Barack Obama directs his top homeland security official to review how to enforce the nation's immigration laws "more humanely".
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Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins the US National Critics Book Prize for her novel Americanah.
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Almost 150 passengers are evacuated from a US Airways flight after a Florida-bound plane's nose gear collapses on a Philadelphia runway.
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The US lifts a ban on oil giant BP that prevented it from bidding for US government contracts.
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