World Events
242 verified facts in this category, showing 101–200.
- In 2016, opposition lawmakers in South Korea's National Assembly conducted a filibuster to delay passage of an anti-terrorism law.
- In April 2018, in a derivative suit on behalf of CBS, the Delaware Court of Chancery let a waste and bad-faith fiduciary claim against CBS's other directors proceed over salary paid to Sumner Redstone, and an unjust-enrichment claim against Redstone proceed over his Chairman Emeritus salary, while dismissing the challenge to his $9 million 2014 bonus.
- The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence conducted a four-year investigation into the CIA's rendition and interrogation program following the CIA videotape revelations.
- The Smithsonian's giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are on loan under a 10-year diplomatic agreement with China that includes a $1 million annual fee for conservation efforts.
- The Under Secretary of Transportation for Security could not take an aviation security action if the Federal Aviation Administration Administrator notified the Under Secretary that the action could adversely affect an aircraft's airworthiness, unless the Secretary of Transportation subsequently approved the action.
- In ProPublica's analysis of Chicago camera tickets, households in majority-Black and majority-Hispanic ZIP codes were ticketed at higher rates than those in majority-white ZIP codes.
- If an agency disagrees with an ISCAP decision, it may appeal to the President within 60 days.
- In fiscal year 2024, the SEC brought recordkeeping cases imposing more than $600 million in civil penalties against more than 70 firms, including its first recordkeeping-violation cases against municipal advisors.
- The SEC obtained $8.2 billion in financial remedies in fiscal year 2024, the highest amount in its history, including $6.1 billion in disgorgement and prejudgment interest and $2.1 billion in civil penalties.
- As part of the 2003 global analyst research settlement, the settling firms committed to purchase independent third-party research for their customers for five years, and an $80 million Investor Education Fund was established to support nationwide investor-education programs.
- The 2003 global analyst research settlement prohibited research analysts from participating in investment-banking 'road shows' and from soliciting investment-banking business.
- The 2003 global analyst research settlement required research analysts' compensation to be unrelated to investment-banking business and instead tied to the quality and accuracy of their research.
- On April 28, 2003, SEC Chairman William H. Donaldson announced a global analyst research settlement involving ten firms, with total monetary relief of just under $1.4 billion, including nearly $400 million in disgorgement and over $400 million in civil penalties.
- Under the 2003 global research settlement, each of the involved firms was required for five years to contract with at least three independent research firms, with an independent consultant given final authority to procure that research.
- In the 2003 Wall Street research settlement, defendants were required to pay $894 million in penalties and disgorgement, consisting of $397 million in disgorgement and $497 million in penalties, including Merrill Lynch's earlier $100 million payment connected to its settlement with the states over research-analyst conflicts.
- On June 30, 2014, BNP Paribas, S.A. was assessed a $508,000,000 civil money penalty and received a Cease and Desist Order from the Federal Reserve.
- The United States deployed Special Forces advisors to central Africa from 2011 to 2017 in response to the Lord's Resistance Army's actions.
- Since Russia retreated from the west bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region in mid-November 2022, the front line in the Russia-Ukraine war has remained largely static across a line of contact longer than 700 kilometers.
- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 authorizes the collection of electronic communications within the United States by compelling assistance from U.S. service providers.
- The U.S. Space Force was the first new U.S. military service created in more than 70 years.
- The AARO Historical Record Report covers U.S. government UAP-related activities dating back to 1945.
- A 2011 House amendment concerning labor agreements on federal construction projects passed by a single vote and prompted explanations from eight of the 25 House members who did not vote, including three Republicans who said they opposed the amendment.
- After a North Carolina trial court appointed special masters to redraw the congressional map for the 2022 election, the resulting map produced an evenly divided delegation of seven Democrats and seven Republicans.
- The Supreme Court refused to halt a $656 million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority in a lawsuit brought by Americans killed or wounded in attacks in Israel.
- The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to let construction continue on a $400 million White House ballroom project while it appeals a lower court's order to halt the work.
- According to Halena Gazelka, M.D., the COVID-19 pandemic indirectly caused a significant increase in opioid overdoses in the United States, primarily due to illicit-market drugs such as fentanyl rather than clinical overprescribing.
- North Korea acceded to the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1985 before announcing its withdrawal in 2003.
- Israel is believed to have acquired nuclear weapons around 1967 but has never openly tested or formally acknowledged possessing them.
- Only eight of the nine states believed to possess nuclear weapons formally acknowledge possessing them.
- The United States, Russia, China, and India are known to possess a nuclear triad, meaning they can deliver nuclear weapons by land, sea, and air.
- The FDA's food standard revocation actions stem from an ongoing review of more than 250 food Standards of Identity.
- A proposed FDA rule would revoke standards for 18 types of dairy products, including certain milk and cream products, cheeses, related cheese products, and frozen desserts.
- A direct final rule from the FDA would revoke standards for 11 types of canned fruits and vegetables that are no longer sold in U.S. grocery stores, seven of which concern fruits artificially sweetened with saccharin or sodium saccharin.
- A proposed FDA rule would revoke standards for 23 types of food products, including bakery products, macaroni and noodle products, canned fruit juices, fish and shellfish, and food dressings and flavorings.
- In the 2022 Tuscany HBSC survey, 25.6% of adolescents reported not eating breakfast on school days.
- The United States recorded 672,502 divorces in 2023, based on reports from only 45 states and the District of Columbia.
- Manufacturers using FD&C Red No. 3 in ingested drugs have until January 18, 2028, to reformulate their products.
- Manufacturers using FD&C Red No. 3 in foods have until January 15, 2027, to reformulate their products.
- On 14 February 2013, the Italian Antitrust Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) announced it had opened an investigation into a suspected restrictive agreement between Roche and Novartis in the market for ophthalmic drugs.
- Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. directed the Marshal of the Court to investigate the source of the leak of the draft opinion.
- The Supreme Court stated that the leaked draft did not represent the final position of any justice on the issues in the case.
- On January 20, 2023, Supreme Court Marshal Gail A. Curley stated that she spoke with each of the Justices during the investigation.
- The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals use time use surveys to measure gender differences in unpaid labor.
- White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement that Booker's speech was another attempt to generate an 'I am Spartacus' moment and asked, 'When will he realize he's not Spartacus — he's a spoof?'
- The U.S. economy contracted at a 0.6% annual pace in the first quarter of 2025.
- During the 2025 government shutdown, Senate Democrats blocked government-funding legislation more than a dozen times.
- In 2025, President Donald Trump urged Republican senators to terminate the Senate filibuster rule to end the government shutdown, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune said changing the filibuster was 'not happening'.
- Most legislation in the U.S. Senate requires a 60-vote threshold to overcome the filibuster rule.
- The previous record for the longest U.S. federal government shutdown was 35 days, set during Donald Trump's first term over funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
- ProPublica published an article titled 'Documents Show Trump Officials Skirted Rules to Reward Politically Connected and Untested Firms With Huge Pandemic Contracts' on March 31, 2021.
- Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas would have upheld Trump's proposed restrictions on birthright citizenship.
- The FDA expects the greatest public-health benefit from a menthol-cigarette ban to occur among young adults and Black smokers.
- Regulations required nondisclosure of security-related information obtained under the Aviation and Transportation Security Act or 49 U.S.C. chapter 449 if the Under Secretary determined disclosure would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, reveal a trade secret or confidential commercial/financial information, or be detrimental to transportation security.
- Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was captured in Dubai in mid-October 2002.
- The National Archives coordinated its July 2025 release of MLK assassination records with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, and the Department of State.
- The SEC, NASD, and New York Stock Exchange planned to place approximately $400 million of their share of the 2003 analyst research settlement penalties and disgorgement into a distribution fund for harmed investors.
- As part of the 2003 global research settlement, the involved firms were required to pay $432.5 million to fund independent research, and seven firms were separately required to pay $80 million for investor education, including $52.5 million for an Investor Education Fund and $27.5 million for state securities regulators.
- CPI-U inflation in the U.S. reached 9 percent in mid-2022.
- The Lord's Resistance Army carried out massacres and abductions across the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and Uganda in 2008 and 2009.
- The 2002 Iraq War Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) has been the subject of repeal efforts by members of Congress.
- By law, all activities conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
- AARO found no empirical evidence supporting claims that the U.S. government or private companies had been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.
- AARO found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, academic-sponsored research effort, or official review panel had confirmed a UAP sighting represented extraterrestrial technology.
- The Supreme Court was asked to review a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools.
- President Donald Trump and the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to dismiss an $83 million defamation verdict won by E. Jean Carroll.
- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn a $5 million jury verdict awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll.
- HHS defines 'female' as a person with a reproductive system whose biological function is producing eggs, and 'male' as a person with a reproductive system whose biological function is producing sperm.
- On February 19, 2025, HHS issued guidance stating that the U.S. government would recognize only two sexes—male and female—defining sex as a person's 'immutable biological classification' as either male or female.
- The Baltic Sea anomaly is a feature visible on an indistinct sonar image taken in June 2011.
- The Baltic Sea anomaly sonar image was taken by Peter Lindberg, Dennis Åsberg, and their Swedish OceanX diving team.
- The five recognized nuclear-weapons states under the NPT are also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
- Campbell Island is located in the Southern Ocean approximately 600 kilometers south of New Zealand.
- The Literature Museum Kharkiv's building was damaged by an explosion wave on March 1, 2025.
- US Treasury securities had over $3 trillion outstanding in direct US government securities in 2002, not including debt issued by federal agencies and government sponsored enterprises.
- Howard Zucker held the position of head of the WHO department for health, technology and medicines.
- The Supreme Court stated that the leaked authentic draft did not represent a decision by the Court.
- The House-approved SAVE America Act would require voters to present a photo ID when casting a ballot.
- On November 2, 2025, Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, 'Terminate the filibuster, not just for the shutdown, but for everything else.'
- CEN-CENELEC Joint Technical Committee 21 (JTC21) is tasked with producing harmonised standards to operationalise the 'essential requirements' set out in the EU AI Act.
- Equinet holds liaison status in the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) Joint Technical Committee 21 on Artificial Intelligence (JTC21).
- Spending on services in the U.S. rose 2.6% in the second quarter of 2025, more than double the previously estimated 1.2%.
- The U.S. economy expanded at a 3.8% annual pace from April through June 2025, revised up from the Commerce Department's previous estimate of 3.3%.
- A GDP measure of underlying U.S. economic strength, which includes consumer spending and private investment but excludes exports, inventories and government spending, grew 2.9% from April through June 2025, up from 1.9% in the first quarter.
- U.S. consumer spending increased at a 2.5% annual pace in the second quarter of 2025, up from 0.6% in the first quarter, with services spending rising 2.6%, more than double the prior 1.2% estimate.
- BBC News Japan published an article titled 'フィリバスターとは？ 韓国国会で最長記録' (What is a filibuster? South Korea's National Assembly sets a record) on March 3, 2016.
- In late May 2021, Senate Republicans used a filibuster to block Democrats' effort to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
- In May 2018, Great Britain transmitted an unusual request to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
- ProPublica published an investigative article titled 'America's Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It's Still Making People Sick.' on October 29, 2021.
- The Secretary of Homeland Security was required to submit the initial National Strategy for Transportation Security and transportation modal security plans to Congress by April 1, 2005, and after December 31, 2005, submit updated versions at least once every even-numbered year.
- The July 2025 National Archives release included CIA records deemed responsive to Executive Order 14176.
- The April 2014 Chilean earthquake killed at least five people and generated a tsunami with seven-foot-high (two-meter-high) waves that struck northern Chile's coast, prompting evacuations.
- On March 9, 2014, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck 50 miles (80 kilometers) offshore from Eureka, California, with its focus about 10 miles (16 kilometers) beneath the Pacific Ocean.
- The United States designated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
- From May 2022 until direct talks resumed in Istanbul in May 2025, Russia-Ukraine negotiations on major political and settlement issues were dormant, apart from discussions over discrete matters like prisoner exchanges and the grain deal.
- The NSA's stated authorities limit it to gathering information about international terrorists and foreign powers, organizations, or persons in support of U.S. national strategies.
- The NSA relies on authorizations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to acquire foreign intelligence, subject to approval and oversight by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
- Executive Order 12333 and National Security Council Intelligence Directive 6 direct the NSA to collect, process, analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence for foreign-intelligence and counterintelligence purposes.
- Executive Order 12333 directs the NSA to collect, process, analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence for foreign-intelligence and counterintelligence purposes.
- The key judgments of the 2007 NIE on Iran's nuclear program were produced by the National Intelligence Council, declassified, and made public in December 2007.
- Esper described China as the 'pacing threat' for the U.S. Department of Defense.