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United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics
United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics (Team USA, PyeongChang): 228-athlete delegation, largest until 2026, won 23 medals (9 gold, 8 silver, 6 bronze), fourth place; first US golds in cross-country skiing and curling, women's hockey gold over Canada, Shaun White's 100th US Winter gold.
United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics
United States at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics (held 2021): Team USA, 635 athletes in 44 sports, finished first with 39 gold, 41 silver, 33 bronze (113 total), overtaking China's 38 golds in the final days.
United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics
United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Team USA at Beijing 2022: 224 athletes in all 7 sports, 25 medals (8 gold, 10 silver, 7 bronze), later 9 gold after the figure skating team event reallocation.
United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics
United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris, 26 July–11 August 2024): Team USA, 635 athletes in 45 sports, won 126 medals (40 gold, 44 silver, 42 bronze), tying China's 40 golds and placing first on silvers.
United States at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Team USA at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics: 232 athletes, record 12 gold medals, second in the medal table behind Norway with 33 total medals.
United States at the 2028 Summer Olympics
United States at the 2028 Summer Olympics (LA28, Games of the XXXIV Olympiad): host-nation US delegation to Los Angeles, July 14–30, 2028; 461 tracked athletes in 45 sports, new sports flag football, lacrosse, cricket, and returning baseball/softball.
United States at the FIFA Women's World Cup
United States at the FIFA Women's World Cup: the USWNT, playing since 1985, has appeared in all nine editions and won a record four titles (1991, 1999, 2015, 2019), plus a 2011 runner-up finish.
United States at the FIFA World Cup
United States men's national team at the FIFA World Cup (USMNT): 12 appearances 1930-2026, best finish third place 1930, quarterfinals 2002, hosts 1994 and 2026, Landon Donovan record holder.
United States at the Olympics
United States at the Olympics: Team USA, run by the USOPC since 1894, has competed since Athens 1896, topped 18 Summer medal tables, boycotted Moscow 1980, and hosts Los Angeles 2028.
United States Atomic Energy Commission
The United States Atomic Energy Commission was an independent federal agency, created in 1946 and abolished in 1975, that controlled nuclear weapons and regulated nuclear power.
United States atrocity crimes
United States atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes as defined under the Rome Statute and U.S. federal law. Covers domestic statutes, DOJ and FBI enforcement, and U.S. non-membership in the ICC.
United States Attorney
United States Attorney: chief federal prosecutor for one of 93 USAO judicial districts, created by the Judiciary Act of 1789, appointed by the President to four-year Senate-confirmed terms with removal at will, and central to 2025-2026 vacancy-appointment disputes.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
US Attorney for SDNY: chief federal prosecutor and US civil counsel for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan, Bronx, Hudson Valley). Founded 1789 under Richard Harrison; over 220 AUSAs; Walter J. Clayton III court-appointed 2025.
United States Attorney General
United States Attorney General: head of the Department of Justice and chief federal law enforcement officer, created by the Judiciary Act of 1789, department head since 1870; incumbent Todd Blanche, the 88th.
United States Auto Club
United States Auto Club (USAC), founded 1956 in Speedway, Indiana, is an American motorsport sanctioning body. It sanctioned the US National Championship 1956–1979 and the Indianapolis 500 1956–1997, and now runs Silver Crown, Sprint Car, and Midget series.
United States bankruptcy court
A United States bankruptcy court is a unit of each federal judicial district whose judges, serving as district court judicial officers, hear bankruptcy cases under title 11.
United States bases in the Philippines
United States bases in the Philippines: the 1947 Military Bases Agreement, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay until the 1991 Senate rejection and 1992 withdrawal, and the 2014 EDCA rotational-access regime with nine agreed locations.
United States Basketball League (2026)
United States Basketball League (USBL), also called The League of Opportunity, a spring professional basketball league founded 1985, shuttered 2008, relaunched for 2026; Seattle SuperHawks won the 2026 title.
United States bear market of 2007–2009
The United States bear market of 2007–2009 was a 57 percent S&P 500 decline from October 2007 to March 2009, the deepest since the Great Depression.
United States Bicentennial
United States Bicentennial, the 1976 U.S. commemoration of independence's 200th anniversary, run by the ARBA under Heritage '76, Festival USA, and Horizons '76, culminating July 4, 1976 with Operation Sail and 66,484 registered events.
United States Bicentennial coinage
United States Bicentennial coinage is the dual-dated 1776–1976 quarter, half dollar, and dollar with special Bicentennial reverses, struck from 1975 through 1976 under Public Law 93-127.
United States Bill of Rights
The United States Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, was proposed in 1789 and ratified in 1791, guaranteeing freedoms of speech, press, and religion.
United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation
USA Bobsled & Skeleton (USABS), formerly USBSF, is the USOPC-recognized National Governing Body for bobsled, skeleton, and Para bobsled, affiliated with the IBSF; it met 41 of 44 USOPC compliance standards in 2023.
United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
The 1999 U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade: a B-2 dropped five JDAM bombs on 7 May 1999 during NATO's Kosovo war, killing three Chinese journalists; the U.S. called it a targeting error, China rejected that, and compensation followed.
United States Border Patrol
United States Border Patrol (USBP), founded May 28, 1924 under the Labor Appropriation Act, is the federal agency securing U.S. borders between ports of entry, now within CBP/DHS, with about 20,000 agents, checkpoint and 25-mile-zone authorities, and BORTAC/BORSTAR units.
United States Border Patrol interior checkpoints
United States Border Patrol interior checkpoints are fixed or temporary highway inspection stations 25 to 100 miles inland where agents question vehicle occupants about citizenship without individualized suspicion, authorized by United States v. Martinez-Fuerte (1976).
United States border preclearance
United States border preclearance stations U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at foreign airports to inspect travelers before departure, so they arrive as if on a domestic flight.
United States Botanic Garden
United States Botanic Garden (USBG), a living plant museum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.; oldest continuously operating public garden in the U.S., established by Congress in 1820, administered by the Architect of the Capitol since 1934, free admission, over one million annual visitors.
United States Bowling Congress
United States Bowling Congress (USBC), Arlington, Texas-based national governing body of bowling recognized by the USOC; launched January 1, 2005 from the ABC, WIBC, YABA, and USA Bowling merger, serving about 1 million members and setting equipment specifications.
United States budget process
The United States budget process is the sequence by which the President proposes a federal budget and Congress enacts appropriations, anchored in the 1974 Budget Act.