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United States Forces Japan
United States Forces Japan (USFJ, 在日米軍) is the U.S. headquarters at Yokota Air Base managing all U.S. service components in Japan under the 1960 security treaty; it is being upgraded from an administrative command into a joint force headquarters.
United States Forces Korea
United States Forces Korea (USFK), established 1957, headquartered at Camp Humphreys, is the U.S. four-star command with about 28,500 troops in South Korea, tri-hatted with UNC and CFC commanders, focused on deterrence and OPCON transition.
United States foreign adversaries
United States foreign adversaries are states the US designates or assesses as strategic competitors, chiefly China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (CRINK), assessed across military, cyber, gray zone, and data-security threats.
United States foreign aid
United States foreign aid (foreign assistance): US government economic, security, and humanitarian aid to other countries, from the 1948 Marshall Plan through USAID (1961) and its 2025 dismantlement; largest world donor, about $99.9 billion obligated in FY2023.
United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA Court, is a Washington, D.C. court created in 1978 to review government foreign intelligence surveillance applications.
United States foreign policy in the Middle East
US foreign policy in the Middle East: diplomacy, aid, arms sales, and sanctions toward MENA. Goals include containing Iran, counterterrorism, energy security, and Israeli-Arab peace; $351 billion in aid since 1946, Carter Doctrine, 2025-26 Iran and Gaza diplomacy.
United States Foreign Service
United States Foreign Service: career diplomatic corps created by the 1924 Rogers Act, merging the Diplomatic and Consular Services; FSOs and Specialists serve in over 270 missions across State, USAID, and other agencies.
United States Forest Service
The United States Forest Service, also known as the US Forest Service, is a federal agency in the Department of Agriculture that manages the national forests, established in 1905.
United States free speech exceptions
United States free speech exceptions are Supreme Court-recognized categories outside First Amendment protection: obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, fighting words, true threats, speech integral to criminal conduct, and child sexual abuse material, plus less-protected commercial speech.
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a federal science agency of the Department of the Interior, created in 1879 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
United States Golf Association
United States Golf Association (USGA), founded December 22, 1894 by five clubs, is golf's governing body for the United States and Mexico; with The R&A it writes the Rules of Golf and runs the U.S. Open and 13 national championships.
United States government group chat leaks
Signalgate: March 2025 leak of a Signal group chat, "Houthi PC small group," in which senior Trump officials including Hegseth, Vance, and Rubio discussed Yemen strike plans, with Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg accidentally added; led to IG findings, court orders, and Waltz's departure.
United States government online resource removals under the second Trump administration
United States government online resource removals under the second Trump administration: deletions of federal webpages, datasets, and social media posts after January 20, 2025 executive orders on DEI, gender, and climate, including over 8,000 removed pages and Data.gov losses, prompting Harvard, EDGI, and Internet Archive preservation efforts.
United States Government Publishing Office
The United States Government Publishing Office, or GPO, is the federal agency that produces and distributes official publications for all three branches of the US government.
United States government role in civil aviation
The United States government role in civil aviation: FAA safety regulation, certification, air traffic control, Airport and Airway Trust Fund funding, NTSB, TSA, NextGen modernization, and the 2024 reauthorization.
United States Grand Prix
United States Grand Prix, the American round of the F1 World Championship, first run 1959 at Sebring; held at Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Phoenix, Indianapolis, and since 2012 the Circuit of The Americas, Austin, contracted through 2034.
United States hand grenades
United States hand grenades are explosive, smoke, incendiary, and chemical munitions thrown by hand in close combat, centered on the M67 fragmentation grenade introduced in 1968.
United States Hockey League
The United States Hockey League is a junior ice hockey league for players aged 16 to 20 and the only Tier I junior league certified by USA Hockey.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is America's national Holocaust memorial and museum in Washington, DC, opened April 1993 after the 1978 Carter-era commission; it draws nearly 2 million visitors yearly and houses major archives and exhibitions.
United States home front during World War II
US World War II home front (1941–1945): industrial mobilization, 6 million women workers, rationing of 20 commodities, mass internal migration, and the incarceration of some 112,000 Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066, with redress in 1988.
United States House Committee on the Judiciary
The United States House Committee on the Judiciary, also known as the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing House committee, established in 1813, covering federal courts, justice, and impeachment.
United States House Committee on Ways and Means
The House Committee on Ways and Means, the oldest congressional committee and the House's chief tax-writing panel, holds sole jurisdiction over federal tax legislation, tariffs, trade, the public debt, and Social Security; chaired by Jason Smith with ranking member Richard Neal in the 119th Congress.
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of Congress, with 435 voting members apportioned by population, capped at that level since the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act, plus five Delegates and a Resident Commissioner.
United States House of Representatives election results, 1789–present
The United States House of Representatives election results, 1789–present, record party seat counts per cycle, from 65 seats in 1789 to 435 today, with 19 majority changes since the 1850s.
United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1789
New York's first United States House of Representatives elections were held March 3–4, 1789, choosing six representatives to the 1st Congress, split between Pro-Administration and Anti-Administration candidates.
United States House of Representatives elections in odd years
United States House of Representatives elections in odd years were regular full-term House elections held in odd-numbered years, a practice ended by California's last such election in 1879.
United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1790
The United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1790, elected eight representatives to the Second United States Congress under the initial apportionment rather than the census reapportionment.
United States House of Representatives special elections, 1960–1999
Special elections held from 1960 to 1999 under governors' writs to fill vacant US House seats after deaths, resignations, or withdrawals, since the Constitution permits no temporary appointments.
United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), created by H.Res. 658 in July 1977, is the House's intelligence oversight panel covering 17 agencies including CIA, NSA, and FBI; chaired by Rick Crawford since January 2025.
United States Hydrographic Office
The United States Hydrographic Office, also known as the U.S. Naval Hydrographic Office, was the U.S. Navy's charting agency from 1866 until 1962, chiefly for foreign waters.