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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The United States Naval Academy renamed its engineering building Friday after Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President and 1946 academy graduate.

Washington (AFP) - The United States has completed the search for debris from an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon it shot down earlier this month, the military's Northern Command said Friday.

President Joe Biden says three unidentified objects shot down by US fighter jets do not appear to have been used for spying on the United States and are likely tied to benign purposes.

On the heels of the Feb. 4, 2023, shooting down of a Chinese balloon suspected of spying on the U.S., American fighter jets have shot down three additional objects in or near U.S. airspace.

A human rights group says Britain and the United States committed crimes against humanity when they forced the people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to leave their homes five decades ago to make way for a U.S. Navy base

As alien theories abound and more "objects" are spotted over Europe, US officials say their main theory on the three balloons shot down over North America is that they could be harmless — here's what we know.

The U.S. and China have traded fiery allegations of extensive aerial surveillance programs since the U.S. shot down a Chinese balloon on Feb. 4. Here's a look at what's happened so far.

Nearly 2,000 balloons are launched into the sky daily, to monitor everything from the weather to specific phenomena in space

The shootdowns came in steady succession over the weekend, after alarms were raised in early February over an object spotted over Montana.

The US Army launched military exercises with the Kenya armed forces on Monday. American troops will also take part in wargames with Pakistan and separate drills with Japan. This flurry of activity precedes joint South Africa/Russia/China military manoeuvres coinciding with the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The United States Navy and Marine Corps are holding drills in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon