War Powers Resolution. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973) (50 U.S.C. 1541â1548) is a federal law intended to check the president 's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.t has been alleged that the War Powers Resolution has been violated in the past â for example, by President Bill Clinton in 1999, during the bombing campaign in Kosovo.
August 7: Partial lunar eclipse. August 21: Total solar eclipse. Get ready for a total solar eclipse visible from continental U.S. in 2017. Itâll happen on Monday, August 21, 2017 â with the path of totality cross from coast to coast â the first total solar eclipse visible on U.S. soil in a generation.
Editor's note: The Great American Solar Eclipse was on Aug. 21. It swept across the continental United States from Oregon to Georgia. See our full coverage. Another total solar eclipse will be seen across the United States in 2024. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon gets between Earth and the sun, and the moon casts a shadow over Earth. A solar eclipse can only take place at the phase of new moon, when the moon passes directly between the sun and Earth and its shadows fall upon Earthâs surface.