Miss USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1952 to select the entrant from United States in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operated both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA, until 2020, when the organization announced it was licensing operation of the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants to Crystle Stewart, Miss USA for 2008 prior to her suspension in October 2022, thus returning the said pageants to the Miss Universe Organization.The pageant was owned by Donald Trump from 1996 to 2015 and was previously broadcast on NBC. In September 2015, WME/IMG purchased the pageant from Trump. In 2020, for the first time, the FYI network broadcast the competition. In October 2022, JKN Global Group acquired the pageant from WME/IMG.The current Miss USA is Morgan Romano of North Carolina, who was crowned on January 27, 2023, at Gogue Performing Arts Center in Auburn, Alabama during the Miss Alabama USA 2023 preliminary competition. She took over the title from R'Bonney Gabriel after Gabriel won the Miss Universe 2022 pageant.

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