
US employers added 235,000 jobs in August, with the unemployment rate dropping to 5.2 per cent, indicating a marked slowdown in job growth amid a Delta variant-fuelled Covid-19 resurgence, the Labour Department reported....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that he will soon travel to Qatar and then Germany to discuss the current situation in Afghanistan following th Taliban takeover....

Covid-19 cases, emergency department visits, and hospital admissions increased from June to August among children aged 0-17 years in the US, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

In the wake of the disastrous pullout of US troops from Afghanistan, India's Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla met several senior officials in Washington to discuss the situation in the war-torn nation. ...

More than 27,000 students tested positive for Covid-19 across Texas last week, according to official data....

US President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order directing his government to review and release some documents related to the FBI's investigation into the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. ...
Facing criticism for the hasty withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden's approval rating has dropped to a new low of 43 per cent, according to a new Marist National Poll with NPR and PBS Newshour, marking the lowest rating for Biden since he took office....

Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla met with US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman and discussed a broad range of shared priorities, including continued coordination on Afghanistan, said State Department spokesperson Ned Price on Thursday (local time)....

The death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida has risen to 46 on Thursday local time in the United States....

US President Joe Biden spoke with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday and thanked him for the close coordination on Afghanistan and affirmed plans for the upcoming in-person Quad Leaders Summit....