About 25,000 residents have been evacuated due to a wind-driven wildfire occurring near Irvine City in southern California, according to local firefighting authorities. ...
The next US administration should rectify "costly and consequential" federal policies which have damaged American universities' ability to attract top academic talent from around the globe, Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University, has urged....
After granting multiple extensions of the deadline set for TikTok to sell its US assets, the Donald Trump administration is not making another extension of the December 4 deadline for the Chinese parent of the short video-sharing platform, CNN reported on Saturday....
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed optimism that Democratic and Republican lawmakers could reach an agreement on a new COVID-19 relief package before they leave Washington by the end of the year....
Two US governors urged the federal government and Congress to sort out their differences and push through a COVID-19 relief bill as soon as possible to salvage the Americans out of the abyss of the COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed more than 278,000 lives nationwide. ...
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that the city will join counties across the Bay Area to impose significant restrictions across the region to mitigate the unabated Covid-19 resurgence in California. ...
Setting a new grim record, the US reported 225,201 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day spike since the onset of the pandemic in the country, currently the worst-hit in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. ...
Anthony Fauci, a top US infectious disease expert, said that he has accepted President-elect Joe Biden's offer to be his chief medical adviser....
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has urged US President Donald Trump to pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during his last days in the White House....
Eminent India-born US scientist and patron of Sikh arts and literature, Narinder Singh Kapany (94), passed away in California on Friday. He is survived by his son and daughter...
