Initial jobless claims in the US fell for the first time in a month to reach 326,000, as the labour market recovery has been disrupted by the Covid-19 surge fuelled by the Delta variant, the Labour Department reported....
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that indoor mask requirements will be lifted on October 15 in certain, limited settings as long as the rates of Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations remain stable or decline....
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced of reaching an agreement with the Republicans to extend the federal government's debt limit into December....
Qatar Deputy Foreign Minister Lolwah Rashid al-Khater said that they have asked the international community not to hurry in recognizing the Taliban in Afghanistan....
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the US state's highly controversial near-total abortion ban....
For the first time since 2018, the US State Department has disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the country's stockpile....
The US Department of Education has announced an overhaul to a federal student loan forgiveness program that will ease the debt burden of as many as 550,000 borrowers who work in government agencies or the non-profit sectors....
White House economists have warned of a potential global financial crisis if the US Congress fails to raise the federal government's debt limit before the country is expected to default on the national debt....
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 236.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.82 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.36 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
After throwing the kitchen sink at her former employer, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen laid out an inside-out view on the simple "frictions" that would cool off Facebook's "toxic" and "divisive" algorithms that are driving teens and vulnerable populations off the cliff on the world's largest social networking...
