County Judge KP George, the highest-ranking elected official in Fort Bend County, Texas, has denounced racial attacks and threats against him following his orders for social distancing to prevent the spread of Covid 19. The Indian American and mainstream communities have rallied behind him pointing out the need...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued the first emergency use authorization (EUA) to Quest Diagnostics that allows COVID-19 pool testing for up to four individuals....
US civil rights icon and Democratic Congressman John Lewis has passed away, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed in a statement. He was 80....
Will the 2020 United States Presidential Election be the most divisive one in the past 100 years? Donald Trump may be the "most divisive major party candidate in the last 100 years" but the balance between the two parties has been "about as even" as in the last 70 years , says a respected US political analyst, adding that "thi...
US President Donald Trump has nominated an Indian American lawyer who has been active in the Republican Party and with the Hindu American Coalition to head the Asian operations of the US Agency for International Development (USAID)....
The number of Covid-19 cases in the US surpassed 3.6 million on Friday, reaching 3,604,408, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. ...
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo blamed the federal government's "incompetence" for failing to manage the COVID-19 crisis in New York, which became the first epicentre of the pandemic in the US....
With more than 77,000 new COVID-19 cases, the US broke the record for the number of confirmed infections registered in a single day, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ...
History continues to repeat itself. It was Karnataka, then Madhya Pradesh and now Rajasthan that is embroiled in a power struggle that could delegitimize an election and undermine the will of the people. What is taking place in India's political landscape before our very own eyes does not bode well either for democracy or the institutions t...
Over 60 per cent of voters in the US trust Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious diseases expert, but not President Donald Trump when it came to information on the COVID-19 pandemic, a new poll has revealed. ...
