The US Senate has overwhelmingly passed the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with a veto-proof majority, setting up a showdown with President Donald Trump who threatened to veto the bill. ...
US regulators have approved the emergency use of the country's first Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for people aged 16 years and older, marking the beginning of the end of a catastrophic outbreak which has killed nearly 300,000 Americans in just 11 months this year....
The US Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit from Texas, which is backed by President Donald Trump, in a bid to overturn the November 3 presidential election results in four battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin....
US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named Time magazine's 'Person of the Year', for offering "restoration and renewal in a single ticket"....
A new survey has revealed that just 47 per cent of Americans plan to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, while 26 per cent do not plan to get inoculated and 27 per cent were unsure...
A US House panel on the Covid-19 pandemic has accused President Donald Trump's administration of politically meddling with the country's response to the ongoing health critis...
US President-elect Joe Biden has announced more members he has picked for his administration....
In yet another grim milestone, the number of coronavirus deaths in the US has surpassed the 292,000 mark, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
The number of initial jobless claims in the US increased to reach 853,000 last week, the highest since mid-September, the Labour Department reported....
Emphasising diplomacy as the bulwark of security in a changing world, US President-Elect Joe Biden has introduced retired four-star Army general Lloyd J. Austin as his pick to lead the world's most powerful military, as a man "feared by our adversaries" but who will "ensure that the use of force is our tool of last resort"....
