An Indian-origin family that owns a store in Massachusetts is being hailed for their honesty for returning a $1 million lottery ticket to the woman who had bought it because their elders in India advised them, "we don't want that money"....
At least 25 American states reported that more than 50 per cent of their adult population had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the latest data published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said all public schools will fully reopen in September with in-person classes only. ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has embarked on a trip to the Middle East to consolidate the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas which was reached after an 11-day bloodshed in an around the Gaza Strip, the State Department said....
Pfizer on Monday announced a study to explore coadministration of its pneumococcal vaccine along with a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in older adults....
US' top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has said he is "not convinced" Covid-19 developed naturally, and has called for an open investigation into China to unravel the virus' origins, the media reported....
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and local authorities were working to tow away a dead gray whale that washed up on the Pacifica State Beach shore of Northern California, officials said. ...
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 166.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.45 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
New data has revealed that 27 per cent of all the 1,127 people who were killed by the police last year in the US were African-Americans....
Rhode Island has becomes the eighth US state to reach to have administered at least one Covid-19 vaccine to 70 per cent of its adult population, the latest official data showed....
