Indian-American Vivek Murthy, US President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Surgeon General, has said that the highly infectious new mutant Covid-19 strain discovered in Britain, does not appear to be any deadlier....
The US Congress has passed another stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown and provide more time for lawmakers to vote on a newly reached Covid-19 stimulus deal, as many Americans were set to lose pandemic relief benefits by the end of the year. ...
US Congress has just reached an agreement on the long-awaited Covid-19 relief package, and lawmakers will pass the bill as soon as possible, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday afternoon....
An advisory panel of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted Sunday to recommend that frontline essential workers and adults 75 years of age and older be next in line to receive Covid-19 vaccine....
Of the 191,476 coronavirus tests reported in New York state in the last 24 hours, 9,919 were positive, or 5.18 per cent of the total, up from 5.09 per cent a day earlier, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced....
Across the US' West in 2020, between Colorado and California, historic drought conditions and global warming triggered more than 10,000 wildfires that caused unprecedented damage which was still being calculated by fire officials....
In yet another grim development amid the raging coronavirus pandemic, the US reported an all-time number of single-day confirmed cases, according to health authorities....
The US Department of State informed Congress that it has planned to close two consulates in Russia over limits set by the government in Moscow on the number of American diplomats allowed in the country, the media reported....
US Vice President Mike Pence announced that service members in the Space Force, which has assigned approximately 16,000 military and civilian personnel, will be called "guardians", following which social media was abuzz with "Guardians of the Galaxy" trends and memes....
The New York City government has decided to change how its selective middle and high schools admit students in an effort to address concerns that the admissions policies discriminate against students of colour and worsen segregation....
