On June 22, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending the entry of a number of non-immigrant work visa holders into the US till the end of the year. The visa categories affected include, most notably, H-1B, which has been used by more than a million Indian information technology professionals since the 1990s and L1 visa us...
Sheeja Mathews of New Jersey has been selected as one of the three exceptional educators in the US for the 2020 inductee class of ‘Swing Education Substitute Teacher Hall of Fame.’ ...
President Donald Trump slammed the removal of controversial monuments as "a merciless campaign" in attempts to wipe out American history, as he kicked off the Independence Day weekend by addressing his supporters from Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. ...
Canada is suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong as part of a package of responses to the new security law China has imposed on the city, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said here....
The US, which currently accounts for the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world, has registered more than 50,000 new infections for the third consecutive day amid a sudden surge in 40 out of the 50 states in the country. ...
Kim Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. and a top Trump campaign official, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, it was reported....
Asian and black Americans have been more likely than other groups in the US to report negative experiences due to their race or ethnicity amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey conducted by Pew Research Center. ...
Twitter has joined efforts to do away with racially loaded terms such as master, slave and blacklist from its coding language in the wake of the death of African-American George Floyd and ensuing Black Lives Matter protests....
US-based pharmaceutical major Moderna has said that it still expects to begin phase-3 clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate in July after a report said that the late stage trial of the vaccine involving 30,000 participants got delayed due to changes in the study plan....
US stocks ended higher after data showed the economy added 4.8 million jobs in June....
