The US Senate has voted to confirm Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after nearly a year-long vacancy in which the role was filled only on an acting basis....
A mass shooting at a rural house in Caswell County in North Carolina, US, led to multiple deaths, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation....
A federal judge in Washington has allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status (TPS) for approximately 350,000 Haitians -- a decision that places them at risk of deportation to a Caribbean nation where hunger is considered alarming....
The US Department of the Treasury has removed Iraqi commercial airline Fly Baghdad and two of its aircraft from its sanctions list linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)....
Iran and Oman have agreed on the navigation route for opening the Strait of Hormuz, and a joint statement is in the final stages, Tehran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said on Wednesday....
Indian American member of the House of Representatives, Shri Thanedar, has lost the Democratic Party primary in an upsurge of support for progressive candidates in Michigan state where Israel was a factor in the background....
A leading international press freedom group on Wednesday called on Pakistani authorities to immediately release journalists Razi Tahir and Muhammad Saif, who were reportedly taken from their Islamabad office by men in police uniforms, following their reporting on the ongoing unrest in Pakistan-occupied Kas...
The United States has deployed additional intelligence personnel to Cuba and intensified its intelligence activities in the Caribbean country in recent months, reported Politico....
Six people were injured, two of them seriously, in a shooting in the southeastern French city of Valence on Tuesday night, French media reported Wednesday....
Yemen's Houthi group said on Wednesday that it had launched a ballistic missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker in the northern...
