
In a break from the US constitutional separation of state and religion, the administration of President Donald Trump has introduced Sikhs as a distinctive group to be counted in the ongoing census and not as Asian Indians....

In a development that may inspire new generation women engineers, NASA has selected Catherine Koerner to lead the development and operations of the agency's newest spacecraft that will carry astronauts on Artemis missions to the Moon and return them safely to Earth....

With the upcoming US presidential elections heating up the vaccine race, nine biopharma leaders on Tuesday signed a historic pledge to continue to make the safety and well-being of vaccinated individuals the top priority in the development of Covid-19 vaccines....

About 100 college communities in the US have witnessed a high rate of Covid-19 cases in recent weeks as students have returned for the fall semester, making the campuses and the surrounding areas a new hotspot for virus transmission, a media report said....

US President Donald Trump has rejected media allegations that he belittled slain American service members by referring to them as "losers" and "suckers". ...

The global Covid-19 deaths surpassed 890,000 on Monday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. ...

A new poll has revealed that a majority of Americans were sceptical about getting a Covid-19 vaccine once it becomes available....

Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris privately met the family of Jacob Blake, the African-American man who has been paralyzed from the waist down after being shot seven times in the back by a police officer last month in Kenosha, Wisconsin....

A Saudi Arabian court has commuted the death sentences of five of the eight people convicted for the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a "rogue operation" as his family has pardoned them, reports said on Monday....

Amid a dangerous heatwave in western US, the temperature in Woodland Hills hit a record 49.44 degrees Celsius, the highest ever recorded in Los Angeles County....