
The US Federal Reserve Board has named Jerome Powell as "chair pro tempore", pending his confirmation by the Senate for a second term as Chair of the central bank. ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a new dashboard to track Covid-19 in wastewater samples across the country....

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has said the August 2021 attack at the Kabul airport that killed 183 people, including 13 American service members, was carried out by using a single explosive device....

The US reached the grim milestone of 900,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has endorsed recommendation from its vaccine advisers for use of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for people ages 18 years and older....

Former US Vice President Mike Pence has said that he had "no right" to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. ...

US employers added 467,000 jobs in January amid the Omicron surge, with the unemployment rate slightly rising to 4.0 per cent, the US Labor Department reported on Friday. ...

The Rupert Murdoch-founded News Corp has confirmed that its media outlets Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Dow Jones were hit by a cyberattack by a "foreign government" and some data was also stolen....

Los Angeles will raise its minimum wage from $15 to $16.04 per hour starting from July 1, the city's Mayor Eric Garcetti announced. ...

The United States is launching a new major initiative to reduce gun violence in the country, President Joe Biden said on Thursday....