Initial unemployment claims in the US dropped to 360,000 last week, after ticking up from a pandemic low in the prior week, the Labour Department reported....
Twitter on Wednesday announced that it will discontinue its Fleets feature, the platform's own version of stories that disappear after 24 hours, on August 3....
Former US Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday called on US President Joe Biden to take more steps to keep up the pressure on China amid the "emerging cold war"....
The US Senate on Wednesday (local time) passed a bill to ban all the products from Xinjiang over China's rights abuse in the region....
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 188.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.05 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.49 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
At the largest and most powerful companies in the US, only one in every 443 Black or Hispanic workers holds a top job, while one in every 97 white workers is an executive, reflecting huge inequality in this country's corporate employment sector, a media report has revealed. ...
The US will launch "Operation Allies Refuge" in late July to evacuate eligible Afghan nationals and their families who helped the American military during the two-decade war in the South Asian country, White House Press Secretary jen Psaki announced....
Public health officials in Los Angeles, the most populous county in the US, have reported a monthly increase of more than 500 per cent in the number of new coronavirus case....
US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted the importance of cooperation on climate issues during a phone call, the State Department said...
Police in Los Angeles have detained an armed man for attempting to enter the parking garage of a federal building located in the city's downtown area, local media reported....
