Democrats of the US House of Representatives have nominated Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the top of a party she has led since 2003, marking the longest period since 1961....
New York City has reached the threshold of 3 per cent Covid-19 test positivity rate on a seven-day average, which "means public school buildings will be closed", Mayor Bill de Blasio said....
US acting Defence Secretary Chirstopher Miller announced that the US troop presence in Afghanistan and Iraq will be reduced to 2,500 in each country by mid-January. ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has green-lighted emergency use of the first at-home rapid coronavirus test that promises to expand testing options for Americans beyond the typical medical facilities and urgent care centers which have seen persistent delays in turnaround times. ...
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech released a second batch of interim results on Wednesday, saying their two-dose coronavirus vaccine candidate is 95 per cent effective and also protects the most vulnerable people in older age groups from the risk of falling prey to the virus....
While a face mask might feel uncomfortable, researchers have said that they do not significantly change the actual work of breathing or the flow of oxygen and carbon dioxide when worn while exercising....
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) chief Chris Krebs was fired by Donald Trump for contradicting the US president's claims of voter fraud....
Twitter and Facebook CEOs are making the case to US lawmakers that their warning labels on Donald Trump's false "I won" tweets served to expand "context" around the subject of misleading social posts, while they sidestepped the fundamental question of whether the warning labels are enough to protect the audience from th...
Twitter and Facebook CEOs are making the case to US lawmakers that their warning labels on Donald Trump's false "I won" tweets served to expand "context" around the subject of misleading social posts, while they sidestepped the fundamental question of whether the warning labels are enough to protect a global audience f...
As Americans exhausted by the deadly blow of coronavirus pin their hopes on new vaccines on the horizon, fresh data show that more than a million US children have tested positive for the virus, with the highest surge coinciding with the election week in the US....
