Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced a mandatory nighttime curfew following three straight nights of growing protests and violence in the biggest city in US midwest state of Minnesota over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in police custody....
US personal consumption expenditures (PCE) plunged to a record 13.6 per cent in April month-on-month amid widespread shutdowns triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commerce Department reported....
New York City - the epicentre of the US outbreak - is "on track" to enter the first phase of reopening on 8 June, according to state Governor Andrew Cuomo....
After issuing an executive order on social media, US President Donald Trump on Friday again accused Twitter of engaging in selective censorship, saying that the platform is "doing nothing about all of the lies & propaganda being put out by China."...
Over 100 people gathered in Manhattan's Union Square on Thursday afternoon to express their anger over what they called police brutality that led to George Floyd's death, reports Xinhua news agency....
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard to restore order after protests over the death of a black man in police custody turned violent, with widespread damage and looting in Minneapolis city.
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Amid the growing tension with US President Donald Trump over fact-checking his tweets, Twitter has now flagged a couple of tweets posted by China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson....
White House officials have decided not to release updated economic projections this summer, breaking from precedent as the US economy was on track to a deep recession due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to media reports....
Far from expanding the scope of free speech online, US President Donald Trump's executive order on "preventing online censorship" may have the opposite effect, social media giants Facebook and Twitter have said....
