For anxious parents of school going kids in the US -- especially the under 12s -- it's like 2020 all over again. The highly transmissible delta variant is a huge wild card, Covid-19 cases in children are up 84 per cent in the past week, with 72,000 kids testing positive for the virus, and the battle lines are getting redrawn, once again...
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has admitted that meeting the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was "a huge mistake" in his life....
The US has urged the new Iranian government under President Ebrahim Raisi to return to negotiations aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear deal, reiterating that the diplomatic opportunity will not last forever. ...
The US bipartisan infrastructure bill would add $256 billion to budget deficits over 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said....
US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have pledged to work with the Asian community on immigration reforms, according to the White House....
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order calling for half of new vehicles sold in the country to be zero-emission by 2030....
US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have commemorated the ninth anniversary of the 2012 mass shooting at the gurdwara in Oak Creek that claimed the lives of seven Sikhs, according to the White House....
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 200.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.26 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.30 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ...
The White House said on Thursday that the US government has not yet made a final decision on whether to require international travellers to be fully vaccinated....
Moderna's booster shots against Covid-19 have shown robust antibody responses, according to results of Phase 2 clinical trials published on Thursday....