The US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by a half percentage point, marking the sharpest rate hike since 2000, as it takes more aggressive steps to rein in the highest inflation in four decades....
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging Americans to continue wearing masks on airplanes, trains, buses and other public transportation, despite a court ruling in April that struck down a national mask mandate on mass transit....
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has tested positive for Covid-19, a State Department spokesman said....
US President Joe Biden has named Indian American Richard Verma, who is also a former ambassador to India, to a White House body that advises the president on the effectiveness of the country's sprawling intelligence community. ...
Venture capitalist and author J.D. Vance was just one of the many candidates in the field for the Republican nomination to contest for US senate from Ohio state till a fortnight ago. He won the race handily Tuesday as the primary elections season got under way for the 2022 mid-term elections in November. ...
Aruna Paul was born in Kolkata and taught at the Loreto House school in the city before she came to London with her husband for their daughter Ambika's medical treatment in the late 1960s....
US President Joe Biden has named Indian American Richard Verma, who is also a former ambassador to India, to a White House body that advises the president on the effectiveness of the country's sprawling intelligence community....
Nearly 6,000 residents have been forced to evacuate as large wildfires continue spreading in the southwestern US mountain state of New Mexico, the state's Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham has said. ...
The US Federal Reserve is expected to announce a half-percentage-point interest rate hike to combat surging inflation on Wednesday, as a growing number of economists now worry that the country could be headed for a recession....
The Canadian government has announced an investment to support the growth of the country's grain exports, at a time when the demand for Canadian grain products is on the rise on the global markets....
