More than 120,000 children in the US have lost a primary caregiver -- a parent or grandparent responsible for providing housing, basic needs and care -- due to Covid-19, revealed a new study....
US President Joe Biden has urged large companies and other organisations to implement his government's new Covid-19 vaccination mandates which have sparked concern and pushback....
Staggering into the 19th month of its fight against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the US is ramping up efforts on triple fronts -- vaccination, mandate and test -- expecting to further contain the spread of the virus ahead of the upcoming winter season....
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 236.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.83 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.39 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
Initial jobless claims in the US fell for the first time in a month to reach 326,000, as the labour market recovery has been disrupted by the Covid-19 surge fuelled by the Delta variant, the Labour Department reported....
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that indoor mask requirements will be lifted on October 15 in certain, limited settings as long as the rates of Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations remain stable or decline....
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced of reaching an agreement with the Republicans to extend the federal government's debt limit into December....
Qatar Deputy Foreign Minister Lolwah Rashid al-Khater said that they have asked the international community not to hurry in recognizing the Taliban in Afghanistan....
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the US state's highly controversial near-total abortion ban....
For the first time since 2018, the US State Department has disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the country's stockpile....
