The US Department of Commerce has blocked 14 Chinese tech companies, including one with funding from top US-based investment firm Sequoia Capital, over links to human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China....
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new guidance urging schools to fully reopen in the fall regardless of whether all mitigation measures can be implemented....
The announcement by US drugmaker Pfizer of a plan on developing a booster dose of its Covid-19 vaccine to better protect people from growing variants, has heightened hesitancy amongst the unvaccinated population and sparked confusion across the country on whether it was needed or not....
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 185.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.38 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
US President Joe Biden on Friday urged Russia to take action to disrupt ransomware groups in a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin....
California has confirmed its first human West Nile Virus (WNV) death in 2021 in San Luis Obispo County, health authorities said....
President Joe Biden on Friday (local time) announced his intent to nominate Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to become the new US Ambassador to India....
Indiaspora, a non-profit organisation of global Indian diaspora leaders, expressed their enthusiasm for the Biden administration's announcement of the nomination of Los Angeles (LA) Mayor Eric Garcetti to the post of new US Ambassador to India...
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Thursday (local time) said the US military drawdown in Afghanistan is not a "mission accomplished" moment and admitted that the "war that has not been won militarily."...
An experimental single-dose, intranasal Covid-19 vaccine has shown potential for full protection in mice against the lethal infectious disease, say researchers....
