US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has confirmed that she spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook about a recent slate of antitrust bills, adding that she told him to let the process play out, the media reported...
Six bills taking aim at the Big Tech market power are hurtling forward in the US Congress with bipartisan support even as a House panel has pushed forward an ambitious legislative package that seeks to rein in Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple by targeting their ownership of mighty online platforms in combination with other lines of b...
At least three people were dead, and 12 others injured, while 99 people were possibly missing after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed early Thursday in Miami-Dade County in the southeastern US state Florida, local media reported....
Covid-19 pandemic decreased life expectancy in the US by 1.87 years, between 2018 and 2020, a drop not seen since World War II, according to new research....
A team of developers in India has created a new app that is supported by Johns Hopkins University in the US and designed to guide people isolating at home after testing Covid-19 positive, right on their smartphones....
At least 153 staff at a hospital in the US city of Houston who refused to comply with the Covid-19 vaccine mandate have resigned or were fired, the media reported....
US researchers have started a new observational study to evaluate the immune responses generated by Covid-19 vaccines administered to pregnant or postpartum women, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced. ...
US President Joe Biden has launched a new crime prevention strategy amid soaring gun violence across the country, focusing on illegal sale of firearms, law-breaking dealers and better community support...
The San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) and the city's Covid Command Center have announced a partnership with the San Francisco Giants baseball team to give out game tickets to residents who get vaccinated against the virus....
Six people were injured after a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Washington, D.C., the city's Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department said....
