Initial jobless claims in the US dropped to 310,000 last week amid a Delta variant-fuelled Covid-19 resurgence, hitting a new low since the beginning of the pandemic early last year, the Labour Department said....
Declaring that "our patience is wearing thin" with the resistance to vaccination against Covid-19, US President Joe Biden has ordered companies with at least 100 workers to get them all inoculated or test the hold-outs weekly....
Daily marijuana use increased in 2020 to an all-time high among US college students over the past four decades, according to the University of Michigan's (UM) annual national Monitoring the Future (MTF) panel study....
The US Department of Justice has sued Texas over its new abortion law which would effectively ban most abortions, saying the state's statute is "unconstitutional". ...
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the third largest school district in the US, has registered 89 student and 71 adult Covid-19 cases from August 29 till this week, an increase from the 39 infections initially reported, a media report said....
US President Joe Biden has announced sweeping new vaccine requirements, which may affect about 100 million Americans, as part of a new action plan to curb the surging Covid-19 cases driven by the highly contagious Delta variant....
The Taliban have objected to the recent statement issued by the United States on the blacklisted status of new Interior Minister of Afghanistan, Sirajuddin Haqqani....
Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have been detaining and assaulting journalists and imposing new restrictions on media work, the Human Rights Watch said....
George Abraham, Vice-Chair of Indian Overseas Congress, USA, decries the Hindutva movement’s massive effort to silence dissent and restrict Academic freedom....
The Taliban have allowed at least 200 American civilians along with other foreigners to depart Afghanistan after negotiations with the US administration....
