Liberal incumbent MP, Sonia Sidhu, who is re-contesting from Canada's Brampton South, on Thursday condemned a hate crime against a 23-year-old Sikh man, saying they must continue their fight to eradicate it....
As more campuses reopened during the second week of September in the US, pediatric cases of Covid-19 have seen upticks again, though mask mandates are observed in some schools and regular tests are carried out in areas of coronavirus exposure. ...
Online search giant Googles digital advertising business is under renewed fire. The US government is reportedly stitching together an antitrust lawsuit against one of Google's "crown jewels" - its outsize role in the ad tech market, according to new reporting by Politico and Bloomberg....
An Indian-origin Uber driver, Kuldip Singh, has been killed allegedly by a 15-year-old as New York City faces rising levels of violence, according to media reports....
The true number of US Covid-19 cases by the end of 2020 was likely more than 100 million, said a new study by researchers at Columbia University....
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 222.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.59 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.56 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ...
US economic growth "downshifted slightly" to a moderate pace in early July through August amid a Delta variant-fuelled Covid-19 resurgence, according to a Federal Reserve survey....
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the Treasury Department's "extraordinary measures" to temporarily finance the government will likely be exhausted in October, urging Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit as soon as possible....
Virginia has removed a 131-year-old statue of Confederate General Robert Lee, one of the US state's largest and most recognisable symbols of Confederate history from its capital city of Richmond. ...
Imported frozen food may play a role in the emergency of SARS-CoV-2 in China, said a recent research conducted by British and Chinese scientists and published in US magazine Science....
