Pfizer is discussing expedited approval of its Covid-19 vaccine with the Indian government, company CEO Alber Bourla said while announcing a donation of medicines worth $70 million to fight the resurgent pandemic....
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the American economy is "not out of the woods yet", particularly with a slower recovery for low-wage and minority workers. ...
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced in a joint statement that they were getting divorced after 27 years of marriage....
The Biden administration on Monday raised the annual ceiling for new refugees allowed into the US to 62,500, after its decision last month to keep the number at the level set by the previous administration caused backlash....
The independent Oversight Board on Monday said it will announce its decision on May 5 on the case concerning former US President Trump, who was banned on Facebook following the Capitol attack on January 6....
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has denied suggestions that the government's decision to ban travel from India amid the country's worsening Covid-19 situation was motivated by racism. ...
The US State Department has rejected reports of a prisoner swap deal between Washington and Tehran....
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 152.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.19 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
An increasingly confident China is acting "more aggressively abroad", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a televised interview. ...
Vinod Khosla, Indian-American technology guru and entrepreneur, has pledged $10 million towards providing oxygen supplies to India amid the worsening second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country....
