
Oregon's Bootleg wildfire, currently the largest active blaze in the US, has scorched over 390,000 acres in the US state's Lake and Klamath counties with 32 per cent containment, officials said....

US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has dropped all his Republican picks in the select committee probing the January 6 Capitol riot in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's rejection of two of his nominees....

US Senate Republicans have blocked a vote to advance a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, as negotiators are expected to continue their talks in hopes of reaching a deal in the next few days....

US Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman will travel to China from July 25-26 during which she will meet top officials, including State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, according to an official statement....

US President Joe Biden will host his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on August 30, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said....

The Taliban militant group now controls a total of 212, or roughly half of Afghanistan's 419 district centres, a top US General said....

The US and Germany have announced an agreement on the issue of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, an effort to reduce the risk that the contentious project could pose to Ukraine....

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 191.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.12 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.71 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ...

Over 4 million children in the US have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to a latest report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association....

The life expectancy at birth in the US declined by 1.5 years to 77.3 in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, the lowest level since 2003 and the largest one-year drop since World War II, according to government data issued on Wednesday....