Virginia has become the first state in the US South to stop executions after Governor Ralph Northam signed a legislation to abolish the death penalty. ...
Football star Megan Rapinoe has joined US President Joe Biden at the White House to promote equal pay for women and men....
A new view of a supermassive black hole marks the first time astronomers have captured and mapped polarisation, a sign of magnetic fields, so close to the edge of a black hole. ...
Ahead of a key congressional hearing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have defended their platforms...
US President Joe Biden wants Congress to act on an immigration reform that it would allow Indian doctors and other professionals to expeditiously get their green cards, according to his spokesperson Jen Psaki....
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced new efforts to advance public safety in the city and provide targeted support to members of San Francisco's Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community....
US President Joe Biden announced that he picked Vice President Kamala Harris as the point person in the country's diplomatic efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries in Central America to stem migration at the southern border....
A White House economic adviser has said that there were now 4.2 million fewer women working than in February 2020, in large part because of the Covid-19 pandemic....
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is extending the flexibilities it announced on March 30, 2020, to assist applicants, petitioners and requestors who are responding to certain:...
The US Senate has confirmed Vivek Murthy as the surgeon general, the second time he will be holding the position....
