The New York City government has decided to change how its selective middle and high schools admit students in an effort to address concerns that the admissions policies discriminate against students of colour and worsen segregation....
US President-elect Joe Biden and wife Jill will be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus publicly on Monday, his transition team announced....
The US Congress has passed a two-day stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown and provide more time for lawmakers to negotiate on a much-awaited coronavirus relief package, as many Americans are set to lose pandemic relief benefits by the end of the year. ...
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Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus by attending physician Brian Monahan at the Capitol. ...
The number of initial unemployment claims in the US increased to 885,000 last week, a three-month high, as surging Covid-19 cases weigh on economic recovery, the Labour Department reported....
US Army General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met Taliban negotiators this week in Qatar amid the ongoing American troops pullout from Afghanistan, according to media reports....
On this historic era of immigration momentum in American contemporary times, the congressional bill HR.1044/S.386 being at the verge of success as well the probable uncertainties there in; FOMAA L.i.F.e -the advocacy initiative of Malayalee diaspora, invoked and earned promises of support from NY State Senator Hon. Kevin Thomas....
US President-elect Joe Biden has decided to nominate Deb Haaland, a Democratic Congresswoman from New Mexico, to serve as the first Native American Interior Secretary and thus oversee the country's vast natural resources including tribal lands....
A top World Health Organization (WHO) official has called for greater vigilance amid the roll-out of a Covid-19 vaccine, saying the vaccine is not a "silver bullet" that will end the nearly year-long pandemic which has infected over 74 million people across the global and killed more than 1.64 million others....
