The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. The economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic is devastating....
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the latest allegations accusing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual misconduct "nauseating", amid growing calls for the latter to resign. ...
Officials from Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean, have slammed a Congresswoman over her assertion that the island is a foreign land, according to media reports. ...
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a $2.2 million funding over the next two years to serve the city's African-American transgender community. ...
US President Joe Biden has visions of freedom from Covid-19 by Independence Day, July 4, as the pace of vaccinations was accelerating and the infection rates decelerating....
More US states were on track to lift their mask mandates and fully reopen economies despite warnings from officials and health experts to tread carefully amid the still raging Covid-19 pandemic. ...
If we're smart about the accounting, Facebook should be paying all of us - is one of the ways Timothy Wu thinks about technology. ...
The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 118.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.60 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
The US reaffirmed that it would not offer any unilateral incentives for talks with Iran....
The US House on Thursday passed a pair of bills that will add new background check requirements for gun transfers between private parties and extend the background check period....