Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, formally designated Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the apparent winner of the presidential election, providing federal funds and resources to begin a transition, according to New York Times. ...
US President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former chief of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen as Americas next Treasury secretary, according to a news break by The Wall Street Journal....
Antony Blinken, who has said that strengthening ties with India would be a "high-priority" in a new administration, has been designated for the post of secretary of secretary by Joe Biden. ...
Due to an ongoing worsening second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada, the country has continued to witness a sharp rise of new cases which have increased the overall infection tally to more than 330,000....
Amid surging Covid-19 cases across the US and an incompetent response by the federal government, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, one of the nation's leading hospitals in handling dangerous and unusual diseases, has been nearly overwhelmed, according to a media report....
US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate top Obama-era diplomat Antony Blinken as Secretary of State, setting the ball rolling for a global reset of America's alliances skewered by four years of Donald Trump's unique brand of politics....
California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that he and his family are in quarantine after they came in contact with a person who later tested positive for the novel coronavirus. ...
At least two people were killed and multiple others injured in a stabbing attack at a church in the US state of California, police said....
New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned that there might be a fresh Covid-19 resurgence "between now and January", as holidays come one after another and people tend to travel a lot to meet and celebrate, which is just one of the main reasons fueling the spread of the pandemic....
The US has announced its officially withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies, in yet another move to abandon a major international arms control agreement....
