
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and local authorities were working to tow away a dead gray whale that washed up on the Pacifica State Beach shore of Northern California, officials said. ...

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 166.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.45 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

New data has revealed that 27 per cent of all the 1,127 people who were killed by the police last year in the US were African-Americans....

Rhode Island has becomes the eighth US state to reach to have administered at least one Covid-19 vaccine to 70 per cent of its adult population, the latest official data showed....

At least nine people, including two girls, were killed and dozens injured in multiple shootings in several US states over the weekend, according to authorities and media reports....

Your knees are on my neck and I cannot breath, please stop.†George Floyd's tearful plea for the breath of his life was the pain of the world itself. Catching his breath, gasping for air, George also asked for water, understand that breath is life and life is holy....

The US states of Maryland and New York have kicked off their own versions of Covid-19 vaccination lottery to reverse the slumping trend of inoculation, while the pioneer state Ohio has achieved a 53 per cent increase of shots since its program started last week. ...

The oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in the US and her two brothers have testified at a hearing of the ouse of Representatives recently and appealed to Congress for justice, according to the National Public Radio (NPR)....

Samsung Biologics, a South Korean biopharmaceutical firm, has signed a deal to manufacture Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at its local factory....

Generous Covid-19 aid from Congress has enabled some of the largest US hospital chains to merge weakened competitors, inflating medical expanses and making it harder for ordinary people to receive treatment, a media report said. ...