A mass move to working-from-home accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic might not be beneficial to Mother Earth as energy savings were offset by increased travel for recreation or other purposes, together with additional energy use in the home, says a new study....
The number of coronavirus cases has surpassed the 3.5 million mark globally, according to the Washington-based Johns Hopkins University. ...
An Indian-origin team of researchers in the US has claimed that people with cancer who develop coronavirus (COVID-19) are much more likely to die from the disease than those without cancer. ...
New York authorities have suspended the license of a Brooklyn funeral home where dozens of bodies were found piled up in trucks without refrigeration....
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to ban the import and use of certain power grid equipment, so as to "secure the country's bulk-power system"....
Breaking weeks of silence, former Vice President Joe Biden has denied festering allegations that he had sexually assaulted a former staffer. ...
US President Donald Trump has called on the Governor of Michigan to talk to and make a deal with demonstrators who have been protesting against the state's coronavirus lockdown restrictions....
US stocks finished Friday's session noticeably lower amid a broad market sell-off. ...
s the US battles the unabated rise of coronavirus cases as well as deaths, a new study from Minnesota-based Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) has said that ACOVID-19 virus may well last 18 to 24 months, especially given that only 5 per cent to 15 per cent of the US population is likely infected at this point....
The White House has blocked Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert and central figure in the administration's response to the novel coronavirus, from testifying before Congress. ...
