An Indian-origin man has become the first person to be charged under the US' Defence Production Act (DPA) during the ongoing coronavirus pandmeic with hoarding personal protective equipment (PPE) and price-gouging. ...
US Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer has notified Congress that the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which replaces the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), will enter into force on July 1. ...
US Food and Drug Agency approved the first "at-home test" for diagnosing COVID-19, said Dr Stephen Hahn, who heads the agency....
The US Navy has recommended the reinstatement of Captain Brett Crozier's, the ousted commander of the coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt....
A US federal court has officially approved the $5 billion fine Facebook reached with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last July, after the FTC concluded its investigation into Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving 87 million Facebook users. ...
US President Donald Trump has signed into law a $484 billion relief package to boost funding for small businesses, hospitals and virus testing, as the country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout....
The Hindu American Foundation expressed serious concern over President Donald Trump’s Executive Order announcing a partial ban on immigration. The executive order will ban for sixty days consular processing of green card (“immigrant visasâ€) applications. Due to the COVID-19 pa...
Amid COVID-19 restrictions, the historic SpaceX mission to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 27 is set to be a much quieter affair than it would have been in normal times, with the US space agency asking people not to travel to Florida to witness the spectacle....
Researchers have discovered that goblet and ciliated cells in the nose have high levels of the entry proteins that the COVID-19 coronavirus uses to get into our cells. The identification of these cells could help explain the high transmission rate of the virus....
Researchers in France aim to test if nicotine patch could help prevent COVID-19 after initial observations showed that an ingredient in tobacco, probably nicotine, could put smokers at a lower risk of getting the disease....
