Several prominent Indian-American leaders have been added to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' joint task forces which will promote party unity by hammering out consensus on top policy issues....
US President Donald Trump has announced that he was withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty, a multilateral agreement to guarantee transparency regarding weapons control, and accused Russia of breaching the pact but also at the same time offering to negotiate a new accord with Moscow. ...
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has asked Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar to undergo a formal vetting to be considered as his running mate for Vice President, local media reported. ...
The number of initial unemplyment claims in the US totalled to 2.4 million last week as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the nation, the Labor Department reported. ...
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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US would not close in the case of a second coronavirus wave....
Drugmaker AstraZeneca on Thursday said it received support of more than $1 billion from the US Health Departments's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for the development, production and delivery of University of Oxford's upcoming COVID-19 vaccine, starting in the autumn....
Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, a former White House butler who served under 11 US presidents, has died after contracting the coronavirus, the media reported on Thursday. ...
People in New York City's lower-income neighbourhoods and communities of colour were suffering the most due to the coronavirus pandemic, state Governor Andrew Cuomo said citing official data. ...
The US Senate has passed a legislation that could ban Chinese companies from listing shares on American exchanges....