A senior US diplomat dealing with religious freedom, who is a frequent critic of India, has said that he was "encouraged" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statements urging unity in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Mexico has reached "the peak moment" of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said, as the country recorded its largest one-day rise in confirmed cases so far....
Los Angeles County residents will be mandated to wear face coverings outdoors as it was moving forward with reopening plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities said....
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), which was closed in late March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has planned to partially reopen its trading floor on May 26....
The number of initial unemployment claims in the US surged to nearly 3 million last week as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to sweep the nation, the Labor Department reported....
Washington, May 15 Republican Senator Richard Burr, who is under probe for stock sales he made ahead of a market downturn triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, was stepping down as chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday....
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has rejected US President Donald Trump's demand that his predecessor, Barack Obama, should be called to testify before Congress on the origins of the investigation into Russian election meddling. "I think it'd be a bad precedent to compel a former president to come before the Congress," Graham, a close...
The US State Department's top official for religious freedom is ambivalent about providing refuge for Sikhs under attack in Afghanistan and has said "we've been inquiring" about possible places they could go to. Ambassador for International Religious Freedomm Samuel Brownback said on Thursday during a news briefing that the killing...
An Indian-origin engineer has been charged by prosecutors with making fraudulent applications for over $10 million loans under the US COVID-19 relief programme. ...
Rajesh Mehta, 45, senior staff attorney at Cobb County Magistrate was shot and killed Saturday morning while confronting a gunman outside a home in Locust Grove, a report in Atlanta Journal Constitution reported....
