
In the 2016 US presidential elections, social media platform Twitter made independent voters less likely to vote for Donald Trump but did not affect other elections, according to a new study....

A Punjabi truck driver, who killed 16 Canadian junior hockey players and injured 13 others by jumping red light in April 2018, faces deportation to India....

New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Dermot Shea named Juanita Holmes, the highest ranking African-American woman on the force, as the chief of patrol, making her the first female to hold the position....

American biotechnology company Moderna announced that it was preparing for the global launch of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate....

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has vowed to strengthen the US-South Korea alliance if he wins the upcoming election, rather than "extorting Seoul with reckless threats to remove our troops"....

The re-election campaign of US President Donald Trump has cancelled a rally scheduled to be held in North Carolina, a major battleground state, citing weather conditions....

With just five days left for the November 3 US presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden was currently leading President Donald in three battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, a new poll showed. ...

The administration of US President Donald Trump has announced plans to scrap the lottery for awarding H1-B professional visas and replacing it with a system that ranks applicants by the salaries they are offered....

With five days to go for the US election and a week out from the final presidential debate, it's raining polls and the needle isn't moving wildly in national numbers although Democratic challenger Joe Biden is ticking up in battlegrounds where the virus is surging....

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a corporation responsible for the public transportation in the US state of New York, is in dire need of a $12 billion bailout from the federal government due to a decreased ridership in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic....