
A fourth US police officer who responded to the January 6 Capitol riots staged by by extremist supporters of former President Donald Trump, has committed suicide, Washington D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department confirmed. ...

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has again urged Congress to raise the debt limit as soon as possible after the federal borrowing cap was reinstated after a two-year suspension....

The White House said that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not have the legal authority to renew an eviction ban to prevent millions of American renters of being forced from their homes during the re-surging of the coronavirus pandemic....

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has reinstated a statewide indoor mask mandate amid a resurgence of Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations. ...

US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham announced that he has tested positive for Covid-19 even after being fully vaccinated....

Scientists at NASA have successfully launched a sophisticated X-ray solar imager on a suborbital flight via sounding rocket to gather new insight regarding how and why the Suns corona grows so much hotter than the actual surface of Earths parent star....

Facebook has asked all its employees in the US to wear masks at offices as the country witnesses a surge in covid cases. ...

The US state of Florida is becoming the new epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country as new cases have been surging recently, according to media reports....

Seventy per cent of US adults have had at least one shot of a Covid-19 vaccine amid an ongoing resurgence of new cases attributed to the highly transmissible Delta variant, according to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ...

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price on Monday (local time) has said that People's Republic of China (PRC) interest in Afghanistan could be "an alignment of interest" when it comes to what the United States and China seek in Afghanistan. ...