
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will open a new asylum office in Tampa on Aug. 2, in response to an increasing asylum workload in Florida. The new office becomes the 11th asylum office in the country and the second in Florida, joining the existing Miami Asylum Office. The Tampa and Miami asylum offices will divide the state�...

US First Lady Jill Biden underwent a "successful" medical procedure on Thursday to remove debris from a puncture wound in her left foot, a spokesperson said....

Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed while covering the violence in Afghanistan, was apparently executed by the Taliban, a US-based weekly magazine has claimed....

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said that his recent visit to Washington helped establish Iraq's "permanent relationship" with the US in various fields. ...

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a mandate requiring members of the military to provide a proof of their vaccination status or be subject to strict safety protocols aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, hours after President Joe Biden announced the requirements for all federal workers. ...

The US Navy has charged a sailor in connection with the 2020 fire that destroyed an amphibious warship in San Diego, a spokesperson said. ...

Washington, July 30 (IANS) US President Joe Biden announced that all workers hired by the federal government will be required either to prove that they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 or to submit to a series of vigorous safety protocols. ...

As a pravasi Indian I wish these were true statements and I want India to be known this way among the nations of the world. Mr. Blinken either believes this to be true or he was ignoring the truth for the sake of international diplomacy....

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 196.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.19 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.99 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

The US economy grew at a lower-than-anticipated annual rate of 6.5 per cent in the second quarter, marking the return to an above pre-pandemic level of overall economic activity, the Commerce Department reported....