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US President Donald Trump speaks following a tour of Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin.(AFP)World
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to axe Obamacare

The legal push is sure to be an important political battleground in the presidential election in a November vote

26 Jun 2020 3:31 PM IST

Healthcare workers from University of South Florida (USF) Health administer coronavirus testing at the Lee Davis Community Resource Center on June 25, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. (AFP)World
Virus taking stronger hold in the US

The US, which counts the most infections in the world, is seeing daily jumps in COVID-19 cases nearing the peak reached...

26 Jun 2020 2:07 PM IST

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. (AP)World
Mexican president slammed after comments on women staying at home

President Obrador suggested the tradition of women staying at home to take care of older family members was key to...

26 Jun 2020 12:27 PM IST

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to families who have benefitted from the Affordable Care Act during an event at the Lancaster Recreation Center on June 25, 2020 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (AFP)World
Biden seeks restoration of peoples' rights in Kashmir; disappointed...

A group of Hindu Americans have reached out to Biden's campaign expressing resentment to the language used against India

26 Jun 2020 9:32 AM IST

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC. (AFP)World
US reviewing global force posture to counter China's threat to India:...

Last week, Pompeo criticised the Chinese Army for 'escalating' the border tension with India and militarizing the...

26 Jun 2020 8:59 AM IST

First-term U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, awaits passersby as she hands out leaflets explaining how to vote early or by absentee ballot during a stop at the Parkchester subway station in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP)World
US poll speculations suggest a leftward swing

The left tilt comes amid social upheaval and anger over Trump's response to the pandemic, anti-racism protests and mass...

25 Jun 2020 1:18 PM IST

In this May 1, 2019, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court in London. (AP)World
US Justice Department strengthens charges against Wikileaks' Assange

Assange already faces 18 criminal charges in the US and the latest indictment augments existing charges

25 Jun 2020 12:20 PM IST

People wait for their testing at a \walk-in\ and \drive-through\ coronavirus testing site in Miami Beach, Florida on June 24, 2020. (AFP)World
Infections spike among youngsters as US reopens

A disturbing generational shift can be observed in US's coronavirus surge, but it poses danger to older people who cross...

25 Jun 2020 9:43 AM IST

A policeman removes rubble from a building damaged by an earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. (AP)World
Powerful earthquake shakes southern Mexico, at least 5 dead

Mexico President L³pez Obrador said there had been more than 140 aftershocks, most of them small

24 Jun 2020 1:39 PM IST

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Three Indian-origin family members found dead in backyard pool in US

Police suspect the three drowned accidently in the above-ground pool in their recently purchased home in New Jersey

24 Jun 2020 1:06 PM IST

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World's first yoga university outside India launched in US

Named Vivekananda Yoga University, it will offer online graduate programmes based on modern research approaches to yoga

24 Jun 2020 9:08 AM IST

Workers in full protective gear transfer the body of a COVID-19 victim to the Azcapotzalco crematorium in Mexico City. (AP)World
Latin America and Caribbean pass 100,000 COVID-19 deaths

More than half of these deaths are in Brazil, while it also has the second-highest COVID-19 death toll in the world,...

24 Jun 2020 8:57 AM IST

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