Politics

Presidentelect Joe Biden will nominate retired fourstar Army general Lloyd J. Austin to be secretary of defense, according to three people familiar with the decision. If confirmed by the Senate, Austin would be the first Black leader of the Pentagon.

The chief minister also said that people would brush aside the 'fake propaganda' of Opposition parties and the 'right wing' media against the Left government.

The Nasdaq index extended a rally to hit a record high on Monday as investors piled into big technology stocks on worries over the shortterm hit to the economy from COVID19 restrictions, while energy shares tumbled on lower oil prices.

Presidentelect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration's coronavirus response.

The coronavirus pandemic hasnt stopped Americans from keeping up with their credit card payments, thanks in large part to government relief programs passed by Congress earlier this year.

Adhering to COVID-19 protocols, a total of 88,26,620 electors including 46,68,209 women and 70 transgenders would exercise their franchisein 11,225 polling stations in the first phase.

Reacting to Vijayvargiya's comment, senior TMC leader and state minister Firhad Hakim said that the BJP is trying to fool the people of West Bengal.

The U.S. government's first shipment of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses to be divided among states and federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, will fall far short of protecting high priority groups such as healthcare workers, a Reuter...

In the midst of a pandemic, the Supreme Court said Friday it will take up the Trump administration's stalled plan to allow states to require lowincome people to work to receive health care under Medicaid.

Southwest Airlines warned nearly 7,000 workers on Thursday that they could lose their jobs unless labor unions accept concessions to help the airline cope with a sharp drop in travel caused by the pandemic.

Tharoor said Trudeau would have been better off not to have said what he did in the way that he did as the principle of non-interference in internal affairs of a nation is well-established in international diplomatic practice.

Federal Reserve officials saw "little or no growth" in four of their 12 regional districts and only modest growth in the others in recent weeks as a rapidly spreading health crisis and ongoing recession continued to devastate some U.S. businesses and fami...

Presidentelect Joe Biden is facing escalating pressure from competing factions within his own party as he finalizes his choice for secretary of defense.

Campaigning in Kishtwar for the district development council polls, the BJP leader appealed to the people to vote for the BJP to negate these opportunist political fringe groups.

World equity benchmarks hovered record highs and the dollar edged off of 21/2year lows on Wednesday as investors weighed the first approval of a coronavirus vaccine and the prospects of more U.S. economic stimulus with disappointing American jobs data.

As two independent MLA withdrew their support to the BJP government in Haryana, the Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala is yet to speak on the issue.