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U.S. congressional Democrats agreed to rush $39.8 billion in additional aid for Ukraine, two sources familiar with the proposal said on Monday, easing fears a delayed vote could interrupt the flow of U.S. weapons to the Kyiv…

Following the record surge in COVID-19 cases during the Omicron-driven wave, some 58 per cent of the U.S. population overall and more than 75 per cent of younger children have been infected with the coronavirus since the start of the…

The last statewide COVID-19 mask mandate in the U.S. will be lifted by March 26, Hawaii Gov. David Ige announced Tuesday. No states will require masks indoors after 11:59 p.m. March 25. Hawaii is the last to drop the pandemic safety…

President Joe Biden has urged Americans to prepare themselves for new coronavirus variants as he launched a new initiative aimed at helping COVID-19-infected people to get tested at a nearby pharmacy and receive free antiviral pills on the…

<!-- -->It will now be up to individual cities and businesses whether they want to require masks indoors.New York: New York on Wednesday joined a wave of Democrat-run US states to roll back mask mandates, a symbolic step towards…

Omicron variant of Covid-19 continued to spur record cases and hospitalizations in Europe and the United States. The United States reported 646,422 new cases on Monday and 975 fresh fatalities. The number of hospitalizations due to Covid-19…

A seven-year-old receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, US. (Image: Reuters)The CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky said that the agency did not see any signal to show that Omicron…

Six more U.S. states confirmed infections of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Friday but the Delta strain likely remains a greater threat as winter sets in and Americans gather for the holidays, experts said. New Jersey,…

The U.S. Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The…

The U.S. government could be heading for a temporary shutdown, with Republicans poised to stall a must-pass funding bill in their effort to force a debate in Congress on rolling back the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine…