President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin will face consequences for directing efforts to swing the 2020 US presidential election to Donald Trump, and that they would come soon.
President Joe Biden is preparing to include a federal tax increase in his next big economic package, according to a Bloomberg report on Monday.
After being among the world’s hardest-hit nations with COVID-19, Chile is now near the top among countries at vaccinating its population against the virus.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday designated five Chinese companies as posing a threat to national security under a 2019 law aimed at protecting US communications networks.
One year after the US was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, President Joe Biden used his first prime-time address on Thursday night to announce his plan to make all adults vaccine-eligible by 1 May and “begin to mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July, AP reported.
The House of Representatives gave final approval on Wednesday to the sweeping $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill, which is one of the largest economic stimulus measures in US history, news wires reported. That gives President Joe Biden his first major legislative victory in office, observers noted.
The National Guard is to stay on in Washington for another two and a half months, the Pentagon confirmed on Tuesday. The deployment of soldiers was originally due to end on Friday. The US Secretary of Defence approved a request by Capitol Police for support from the National Guard to continue through 23 May, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said as dpa reported. But the number of personnel is being reduced almost by half to 2,300.
People who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can meet without masks indoors in small groups with others who have been inoculated but should avoid non-essential travel and continue to wear face-coverings in public, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday. Fully vaccinated people could also meet in small groups with unvaccinated individuals deemed at low-risk for severe COVID-19 from one other household without masks, CDC also said.
A Supreme Court judge in Brazil on Monday annulled the criminal convictions against the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, restoring his political rights ahead of next year's presidential election, news wires reported
The US Senate on Saturday passed President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan in a party-line vote after an all-night session that saw Democrats battling among themselves over jobless aid and the Republican minority failing in attempts to push through some three dozen amendments, Reuters reported.
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