JUNE 27. 2021
Attorney General Bill Barr leaves the US Capitol after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in his office on November 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Senate is reconvening for the first time after the 2020 Presidential Election and a coronavirus relief package is high on their list of priorities. - Samuel Corum, Getty Images
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JUNE 25, 2021
Authorities in Israel and Australia imposed new Covid-19 restrictions in response to the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus, while India warned of a worrying new mutation, emphasizing how the morphing pathogen continues to challenge a return to pre-pandemic life world-wide.
In Israel, the government on Friday reimposed an indoor-mask requirement and other measures,...
JUNE 21, 2021
Indians have been at the receiving end of the worst second phase of Covid-19. Most nations closing their borders to Indians after new variants emerged first from India which was reportedly more aggressive and lethal.
Slowly and steadily, after months of stringent travel restrictions for people from India, there are countries that have started to ease restrictions. There...
JUNE 21, 2021
FILE - In this June 5, 2021, file photo, two men talk as crowds gather on L Street Beach in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have dipped below 300 a day for the first time since the early days of the disaster in March 2020, while the number of Americans fully...
JUNE 21, 2021
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attend the UK Team Trials for the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 at the University of Bath on April 6, 2018 in Bath, England. The couple made a series of dramatic allegations against the royal family and institution during a tell-all interview in March 2021. - Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images
Prince Harry and Meghan...
JUNE 21, 2021
The activists were arrested for documenting the draining of waste into Phnom Penh's Tonle Sap river. - TANG CHHIN Sothy
A Cambodian court has charged four environmental activists with insulting the king and plotting against the government, an official said Monday, after three of them were arrested for documenting waste run-off into a river.
Unlike in neighbouring Thailand,...
JUNE 21, 2021
It can stretch your mind to ponder what's really out there. - Stijn Dijkstra/EyeEm via Getty Images
Right above you is the sky – or as scientists would call it, the atmosphere. It extends about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the Earth. Floating around the atmosphere is a mixture of molecules – tiny bits of air so...
JUNE 19, 2021
People throng Sarojini Nagar market for shopping after authorities eased a lockdown imposed as a preventive measure to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, in New Delhi on June 19, 2021. - PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images
The third wave of COVID 19 can strike India in the next six to eight weeks if crowds...
JUNE 19, 2021
The Bidens are mourning the loss of their German shepherd, Champ, who died "peacefully at home," the president and first lady said in a statement Saturday.
"He was our constant, cherished companion during the last 13 years and was adored by the entire Biden family," President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden said.
"Even as Champ’s strength waned...
JUNE 18, 2021
Stocks extended recent losses Friday for their worst week in months, after a Federal Reserve official said that the central bank may need to raise interest rates as early as next year, sooner than expected.
Investors are still trying to assess how soon the Fed will start to lift interest rates from their ultra-low levels and scale back its...
