MAY 7, 2020
The first evacuation flight carrying stranded Indian citizens from Abu Dhabi landed at the Kochi airport on Thursday night amid the suspension of international travel over the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is the first of 64 planned evacuation flights as India has launched its biggest ever repatriation exercise to bring back its nationals stranded abroad.
The Air India Express flight IX...
MAY 7, 2020
The race to see who will be the next President of the United States is well underway. Here's a look at the steps along the way that lead to Election Day on Nov. 3, 2020.
President Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden by two points in six battlegrounds states, a new poll has found.
The latest survey by Change...
MAY 7, 2020
FILE - In this July 10, 2018, file photo, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, following a status hearing. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning...
MAY 7, 2020
The setting sun shines on the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sunday. - Patrick Semansky/AP
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a ruling that requires the Justice Department to give Congress certain secret grand jury material from the investigation conducted by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
The U.S. Court...
MAY 7, 2020
A 10-foot tiger shark fitted with a satellite tracker has stunned researchers by proving the species is capable of crossing entire oceans.
The nonprofit OCEARCH, which documented the trek, says the female shark named Sereia made a 4,000-mile transoceanic journey from Africa, across the Indian Ocean, to within 800 miles of Indonesia’s coast.
In doing so, she showed “the...
MAY 7, 2020
As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues in the United States, President Donald Trump talks to reporters after signing a proclamation honoring National Nurses Day in the Oval Office at the White House May 06, 2020 in Washington, DC. With more than a million people in the United States infected with COVID-19 and tens of thousands dead from...
MAY 7, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House sent back guidelines it received from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month on how businesses, schools and other organizations should reopen with a request for revisions, two administration officials said.
The White House coronavirus task force, which is headed by Vice President Mike Pence, viewed the CDC's advice...
MAY 6, 2020
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have pushed the theory that Covid-19 emerged from a Chinese lab. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Top Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration should share with Congress the allegedly “enormous” evidence showing that the coronavirus sprang from a Chinese lab.
Otherwise, they warn, the administration should quit hyping questionable information.
The demands come...
MAY 6, 2020
Supermoon - Getty Images
In the early hours of May 7, the last full moon of the spring will appear, and it will be a super sight!
The full Super Flower Moon will appear on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, according to the Farmer’s Almanac. May's full moon is the last super moon of the year, following the Super...
MAY 6, 2020
Experts say failure to close Koyambedu market early led to explosion of cases
CHENNAI, INDIA - Months into the pandemic, pieces of the sub-cellular pathogenic puzzle seem to be falling into place. One thing amply clear now is that its spread is akin to a storm - dispersing from a focal point to a larger area.
This is exactly...
