President Joe Biden has urged Americans to speak up against hate, warning that "our silence is complicity" in the face of racist acts.
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The suspect, named as Robert Aaron Long, faces multiple counts of murder as well as aggravated assault.The attack comes amid a sharp uptick in crimes against Asian-Americans.
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Eight people, many of them women of Asian descent, have been killed in shootings at spas in the US state of Georgia.
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There's good reason to be optimistic about where the US could be by summer as Covid-19 vaccinations accelerate. But right now, there are several threats looming. And the country is at a crossroads.
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Agrowing number of Americans want to get the coronavirus vaccine, and a majority also support workplace, lifestyle and travel restrictions for those not inoculated against COVID-19, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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Joe and Jill Biden's German shepherds have been removed from the White House after the younger dog, Major, reportedly bit a security agent.
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC) has created the Stand Against Hatred platform to empower Asian and Asian Americans to share their stories and "document hate" as a way to educate and inform.
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As officials and health experts race to get Americans vaccinated against Covid-19, some Catholic bishops have weighed in to discourage Church members from getting the latest, single-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson when alternatives are available.
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Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday he's lifting the mask mandate and is allowing businesses to open at 100% capacity in Texas, even as health officials warn not to ease safety restrictions.
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The US Food and Drug Administration authorized Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine Saturday. It is the first single dose Covid-19 vaccine available in the US, and is one that "checks nearly all the boxes."
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President Joe Biden has addressed the nation as the US passed the figure of 500,000 Covid-related deaths, the highest number of any country.
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World leaders expect Washington to prove commitment to accord after four years of inaction
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The Biden administration has launched a formal review of the future of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba with the goal of reviving efforts to close the controversial facility, a White House official said on Friday.
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President Joe Biden on Thursday told Russia that the United States would no longer be “rolling over†in the face of aggressive action by Moscow, declaring a new, tough approach by Washington.
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U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.
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Last such event for 15 states including New York, Ohio, Illinois and Georgia occurred in 2004
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"We're looking at probably middle of the summer, end of the summer before the average, healthy, young American has access to vaccination," Gounder told CNN Sunday.
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President Biden signed an order Thursday mandating masks in airports and on many planes, trains, ships and intercity buses. His action comes on the heels of a Wednesday order — his first as president — requiring masks on federal property.
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Joe Biden is to be sworn in as US president, taking the helm of a nation wracked by political division, economic anguish and an unrelenting pandemic.
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President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign roughly a dozen executive orders, including rejoining the Paris climate accord and ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, on his first day in office, according to a memo from incoming chief of staff Ron Klain.
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Plan includes $160bn in vaccination funds and $1tn in relief to families, including $1,400 stimulus checks
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The House voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a swift and bipartisan condemnation of the President's role inciting last week's riot at the US Capitol.
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US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.
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President-elect speaks at Atlanta rally alongside Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and the Rev Raphael Warnock
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Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Friday became the second to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, welcome news to a nation with a staggering COVID-19 death toll of over 307,000 lives lost.
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The country's first Covid-19 vaccines could be administered as soon as Monday, after the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine received green lights from the US Food and Drug Administration and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The agency said the authorisation was a "significant milestone" in the pandemic, which taken more than 295,000 lives in the US.
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