Biden to meet with senators on infrastructure deal President Joe Biden will meet with a group of bipartisan Senators who say they have reached an agreement in principle with the White House on a $1.25 trillion infrastructure plan. Included in the package is $579 billion in new money – less than […]

A shortage of doctors and nurses in Japan's aging population contributed to the country's sluggish Covid vaccine rollout, says Keio University's Sayuri Shirai. As of June 21, only 18.3% of Japan's population has received at least one Covid vaccine dose, compared with 50% of people in the U.S. and 63.6% […]

New Covid-19 infections in the U.S. will tick higher this fall as the highly contagious delta variant spreads, epidemiologist Dr. Anne Rimoin warned Wednesday.  "It's a much more serious game now," Rimoin said. New Covid-19 infections in the U.S. will tick higher this fall as the highly contagious delta variant […]

Ime Udoka is expected be the next head coach of the Boston Celtics. The former Brooklyn Nets and San Antonio Spurs assistant coach will be leading an NBA team for the first time.  Udoka and the Celtics reached an agreement on framework of a deal, according to a person with knowledge […]

People of California Tuesday celebrated the grand full reopening of the state, the worst-affected by the pandemic, after lockdown for more than a year. The state had suffered the worst record in both the COVID metrics – 3,804,871 cases and 63,208 deaths – in the United States. Governor Gavin Newsom […]

The United States and the European Union made taken a number of important decisions that help resolve long-standing trade disputes and strengthen the trade relations between the two entities. The EU-US summit, held in Brussels, agreed to suspend tariffs imposed on U.S. aircraft manufacturing company Boeing and European rival Airbus […]

The racial wealth divide between white and Black families in the U.S. is more of a chasm than a gap. In 2019, the median household wealth for white families was nearly $190,000, almost eight times higher than that of Black households, according to Federal Reserve data. "Baby bonds" are one […]

London (CNN Business)A deal to release the Ever Given could soon be reached, freeing the quarter-mile-long container ship and the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cargo it was carrying when it blocked the Suez Canal three months ago. An Egyptian court seized the ship and its 18,300 containers, […]

Stocks are turning in a lackluster performance in morning trading on Wednesday, as traders look ahead to the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy announcement. The Dow and the Nasdaq have moved in opposite directions, while the S&P 500 is lingering near the unchanged line. Currently, the major averages are turning in […]

WASHINGTON — Airports around the country will share $8 billion in federal grants to help them recover from the pandemic, which caused a steep drop in air travel and a loss of revenue that airports expect from airlines and passengers. Most of the money will go to big airports with […]