An Indian-American father and daughter, both doctors in New Jersey, have died because of Covid-19, with governor Phil Murphy describing their demise as “particularly tough” and hailed them for ded...

“Everybody hopes for seasonality” when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, Peter Juni of the University of Toronto acknowledged. Maybe, just maybe, the summer will diminish the spread of Covid-1...

The text messages to the Chinese activist streamed in from ordinary Wuhan residents, making the same extraordinary request: Help me sue the Chinese government. One said his mother had died from the co...

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday denied that he sexually assaulted a former Senate aide in 1993, his first public remarks on the subject after he faced intense pressure to addr...

With a flood of unemployment claims continuing to overwhelm many state agencies, economists say the job losses may be far worse than government tallies indicate.The labour department said Thursday tha...

New York is colourful, extraordinary and often chaotic. It has meant a very many things to a very many people in the course of its 400-year-history. It is a beacon of multiculturalism, a haven for ref...

If you’re an involved parent, especially a mother, you’re supposed to play down that fact at work or risk being penalised — at least at many American workplaces. Family caregiving has been consi...

Companies in a handful of US states have begun taking tentative steps to reopen stores, offices and factories that were closed by the coronavirus. Yet as the first employees and customers return, inte...

A supervisor urged surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Centre in Manhattan to volunteer for the front lines because half the intensive-care staff had already been sickened by coronavirus.�...

US deaths from the coronavirus could reach 200,000 with millions of cases, the government’s top infectious diseases expert warned on Sunday as New York, New Orleans and other major cities pleaded fo...