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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hopeful that congressional Democrats and the Trump administration can reach agreement on a coronavirus relief bill before the Nov. 3 elections, her spokesman said on Monday, adding that major issues st...

Britain announced wider coronavirus restrictions on Monday which will take the number of people under England's highest category of alert to nearly 8 million, as the government battles a sharp rise in cases.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday the White House has refused to sign on to Democratic lawmakers' plan for a coronavirus testing strategy, despite earlier public statements to the contrary by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Oil prices regained a semblance of stability on Tuesday after suffering sharp losses over the previous session and last week, as a resurgence of coronavirus cases globally hit prospects for crude demand while increasing supply also hurt sentiment.

Washington (AP) The Supreme Court is siding with Republicans to prevent Wisconsin from counting mailed ballots that are received after Election Day. The justices on Monday refused to reinstate a lower court order that called for mailed ballots to be c...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into why a south Georgia police officer shot and killed a man believed to have fled a traffic stop hours before.

The White House planned a Monday night celebration of the Republican Senate's expected confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, a month after a similar event was linked to a COVID19 outbreak that preceded President Donald Trump's own i...

The Palestinian foreign minister said Monday an international peace conference is the only way to generate momentum to bring Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate a peace agreement. The U.S. ambassador said the Trump administration has no objection to me...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden stumbled over a name when he was interviewed during the virtual I Will Vote concert, and social media has lit up with claims that he confused President Donald Trump with a previous occupant of the Oval Office.

: In an effort to revive the debt ridden Kerala State Road Transport Corporation, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday announced a new financial assistance package. Pointing out that the condition of KSRTC, post COVID-19, was precarious, he sai...

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: A five-year-old boy, who went missing since October 15, has allegedly been killed by a 17- year-old lad and the decomposed body was found near here on Monday, police said. The missing boy's father received a phone call on October 23 seeking Rs 15 l...

The Election Commission advised Congress leader Kamal Nath not to use such terms in public during the period of the Model Code of Conduct.

Wall Street's indexes fell sharply on Monday as soaring coronavirus cases and a deadlock in Washington over the next fiscal aid bill darkened the economic outlook in the run up to the Nov. 3 presidential election.

Picking holes in Thackeray's speech made during the Sena's annual Dussehra rally here on Sunday evening, BJP leader Ashish Shelar termed it as a "maha flop show" which was laced with "jealousy".

OPEC's secretary general said on Monday an oil market recovery may take longer than hoped as coronavirus inflections rise around the world, and OPEC and its allies would "stay the course" in balancing the market.