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An Albany Sheriff's Office employee has brought a criminal case against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. She is one of 11 women whose allegations of sexual harassment were mentioned in a state attorney general's report released this week.more

CNN reported to its employees that three people had been fired for violating the station's sanitary policy by coming to work without being vaccinated against Covid-19, US media reported.more

The unvaccinated fear the vaccine against Covid-19 more than the deadly Coronavirus and its rapidly spreading Delta variant, a new poll shows.more

A fourth police officer who defended the US Capitol during the 6 January insurrection by extremist supporters of Donald Trump is now confirmed to have taken his own life.more

A Frontier Airlines passenger assaulted three flight attendants, punching one and groping the breasts of two others, on a weekend flight from Philadelphia to Miami, prompting one crew member to tape him to his seat until the plane landed, the authorities said.more

A police officer died following a violent episode outside the Pentagon building on Tuesday, according to a Department of Defense spokesperson.more

New York City is to require customers and staff of restaurants, gyms and other indoor businesses to have had Covid-19 vaccinations. The policy is to encourage more residents to get vaccinated as the Delta variant spreads in the city and across the US.more

Melinda and Bill Gates, founders of one of the largest private philanthropic foundations in the world, officially divorced today, Business Insider reported, citing documents from a Seattle court. People added that Melinda French Gates stayed with her husband's name.more

A preponderance of evidence proves the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic leaked from a Chinese research facility, said a report by U.S. Republicans released on Monday, a conclusion that U.S. intelligence agencies have not reached.more

The nation's top infectious diseases expert said Sunday he did not expect the U.S. will need to reenter lockdown, as the Delta strain of the coronavirus drives surges in new cases across the country.more

A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.more

Senior cabinet ministers are to discuss allowing fully vaccinated travellers from the EU and US to avoid quarantine when they arrive in England.more

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed that the Joe Biden administration "at the present moment" will maintain the current ban on traveling to the US for citizens of, among others, EU countries. She cited the spread of the Delta variant as the reason.more

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the US is "going in the wrong direction" as the number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise, particularly among unvaccinated Americans.more

Italy and Spain have been ravaged by forest fires this weekend. Italy has asked other countries to help fight a fire on the island of Sardinia. In the U.S. crews and officials battling a large fire that has incinerated more than 190,000 acres (77,000 hectares) in northern California.more

President Joe Biden is following the developments surrounding a US-owned television company that has been struggling to get its broadcasting licence renewed, an advisor to the United States Department of State has said. more

Although there is no evidence to support such a claim, probe conducted by YouGov and “The Economist” showed that 15 percent. Americans think this conspiracy theory is “probably true,” and another 5% think it is “certainly true.”more

Smoke from forest fires in the western US and Canada has worsened New York City's air quality to the worst level in 15 years, local NY1 TV reported yesterday, citing an environmental agency. The problem may repeat itself.more

The US-German agreement on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline shows that the administration of US President Joe Biden, and not his predecessor Donald Trump, is submissive to Russia, assessed the Eurosceptic British politician Nigel Farage, who was also accused of pro-Russian actions.more

The Asian carp was given a new name because the old one was considered racist. The change was initiated by the US Fish and Wildlife Authority to avoid the use of terms that have negative connotations with Asian culture and people, the New York Post reported.more

Twitter has temporarily suspended Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene for posting "misleading" information about coronavirus.more

European Union leaders on Saturday celebrated their coronavirus vaccination programme reaching a higher proportion of its people than in the US, which had outpaced the bloc for months. more

The highly transmissible delta variant is now the most dominant COVID-19 strain in New York City, soaring from about a quarter of tested positive samples to more than 40% in a week as the five boroughs' rolling seven-day case average surged 62%, according to new health department data out Friday. more

Among the passengers of the flight into space planned for July 20, next to Jeff Bezos will find an 18-year-old physics student, the son of the owner of the Dutch investment firm Oliver Daemen, reported Amazon's founder, Blue Origin. He will be the youngest participant in space flight in history.more

Roughly one-fifth of Americans were initially hesitant about or squarely against getting the Covid-19 vaccine but have since gotten their shots, according to polling released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.more