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Presidentelect Joe Biden is introducing five top picks for his new administration on Friday, drawing on leading names from the Obama White House while also tapping an Ohio congresswoman and a congressional committee veteran.

Polling for the fifth phase of the District Development Council elections in the UT is underway as polling for 37 DDC seats -- 17 in the Kashmir division and 20 in the Jammu division -- began at 7am.

Presidentelect Joe Biden plans to nominate former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack for U.S. agriculture secretary, according to two sources familiar with the decision, a choice expected to reassure some farmers but disappoint climate and nutrition activists.

Five people have been shot dead in election violence in Ghana, police said on Wednesday, following a tightly contested race that President Nana AkufoAddo is tipped to win narrowly.

The Trump administration is trying to revive the president's stalled electioneve plan to send millions of Medicare recipients a $200 prescription discount card.

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Apple has one more thing for the holiday shopping season: overtheear, wireless headphones that will test how much people are willing to splurge on for highquality sound.

The mayors of North, South and East Delhi Municipal Corporations, accompanied by Delhi BJP vice president, and many women councilors, had started the siting on Monday morning outside Kejriwal's Flagstaff Road residence.

World stocks fell on Tuesday as investors struggled to keep the rally of recent weeks going with COVID19 infections still surging and London and Brussels stuck in Brexit purgatory.

World stocks sagged on Tuesday as investors struggled to keep the thundering rally of recent weeks going with COVID19 infections still surging and London and Brussels stuck in Brexit purgatory.

In choosing Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, Presidentelect Joe Biden tapped a robust defender of the Affordable Care Act who will face questions about whether he possesses the health care and management experience needed to lead the massive eff...

The Nasdaq index extended a rally to hit a record high on Monday as investors piled into big technology stocks on worries over the shortterm hit to the economy from COVID19 restrictions, while energy shares tumbled on lower oil prices.

Despite barricading and deployment of police force outside his house, Yadav decided to walk his way to Kannauj. Yadav was stopped from taking the road following he sat on a dharna.

With time running out, lawmakers on Sunday closed in on a proposed COVID19 relief bill that would provide roughly $300 in extra federal weekly unemployment benefits but not another round of $1,200 in direct payments to most Americans, leaving that issue f...

Polling stations in Venezuelan opened on Sunday for a vote to choose a new congress that the opposition is boycotting and most Western nations call a fraud by President Nicolas Maduro to retake the last state institution not in the hands of the ruling Soc...

Talks aimed at delivering a fresh infusion of coronavirus relief to American families and businesses gathered momentum in the U.S. Congress on Friday, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers worked to put the finishing touches on a new $908 billion bill.