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Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund on Thursday defended his department's response to the violent breach at the Capitol, saying officers acted valiantly when faced with thousands of individuals involved in violent riotous actions as they stormed the building...

The number of Americans filing firsttime claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly dipped last week while staying extremely high, with the labor market recovery appearing to stall as a raging COVID19 pandemic threatens to overwhelm the country.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis removed his red "Strong Czechia" hat inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" cap from his social media accounts on Thursday after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building.

After a dramatic day of violence at the U.S. Capitol, lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate were meeting early on Thursday to certify Presidentelect Joe Biden's election victory.

Payton Pritchard wasn't there last season when the Boston Celtics lost to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference finals.

Twitter and Facebook Inc on Wednesday temporarily locked the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump, as tech giants scrambled to crack down on his baseless claims about the U.S. presidential elections amid riots at the U.S. Capitol.

The Dow and the S&P 500 rose on Wednesday, with investors piling into economylinked financial and industrial stocks on bets that a Democratcontrolled Senate would lead to more fiscal stimulus and infrastructure spending.

When the reporter said he had written whatever the MLA had said, the legislator had allegedly slapped Chakraborty in front of everybody present there, a police officer said.

Pranab Mukherjee wrote in his memoir, 'The Presidential Year' that institutionalisation of disruptions undermined democracy in a dangerous way.

Senior Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil, the AICC in charge for Bihar for close to three years, has sought to be relieved from the cumbersome assignment at the earliest. Gohil, who is also one of the partys national spokespersons and a Rajya Sabha me...

The moment Yediyurappa took his chair, a visibly agitated Yatnal stood up and started attacking the 78-year-old chief minister. Questioning his style of functioning, the senior leader asked him to keep his son BY Vijayendra out of administration.

Venezuela's ruling socialist party on Tuesday will install a congress controlled by allies of President Nicolas Maduro, a change in control that many Western nations have assailed as the product of a fraudulent election.

The U.S. government screened 500 million fewer people at U.S. airport checkpoints in 2020, down 61% over 2019, as air travel slowed sharply during the coronavirus pandemic, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said on Monday.

City officials in Washington on Monday warned supporters of President Donald Trump not to bring guns to protests this week against congressional certification of his election defeat and enlisted hundreds of National Guard troops to help keep order.

Thousands of minorityowned small businesses were at the end of the line in the governments coronavirus relief program as many struggled to find banks that would accept their applications or were disadvantaged by the terms of the program.

Iterating he did not want to float a regional party when his relation soured with TMC, Adhikari said there had been numerous instances of outfits like Bangla Congress having been floated in the past but none of these had lasted for long.