Amazon partners with US govt agency to combat fake goods
Business | November 25, 2020 13:07 ISTAmazon has partnered with the US government's counterfeit watchdog to launch a joint operation to prevent fake goods from entering the country.
Amazon has partnered with the US government's counterfeit watchdog to launch a joint operation to prevent fake goods from entering the country.
Based on its current trajectory, America is hurtling towards an ominous coronavirus death toll of more than 400,000 by next spring, according to the new projections by a predictive model used often by data crunchers in Donald Trump's White House coronavirus task force.
White House political affairs director Brian Jack has tested positive for coronavirus after attending the election night event held at the White House, US media reported on Wednesday.
US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday said Trump not conceding defeat in the just-concluded election is an embarrassment, asserting that his transition plans have remained unaffected by this and he has started talking to world leaders.
Late on Monday in a series of tweets President Donald Trump accused the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Pfizer of waiting until after the election to announce its positive vaccine news for political reasons.
U.S. health officials have allowed emergency use of the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, an experimental approach against the virus that has killed more than 238,000 Americans.
Experts have expressed worries that the United States is ill-prepared for the incoming cold season and holidays when the COVID-19 pandemic could spiral into its deadliest phase, according to media reports.
Texas has become the first US state to cross over a million coronavirus cases as President-elect Joe Biden is getting to work to battle the deadly virus which has infected more than 9.8 million people in the country.
US President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill will bring two German Shepherds, including a rescue dog, to live with them in the White House, the first time in four years when pets are heading back to the famous Washington DC address.
Texas has become the first state in the US to record more than one million confirmed coronavirus cases, as the country, currently, the worst-hit is struggling to contain the pandemic.
Kamala Harris made history Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them white — entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries.
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Jonathan Hoffman has denied a media report that claimed US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper was planning to resign.
The United States has formally made an exit from the Paris Climate Agreement amid election uncertainty. This comes three years after Trump had announced his intent to remove the country from participating in the landmark global pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In a last-ditch effort to convince the voters, Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden has said that if elected, he will be the President of the 'United States of America' and not 'Red states or Blue states'.
More than 90,000 COVID-19 cases have been reported from the United States, the record high single-day total since the onset of the pandemic in the country. According to various media reports, the country took only 14 days to add one million new cases from eight million to nine million, the fastest rate since the pandemic began.
Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system that could lock up their information systems just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking.
A bipartisan group of five influential senators has urged the Trump administration to seek removal of high tariffs on import of pecans by India, asserting that it is impacting a large number of American farmers.
Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U.S. are on the rise again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in practically every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump over the weekend that “we’re rounding the turn, we’re doing great.”
Newly formed Tropical Storm Zeta strengthened Sunday in the western Caribbean and will probably become a hurricane before hitting Mexico’s resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula and the US Gulf Coast in coming days. Zeta was the earliest named 27th Atlantic storm recorded in an already historic hurricane season.
The U.S. coronavirus caseload has reached record heights with more than 83,000 infections reported in a single day, the latest ominous sign of the disease’s grip on the nation, as states from Connecticut to the Rocky Mountain West reel under the surge.
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