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MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Wednesday that US President Joe Biden's assessment of Russia as only having nuclear weapons and oil was wide of the mark and betrayed a lack of knowledge about the country. Biden made the remark on Tuesday…

WASHINGTON: First lady Jill Biden visited a pop-up Covid-19 vaccination clinic in Waipahu, Hawaii, on Sunday to encourage unvaccinated Hawaiians to get their shots as the delta variant surges through much of the US. Biden in remarks at…

BLY: Out-of-state crews headed to Montana on Saturday to battle a blaze that injured five firefighters as the West struggled with a series of fires that have ravaged rural lands and destroyed homes. Progress was being made on the…

WASHINGTON: Four people were shot outside of Nationals Park, a professional baseball stadium in the District of Columbia, on Saturday night, police said. The district's Metropolitan Police Department had earlier said on Twitter that two…

WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday announced sanctions against 34 companies and other entities involved with China's military and policy towards the Uyghur Muslim minority, and for facilitating exports to Russia and Iran. The group…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Thursday will offer his most extensive comments to date about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a pullout that is raising concerns about a civil war there and drawing Republican criticism. A White…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden says the American people are closer than ever to declaring independence from a deadly virus. The President made the comments on Sunday at a July Fourth celebration at the White House. He told the crowd of…

ISLAMABAD: The fighting between the Taliban and a combined force of US-backed Afghan National Army and private militias in northern Afghanistan escalated as the last American and Nato soldiers left Bagram airbase on Friday. The airbase…

SANTA FE: New Mexico is directing the nation's biggest chunk of federal coronavirus relief money to helping middle-class families pay for child care, a vast expansion aimed at getting parents back to work in one of the poorest states in…

VANCOUVER: Hundreds of people were evacuated in western Canada as fires added to the unprecedented heat wave in the region, which for days has been baking in record-breaking temperatures. The village of Lytton, 250 kilometers (155 miles)…