 | Fully vaccinated can drop masks, skip social distancing: US on new COVID-19 guidelinesThe guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters. |
 | In pandemic milestone, US lifts indoor mask guidance for vaccinated peopleAlmost 60 percent of US adults now have one or more doses, while cases are falling fast, down to a seven-day-average of 38,000 or 11 per 100,000. |
 | 57 US Congressmen urge Joe Biden to bolster COVID-19 assistance to IndiaIn the letter, the Congressmen relayed to the administration that India remains in need of additional medical equipment, supplies and other vital resources to emerge from this crisis. |
 | New White House panel aims to separate science, politicsA new 46-person federal scientific integrity task force with members from more than two dozen government agencies will meet for the first time on Friday. |
 | South Korean President Moon Jae-in hopes to restart North Korean diplomacy with Joe BidenMoon, whose single five-year term is to end next May, said he’ll focus on establishing lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula during his final year in office. |
 | Outpouring of support from US for India, COVID-19 help touches USD half a billionBiden spoke at length with Modi last month and conveyed solidarity with India in its fight against the viral disease |
 | US backing for vaccine patent waiver a game changer in India's Covid fight?Experts in India while welcoming the move also said that this development should be seen with caution. |
 | Republicans promote pandemic relief they voted againstEvery Republican in Congress voted against the sweeping pandemic relief bill that President Joe Biden signed into law three months ago. |
 | United States backs plan to waive Covid-19 vaccine patentsBiden had been under intense pressure to waive protections for vaccine manufacturers, especially amid criticism that rich nations were hoarding shots. |
| COVID-19: US is helping India significantly by sending material, machine parts, says President BidenThe USAID has sent approximately 550 oxygen concentrators to obtain oxygen from ambient air and it has also delivered large scale units to support up to 20 patients each of an oxygen generation unit. |
 | US Congresswoman writes to President Joe Biden over COVID-19 situation in IndiaIn her letter, Ross thanked Biden for ordering the delivery of supplies worth more than USD 100 million to provide urgent relief to India. |
 | 'Joe Biden has hostile policy': North Korea dismisses American diplomacy, warns of responseThe White House said on Friday that the president was open to negotiations with North Korea on denuclearisation following the completion of a policy review. |
| US President Biden asked his administration to provide all assistance to India: OfficialsBiden sent two of his top officials to the Dulles Airport here on Friday evening from where another flight with USAID assistance materials including oxygen cylinders, N95 masks were dispatched. |
 | Officials in Switzerland push back at Biden 'tax haven' barbWhile Biden called out offshore tax havens, anti-corruption campaigners say the US should also scrutinize rules that help evaders closer to home. |
 | Counting the costs of America's 20-year war in AfghanistanPresident Biden’s decision to pull all American troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, has prompted a reckoning over the war’s lost lives and colossal expenditure. |
