Calling Pakistan's new ambassador-designate to the United States Masood Khan a "jihadist," and a "terrorist sympathiser," an American lawmaker has urged the Biden administration to reject his diplomatic credentials amid continued deterioration in Washington's ties with Islamabad.
The rabbi of the Texas synagogue, where four people were held hostage by a British-Pakistani man, says he threw a chair at the gunman and then escaped with two other hostages after a 10-hour standoff.
Three people died after the car they were in plunged off an elevated section of a highway near Los Angeles and landed on the street below, authorities said.
A familiar guns vs border battle has erupted between Republicans and Democrats in the United States following the Texas hostage-taking by a British-Pakistani assailant even as his family in the UK claimed he was suffering from mental health issues that might have led to his actions.
US President Joe Biden said that a gunman who disrupted a religious service in a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday and took four people hostage had engaged in an "act of terror."
President Joe Biden on Thursday said he will deploy more military health workers to six US states beginning next week, and give Americans free masks and more free tests to tackle the fast-spreading Omicron variant around the country. The dispatch of 1,000 military health personnel is "part of a major deployment of our nation's armed forces to help hospitals across the country manage this surge of the Omicron virus," Biden said.
A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from US immigration detention. He was wrongfully deported to El Sa...
