President Joe Biden announced an agreement aimed at bolstering trade ties between the United States and Africa after years in which the continent took a back seat to other U.S. priorities as China made inroads with investments and trade.

The department will recruit the help of community-based organizations (CBOs) asking them to compile data that will assist USCIS in implementing changes to the test.

Rookie Brock Purdy threw two touchdown passes in his second career start despite playing with an oblique injury to lead the Niners, who are down to their third starting quarterback.

Three men convicted of playing supporting roles in a foiled plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan in 2020 were sentenced to multiple years in prison on Thursday, as two of the conspiracy’s ringleaders await sentencing before the end of the month.

U.S. households can order four “free” at-home COVID-19 tests from the government website COVIDTests.gov beginning on Thursday as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to tackle coronavirus infections over the winter.

The two companies claim that their trial study shows that the two-medicine combination may be successful in treating melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer.

The U.S. central bank hiked rates by 50 basis points on Wednesday, slowing down from four back-to-back 75 bps hikes, although Fed Chair Jerome Powell said recent signs of weakening inflation have not brought any confidence yet that the fight had been won.