U.S. President Joe Biden told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a video call Monday that buying more Russian oil is not in India's interest, as Washington pushes New Delhi to take a harder line against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. India has remained neutral in Russia's war in Ukraine.
President Biden Monday announced his administration's rule to make “illegal” so-called ghost guns, weapons that have no serial numbers and can be assembled at home in minutes. Gun rights groups pledged to fight the rule.
The U.S. State Department has ordered all non-emergency personnel stationed in Shanghai to leave the eastern Chinese city, which is struggling with an escalating surge of new COVID-19 cases. China has criticized the decision, calling it “political manipulation.”
Philadelphia on Monday became the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate after reporting a sharp increase in coronavirus infections. Cases in Philadelphia have risen more than 50% in 10 days.
Workers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are putting the unmanned Psyche spacecraft through its final testing before its scheduled launch later this year to a metal-rich asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
