The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation to avert a disastrous debt default and cut trillions in government spending, sending the contentious bill to President Barack Obama to sign into law.

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With barely a day to act, the polarized US House of Representatives on Monday approved a massive austerity plan to avert a debt default that would have wreaked havoc through the global economy.

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US congressional leaders rushed to line up Republican and Democratic votes on Monday for a White House-backed deal to raise the US borrowing limit and avert an unprecedented debt default.

The 2008 terror attack on Mumbai has been listed by the US Army among 10 other such episodes in its detailed illustrative note on anti-terrorism prepared for its counter-terror officials.

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An Indian-origin scientist-led team in the US has packaged lithium ion batteries into a single nanowire, which they claim could soon be a rechargeable power source for new generations of nanoelectroni

US President Barack Obama called an urgent White House summit with key Democratic allies on Saturday as his Republican foes said fever-pitch efforts to avert a disastrous debt default would soon pay o

The Republican-led House of Representatives rejected a proposal on Saturday from Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to avert a US debt default with ruinous global consequences.

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A US-based Telugu association has approached the University of Southern Mississippi, requesting it to induct hundreds of Indian students from a Northern Virginia institute which was recently raided

The CIA's Islamabad station chief, who oversaw the intelligence team that uncovered Osama bin Laden's hideout, has left Pakistan for medical reasons, a US official said.

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Pakistan's ISI could try its best to rescue Ghulam Nabi Fai, accused of being on its payroll for 20 years and funnelling its cash into the US to influence lawmakers on Kashmir, feel federal prosecutor