Molnupiravir, which is in advanced Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials against COVID-19 infection, can stop the spread of the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 within 24 hours

Although it's been apparent for weeks that Biden won the presidential election, his accrual of more than 270 electors is the first step toward the White House, said Edward B. Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University

General Services Administration has still not recognized him as president-elect, preventing his team from gaining access to government office space and funding

The president, who has spent months trying to undermine the election results with unproven allegations of fraud, has pledged to go forward with a legal strategy that he hopes will overturn state results that gave Biden the win in Tuesday's vote

Voters lined up around the country to cast ballots, with no signs yet of disruptions at polling places that some had feared after a heated campaign marked by provocative rhetoric

Index measures degree to which policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom; report says prospects for increasing economic freedom in India depend on next-generation reforms and greater openness to global trade

Solutions to shadow banking risks are well-documented: tightening regulations, extending central banks' cover as lender-of-last-resort, mandating deposit insurance to prevent overnight collapse, controlling trade in highly complex, opaque and high-risk derivatives and changing short-term-funding-long-term-lending business model

That shadow banking was at the core of the financial sector meltdown that led to the Great Recession of 2007-08 is well documented and so is the fact that it remains big and powerful enough to cause serious financial crisis and yet, India and the US continue to promote it

Global COVID-19 update:  Worldwide the virus has infected more than 36 lakh people and killed over a quarter-million, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said the coronavirus pandemic hit the world economy when it was already in a fragile state as it was weighed down by trade disputes, policy uncertainty and geopolitical tensions

An American university gets ready to operate out of AP.