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President Donald Trump on Tuesday approved a permit for a proposed rail line connecting Alaska and Canada.

A Long Island man convicted of running a sex trafficking ring out of his elderly parents sprawling suburban home was sentenced Tuesday to 9 years in prison.

Texas officials said Tuesday that water samples taken earlier this year from a Houstonarea community did not raise concerns before the detection of a deadly, microscopic parasite, which doctors believe killed a 6yearold boy.

The University of Notre Dame's president has issued an apology for not wearing a mask at a White House event after pictures surfaced online of him shaking hands and sitting shouldertoshoulder with people without one.

A report said that about two times more teens were infected than younger children. Most infected children have mild cases; hospitalizations and death rates are much lower than in adults.

Greek authorities were moving nearly 1,000 refugees from eastern Aegean islands to the mainland Tuesday as part of efforts to improve conditions in overcrowded island refugee camps.

A criminal court in North Macedonia has sentenced former conservative prime minister Nikola Gruevski to 1 1/2 years in prison, and handed suspended sentences to six other party members and supporters for orchestrating violence in 2013.

Britain has imposed sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, his son and six other senior government officials following the disputed presidential election and a crackdown on protesters in Belarus.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Armenia and Azerbaijan on Tuesday to cease hostilities as clashes continued over the breakaway NagornoKarabakh region.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in three counties because of the Glass and Zogg fires that have claimed three lives and burned thousands of acres in the state since Sunday.

Cypriot authorities pushed back 200 migrants and refugees arriving from Lebanon aboard boats earlier this month, ignoring their claims for asylum while in some instances using violence and coercive tactics, a human rights watchdog said on Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron pushed for European mediation in the Belarus political crisis after a meeting with the countrys opposition leader Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron met Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Vilnius on Tuesday on the second day of a visit to Baltic countries meant to reassure them about French commitment to their security;

South Korea appealed on Tuesday for strict socialdistancing despite a slight fall in the number of its new coronavirus cases, with millions of people set to travel for a major holiday.

Hundreds of thousands of elementary school students are heading back to classrooms Tuesday as New York City enters a highstakes stage of resuming inperson learning during the coronavirus pandemic, which is keeping students at home in many other big U.S. s...