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A federal judge on Tuesday halted major fee increases for citizenship and other immigration benefits three days before they were to take effect, saying the last two chiefs of the Homeland Security Department were likely appointed illegally.

Firefighters in northern California on Tuesday struggled to make headway against two wildfires, one of them threatening towns and wineries in Napa Valley, and another blaze that killed three people in the Cascade foothills closer to the Oregon border.

Archaeological authorities in Mexico said Tuesday they kicked cast members of a popular local Jersey Shorestyle reality show out of the Mayan ruins of Uxmal after they behaved "immaturely" and refused to wear masks or follow social distancing rules.

Belarusian authorities said Tuesday that an independent media outlet that has extensively covered over seven weeks of protests against the country's authoritarian president will have its media credentials suspended for three months.

Crowds and pageantry are out. COVID19 tests and masks are in.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been buried in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Ginsburg was laid to rest Tuesday beside her husband and near some of her former colleagues on the court.

Alarmed by a spike in coronavirus infections in a few Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, New York City officials will start issuing fines in those areas to people who refuse to wear masks, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.

Georgia election officials say they're implementing a software change to fix a glitch in the state's new voting machines. But election integrity activists say the state is downplaying the problem and putting the security of the upcoming election at risk.

The Walt Disney Co. will make a sequel to the 2019 liveaction The Lion King, with Barry Jenkins, the director of the Oscarwinning Moonlight and the James Baldwin adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk, set to direct.

Federal investigators examining the 2018 crash of a stretch limousine that killed 20 people said Tuesday that state regulators repeatedly failed to oversee a poorly maintained vehicle with corroded brakes.

A pair of new highprofile endorsements are adding fuel to an already contentious special election for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia.

Dayjha Hogg has known racism her entire life, but until recently she thought she and her family had to face it on their own.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would have to be almost dying to get out of arguably the most notorious prison in the United States if convicted of espionage charges and sent there, the court at London's Old Bailey heard Tuesday.

Botswana has extended its state of emergency for a further six months to combat the spread of COVID19.

Hundreds of Israelis demonstrated outside parliament on Tuesday against a governmentbacked bill likely to stifle protests near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home during the current coronavirus lockdown.

Armenian and Azerbaijani forces accused each other of attacks on their territory on Tuesday, as fighting over the separatist region of NagornoKarabakh continued for a third straight day after a decadesold conflict reignited.