The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reversed course on its recommendations around mask-wearing and now says that in areas of high COVID-19 transmission rates, even fully vaccinated Americans should wear masks in public indoor settings to prevent the spread of the delta variant.
Democrats launched their investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection on Tuesday with a focus on the law enforcement officers who were attacked and beaten as the rioters broke into the building, in an effort to put a human face on the violence of the day.
A Georgia man accused of killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage businesses in March was pleading guilty in Cherokee County on Tuesday, hoping for a sentence of life without parole to the first four of the eight shooting deaths.
A trial opened in Vatican City on Tuesday for 10 defendants, including a once-powerful cardinal, in a case based on a sprawling investigation of the allegedly criminal management of the Holy See's portfolio of assets, including donations by countless Catholics.
An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies in Germany killed at least one person Tuesday, with 16 injured and four still missing.
Tokyo reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, days after the Olympics began. The Japanese capital reported 2,848 new COVID-19 cases, exceeding the earlier record of 2,520 cases on Jan. 7.
An increasing number of migrants and asylum seekers have been crossing irregularly from Belarus into Lithuania, but Lithuania says this is a “hybrid attack” and not a refugee crisis. Most are Iraqis and many are from Iraq’s Yazidi minority.
