Acting U.S. navy secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday, just hours after he had publicly apologized for a profanity-laced upbraiding of the officer he fired as captain of the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt.
The lockdown that served as a model for countries battling the coronavirus around the world has ended after 11 weeks.
The Taliban on Tuesday broke off talks with the Afghan government on a prisoner exchange, a main step in peace talks being brokered by the United States after it agreed on a troop withdrawal pact with the militants.
New York recorded the single greatest one-day jump in deaths from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, but the state's governor pointed to other signs that the state may be reaching a plateau in its wrenching efforts to limit the damage caused by the pandemic.
With much of the world struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still some good-news stories to report. Here's a brief roundup.
