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WASHINGTON — Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy has reversed the COVID-related cancellation of an annual wreath-laying event at Arlington National Cemetery next month, following criticism on social media and pleas to the White House.

WILMINGTON, Del.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal prosecutors accused a West Virginia man on Tuesday of conspiracy against the U.S. government and selling machine-gun conversion devices online to followers of a far-right extremist movement.

LIMA, Peru — Peru swore in its third president in just over a week Tuesday in a televised ceremony that residents of the fraught South American country watched with both hope and skepticism after the worst constitutional crisis in two decades.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The United States government paid for ambassador Scott Brown and his wife to fly domestically in New Zealand on a private jet so they could avoid going into quarantine at the border, documents show.

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held his first phone conversation with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, and they agreed to work closely to further advance the Indo-U.S.

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. Justice Department is dropping its drug trafficking and money laundering case against former Mexican Defence Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos, Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday.

NEW YORK — After the coronavirus pandemic sidelined creators and led to a delayed start of the traditional fall television season, scripted shows are beginning to return to network schedules. Not all of them, not yet.

WASHINGTON — Acting Defence Secretary Christopher Miller said Tuesday the U.S.