The Biden Justice Department has announced it is seeking to ascertain if the City of Houston, a Democrat-dominated city, violated the civil rights of racial minority residents by failing to curtail illegal dumping in predominantly African American and Latino neighborhoods.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen boarded a naval warship on Tuesday for only the second time in her six years in office, where she lauded the military’s determination to defend the island while overseeing its largest annual naval and air exercises.

St. Louis Cardinals All-Stars Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt will miss the team’s two-game series in Toronto due to Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The principal of the Texas elementary school where a gunman went on a rampage in May has been suspended with pay, her attorney said on Tuesday, two weeks after a damning report about lax security that enabled the shooter to carry out the attack.

As Democrats in the Senate, including moderate Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, seem poised to advance a bill that would, they say, lead to reduced costs on some prescription drugs, at least one Republican leader is attempting to galvanize opposition.

Myanmar’s ruling military on Tuesday defended its execution of four democracy activists as “justice for the people”, brushing off a deluge of international condemnation including from its closest neighbors.