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The latest:U.S. nears milestone of three million known COVID-19 infections.Canadian finance minister to deliver fiscal 'snapshot' of federal spending since pandemic started.Brazilian president says he is confident he will swiftly recover from COVID-19.Spain's Catalonia region makes masks mandatory everywhere. Source

A white man and a white woman who allegedly painted over a California community's Black Lives Matter mural this weekend are each facing a hate crime charge, the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday. Source

Democratic Senate candidates, spurred by anger at U.S. President Donald Trump and hope that the party could take back the Senate, have posted massive second quarter fundraising numbers this month, distressing Republicans who now fear November's election could be devastating. Source

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a U.S. Army veteran who lost both of her legs while serving in Iraq, rebuked Tucker Carlson after the conservative Fox News host attacked her on Monday night and suggested that she hates America. Source

A senior Chinese arms control official called U.S. pressure to join nuclear arms talks with Russia an American ploy to avoid signing a new deal, and said China would gladly participate if the U.S. would agree to parity among all three nations. Source

BELGRADE, SERBIA -- Serbia's president and other officials sent mixed signals on Wednesday whether they will go ahead with the plans to reinstate a coronavirus lockdown in Belgrade after thousands protested the move and violently clashed with the police in the capital. Source

TORONTO -- Ontario is expected to table a motion today to extend the province's state of emergency until July 24. The current state of emergency declared at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic is set to expire July 15. Source

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- At least 239 people have been killed and 3,500 arrested in more than a week of unrest in Ethiopia that poses the biggest challenge yet to its Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister. Source

HALIFAX -- A coalition of groups devoted to eliminating gender-based violence across Canada is urging Ottawa and Nova Scotia to refrain from using a restorative justice approach for a promised inquiry into the mass killing that claimed 22 lives in the Maritime province. Source

Pounding rain that already caused deadly floods in southern Japan was moving northeast Wednesday, battering large areas of Japan's main island, swelling more rivers, triggering mudslides and destroying houses and roads. At least 58 people have died in several days of flooding. Source