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District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, right, speaks as Delano Hunter, director of the DC Department of General Services, left, listens during the opening of the newly renovated outdoor pool at the Rosedale Recreation Center, Thursday, July 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Washington crime stats system experienced a 'systemic breakdown' of internal controls, report says

4:51 PM on Tuesday, July 28

The Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police’s crime statistics collection experienced a “prolonged, systemic breakdown of its internal control system,” according to a report released Tuesday by the city’s inspector general, which reviewed the department’s process after accusations by the federal government that figures were manipulated

FILE - A herd of elephants grazes in Amboseli National Park in Kajiado, Kenya, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

The deaths of 15 elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park spark investigation

3:52 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Kenya’s wildlife authorities are investigating the deaths of 15 elephants over the past month in Amboseli National Park

A person drops envelopes into a mailbox as postal workers participate in a national day of action outside a U.S. Post Office building, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Court panel declines to block Trump's mail ballot order, but its status for midterms remains unclear

2:37 PM on Tuesday, July 28

A panel of federal appellate judges has refused to block President Donald Trump's executive order on mail voting

FILE - An advertisement for prediction market platform Kalshi hangs at 13th and L Streets in northwest Washington, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert, File)

Minnesota's first-in-the-nation law banning prediction markets is halted in federal court

1:44 PM on Tuesday, July 28

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Minnesota's law banning prediction markets, which was set to take effect Saturday

Vehicles drive past a closed gas station during a fuel shortage in Irbil, Iraq, Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Stella Martany)

Drivers endure overnight gas lines as a war-driven fuel shortage grips Iraq's Kurdish region

11:55 AM on Tuesday, July 28

A fuel crisis has hit Iraq's Kurdish region, leaving drivers in Irbil waiting for hours, some overnight, to buy gasoline

FILE - Musalia Mudavadi speaks during his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at Zinaida Morozova's Mansion in Moscow, Monday, March 16, 2026. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Pool Photo via AP, file)

UK to resume military training in Kenya after delay over human rights concerns

11:34 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Kenya and Britain have agreed to resume military training in Kenya after delays in signing a new defense cooperation agreement

Rescuers recover a trapped victim from the rubble at the scene of a landslide in Pengshui County in southwestern China's Chongqing area on Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Death toll from Chongqing landslide in southwestern China climbs to 41

11:32 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Teams in southwestern China have identified 30 more victims from a recent landslide, bringing the death toll in Chongqing to 41

U.S. Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), briefs the media on Protecting Victims of Trafficking in Online Scam Operations, during a press briefing, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Criminal gangs increasingly lure people to work in online scam centers, UN migration agency warns

8:45 AM on Tuesday, July 28

The U.N.’s migration agency is warning that criminal networks have been trafficking hundreds of thousands of people to work in online scam centers, and the caseload is growing — especially across Asia

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a Department of Defense Commander in Chief farewell ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Jan. 16, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Joe Biden interviews with memoir ghostwriter reveal him discussing sensitive information

8:40 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Newly released audio tapes appear to show Joe Biden sharing classified information with a biographer and sometimes claiming memory lapses during interviews that occurred before his election to the presidency in 2020

FILE - Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi speaks at the U.S. Iraq Business Summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Friday, July 17, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., file)

Erdogan says Turkey could get 1M barrels of oil a day from energy deal with Iraq

7:35 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Turkey and Iraq have held talks on expanding energy cooperation

FILE - Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti speaks during a President Joe Biden campaign event in Scranton, Pa., April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Democrat's TV ad targets data centers in drive to oust Republican from swing Pennsylvania House seat

6:33 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Democrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at artificial intelligence data centers in her challenge to Republican congressman Rob Bresnahan, saying “we are not for sale” in a TV ad in a swing Pennsylvania district

FILE - Mourners attend a second mass funeral for victims of an airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center earlier this month, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai, File)

Months of fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan have killed nearly 500 Afghan civilians, UN says

3:33 AM on Tuesday, July 28

The United Nations reports that cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has killed nearly 500 civilians in Afghanistan and wounded over 1,000 others between October and June

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