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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

11:37 AM 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

10:44 AM 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

8:55 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

8:34 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

8:32 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

5:45 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

5:40 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

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, speaks to the press after his meeting with Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides, in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UN chief makes rare Cyprus visit to help ease decades-old ethnic division

5:03 AM on Tuesday, July 28

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is visiting Cyprus to show commitment to resolving its ethnic division

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

3:33 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 - F16 fighter jets of the Romanian Air Force and the Romania based European F-16 Training Center (EFTC), perform a fly-by at the Black Sea, Defense, Aerospace and Security (BSDA) international exhibition in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

NATO member Romania shoots down stray drones from Ukraine war after years of incursions

3:29 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Romania is taking a new approach to drones entering its airspace by shooting them down

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

12:33 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

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrive during a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People, May 14, 2026, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

US looks to boost anti-China spending worldwide by hundreds of millions, documents say

5:00 PM on Monday, July 27

The Trump administration is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter China’s growing influence worldwide

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