Jul 28 Watch 10:33 Iraq’s record crop yield threatened by suspicious fires By Simona Foltyn Iraq is nearing record wheat production this year, even as widespread fires have destroyed thousands of acres of farmland in minority Sunni Arab and Yazidi communities. The Islamic State once terrorized the region in northern Iraq, where disputes over land… Continue watching
Jul 28 Trump says director of national intelligence is resigning By Zeke Miller, Eric Tucker, Deb Reichmann, Associated Press Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, will leave his job next month, President Trump announced Sunday, after a turbulent two years in which Coats and the president were often at odds over Russian interference in the 2016 election. Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch 5:35 What will a future with robots look like? By PBS NewsHour Automated technology already consumes much of society, from robotic arms working in factories to artificial intelligence used in homes. The next step could be programming ethics and morality into systems, creating a robot-human future. David Ewing Duncan, a science journalist… Continue watching
Jul 28 Egan Bernal wins Tour de France By John Leicester, Samuel Petrequin, Associated Press On the Champs-Elysees fittingly bathed in the yellow of a golden dusk, a Tour de France for the ages crowned a champion of an unusually young age on Sunday: 22-year-old Egan Bernal, South America's first winner of cycling's greatest race. Continue reading
Jul 28 Blast, gunbattle at Afghan VP candidate’s office, 2 dead By Rahim Faiez, Associated Press The first day of the Afghan presidential campaign began with a large bomb and gun attack in the capital, Kabul, targeting the office of the president’s running mate, officials said, leaving at least two people dead and 25 wounded. Continue reading
Jul 28 Woman set to replace Puerto Rico governor rejects job By Danica Coto, Associated Press The woman who is supposed to replace Puerto Rico's embattled governor announced Sunday that she doesn't want the job as the U.S. territory reels from political crisis. Continue reading
Jul 28 Joe Biden draws line against progressives on health care By Bill Barrow, Associated Press Biden is at the center of a broader Democratic divide over the future of health care that will likely be an animating issue at this week’s primary debate in Detroit. Continue reading
Jul 28 Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade By Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press Nearly 1,400 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian monitoring group said Sunday, adding that was the largest number of detentions at a rally in the Russian capital this decade. Continue reading
Jul 28 Police fire tear gas as Hong Kong protesters block roads By Katie Tam, Chanwoo Bang, Associated Press Police fired tear gas at protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday for the second night in a row in another escalation of weeks-long pro-democracy protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. Continue reading
Jul 28 Top aide says Trump’s criticism of black lawmaker not racist By Zeke Miller, Hope Yen, Associated Press A top White House aide on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's disparaging tweets about an influential black Democratic congressman and his Baltimore district as a justified response to the lawmaker's criticism of administration border policies. Continue reading