The Pentagon identified Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, as the soldier killed during a controlled detonation of a downed drone at Erbil Air Base in Iraq. A second service member was treated for a minor injury, and the incident remains under investigation.
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India’s youth-led Cockroach movement resumed its New Delhi sit-in after police used tear gas and batons against protesters marching toward Parliament. Demonstrators are demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resign over alleged exam system failures.
India’s Cockroach Janta Party says it will stop marching through New Delhi after violent clashes with police, but will continue demanding education reforms and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. Police and protesters gave sharply different accounts of the violence that injured scores of people.
United Airlines says it is reviewing a viral video in which an employee appears to threaten to call ICE on passenger Julio Varela during a ticketing dispute at San Francisco International Airport. Varela said his family, all U.S. citizens, was trying to fix an error on his daughter’s ticket.
Joshua Kerry, 28, has been charged with murdering former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe. Counterterrorism police say a possible political motive remains under investigation.
Five people died in Ohio’s Scioto River after several entered the water to help someone struggling to swim, authorities said. Two children under 10 who had been with the group were placed in the care of family services.
Hundreds gathered in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to mourn 18-year-old Nolan Wells, whose body was found two days after a Fourth of July trip to Horn Island. His family and attorney are calling for answers as officials continue investigating the circumstances of his death.
Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old Moroccan-born man, died after police restrained him face down during an arrest in Bologna. Prosecutors have opened an inquiry, ordered an autopsy and sought footage as protests and political disputes grow.