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5:56 PM on Tuesday, July 28

A White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets about President Donald Trump’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi is no longer in his post

5:33 PM on Tuesday, July 28

The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of NASA's sinking Swift Observatory has run into trouble

5:20 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Howard University notified hundreds of first-year incoming students that their spots for the upcoming semester were no longer being held

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

4:51 PM on Tuesday, July 28

The Big Ten would do away with its championship game if college football adopts a 24-team playoff

4:43 PM on Tuesday, July 28

San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan took the blame for the car crash that left him with a concussion and other injuries, saying he took his eyes off the road to reach for his fallen cell phone before hitting another vehicle

4:42 PM on Tuesday, July 28

A labor union and two female prison employees filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing a U.S. civil rights agency of unlawfully halting their sexual harassment case as part of wider order to indefinitely suspend proceedings in all federal-sector class claims

4:39 PM on Tuesday, July 28

There are a handful of NFL teams with varying levels of competition for their season-opening starting quarterback

4:30 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Five states have agreed to accept nuclear waste from around the country in exchange for federal help to develop nuclear energy and create thousands of jobs

4:05 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says there's “zero debate” that this season will be his last

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

3:51 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Draymond Green has agreed to a one-year, $27.7 million deal to return to the Golden State Warriors

3:37 PM on Tuesday, July 28

The Minnesota Vikings have suspended defensive backs coach Gerald Alexander for three weeks without pay following a drunken driving charge for an incident in April

3:34 PM on Tuesday, July 28

The 15-year-old arrested after a shootout at a food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle over the weekend was armed with a ghost gun with an extended magazine

2:43 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Justin Herbert has his first ring, and it's not on the football field

2:40 PM on Tuesday, July 28

eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to Massachusetts journalists David and Ina Steiner under a newly finalized settlement resolving a lawsuit over a 2019 cyberstalking campaign carried out by former company employees

12:22 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Andy Lippman, a former Los Angeles bureau chief for The Associated Press, has died at 78

10:26 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Virginia’s Old Dominion University did not ask a student about his criminal history before or after readmitting him

12:11 AM on Tuesday, July 28

The GOP race to replace Sen. Lindsey Graham on the November ballot is heating up

12:06 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Most U.S. stocks rose after Coca-Cola and other companies reported stronger profits for the spring than analysts expected