The DC troop fight runs on crime numbers the city cannot vouch for
Police data shows violent crime in Washington up 3 percent this year even as homicides fell 32 percent, on a table the department calls preliminary.
More than 4,600 troops from the District and 24 states and territories remain, and the Pentagon has costed the rest of the mission at $1.4 billion.

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Police data shows violent crime in Washington up 3 percent this year even as homicides fell 32 percent, on a table the department calls preliminary.
Coyote vs. Acme sat finished and unreleased for nearly three years, after Ketchup Entertainment bought it from Warner Bros for a reported $50 million.
Michael took $372.3 million in the US and Canada, and Lionsgate is targeting a production start on a sequel late this year.
Watchdog groups asked ethics officials to investigate gala tickets Paramount gave FCC commissioners during its merger reviews. One wants the chairman disqualified.
In CDC data for 2024, 9,576 births were to mothers with foreign addresses. The Center for Immigration Studies puts it as high as 26,000.
Ohio law gives Miller until Saturday to quit the ballot in his Cleveland-area district, ahead of a 4 p.m. Monday deadline to name a replacement.
Until Castro reaches Minnesota there is no trial. He has sat in a Texas cell since May, over a shot that went through a door and lodged in a child's bedroom wall.

SpaceX's spent Falcon 9 stage struck at 5,400 miles an hour, 19 months after a launch that carried two landers toward the moon.

Sworn in at Cali, the first president to take office outside the capital, he gave armed groups 100 days to surrender. His party holds one Chamber seat and four in the Senate.
Futures traders cut the odds of a September rate rise after the July jobs report, but Fed officials had spent the week arguing for higher rates to fight inflation.
| Federal funds target range | 3.5 to 3.75 percent |
| PCE inflation, year to June | 3.7 percent |
| Unemployment rate, July | 4.1 percent |
| Nonfarm payrolls, July | down 23,000 |
| Average hourly earnings, year to July | up 3.2 percent |
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The FDA approved the first influenza vaccine made with mRNA, months after refusing to review the application. Clearance for adults over 65 is conditional on a further study.
Grant overhead would be capped at 5 percent, down from 15, the engine of a claimed $2.2 billion saving the rule's own accounting puts at $0.94 billion.
AbbVie's Creon cost Medicare $1.49 billion in 2024 and the drug picked instead cost about half a billion less.