Benjamin Alvarez
@benjalvarez1
US Correspondent for DW
Abdul El-Sayed wins the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Michigan, the Associated Press projects.
The drink menu at Abdul El-Sayed’s watch party in Detroit, Michigan.
The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in rainbow colors following yesterday's attack on the sidelines of Berlin's Christopher Street Day Pride event.
Michelle Bachelet at the UN now: "The key task for the next Secretary-General will be to defend, preserve and improve the organization, including through continued reforms in order to ensure that the UN delivers ever more and better."
"Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large," Mayor Mamdani says in a new video statement. "While we cannot end the genocide on our own, we can decide whether our silence will become another weapon," he adds.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms new estimate cost for the Iran war: $37.5 billion.
Our colleague Alican Uludağ has been arrested again in Turkey. He is facing new allegations in a separate investigation, while an ongoing case against him continues.
President Trump presented Spain with the 2026 World Cup trophy and then remained on stage as FIFA President Gianni Infantino tried to usher him away from the team.
"International justice is not a threat to sovereignty. Impunity is a threat to humanity," Kerry Kennedy writes on Washington's push to isolate the International Criminal Court. "The U.S should be strengthening the international system of justice, not working to destroy it."
The White House Correspondents' Association has expressed support for the New York Times reporters who were subpoenaed by the Trump administration after their reporting on security concerns with the new Qatari-donated Air Force One.
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Bessent and Tennessee lawmakers unveiled a sign renaming a bridge on Interstate 40 in Dandridge as the "President Donald J. Trump Bridge."
"Chile suffered under a brutal dictatorship. Many people died. Others were forced into exile or subjected to torture,” the new UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Claudia Fuentes Julio said as she takes on her new role. "We owe it to those victims to keep working for them."
Danish reporter Rasmus Svaneborg grills NATO's Rutte over his silence when US President Trump talks about conquering Greenland and lashes out at Spain. "Does this have any effect on your self-respect when you sit next to him like that and say nothing?"
FIFA has announced an all-Argentine on-field officiating crew for the France vs Marocco 2026 World Cup quarter-final.
Más de 50 años por la defensa de los derechos humanos: Alicia Lira Matus recibe el Premio Nacional de Derechos Humanos 2026 por parte del Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos de Chile.
Secretary Marco Rubio is hosting his Chilean counterpart, Francisco Pérez Mackenna, at the US Department of State. During the photo opportunity, the Secretary of State took a question on FIFA's controversial red card reversal involving US striker Balogun.
UEFA slams FIFA for reversing the red card suspension for US striker Folarin Balogun: "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision."
A commuter sits as members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front ride the metro in Washington, D.C., on the 250th anniversary of the United States. Cheney Orr for Reuters.
Due to yesterday's massive July 4th fireworks show, the city of Washington, D.C. has now issued a Code Red Air Quality Alert, warning residents to "limit time outside during periods of poor air quality."
A tri-bomber constellation (B-1 Lancer, B-2 Stealth, and B-52 Stratofortress) in New York, seen from the German Navy ship Gorch Fock during Sail4th 250.
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship to children born in the United States, including those whose parents are in the country unlawfully or only temporarily, SCOTUS rules.
The Supreme Court upheld West Virginia and Idaho laws limiting girls' and women's school sports teams to biological females, holding that Title IX permits sex-separated teams based on biological sex and that the laws do not violate the Equal Protection Clause. @scotus_wire
A small-scale replica of President Trump's proposed 250-foot-tall "Independence Arch" on display at the Great American State Fair.