7/23

• Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen won reelection and declared victory for himself and the Cambodian People’s Party. However, the EU, United States, and other Western countries continually criticize the country’s election process’ ethicality.
• At least 27 people died and 78 are missing after monsoon rains in India caused a landslide.
• Special counsel Jack Smith contacted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp concerning the investigation into former President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election (see 11/18).

7/24

• Spain’s Popular Party won 136 seats in the country’s parliamentary elections but did not reach the amount needed to form a government.

7/25

• Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, approved the judicial reforms that Prime Minister Netanyahu proposed despite the growing protests occurring throughout Israel (see 7/22).
• Peter Stager, a truck driver from Arkansas, was sentenced to 52 months in federal prison for assaulting a police officer with a flagpole during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
• Greta Thunberg was arrested for attempting to block access to an oil facility.

7/26

• The Taliban forced all beauty salons in Afghanistan to close following a policy announced earlier in the month that banned women-only spaces.
• Florida Gov. DeSantis cut 38 jobs from his presidential campaign.
• President Biden signed a proclamation establishing a national monument in honor of Emmett Till.
• House Speaker McCarthy stated that Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry that accuses President Biden of financial misconduct. 

7/27

• Rudy Giuliani admitted in court papers that he falsely accused 2 Georgia election workers of mishandling ballots during the 2020 presidential election.
• The Federal Reserve raised its interest rate a quarter percentage point, putting the rate between 5.1% and 5.3% and making it the 11th rate hike in 17 months.
• Senate Republican Leader McConnell froze mid-sentence during a press conference, pausing for 20 seconds before his colleagues brought him back to his office.
• A British jury found Kevin Spacey not guilty of sexually assaulting 4 men.

7/28

• The Department of Justice announced it was launching a civil rights investigation into the Memphis police in response to the murder of Tyre Nichols (see 4/19).
• Coup supporters attacked President Mohamed Bazoum’s party headquarters, and Niger’s army supported the soldiers who captured Bazoum despite protests across the world demanding the captured president’s release.

7/29

• Niger General Abdourahmane Tchiani declared himself the country’s new leader after his soldiers overthrew ousted President Bazoum in a coup d’etat.
• Federal prosecutors asked a judge to remove Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail, claiming that he is guilty of witness tampering.