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If Commissioner Keechant Sewell, head of the nation's largest police force, wanted to promote an investigator to first-grade detective, she had to clear it with City Hall, according to her former top uniformed officer.When she was selecting someone to run the New York Police Department's Intelligence Division, her choice was blocked by members of Mayor Eric Adams's administration, according to several current and former officials.

Throngs of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan have been arrested.Media columnists considered sympathetic to him have been intimidated.Key allies have resigned from his party, saying they had been threatened with criminal charges and arrests.As political tensions between Mr. Khan and the Pakistani government have flared in recent weeks and sparked violent nationwide protests, the country's powerful military has responded by launching a chilling campaign against Mr. Khan's supporters that aims to hollow out his political party ahead of general elections this fall.

After not even 18 months in office, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has lost one top official after another from his administration, a troubling and unusual exodus as the city is confronted by multiple major challenges.Last month, the mayor's chief housing officer, Jessica Katz, announced her resignation, leaving the city without the architect of its housing agenda.

Facing a ruinous economic crisis, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi recently decided it was time to hold talks with what was left of Egypt's political opposition, giving them a seat at the table after nearly a decade of repression, prison and exile.But to an authoritarian leader like Mr. el-Sisi, reconciliation only goes so far.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JOSHUA GOODMAN (Associated Press)
MIAMI (AP) - Florida's shift to the right is perhaps nowhere more notable than in this vibrant swath of the state's southeast coast where the latest Donald Trump drama is unfolding.Republicans have made steady inroads in this former Democratic stronghold in recent years, culminating in the GOP carrying Miami-Dade County in last year's midterm elections.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Friday took the stage in NATO's newest member, Finland, to say that further strengthening Ukraine's defenses against Russia was a prerequisite for diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine and to warn against short-term cease-fires that might play to Moscow's advantage.