April 19, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian police shot dead a gunman who killed six people and wounded several more in Kyiv on Saturday.
April 19, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
LUANDA — Pope Leo sharply decried the exploitation of natural resources in Africa on Saturday, blasting “despots and tyrants” who guarantee wealth but do not deliver on their promises, leading to suffering and deaths.
April 19, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
A California man cooked up a scheme that called for buying thousands of dollars worth of Lego kits, replacing Lego pieces and minifigures with bags of uncooked pasta, and returning the sets to stores for refunds, police said Thursday.
April 19, 2026 | 3 MIN READ
BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. — Hundreds of animal welfare activists in Wisconsin were thwarted by police and private security guards as they tried to free thousands of beagles from a facility that breeds them for sale to research labs and for experiments done on-site.
April 18, 2026 | 7 MIN READ
For more than 1,200 years, Japanese noblemen, monks and bureaucrats have carefully recorded one of the most eagerly awaited days of the year — when cherry blossoms bloom in the ancient capital, Kyoto.
April 18, 2026 | 5 MIN READ
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday that energy companies facing lawsuits over environmental damage to Louisiana’s coast from oil and gas production can move the challenges from state courts into friendlier federal venues.
April 18, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
LONDON — The world has lost over $50 billion worth of crude oil that has not been produced since the Iran war began nearly 50 days ago and the aftershock of the crisis will be felt for months and even years to come, according to analysts and Reuters calculations.
April 18, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president’s $10 billion lawsuit against the tax collection agency for leaking his tax returns to the media in 2019 and 2020.
April 18, 2026 | 5 MIN READ
DUBAI/WASHINGTON — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday the Strait of Hormuz was open following a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, while President Donald Trump said talks could take place this weekend and he believed a deal to end the Iran war would come “soon.&rd...
April 18, 2026 | 1 MIN READ
A federal judge on Friday rejected the U.S. Department of Justice’s bid to force Rhode Island to turn over non-public data on nearly 750,000 registered voters so the Trump administration could probe “election integrity” in the Democratic-led state.
April 18, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
NEW YORK/LONDON — Oil prices cratered, Wall Street indexes scaled record highs and U.S. Treasuries surged on Friday, after Iran said the Strait of Hormuz was open for passage during a ceasefire in Lebanon and President Donald Trump said he expected to reach a deal to end the war soon....
April 18, 2026 | 1 MIN READ
WASHINGTON — Congress voted on Friday to extend an expiring surveillance law for 10 days, after libertarian-leaning Republicans in the House demanded that they be allowed to vote on adding new privacy limits to any long-term extension.
April 18, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
LOS ANGELES — Singer D4vd was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder in connection with the case of a girl whose decomposing body was discovered inside his Tesla in Hollywood.
April 18, 2026 | 1 MIN READ
American Airlines said on Friday that it was not interested in a merger with United Airlines and had not held any such talks, diminishing prospects of an industry-reshaping deal that would face tough regulatory scrutiny.
April 18, 2026 | 3 MIN READ
In one TikTok video, a blonde films herself with a group of women at a racetrack. “If you support Trump, you just made a friend,” she says.
April 18, 2026 | 3 MIN READ
Jay Foreman said he’s “locked and loaded” for the U.S. government’s launch on Monday of a new system to refund up to $166 billion in illegally collected tariffs, but he and many other importers are realistic that much could still go wrong.
