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WatchBrent settled at $100.69 after jumping 6.1% — its first close above $100 since May — as the national gasoline average hit $4.09 a gallon and Wall Street sold off across the board.
None of the four officers who confronted Ruiz were wearing body cameras. Demonstrators seized the microphone at a police news conference and held it for 20 minutes.
The storm came ashore near New Orleans, but its worst rainfall landed 800 miles inland — six inches in 12 hours around Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
Google's parent beat on revenue and posted a record profit, but a ballooning AI spending forecast erased roughly $300 billion in market value, while Tesla slid 14% on a profit miss.
The National Weather Service has issued more than 30 flash-flood emergencies this month alone, part of a barrage of extreme rainfall events scientists tie directly to a hotter atmosphere.
Federal health officials say shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico is the likely source of a parasite outbreak that has hospitalized 94 people, even after one lab test came back a false positive.
Super Micro soared 24% and AMD gained on an Anthropic partnership, but Alphabet's plan to spend up to $205 billion this year and a Goldman warning on ballooning AI borrowing left the market uneasy about the boom's foundations.
The chipmaker began fresh layoffs in the unit at the heart of the AI boom, notifying employees just ahead of its quarterly results as Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan presses a sweeping restructuring.
WatchA team backed by the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation and the Discovery series 'Expedition Unknown' located the DC-4 airliner some 2,000 feet beneath the Atlantic, solving one of aviation's oldest mysteries.
Prosecutors say Brandon Booth, unable to reach his shift past demonstrators outside Aurora's ICE Processing Center, drew a personal handgun and fired, wounding 21-year-old Emma Landis.
WatchDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended a $67 billion supplemental request before a Senate panel Tuesday, disclosing that the four-month conflict's price tag has ballooned from about $29 billion in May as the U.S. death toll climbs.
A barrage of nearly 9,000 dry-lightning strikes touched off scores of fires in a matter of days, pushing the Northwest to the nation's highest preparedness level as flames destroyed homes and choked the sky with smoke.
WatchForecasters posted tropical storm warnings from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana, with up to 6 inches of rain and a 4-foot storm surge threatening the coast through Thursday.
Prosecutors say Andrew Arrabaca, 43, poured gasoline outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and told investigators he did not care if he killed people.
WatchU.S. Central Command said the latest barrage was meant to degrade Iran's ability to hit commercial shipping, hours before Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed it struck two 'non-compliant' tankers in the waterway.
Invoking Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 for the first time in its history, Trump gave Canada 30 days to drop what the White House called 'discriminatory' trade barriers or face duties on nearly $20 billion in imports.
WatchThe Energy Department is offering loans for up to 10 new Westinghouse reactors as a Rick Perry-led venture files to build the world's largest nuclear-powered data-center campus in the Texas Panhandle.
WatchPresident Trump warned of "strong" retaliation after three more U.S. service members were killed over the weekend, and the Pentagon is rushing F-16 and F-35 jets to the Middle East as fears of a prolonged war grow.
Pump prices are up 34% since fighting began, and a Houthi threat to a second oil chokepoint has traders bracing for a fresh energy shock just as the Federal Reserve was closing in on its 2% target.
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order sought by a coalition of 12 Democratic-led states, halting one of the biggest media mergers in history just weeks before it was set to close.
WatchFederal agents detained the self-styled 'manosphere' influencers on a sealed warrant in Miami over the weekend as U.K. prosecutors press dozens of charges spanning alleged offenses from 2010 to 2017.
Federal investigators traced shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell in five states to the California grower, in what is now the worst year on record for cyclosporiasis in the United States.
Prosecutors say eight men planned to fly explosive-laden drones into the UFC Freedom 250 card on the South Lawn and shoot fleeing spectators. Trial is set for September 14.
The streamer's second-quarter revenue rose 13% to $12.56 billion, essentially matching estimates — but a weaker third-quarter outlook and a decision to disclose less about viewing sent the stock down about 8%.
WatchThe president dismissed an internal pause on vehicle stops days after ICE officers killed two immigrant men who officials concede were not their targets. DHS will now put a body camera on every arrest team.
Regulators say Gabriel Perez allegedly used advance access to Trump's prepared remarks to win nearly $100,000 on Kalshi 'mention markets,' and is now in settlement talks with the CFTC.
The supermarket giant will absorb the 197-store, family-owned Pennsylvania and Ohio chain in a cash-and-liabilities deal, its first major acquisition attempt since its $25 billion Albertsons merger fell apart in 2024.
A twister touched down near Interstate 10 and the UTSA campus, damaging an apartment complex, as relentless storms swamped South and Central Texas, prompting mandatory evacuations in Uvalde County and a 59-county disaster declaration.
WatchAmerican forces launched two back-to-back waves of strikes Wednesday, including a 90-minute barrage on Greater Tunb Island, as Iran's Health Ministry said more than 260 people have been wounded and Tehran freed a detained American woman.
The duties, taking effect July 22 under Section 301, follow a yearlong probe into Brazil's digital-trade, ethanol and deforestation policies, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio blaming President Lula for refusing to 'negotiate in good faith.'