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A container ship in the canal

Even as businesses spend $4 million to cross Panama Canal, they say ‘it’s safer and less expensive’ than the Strait of Hormuz

By Alma Solis, Megan Janetsky, and others

investors

Intel’s blowout quarter just sparked its best day since 1987

By The Associated Press and Stan Choe

US President Donald Trump.

Trump’s own judge just sided against his asylum crackdown—White House blames ‘political lens’

By Michael Kunzelman, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others

Ron Kaz wears a hat outside the department of corrections before the scheduled firing squad execution of South Carolina inmate Mikal Mahdi on April 11, 2025 in Columbia, South Carolina.

Firing squads are back: Trump’s DOJ revives rarely used execution method once limited to five states

By The Associated Press and Alanna Durkin Richer

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 07: Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on January 07, 2026 in Washington, DC. Makary and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Leavitt to discuss new dietary guidelines encouraging the consumption of fewer processed foods and more whole foods, fruits, vegetables and saturated fat. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hallucinogenics are illegal under federal law but that isn’t stopping the FDA from fast tracking 3 psychedelic drugs to treat mental health

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

exterior of supreme court

Prosecutors used rap lyrics to help sentence a man to death in Texas. That strategy is more common than you may think

By Maria Sherman, Claudia Lauer, and others

Trump holds the bill up.

Only one person has been granted Trump’s $1 million ‘gold card’ despite promises it would rake in $1 trillion

By Jesse Bedayn and The Associated Press

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AI smart glasses are helping visually impaired runners take on the London Marathon

By The Associated Press and Mustakim Hasnath

scott bessent

Trump just sanctioned a major Chinese oil refinery over Iranian oil—weeks before he meets Xi Jinping

By The Associated Press and Fatima Hussein

suicide

Young adult suicide rate down 11% over 2.5 years of new 988 mental health crisis hotline

By Devi Shastri and The Associated Press

betting

Meet the 38-year-old special forces officer charged with using classified info about Maduro’s capture to win $400,000 online

By Hallie Golden, Konstantin Toropin, and others

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America learned how to guard ships going through the mined Strait of Hormuz in the 1980s during the ‘Tanker War’

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

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Panama Canal surge pricing: up to $4 million paid out with Strait of Hormuz still closed

By Alma Solis, Megan Janetsky, and others

Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists aboard the papal flight from Malabo to Rome, on April 23, 2026, at the end of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (Photo by Andrew Medichini / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Pope Leo says he carries a photo of a slain Muslim boy in his pocket: ‘I cannot be in favor of war’

By Nicole Winfield and The Associated Press

Canadian permanent residents take their Canadian citizenship oath, their last step to become Canadian citizens, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on June 16, 2025. Over 100 people from 31 different countries take part in this Canadian citizenship ceremony and become Canadian citizens. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

‘It was like this little gift that fell in my lap’: Millions of Americans may soon discover they’ve been Canadian all along

By The Associated Press and Sarah Raza