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Most sunscreens harm corals. Here’s what you can do
Every time you go for a swim, some of your sunscreen gets left behind. An estimated 25% of applied sunscreen washes off during recreational water activities, releasing some 5,000 tons annually in reef areas alone, according to a study in Environmental Health Perspectives. That’s equivalent to the weight of about...
Iran’s economy has been battered. Its leaders still think Trump will blink first
CAIRO — In the heartland of Iran’s famed carpet-making industry, manufacturing has ground to a near halt. Dairies struggle to find packages for milk and butter. Giant steel mills that once drove Iran’s economy have gone silent. Hundreds of thousands have lost jobs, and millions more are at risk. Over...
U.S. appears cold to Iranian proposal to end the war without a nuclear deal
The Trump administration seemed unlikely Tuesday to accept Iran’s offer to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade on the country. The proposal would postpone discussions on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, something that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to...
BP’s profit more than doubles in 1Q as Iran war continues and U.S. gas prices rise
BP’s profit more than doubled in the first quarter as the war in Iran continues and the average price for gasoline hit a new high for the year in the U.S. The oil and gas industry has been in upheaval since the start of the Iran war in February. A...
South Korean court convicts wife of ousted President Yoon on further corruption charges
SEOUL, South Korea — An appeals court has raised to four years the sentence for the wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol for corruption, about two months after her husband was sentenced to life in prison for rebellion. In January, ex-first lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced...
Baby on board: Paramedics help passenger give birth just before Delta flight lands
Please fasten your seat belt, make sure your tray table is in an upright and locked position, and prepare for delivery. A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta gave birth to a healthy 5-½ pound girl just before the Boeing 737 landed at Portland International Airport in...
Gunman, reportedly age 89, opens fire at 2 locations in Greek capital, wounding several people
ATHENS, Greece — Police in Greece’s capital were searching for a gunman, reportedly aged 89, who opened fire Tuesday in a social security office and a courthouse in central Athens, wounding at least four people. Armed with a shotgun, the gunman initially opened fire at the social security office, wounding...
Ukraine says it shot down 33,000 Russian drones in March, a monthly record
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine used interceptor systems to shoot down more than 33,000 Russian drones of various types in March, a record monthly figure since Moscow launched its all-out invasion more than four years ago, Ukraine’s defense minister claimed. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s domestically developed long-range attack drones struck a Russian oil...
Man pleads guilty to plotting attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austrian media report
WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria — A man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago pleaded guilty as his trial began on Tuesday, his lawyer said. The plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities...
Pentagon can require reporters to be escorted during appeal process, judges rule
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge’s decision to block its enforcement of a press access policy challenged by The New York Times, an appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling by a divided three-judge panel from...
Kid Rock flies in Army helicopter weeks after flights near his house drew scrutiny
WASHINGTON — Kid Rock and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew in Army Apache attack helicopters at a base in Virginia on Monday, a defense official said, coming weeks after military pilots drew scrutiny for hovering near the entertainer’s Tennessee home. On social media Monday night, Hegseth posted photos of himself...
Republicans in Congress push for Trump’s White House ballroom after shooting at media dinner
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress launched new efforts Monday to approve and pay for President Donald Trump’s proposed ballroom at the White House, arguing that it would help avert security breaches like the shooting at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. A new bill introduced by Republican senators would authorize...
ICE arrests of Cubans skyrocket under Trump as green cards plummet, study finds
MIAMI — Immigration arrests of Cubans living in the United States have skyrocketed even as green-card approvals have plummeted under President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, according to a recently released analysis from a libertarian Washington think tank. A Cato Institute report published last week found that overall the Trump administration...
Fast-moving storms batter the Midwest, flooding streets and stranding commuters
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Fast-moving storms pummeled parts of the Midwest with hail, strong wind and heavy rain Monday, flooding streets and leading to stranded commuters who needed to be rescued, with more storms on the way, authorities said. More than 64 million people in the Midwest were at risk...
Supreme Court grapples with multibillion-dollar wave of lawsuits over Roundup cancer claims
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed divided Monday over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer. The case came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts against the global...
CDC reports surge in antibiotic-resistant stomach bug
A common stomach bug is becoming harder to treat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, adding to the growing list of infections that can withstand several lines of antibiotics. A CDC report released this month found “extensively drug-resistant” bacteria caused about 9% of shigellosis cases in 2023, up...
Supreme Court denies appeal of ex-Ohio House speaker’s and lobbyist’s convictions in $60M scheme
COLUMBUS — The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal racketeering convictions Monday of imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-lobbyist Matt Borges in the state’s long-running $60 million bribery scheme With his last legal option exhausted, Householder will return to his efforts to seek a presidential pardon, his...
King Charles III arrives in United States on a delicate mission to restore U.K.-U.S. relationship
WASHINGTON — Two and a half centuries after the American colonies declared independence from Britain under King George III, his descendant King Charles III arrived in the United States on Monday with trans-Atlantic ties under strain and security in the spotlight. A shooting at a Washington dinner attended by President...
Trumps call for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel — again — after morbid joke about first lady
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump both called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel on Monday after a joke last week in which the late-night comic described the first lady as having “the glow of an expectant widow.” The remark about the president’s wife was part of a...
Man pleads guilty in the 2002 killing of Jam Master Jay of rap pioneers Run-DMC
NEW YORK — Nearly a quarter-century after rap star Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC was shot to death, a man admitted in court Monday to a role in a killing that stymied investigators for decades. Jay Bryant pleaded guilty to a federal murder charge, telling a judge that he helped...
National Trust says it won’t drop suit against Trump’s $400M White House ballroom after DOJ request
WASHINGTON — Preservationists are pressing ahead with their lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom, declining a request by the Department of Justice to withdraw the complaint following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. Trump and other conservatives have made a renewed...
Prosecutors say suspect in missing students’ killings asked ChatGPT about disposing of a body
ORLANDO, Fla. — The suspect in the killings of two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh had asked ChatGPT what would happen if a human body was put in a garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster, days before they went missing, according to a report filed by...
Plane crashes on the outskirts of South Sudan’s capital, killing 14 people
JUBA, South Sudan — A Cessna aircraft crashed Monday on the outskirts of South Sudan’s capital, killing all 13 passengers and the pilot, the civil aviation authority said. The authority said preliminary reports indicate that the plane arriving from Yei town may have crashed due to weather conditions that caused...
Archaeologists at Pompeii use artificial intelligence to reveal the face of one of the victims
ROME — Archaeologists at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a victim of the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that smothered the city, offering a new way to understand one of history’s most famous natural...
At least 42 people killed in eastern Chad during clashes over water resources
N’DJAMENA, Chad — At least 42 people were killed in eastern Chad after a clash between two families over a water point escalated into a cycle of reprisals, the country’s deputy prime minister said late Sunday. Limane Mahamat said during a visit to the village of Igote, in the Wadi...
