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About 1,000 animal welfare activists who tried to gain entry Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group's leader. It was the second attempt in as many months by protesters to take beagles from the Ridglan Farms facility in Blue Mounds, a small town about 25 miles southwest of the capital city of Madison. Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett, in a video statement, said between 300 and 400 protesters were “violently trying to break into th

Rubber bullets, pepper spray and arrests as protesters try to storm a Wisconsin beagle lab

US Coast Guard spots overturned vessel near Saipan during search for missing ship with 6 on board

Construction on Trump's White House ballroom can continue for now, US appeals court says

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UK's Lammy signals support for PM Starmer over latest Mandelson row

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy signalled his support for Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday over the ongoing row about the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. Labour veteran Mandelson was appointed as ambassador by Starmer and subsequently sacked over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in a scandal that has brought the British leader's judgement into question.Starmer on Friday faced renewed pressure to resign after the government said security vetting had recommended Mandelson not be appointed, but that Foreign Office offi

Obama meets Mamdani in New York City before reading to preschoolers

Deadly shooting in Ukraine leaves 6 dead after gunman opens fire and takes hostages in Kyiv supermarket

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Brazil, Mexico, Spain pledge to send more aid to Cuba

The governments of Brazil, Spain and Mexico on Saturday vowed to step up coordinated aid to Cuba to alleviate what they described as a humanitarian crisis caused by the U.S. blockade of the Caribbean island. In a joint statement, the three countries called for sincere dialogue in line with the U.N. Charter, adding that the Cuban people must be free to determine their own future.The statement came after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hosted Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the leader of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, in Barcelona for an international summit aimed at mobilis

Mamdani and Obama meet face-to-face in New York City

What consumers can do as the Iran war impacts the cost and availability of flights

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High gas prices become another midterm warning sign for Republicans

In a midterm election that will likely be decided by how voters feel about the economy, Republicans are grappling with how to discuss the war in Iran and its impact on fuel costs.Republicans had spent the weeks before the war touting lower prices under President Donald Trump. Now, with the national average for gas rising above $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 and Trump’s economic approval ratings hitting a record low, Democrats are seeking to tie the war to their broader affordability message, arguing that Republicans are more focused on foreign affairs than reducing costs at home.T

US extends waiver on Russian oil sanctions to ease Iran war shortages despite Bessent denial

The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday extended its pause on sanctions on Russian oil shipments to ease shortages from the Iran war, days after Secretary Scott Bessent ruled out such a move. The so-called general license means U.S. sanctions will not apply for 30 days on deliveries of Russian oil that has been loaded on tankers as of Friday. It extended a similar 30-day license issued in March for Russian oil that had been loaded by March 11. The extension underscores how the fallout from the Iran war has boosted Moscow’s ability to profit from its energy exports, which had be

San Diego Padres are nearing a whopping sale, AP source says

Home shopping network pioneer QVC files for bankruptcy protection

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Trump says he is not sure ceasefire with Iran needs to be extended

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was not sure that the ceasefire with Iran needs to be extended."I'm not sure it needs to be extended," Trump told reporters at the White House. "Iran wants to make a deal and we're dealing very nicely with them."(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, writing by Christian Martinez; editing by Scott Malone)

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Prosecutors in a Minnesota county charge ICE agent with assault

Prosecutors in Minnesota's Hennepin County have charged a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent with assault for allegedly pointing his gun at two people in a car along a highway in Minneapolis in February.Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said on Thursday she believed the charges were the first to be brought against an ICE officer over actions related to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.The officer, identified as 35-year-old Gregory Donnell Morgan, allegedly pointed a gun at two people in another vehicle along a highway in the Twin

1 million bees make for bumper-to-buzzer traffic on a Tennessee highway ramp

Oil settles down 9% after Iran declares Strait of Hormuz open

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Ukraine strikes Russian oil refineries hours after US waives sanctions on Moscow’s oil

Ukraine attacked two Russian refineries and other key oil targets overnight into Saturday, officials said, just hours after the United States granted Moscow another waiver on the sale of its sanctioned oil.Kyiv’s ‌drone forces commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi said on Telegram that Ukraine had struck the Novokuybyshevsk and Syzran oil refineries in Russia’s Samara region, the Tikhoretsk oil terminal in the Krasnodar region, and the Baltic Sea port of Vysotsk, as well as an oil depot in Sevastopol, in occupied Crimea.The Russian Ministry of Defense did not acknowledge the strikes, ann

Pope Leo downplays feud with Trump, says 'not in my interest' to debate him

Pope Leo sought to downplay his feud with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday, saying reporting about comments he has made so far during his Africa tour "has not been accurate in all its aspects".Speaking to reporters in English aboard his flight to Angola for the third leg of his ambitious 10-day Africa tour, the first U.S. pope said comments he made two days earlier in Cameroon decrying that the world was being "ravaged by a handful of tyrants" were not aimed at Trump.That speech, said Leo, "was prepared two weeks ago, well before the president ever commented on myself and on the messa

Trump signs order to accelerate access to psychedelic drug treatments

Egypt working with Pakistan on lasting US-Iran peace plan, minister says

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Trump accelerates research on psychedelic treatments and asks, ‘Can I have some?’

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging expanded research into psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health treatments.“In many cases, these experimental treatments have shown life-changing potential for those suffering from severe mental illness and depression, including our cherished veterans,” Trump said during a signing event in the Oval Office.The president also announced that the federal government is making a $50 million investment for further research into the psychedelic drug ibogaine.Trump, ahead of signing

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Fed chair nominee Warsh will have ideas, economy may deliver surprises, Daly says

Kevin Warsh may have plans for big changes at the U.S. central bank, but like previous Federal Reserve leaders cannot know what economic surprises he may need to deal with once he is in the role, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said on Friday. "He'll come in with an idea of what he would like to think about and do," Daly told an advisory board to UC Berkeley’s Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics. "And then the economy will deliver what we actually work on, and that will be the journey of every Fed chair and all the Fed policymakers and all the Fed employees." As U.S.