
Oil price falls back to pre-Iran war levels
Signs that traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz shipping route is gradually resuming has helped to push the oil price down.

Signs that traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz shipping route is gradually resuming has helped to push the oil price down.

By a 6 to 3 vote, the high court ruled that federal law allows the government to stop asylum seekers from physically setting foot in the United States, effectively keeping them from applying for asylum.

Oil prices fell, moving closer to levels not seen since the war in Iran began in February.

Ukraine violated the rights of a former constitutional court president after the judges who pursued the case against him also helped decide it, rights court judges found.

For much of the year, Flávio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's former president, seemed to be gaining on Lula ahead of the upcoming general election. But a mix of redistributive policies and right-wing incompetence has put the incumbent back in the lead.
▶ VideoThousands are feared dead in Venezuela after back-to-back powerful earthquakes struck the country Wednesday evening, collapsing buildings in the capital Caracas and surrounding areas. Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez has declared a state of emergency as rescue workers frantically search for survivors in the rubble of "dozens" of collapsed buildings.

The UK may have squandered the freedoms it won, but leaving the EU was the right decision, say pro-Brexit Britons.

Families of those killed during Kenya's anti-government protests have placed flowers on barbed wire outside parliament, as demonstrations took place to mark two years since the deadly clashes. Protesters demand justice for the dozens killed during the 2024 demonstrations and last year's anniversary protests.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 that the Trump administration can end the Temporary Protected Status program, giving the president virtually unrestrained power to begin mass deportations of hundreds of thousands of people who have been living and working legally in the United States.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has worked with Mayor Zohran Mamdani on child care and second-home taxes. But the triumphs of democratic socialists on Primary Day could complicate her vision.

The Department of Homeland Security concluded that Haitian and Syrian migrants no longer need protection from dangerous conditions in their home countries despite the State Department's dire warnings against travel there.

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