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Oil prices rise and US stocks give back a bit of their record-breaking rally

By STAN CHOE
Apr 20, 2026 4:05 pm - Oil prices climbed Monday following the latest rise of tensions between the United States and Iran, but the moves were more modest than they were earlier in the war. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, gave back a bit of their record-breaking rally.
FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for article that alleged excessive drinking

By DAVID BAUDER
Apr 20, 2026 11:16 am - FBI Director Kash Patel hit The Atlantic magazine with a $250 million defamation lawsuit on Monday, claiming an article that talked about mismanagement at the agency and ...
With no end in sight to their deployment, National Guard troops roam Washington

By GARY FIELDS
Apr 20, 2026 8:19 am - Eight months after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation's capital and called up the National Guard, more than 2,500 troops remain, in a deployment that has grown increasingly routine, with no clear end in sight.
EU hosts Gaza peace conference as it seeks greater sway in Middle East

By SAM McNEIL
Apr 20, 2026 8:15 am - More than 60 nations sent representatives to Brussels Monday for talks with Palestinian representatives on stability, security and long-term peace in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, as global attention largely remains focused in the Middle East on the ongoing crises in Iran and Lebanon.
Man kills 8 children and shoots his wife and another woman in Shreveport, Louisiana

By SOPHIE BATES, LEKAN OYEKANMI and GERALD HERBERT
Apr 20, 2026 8:10 am - A Louisiana man who fatally shot seven of his children and another child in an attack against his family was in the middle of separating from his wife, who also was shot and wounded, a relative said.
Doubts over talks between Iran and US after violence flares in Strait of Hormuz

By MUNIR AHMED, JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING
Apr 20, 2026 8:06 am - Pakistan moved ahead Monday with preparations for a new round of talks between the United States and Iran two days before a tenuous ceasefire is set to expire, even as renewed conflict around the Strait of Hormuz raised questions about whether the meeting would take place.
8 children between the ages of 1 and 14 are dead after a mass shooting in Louisiana, police say

By GERALD HERBERT and JOHN SEEWER
Apr 19, 2026 4:58 pm - SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children and shot two other people Sunday in an early morning attack of domestic violence carried out across two...
Trump says US seizes Iranian-flagged cargo ship near Strait of Hormuz that tried to pass blockade

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, SAMY MAGDY and SAM METZ
Apr 19, 2026 4:11 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said the U.S. forcibly seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around a naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz o...
Fears of looser standards as the FBI and Justice Department scramble to fill a depleted workforce

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Apr 19, 2026 3:45 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the past year, with leaders easing hiring ...
Obama meets Mamdani in New York City before reading to preschoolers

By SCOTT BAUER
Apr 18, 2026 9:58 pm - Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a child care center where they read to preschoolers and led a singalong.

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