CAIRO (AP) — An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media said, and Tehran postponed a plan to brief neighboring countries on its contested efforts to manage shipping in the strait. The attack drew attention back to the strait ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Elena Rybakina was going to see her name on top of the women's tennis rankings Monday no matter what happened in the U.S. Open final. Still, it wouldn't have felt quite the same to pass Aryna Sabalenka and become No. 1 in a tournament where Sabalenka then beat Rybakina to ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries and other infrastructure used to produce and distribute diesel, saying the attacks are causing a global shortage. He spoke after diesel prices in the U.S. hit a record on Friday, soaring past $6 a gallon on average. Ukraine has for months been targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry with long-range strikes, prompting fuel rationing across the country and causing Moscow to ban diesel exports in July, removing supplies from the already ...
The cargo airline that flew the plane that ran off the end of a Miami runway over Labor Day weekend and killed five people lost one of its biggest customers when Amazon suspended its partnership with 21 Air, and it's not yet clear if the company will lose more business while the crash is being ...
Each of Iowa’s public universities are increasing their funding requests to the state for the first time in years as the institutions work to keep rising costs off students’ backs. The University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa have each requested incremental general education funding of $2 million in state appropriations for fiscal year 2028, according to documents published by the Iowa Board of Regents. The total general education request from the university comes out to $561.25 million, representing a 1.08% increase from fiscal year 2027. ...
NANTERRE, France (AP) — She hit the high F, held it, then blew out a breath and turned to look back at the band — a quick, disbelieving glance toward her musical director. Some 30,000 people read it before they had finished screaming: Celine Dion did it. It was “All By Myself,” the ...
