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4:26 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Oil prices plunged below $95 per barrel, and stock markets surged worldwide after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat of devastating attacks against Iran

4:07 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A Wyoming judge has sentenced a man to 18 months of probation for hitting a wolf with a snowmobile and bringing the hurt animal into a bar before killing it

4:03 PM on Wednesday, April 8

3:56 PM on Wednesday, April 8

An uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. and Israel may do little to stop cyberattacks from hackers allied with Tehran

3:52 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Longtime media executive Jeff Shell is leaving Paramount

3:36 PM on Wednesday, April 8

To end the war with the United States and Israel, Iran is demanding the right to collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz as a precondition for reopening the waterway vital to world oil supplies

3:27 PM on Wednesday, April 8

3:12 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Lunar love knows no bounds

2:42 PM on Wednesday, April 8

An attorney for a man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an arrest in California says his client did not try to run officers over with his car and disputed claims that he has a warrant out for his arrest in El Salvador

2:09 PM on Wednesday, April 8

More Federal Reserve policymakers were willing to consider an interest rate hike this year at their March meeting than in January, as higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war threatened to worsen inflation in the coming months

2:01 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran appears to be in jeopardy

1:48 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Southwest Airlines said Wednesday it is raising its checked baggage fees by $10 less than a year after ending its famous “bags fly free” policy

1:47 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The mother of an freelance American journalist who was released from captivity in Iraq says she hopes her daughter will finally return home to rural Wisconsin after living abroad for decades

1:15 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A British pastor faces manslaughter charges in the drowning of a 61-year-old man during a backyard baptism

1:13 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The California Supreme Court has ordered a Republican county sheriff who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his probe into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge against it

12:00 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday defended his decision to repeal the legal determination that serves as the basis for federal rules to slow climate change

8:27 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Lebanon’s health ministry says that Israeli strikes during the day killed 182 people, the highest single-day death toll in the Israel-Hezbollah war

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Route 66 turns 100 this year, making the legendary road ripe for an American road trip

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

12:07 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia