Retail sales up 1.7% in March from February driven by a spike in gas prices due to the Iran war

US forces board an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia, Defense Department says

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the early globe-trotting odysseys of St. John Paul II

2 regional officials tell the AP that US and Iran signal they’ll attend a new round of ceasefire talks in Islamabad

For investors hurtling toward retirement, sitting tight with stocks has been the path of least resistance in recent years

Iran state TV says 'no delegation from Iran has visited Islamabad ... so far' as speculation about US talks grows

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet after multiple allegations of abusing her position, including an affair with a subordinate and drinking on the job

Japan has approved scrapping a ban on lethal weapons exports in a big change of its postwar pacifist policy

Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down from the job that he inherited from the late Steve Jobs, ending a 15-year reign that saw the company’s market value soar by more than $3.6 trillion during an iPhone-fueled era of prosperity