Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. Security lines are stretching for hours at some US airports as TSA staffing thins during the partial government shutdown.

More than a third of the security screeners at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport didn’t show up to work Tuesday, the airport’s general manager said, causing passengers to have to wait ...

Oil prices held steady Wednesday after Iraq clinched a deal to resume some crude exports via Turkey. It’s not a ton of oil, but it’s what amounts for good news these days as the Strait of Hormuz ...

The US-Israeli war with Iran, now stretching into its third week, is dashing hopes that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates at all this year.

It was the third-highest sum ever paid at auction for the work of a living artist. But following the NFT market’s spectacular collapse, is Vignesh Sundaresan’s record purchase worth anything at all?

A Veterans Affairs clinic employee was shot in Jasper, Georgia, on Tuesday, and the suspected shooter has been killed by law enforcement, a Veterans Affairs spokesperson said.

The head of the US Postal Service has warned lawmakers that the storied 250-year-old agency is at a “critical juncture” and will run out of cash in less than a year unless Congress allows it to borrow ...

African music is dominating the global soundscape, with Afrobeats and other genres reshaping mainstream music worldwide. But Rick Ross says this moment was inevitable — and believes Africa’s global ...

Meanwhile, at least two people were killed in central Israel after an Iranian ballistic missile attack while the US dropped 5,000 pound guided bombs on Iranian missile sites along the Hormuz strait.

Trey Robinson was eating baked fish and broccoli in his car when his phone rang. It was an investigator with news Robinson had waited half his life to hear: Deputies were moving in to arrest a man ...

China’s state‑run program is progressing rapidly toward landing astronauts on the moon by 2030, raising pressure on the US.

Eski Foça, a town on Turkey’s Aegean coast, has been shaped by thousands of years of history and conquered by dozens of civilizations. Yet it still feels sheltered from the chaos of the modern world.