U.S. shale producers have the lowest stock of drilled-but-uncompleted wells on record, limiting their ability to move quickly to boost crude output and replace rapidly depleted oil inventories after exports and refinery processing jumped to plug the shortfall in supply caused by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Month: May 2026
The United Nations on Friday added Israel and Russia to a U.N. blacklist of countries suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict zones, a move that prompted Israel’s foreign ministry to say it would sever all ties with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Novak Djokovic’s latest bid to claim a record 25th Grand Slam title was left in tatters after his third-round defeat by Brazilian teen sensation Joao Fonseca.
A federal judge on Friday pressed a lawyer for the government to explain how President Donald Trump had the authority to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers and whether that power had any limits.
Bret Michaels, frontman of Poison, the rock group best known for its working-class anthem “Nothin’ But a Good Time,” has withdrawn from a concert series commemorating the United States’ 250th anniversary, the latest in a wave of cancellations.
The group said that removing immigration officials from Newark airport would cause “immediate and lasting harm”.
A team of specialist divers said they pulled one man from a flooded cave in central Laos on Friday, as four more people remained trapped with two others still missing.
Christian Castro faces four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime for assaulting a Venezuelan man in a non-fatal shooting in Minneapolis this year.
A judge on Friday ordered the removal of President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ruling that the iconic Washington venue cannot be renamed without an act of Congress.
Louisiana Republicans on Friday approved a new congressional map that dismantles a Democratic-held, majority-Black seat, boosting their party’s odds of retaining the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections.