The quiet Texas cattle town of La Pryor has become ground zero in the fight against screwworm after the first U.S. case in decades was detected there, prompting a livestock quarantine and putting ranchers and pet owners on edge.
The first confirmed case in the U.S. during the latest outbreak represents a serious challenge for ranchers and could cause beef prices to rise further.
Following the first confirmation of screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, on a U.S. farm in decades, federal and state officials have fanned out in South Texas, where a calf was found infested this week.
A sea drone self-destructed near an oil terminal in Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta on Friday, without causing casualties, as Ukraine said Russia jammed the vessel causing it to drift off course.
President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully barred applicants from 39 travel‑ban countries from receiving decisions on asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Friday.
The blowout May jobs report leaves Kevin Warsh to manage growing support among his colleagues for possible rate hikes.
The U.S. designation of Brazil’s biggest criminal groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) starting Friday is likely to increase the risks and costs of doing business in a country where gangs have had years to penetrate the formal economy.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were ordered by NASA to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for potential evacuation on Friday as a Russian crew attempts to fix a worsening leak of air on its portion of the orbital laboratory, NASA said.
U.S. interest rate futures on Friday increased the chances that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by the December policy meeting after a blockbuster payrolls number for May, which sharply exceeded market expectations.
The U.S. economy posted another month of strong employment gains in May, confirming that the labor market was gaining traction after stumbling last year, and potentially giving the Federal Reserve more room to keep interest rates unchanged amid rising inflation stemming from the war with Iran.