US oil prices dropped below $70 a barrel Tuesday on concerns about whether the debt ceiling deal will make it through Congress and on reports of tensions between Saudi Arabia and Russia ahead of a key OPEC+ meeting.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva proposed creating a common currency in the region during a meeting with South American heads of state in Brasilia on Tuesday.
Colleges will soon have the option to hide students' race and ethnicity information on applications submitted through Common App, according to the organization.
The French Open has already seen a major upset as world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev was knocked out by Brazilian qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild in the first round on Tuesday.
Halle Bailey is certainly the it-girl (or, mermaid, as it were) of the moment, but it wasn't without a serious amount of effort on her part to get there.
Leading business groups are praising President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for forging a bipartisan agreement to raise the debt ceiling, and they are calling for Congress to pass the legislation before the government suffers a devastating default.
It's a familiar routine for Ukrainians: Explosions ring out in the city, then videos emerge of drones overhead. Air defenses spring into action, and the authorities put out preliminary statements confirming a strike.
A beluga whale widely speculated to be an alleged Russian "spy" has entered Swedish waters, according to OneWhale, an organization set up to protect the animal's health and welfare.
The nation is days away from defaulting on its obligations. The Republican House speaker, pushed by conservatives in his party, demands deep spending cuts. The president, a Democrat, works on negotiating a package to avert a fiscal calamity.
Jacque Hollander, who says singer James Brown was murdered at an Atlanta hospital in 2006, handed a green bin of potential evidence three years ago to prosecutors. Those items have since disappeared, and the DA's office hasn't said where they went.
President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden on Tuesday attended a memorial mass for Beau Biden marking eight years since his death from cancer, according to the White House.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a case from a victim of sex trafficking who sought to hold Reddit, an online platform, responsible for hosting images of child pornography on the website.
