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Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz is returning to normal, even as Iran threatened to close the critical waterway again because of Israeli strikes on Lebanon. “I think it’s returning flows back towards normal without any cooperation at all from Iran; that’s the leverage President Trump used to get the Iranians to come to the table and realize their going to lose all the cards in their hand,” Mr. Wright said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Maybe they can make a deal that brings some benefit to Iran. Maybe they can’t.”…

NEW YORK — A 51-year-old man fell to his death during a concert at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, police said. Officers responding to a 911 call around 9:51 p.m. found the man unconscious and unresponsive with injuries indicating a fall from an “elevated position,” New York City Police said in a statement. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police have not released his name. The rock band “Goose” was performing. In a statement on Facebook, the band said it was “deeply saddened and heartbroken to learn of the tragic event that occurred.” Copyright…

The state of Maryland has finally removed from its voter rolls an illegal immigrant from Guyana who grabbed national headlines last year over scamming multiple school systems into hiring him as an administrator for several years. The state removed Ian Andre Roberts on June 2, just days after he was sentenced to two years in federal prison for lying about his citizenship in order to become a school superintendent in Iowa and for being an illegal immigrant in possession of guns. Maryland had resisted calls to boot Roberts and had refused to confirm that the Ian Andre Roberts on its…

BRUSSELS — Hours after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth upbraided his NATO allies and announced a Pentagon review of their performance, the leaders of many European nations were assessing a checklist of progress made on security priorities. In essence, Hegseth was telling the Europeans things they already know. The list included their hike in defense spending, investment in industry to boost the production of military equipment, best use of lessons learned from the war in Ukraine, and the need to buy or develop drones, air defense systems and long-range weapons. At a summit ending Friday, they mulled how to put…

This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Sunday is the solstice, marking the start of astronomical summer north of the equator. It’s the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the shortest day of the year and winter will start. The word “solstice” comes from the Latin words “sol,” for sun, and “stitium,” which can mean “pause” or “stop.” The summer solstice is the end of the sun’s annual march higher in the sky, when it makes its longest, highest arc. The bad news for sun lovers:…

Blue material at the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is peeling off, less than two weeks after the more than $14 million renovation was completed. Photos and videos showed thin flaps of what appears to be either blue paint or sealant floating on the pool’s surface. This comes days after the National Park Service began combating a growth of algae that turned the pool green by pouring in containers of 12% hydrogen peroxide and physically removing it. Eddie Wood, owner of the Virginia-based firm hired to renovate the pool, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, told CNN that videos and pictures…

Utah has spent the past year fighting measles outbreaks – a grim milestone that could affect whether the United States can keep its measles-free designation. More than 680 people have gotten sick since the state’s first outbreak began on June 20, 2025. Unlike measles outbreaks in Texas, South Carolina and Arizona, the spread in Utah has been tough to contain to one region – infecting undervaccinated communities in nearly every county. Measles popped up in healthcare settings, big-box stores and restaurants, and youth sporting events. In February, an exposure at a state high school wrestling championship sparked at least 46…

A hot air balloon ride ended roughly in Pahrump, Nevada, 50 miles west of Las Vegas, on Thursday when the craft made a hard landing and injured several people on board. The Nye County Sheriff’s Office said the balloon, which had 10 on board, landed on a dry lake bed at around 6:30 a.m., with one person suffering a severe head injury and others sustaining second and third-degree burns from a fire along with blunt force injuries, according to Las Vegas’ KTNV-TV.  The hard landing helped ignite the fire. Nye County Sheriff Joe McGill told Vegas’ KLAS-TV, “The occupants of…

The National Park Service on Friday said three hikers died in two separate incidents at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, with officials believing heat-related illness caused the fatalities. On June 12, a 72-year-old man died on the South Kaibab Trail from heat-related illness symptoms. Then on Tuesday, a 67-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman on Grand Canyon National Park’s North Kaibab Trail succumbed to similar symptoms, park officials said. Rangers responded quickly when the incidents were reported, but all three hikers were dead by the time responders arrived. Park officials did not identify any of the three deceased. Both incidents…

A man wanted by the Montgomery County Police Department over a hit-and-run incident is awaiting extradition after being arrested at a New Jersey airport. Suspected driver Josue David Carranza Castellon, 26, was taken into custody Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport, 10 miles west of New York City. He was trying to board a flight to Honduras, police said.  The police said that at 4:47 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Muddy Branch Road and West Diamond Avenue in Gaithersburg, pedestrian Brian Longaberger, 56, was fatally struck by a gray 2011 Honda CR-V.  Police found the damaged car later that…