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NEW YORK | A tentative deal to end the Iran war makes it reasonable to ask how soon prices will drop for gasoline, groceries, airline tickets and other items that became more expensive during the conflict. Not so fast, experts say. Even after oil starts flowing again from the Middle East, it could take awhile for consumers to see a difference at local fuel pumps, supermarkets and other places they shop, according to economists and industry analysts. Fighting over the Strait of Hormuz disrupted not only supplies of crude and refined fuel but also the supply chains for fertilizer, food…

Algae is again plaguing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and the White House’s newest plan to fix the $14.2 million makeover is hydrogen peroxide. National Park Service workers were seen pouring bottles of 12% hydrogen peroxide concentrate into the pool as part of an effort to mitigate the algae bloom that appeared just days after the eight-week renovation project was completed. Hydrogen peroxide is a powerful nonchlorine shock used to control algae as it bubbles on contact due to oxidation. Afterward, it degrades into just water and oxygen, leaving no harsh chemical residues. Officials from the Interior Department and the…

Researchers found in a new study that California’s San Andreas and San Jacinto tectonic faults are at their highest stress levels in 1,000 years. Lead author Liliane Burkhard said in a release from the University of Hawaii at Manoa that “stress levels on multiple fault segments are now at or above the highest values seen in the past millennium and that the region may be capable of a large through-going rupture involving both fault systems.” The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, explains that the last major earthquake, or Big One, was the 1857 Fort Tejon…

BILLERICA, Mass. — Elliot Sudal didn’t need a bigger boat, but he did need to find a way to get a hook out of a shark’s mouth. Sudal, a veteran angler and boat captain, reeled in the nearly nine-foot shark – also commonly known as a great white shark or a great white – on June 7 on Nantucket. White sharks are a protected species in the U.S. and must be released immediately when accidentally caught. That presents a nasty problem for a fisherman because the white shark is a formidable apex predator best known for the 1975 movie Jaws,…

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials have issued a recall for alfredo sauce distributed to dozens of U.S. states by a supplier because of potential salmonella contamination. The sauce was voluntarily recalled by the supplier because it contained a dry milk powder ingredient that was possibly contaminated with salmonella, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration enforcement report. There were 913 cases recalled and each of those cases contained 12 sealed bags of sauce, with each bag weighing over 3 pounds, the FDA said. The Coffee Connexion Co. Inc., based in Lebanon, Tennessee, voluntarily recalled the sauce, the FDA said.…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former Louisville police officer who resigned last week was charged by a grand jury Monday with manslaughter for fatally shooting a naked man while responding to an alleged assault. The grand jury in Louisville also indicted Nathan A. Stotts on a charge of reckless homicide for the May 30 fatal shooting of 27-year-old Martin Nitzken Jr. Stotts encountered Nitzken after being called to a neighborhood on a report that three women had been assaulted, Louisville police said. Officers were told the suspect had no clothes on and was running down the street. On Stotts’ body camera…

LOS ANGELES — A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at a U.S. Air Force base in Southern California’s Mojave Desert and burst into flames Monday, killing all eight people aboard, military officials said. Aerial footage showed virtually nothing left of the aircraft that went down around 11:20 a.m. during a routine test mission at Edwards Air Force Base, which is north of Los Angeles. Black smoke rose from a large swath of charred desert near the runway on the base, with emergency vehicles nearby. Those on the B-52 included government contractors and uniformed military. Aircraft manufacturer Boeing confirmed Monday…

A 1-year-old boy is dead and another person wounded after a Mississippi police officer shot at a vehicle while responding to a shoplifting call, according to authorities and the child’s grandfather. The child’s mother, her friend and 1-year-old Kohen Wiley were in the vehicle during the shooting on Sunday, Marquell Bridges, a community advocate who is helping the family find legal representation, said. Wiley’s mother was physically unharmed, but her friend was seriously injured, said Bridges, the president and founder of an advocacy group called the Building Bridges Coalition. The three had gotten into the vehicle after exiting a Walmart…

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Carter Page’s case against former FBI officials who oversaw what the government now concedes was an ill-advised attempt to surveil his activities during the 2016 campaign. The justices rejected the case without comment. Mr. Page had said the FBI fabricated information to obtain four warrants obtained against him under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, then leaked information to the press.  His lawsuit targeted former FBI Director James Comey, former employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and others. A lower court had barred the case from moving forward, saying the statute of…

MIAMI — A teenager charged with sexually assaulting and killing his 18-year-old stepsister on a Carnival Cruise ship surrendered Monday after a federal judge reversed his decision on pretrial release now that the teen is charged as an adult. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami confirmed that Timothy Hudson is in custody. U.S. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres filed the order to revoke Hudson’s pretrial release last Wednesday, but the order was sealed until Monday afternoon. The order stated that Hudson should surrender to U.S. Marshals at the federal courthouse in Tampa Monday morning. The judge had ruled in February that…