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Iran attacks ships in Strait of Hormuz as thousands more U.S. forces head for Middle East
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What to know about the Iran war today:
o Iran renewed its attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday, as Tehran kept its grip on the vital shipping lane and called the U.S. military's blockade of Iranian ports a breach of the ongoing ceasefire.
o President Trump said Tuesday he was extending the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely, backing down from his latest threat to resume attacks if the regime didn't accept his terms for a wider peace deal. He insists the Islamic Republic is "collapsing financially" due to the U.S. blockade of its ports and will eventually capitulate and reopen the strait.
o Oil prices jumped again with a deal to end the Iran war looking far from imminent. As the U.S. sends thousands more forces to the region, an advisor to one senior Iranian official claimed that by extending the truce, Mr. Trump is "buying...More
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Business
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Major shippers, including UPS, FedEx and DHL, have filed claims for tariff refunds with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which on Monday launched a portal through which businesses can request money back for some of the import duties they had paid under the Trump administration.
The companies also pledged to return money to customers who shouldered added tariff costs tied to President Trump's International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, tariffs. In February, the Supreme Court ruled that the IEEPA tariffs had been illegally imposed.
A UPS spokesperson on Tuesday confirmed that it is filing claims for refunds on qualifying tariffs through CBP's so-called CAPE portal. The shipper also told CBS News that once the federal government approves the claims and issues refunds, it will reimburse customers who paid the levies.
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Sports
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What is BlueCo's way out at Chelsea? Both in the immediate term and the big picture question of what happens when the owners at Stamford Bridge need to generate a return on the investment from their fund, it is hard to puzzle out a sense of how this club might become what its owners have professed they want to build since taking charge in 2022.
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Jack Quaid reportedly marries Claudia Doumit in Australia with Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid, and “The Boys” costars attending
Quaid and Doumit met on set and were first romantically linked in 2022.
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Jack Quaid reportedly married Claudia Doumit in Australia over the weekend.
Hollywood stars — including the groom's parents, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid — attended the wedding.
The couple met on the set of The Boys and were first romantically linked in June 2022.
Jack Quaid and Claudia Doumit are reportedly a married couple!
According to Australian outlet The Daily Telegraph, Quaid, 33, and Doumit, 34, tied the knot on Saturday in an intimate ceremony at Mona Farm in Braidwood, Australia — a New South Wales farming town 124 miles southwest of Doumit's birthplace, Sydney.
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Nearly 490 alleged members of the powerful Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including several alleged leaders, went on trial collectively in El Salvador on Monday, accused of thousands of murders.
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A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point flies over an overturned vessel offshore Saipan, April 18, 2026. U.S. Coast Guard photo Courtesy Air Station Barbers Point
Authorities have found the body of one of the six missing crew members from a U.S.-flagged cargo ship that overturned near the Northern Mariana Islands during a typhoon.
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Interesting
Salmon exposed to cocaine swim almost twice as far as those without, study shows
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Salmon exposed to cocaine in the water swim longer distances than those that go without, according to a study released this week.
Cocaine use is on the rise worldwide, with the U.N. reporting an estimated 25 million people used the stimulant in 2023 and the drug being increasingly found in waterways.
Joint research released Monday by scientists at Australia's Griffith University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences studied how the drug affected the movements of wild fish in their natural habitats.
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