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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo at the Vatican for “constructive” conversations on Thursday following heightened tensions between President Donald Trump and the pontiff over the U.S.-Iran conflict.”The conversations today were friendly and constructive,” a State Department official told Fox News Digital.Rubio, a Catholic, held a private meeting with the pope to reaffirm the Vatican-U.S. partnership early on Thursday morning. Trump said he sent Rubio to deliver what he described as a “very simple” message: Iran must not obtain a nuclear weapon.Rubio and Leo discussed the situation in the Middle East and “topics…

Even if a peace deal is reached between the US and Iran, the physical oil and gas market would remain tight, and spot prices may stay higher. “A deal announcement would move futures further immediately, in fact, even the potential of a deal is already triggering a decline in oil prices,” Paola Rodriguez-Masiu, chief oil analyst at Rystad Energy, said in a commentary.Futures react quickly, the physical market lags  However, the physical market does not run on political timelines. Even under an optimistic scenario involving a 30-day phased reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, meaningful volume recovery would happen in June…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FOX FIRST: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is blasting Minnesota officials after the state’s Board of Pardons unanimously voted to pardon a Laotian national with multiple assault convictions, a move DHS warned could block his long-standing deportation order.Xayasounethone Chandee, an illegal immigrant from Laos, was convicted of assault in 1992. Following the jury’s decision, an immigration judge issued Chandee a final order of removal in 1995.Despite the order, Chandee was not deported and was convicted again in 2008 of two felony counts of aggravated assault with a weapon. DHS said the Minnesota Board of…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Montreal police say their partners in Ontario helped nab two suspects sought in an armed robbery that occurred earlier this year. Police said forces in Toronto and Durham Region arrested a 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy Wednesday in connection with the Jan. 28 robbery.At about 7:30 p.m. that day, an individual reportedly went to a home in Southwest, claiming to be delivering a package. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story. When the residents opened the…

Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir has declared he always knew his team had the fitness, belief and courage to overcome a 19-point deficit during the final quarter after they stormed home to beat Hawthorn by 15 points at Optus Stadium.The Dockers’ seven-game winning streak looked over when Jack Gunston kicked his sixth goal at the 11-minute mark of the final term, but Fremantle showed an incredible ability to ignore their three six-day breaks in a row and ran over the top of the Hawks.“Of course I can believe it. I’m not sure why I wouldn’t,” Longmuir said.“We’ve found ourselves in similar…

Whirlpool shares tumbled Thursday after the iconic appliance maker warned that the Iran war triggered a severe downturn, underscoring how sharply higher fuel prices and collapsing consumer confidence are beginning to weigh on big-ticket purchases.”War in Iran resulted in recession-level industry decline in the U.S. as consumer confidence collapsed in late February and March,” the company said in its earnings filing.The comments marked one of the starkest corporate warnings yet about the economic fallout from the conflict and contrasted with more resilient spending trends recently highlighted by companies tied to travel and services. Shares of Whirlpool, a maker of washers,…

BEIJING: A delegation of US senators visiting Beijing has called for stability and peaceful cooperation between the world’s two largest economies a week before the countries’ leaders meet.US President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to the Chinese capital to meet President Xi Jinping on May 14 and 15.”I strongly believe that we want to de-escalate, not decouple. We want stability, we want mutual respect,” Senator Steve Daines, who is leading the bipartisan delegation, said in opening remarks at a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday.The Republican senator said he hoped the leaders’ meeting would result in…

Paris Saint-Germain claimed a 6-5 Champions League semifinal win over Bayern Munich, but it erupted in domestic trouble.Published On 7 May 20267 May 2026Nearly 130 people were arrested around Paris overnight as fans clashed with police following Paris Saint-Germain reaching the Champions League final, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez has said.He told Europe 1 radio on Thursday that the total number of arrests was 127 in the Paris metropolitan area, including 107 in Paris, after titleholder PSG eliminated Bayern Munich to reach a second straight final and third since 2020.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listHe said there were 11…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican to discuss the situation in the Middle East and other matters, a meeting that came after weeks of tension between the American-born pontiff and President Trump.”Secretary of State Marco Rubio met today with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to discuss the situation in the Middle East and topics of mutual interest in the Western Hemisphere,” State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said. “The meeting underscored the strong relationship between the United States and the Holy See and their shared commitment to promoting peace and human dignity.” Pope Leo…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal agents swarmed a California park Wednesday as part of a sweeping operation targeting an infamous open-air drug market notorious for peddling fentanyl and methamphetamine. The sting, dubbed “Operation Free MacArthur Park,” led to at least 18 arrests and more than $10 million worth of fentanyl seized in a massive joint effort between local and federal authorities, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.”Today, we begin reclaiming MacArthur Park from criminals and drug addicts to return this public space to the citizens of Los Angeles,” First Assistant United…