Threats to the Strait of Hormuz raises concerns about global oil prices Threats to the Strait of Hormuz raises concerns about global oil prices Audio will be available later today. The threat of Iran laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway through which about 20% of the world's oil supply travels — is raising...

Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes In Brief Posted: 2:53 PM PDT · April 24, 2026 Image Credits:Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations office probe a variety of financial crimes in the U.S. for much of the last...

Aurora Borealis Watch: 15 States May Catch Glimpse of Northern Lights This WeekIt's the height of the aurora borealis season, but the skies have been relatively calm lately, with only a few mild auroras over the last month. Get ready, though. The northern lights may light up the skies over parts of the US over the next couple of days, giving people in northern states a chance to marvel at...

Cybercab Begins Production, but Elon Musk Says It Will Be 'Very Slow' to Start For now, Tesla will build far fewer than the 38,000 vehicles per week initially predicted. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being somewhat...

There are few places in Old School RuneScape more chaotic than the multi-combat Wilderness bosses. And after the recent updates requiring Wilderness medium diaries to access them, I wanted to see how the meta had shifted. Were teams going to RuneScape gold be smaller? More coordinated? Better geared? There was only one way to find out. So I brought the tankiest item in the game: the Elysian...