15+ hour, 40+ min ago   (220+ words) U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany says he was returning from the La Crosse County Lincoln Day Dinner when the light aircraft lost power as it approached Wausau Downtown Airport. The pilot made an emergency landing in Lake Wausau. They both ended up…...

18+ hour, 10+ min ago   (581+ words) The attack, which the reports said killed one and wounded four, drew attention back to the strait after threats to shipping in the region intensified last week when Iran-backed Houthi rebels captured an island on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in…...

18+ hour, 10+ min ago   (647+ words) An Iranian commercial ship was struck early Sunday near the Strait of Hormuz, with one person killed, Iranian state media say. Meanwhile, the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they fired drones and missiles toward southern Saudi Arabia, putting new…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (776+ words) The S&P 500 fell 0.6% for a fourth straight loss, its longest such streak since June, though it’s not far from its all-time high set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 316 points, or 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.7%. Stocks…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (666+ words) For nearly two minutes, one of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway and killed five people repeatedly warned his counterpart they were going too fast as they approached for landing and after touchdown,…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (568+ words) Oil prices on Wednesday jumped more than 3%, pushing international Brent crude past the $100 threshold for the first time since July as salvos between the U.S. and Iran escalated. “Right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward,” Trump…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (540+ words) Passengers wait in line at Heathrow Airport in London, during an air traffic control problem that disrupted travel across Britain. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP) Delays continued for a second day Wednesday, rippling across 15 U.K. airports and beyond as airlines and…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (425+ words) (NewsNation) — The nonprofit Fermi Explorer wants to send a small, solar-powered spacecraft to another star system by 2029. The target is Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our Sun, 4.4 light-years away. Fermi projects the trip would take a minimum of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (524+ words) The proposal would have created a program to ensure that fire victims got paid more quickly, banned hedge funds from profiting from wildfire claims and barred utility executives from receiving bonuses if their company’s equipment sparked a blaze that ends…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1688+ words) The U.S. Postal Service is rushing to launch a hastily built, error-riddled computer system that could jeopardize the process of mail voting relied upon by one-third of all voters, according to a whistleblower statement released Tuesday by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal....