Several of the skydivers killed when their plane crashed moments after taking off from a Missouri airfield were experienced jumpers, including a leader at one of the sport's biggest organizations.
Federal investigators were at the crash site, about an hour south of Kansas City, on Monday, a day after the plane carrying a pilot and 11 skydivers slammed into a field and burst into flames, killing all on board, authorities said.
Some family members of those who died were at the airport to watch the jump and witnessed the crash, said Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson.
Authorities have not released the victims' names, but friends and colleagues began paying tribute.
The United States Parachute ***** ociation, skydiving's governing body, said its technology director, Jen Sharp, was among those killed.

By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official told Reuters a final draft of the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. ‌covered a range of issues, from Tehran's nuclear work to reopening ‌the Strait of Hormuz and U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be discussed in the 60 days following agreement by the two sides.
The Iranian official said the draft memorandum included the following:
STRAIT OF HORMUZ:
* Iran immediately reopens the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial vessels, while the U.S. lifts its naval blockade on Iranian ‌ports. The lifting of the ⁠U.S. blockade would begin immediately after the memorandum is signed and be completed within 30 days.

By Saeed Azhar, Nupur Anand and Chris Prentice
NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - Big U.S. lenders are bracing for further public scrutiny over whether they improperly closed customer accounts as a top watchdog wraps up a review that is expected to name and shame banks and result in disciplinary action, said several people with knowledge of the matter.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is poised ‌to publish in coming weeks the findings of a supervisory review of whether lenders including JPMorgan and Bank of America cut off or denied services on religious or political grounds, often dubbed debanking. It has ‌also examined whether lenders denied services to legitimate, conservative-aligned sectors such as fossil-fuel companies, gun makers and crypto, the people said.
Debanking generally refers to the process whereby a financial institution suddenly cuts off or restricts services to individuals or businesses. Following Republican President Donald Trump's order last year, authorities have been cracking down on what Trump has characterized as politically motivated debanking pushed by Democrats, creating headaches for lenders, who deny the claims and say they have merely been following risk management rules.
Republicans have for years been ramping up pressure on Wall Street banks to drop what they describe as left-leaning "woke" policies that they say are discriminatory, and Trump says he has personally had accounts closed for such political reasons.

A regional ******* yst says fears that President Donald Trump could "flip" on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid a critical push for a U.S.-Iran peace agreement are growing in Jerusalem, a concern highlighted Sunday after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) struck Beirut for a second time.
Despite U.S. warnings that any strikes would derail a breakthrough with Tehran, the strikes came as Netanyahu prepared to convene Israel's Security Cabinet and after Trump announced a new U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) was expected to be signed imminently.
"The strikes today in Beirut are creating issues with finalizing the deal," a diplomat involved in the talks with Tehran told Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst, adding that they were "a clear attempt by Israel to sabotage the president's deal and drag the United States back into war."
Trump went on to condemn Israel's strikes in a post on Truth Social, also telling Axios that Netanyahu had "no f---ing judgment."
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Vice President JD Vance says that he and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, will discuss whether he should seek the 2028 Republican presidential nomination later this year, following the 2026 midterms. While he has not yet decided about entering the GOP race, Vance told "CBS Sunday Morning" that he expects President Donald Trump to be "very supportive" of whatever Vance decides to do regarding the next campaign for the White House.
"I have no doubt that the president of the United States is going to be very supportive of anything that I ultimately decide to do," Vance said. "But we really just haven't talked about what that thing will be."
For now, Vance said his political future is not top of mind, remarking he is not "sitting around figuring out whether I'm going to run for president.
"Usha and I will absolutely sit down and talk about what comes next for our family," he said, adding that it will be after the results of the 2026 midterms elections. "The way I make decisions is, I try not to make them until I absolutely must."
Vance noted in the interview that he never initiates discussions of his future plans with the president: "I never bring it up. But sure, the president brings it up a lot, sometimes publicly, sometimes privately. You know, the president's a political animal. He loves this stuff. He's very fascinated by it."

A Howard University professor tore into the victim-impact statement delivered by the father of slain Texas teen Austin Metcalf, arguing that the teen's death "did not begin with the knife" wielded by Karmelo Anthony but instead that his father's parenting style was to be blamed as well.
Dr. Stacey Patton, a professor at Howard University's School of Communications, penned an opinion piece **** led "Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries" to Substack on Wednesday on Substack, where she insinuated Anthony was acting out of self-defense.
"YOU failed to teach your boy that Black children have boundaries," Patton wrote. "YOU failed teach humility, restraint, or the sacred fact that another person's body is not your jurisdiction. YOU failed to teach him that another child's **** e is not a challenge to be conquered. YOU failed to teach him that "community" does not mean white boys get to decide who belongs and who does not."
Patton's piece was published a day after Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of Metcalf. The case drew national after now 19-year-old Anthony stabbed 17-year-old Metcalf in the heart during a confrontation at a high school track meeting in April 2025. The case has become a flashpoint in broader debates about race, with Anthony's supporters arguing he has been treated differently because he is Black, while critics have rejected efforts to make the murder of Metcalf, a white teenager, about race.
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For more than two decades, Americans have lived with a peculiar feature of their healthcare system: television commercials in which smiling actors jog through sunlit parks, while a voice rapidly lists side effects ranging from nausea to death. Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising has become so normalized that it is easy to forget how unusual it is globally.
The United States is effectively the only country in the world that allows this practice. Most advanced nations have concluded that prescription drugs are fundamentally different from ordinary consumer products, and that medical decisions should be guided by physicians and evidence — not billion-dollar advertising campaigns designed to manufacture demand.
At long last, this expensive and harmful practice may finally be under real political pressure.
Across the country, a new bipartisan skepticism is emerging around the role of pharmaceutical advertising in shaping both healthcare costs and medical decision-making. These efforts are not confined to one ideological camp. They reflect a growing consensus across the left, right, and populist movements that the current system is distorting both medicine and markets.
At the federal level, independent Sens. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Angus King (Maine) have introduced legislation that would ban prescription drug advertising nationwide. At the same time, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) have advanced bipartisan legislation to eliminate the federal tax deduction for pharmaceutical advertising expenses, ending a taxpayer subsidy for drug marketing.

OpenAI announced that it has filed to offer its stock on public markets, just a week after its rival Anthropic did the same. The ChatGPT maker's valuation soared to $852 billion in March.

By David Morgan
WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - Donald Trump is facing widening opposition within his own party as Republican lawmakers in Congress, long reluctant to defy him, are showing a greater willingness to break ranks with the U.S. president.
Just over the past week, multiple factions ‌of Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives have stepped forward to rebuke his war against Iran, reject $1 billion in funding tied to his White House ballroom, force a ‌retreat on his $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund and block his legislation on domestic spying.
The House also defied Trump by passing a bill on Thursday to provide aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on Russia, a measure that seems destined for a veto by the president.
Republicans and Democrats are skeptical that Trump faces an actual revolt. But a growing coalition of Republicans is showing a willingness to break with him, including those Trump has personally helped to drum out of office, and could pose a threat to his most ambitious initiatives between now and Election Day.

Jacqueline Matwick moved from Arizona to Turin, Italy, hoping to earn Italian citizenship by descent.
Then Italy changed its citizenship laws, leaving Matwick and her family in legal limbo.
Matwick is now considering her options to secure a stable future for her family in Italy.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jacqueline Matwick, 38, who moved from Arizona to Turin, Italy, with her family in 2024. Matwick was anticipating receiving citizenship by descent through her husband, but the Italian government changed the requirements after they moved, and the Matwicks no longer qualified. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
We were in New York for a long time. I was there eight years, my husband was there seven, and our oldest child was born there.

Customs and Border Protection stopped two separate vehicles and confiscated over $300,000 worth of narcotics over the span of a day.
The apprehensions continue to demonstrate the high volume of narcotics that smugglers are attempting to bring across the southern U.S. border, even as immigration numbers have plummeted in recent months.
On Sunday, May 17, agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry referred a 2013 Honda Civic for secondary inspection. After an imaging system detected anomalies in the car's firewall, they discovered six packages of white fentanyl powder worth roughly $113,600 along with 8.4 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $161,600.
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That same day at the Calexico East Port of Entry, about 100 miles away, a 2011 Nissan Cube was also sent for secondary inspection. Agents there discovered 63 packets of methamphetamine after a scan of that vehicle detected anomalies in its flooring.

President Trump on Friday announced that over 100 prescription medications would be added to his administration's direct-to-consumer drug platform, TrumpRx, the second expansion of the initiative in as many months.
"I am pleased to announce that TrumpRx.gov is adding another 160 Prescription Drugs, at highly discounted prices, for a new total of over 800 of the most commonly-used Prescription Drugs," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"TrumpRx.gov will now provide clear, transparent, and DISCOUNTED offerings for FOUR OUT OF FIVE of every prescription filled by Americans," the president added.
TrumpRx debuted in February with 43 branded prescription drugs, offering medications that treat conditions such as asthma, infertility and obesity to consumers at varying discounted rates. The platform now features two lists of medications, one for branded medications called "presidential deals" and another for generic drugs called "standard prices."
It was built to facilitate Trump's "most favored nation" (MFN) policy, which is designed to lower the cost of prescription drugs for U.S. consumers by dictating that drugmakers cannot charge a price for a specific brand-name drug higher than the lowest net price paid by other developed nations.

A potential peace deal between the United States and Iran hinges on the Trump administration agreeing to release $24 billion in frozen Iranian ******* ets, a top Iranian official told CNN on Friday, warning that the US would "enter into a dark corridor" should it resume fighting.
"The negotiations are at a deadlock and (US President Donald) Trump must break this deadlock," Mohsen Rezaei, military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, told CNN in an exclusive interview in Tehran. "The ball is in Trump's court."
Iran has reportedly demanded the release of $12 billion in frozen funds as soon as an interim agreement is signed with the US, and another $12 billion at a later stage.
US officials are concerned that any unfreezing of funds at this stage could remove a key leverage point over the regime. Trump has demanded that any agreement appear far stronger than the nuclear deal struck in 2015, and to avoid anything that could be construed as handing over "pallets of cash," a phrase he has invoked to criticize then-President Barack Obama's decision to give Tehran financial compensation.
In a rare interview with CNN, Rezaei shed light on the thinking inside Iran's strategic decision-making circles about the country's postwar vision, the fate of the Strait of Hormuz and how Iran may act if it is attacked again. His remarks carry weight because he remains closely connected to Iran's security establishment and is widely seen as being close to the current supreme leader, who has not been seen in public since he suffered injuries from an Israeli attack that killed his father on the first day of the war.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.
Buyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison in 2023 for trades made while working as a consultant and lobbyist. He was ordered to forfeit more than $350,000, representing the amount of the illegal gains, and pay a $10,000 fine. He was released in 2025.
In granting "a full, complete, and unconditional pardon," Trump cited Buyer's career as a judge advocate general in the Army and in the House that was "distinguished and highly productive." The pardon was dated Thursday and released by the White House late Friday.
Buyer said the pardon "corrects a politically motivated prosecution" and that it was "horrific to be imprisoned for a crime that I did not commit." He maintains that he is innocent.
Trump used his Truth Social media platform on May 31 to share a pair of letters requesting a presidential pardon for Buyer, a lawyer and Gulf War veteran who left office in 2011. He was a House prosecutor at Democratic President Bill Clinton's 1998 impeachment trial and in 2016 he served on Trump's transition team focusing on veterans' issues.

Drivers stung by high gas prices have enjoyed some welcome relief over the last couple of weeks, even as the impact of the Iran war continues to choke off oil supply.
The national average price of a gallon of gas stood at $4.26 on Wednesday, marking a decline of 30 cents, or 6.5%, since a recent peak on May 21.
Still, prices remain well above where they clocked in before a historic oil shock set off by the war. In late February, the average gallon of gas ran less than $3.
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The dropoff in gas prices owes to a decline in oil costs over the latter part of last month, which coincided with a slump in demand following Memorial Day weekend, some ***** ysts said.

A coalition of seven blue states sued the Trump administration Tuesday after it paid a French company nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money to not build offshore wind farms.
The lawsuit, led by New York attorney general Letitia James, argued that the deal struck between TotalEnergies and the Trump administration earlier this year deprived their states of much-needed power, and could raise electricity costs in the New England and mid-Atlantic regions.
In March, the Trump administration announced it would pay French energy giant TotalEnergies $928 million in taxpayer funds to reimburse the company for leases it had purchased under the Biden administration, allowing it to develop two offshore wind farms in waters near New York and North Carolina. The vast majority of that — $795 million — would have gone towards developing the New York project.
In exchange, TotalEnergies would spend that reimbursed money on the development of a new liquified natural gas plant in Texas, helping export US LNG overseas to Europe, CEO Patrick Pouyanné said in a statement at the time.
In April, the administration announced it would spend another nearly $900 million to repay two more wind energy developers to not build projects in New York and California (the April deal is not part of the current lawsuit).

President Donald Trump questioned why former first lady Jill Biden and former President Joe Biden went to Waffle House after the infamous 2024 debate during an interview on Wednesday, after Jill recently revealed she worried that Joe was having a stroke on stage.
"People saw him before the debate, and he was fine," Trump began as "Pod Force One" host Miranda Devine noted that Jill and Joe went to a Waffle House in Georgia after the debate ended. "I wouldn't say it was Winston Churchill, but he was fine. He was all right."
"Yeah. I mean, so she said he had a stroke, but why would she bring him to a Waffle House if he had a stroke?" Trump added.
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Devine asked if first lady Melania Trump would have allowed him to go to a Waffle House if she thought he suffered a stroke, and Trump said, "even in good times, she wouldn't."

The chief constable of Hampshire police has apologised to the family of Henry Nowak for the student being handcuffed and arrested as he lay dying.
Chief Constable Alexis Boon told the BBC he was "distressed" as others had been by the bodycam footage which showed the 18-year-old repeatedly telling officers that he had been stabbed and could not breathe.
Police can be seen in the footage arresting the teenager after his murderer Vickrum Digwa had falsely claimed he had been racially abused by the victim.
Asked what he would now say to the family, Boon told the BBC: "I'm so sorry you've had to go through this." He reiterated an apology on behalf of the force for the way in which Henry had been handcuffed and arrested.
Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years on Monday for the murder in December.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States said Monday that it bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend. Iran then said it targeted American soldiers in Kuwait with missiles, which the U.S. says it shot down.
The nominal ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. has been repeatedly tested with back-and-forth attacks, though officials from both countries are still trying to negotiate an end to the war. It’s not clear how close they are to a deal — and there is always the risk that an attack could derail those talks.
Fighting has also been escalating between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, despite their nominal ceasefire, and that has increasingly threatened the emerging deal to extend the Iran war ceasefire.
On Monday afternoon U.S. President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to dial back their fighting after he held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with Hezbollah through mediators. Moments later, though, Israel said it had detected missile launches from Lebanon and warned Israelis in part of northern Israel to take cover in protected **** es.
Meantime, Iran maintained its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global energy supplies and driving up the price of fuel around the world, with far-reaching consequences. A cargo ship came under attack off Iraq Monday afternoon, the British military said.

Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles into Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities killing at least 16 civilians and wounding more than 100 others. Apartment buildings across the country have been reduced to rubble, leaving many residents trapped.

Mark Zandi thinks Trump has about a week to strike an Iran deal before the US has bigger problems.
Absent a peace deal, oil prices could soar again, triggering a US recession, he said.
Other forecasters have warned that it won't be long before economic damage from the war is more visible.
The halting peace negotiations between the US and Iran need to result in a deal soon if the US is going to avoid deeper economic pain.
That's according to Moody's top economist Mark Zandi, who said Donald Trump has about a week to secure a peace deal before the effects of the war make it more likely that the economy will fall into a recession.

Russia hunts Ukrainian drone operators, units, and command centers.
As a result, Ukraine tries to keep them on the move and concealed and underground.
A Ukrainian defense official said the West should take heed, even though it makes things expensive.
RIGA, Latvia — The West would do well to make sure that its future drone units and command centers are mobile and ideally underground because they are such high-value targets, a Ukrainian defense official said.
The West is investing heavily in drone warfare and tactics after seeing how effective they have been in the war in Ukraine, and Ukraine has hard-earned lessons to offer.

Some sad news for snack lovers: A salmonella outbreak is affecting many tasty treats.
The outbreak is linked to powdered milk and ******* ermilk supplied by California Dairies — an ingredient used to flavor some snacks, such as seasoning for potato chips and cheese breads made by a frozen pizza company and sold at Costco, Walmart and Target, among other retailers. According to the Food and Drug Administration, the dairy ingredients were voluntarily recalled on April 20 due to possible contamination.
More than a dozen products have already been affected, though additional recalls could still be announced. Walmart is among the companies to have issued a product recall, for its Blackstone Parmesan Ranch seasoning.
Here are the snack foods that have been recalled so far, according to the FDA website:
Angel Specialty Products, Royal Gold, Boba Time, Fanale, Denda — recalled May 22

BUDAPEST, June 1 (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Monday his government would launch legal proceedings to dismiss President Tamas Sulyok, an appointee ‌of the previous nationalist administration, if he sticks by his refusal to resign.
Magyar's ‌centre-right Tisza party ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an April election and pledged to remove several figures appointed by Orban to key public positions over the past 16 years, including the largely ceremonial head of state.
Magyar has repeatedly called on Sulyok — elected in early 2024 by lawmakers from Orban's Fidesz party — to step down, accusing him of failing to represent national unity on ‌major issues and of serving ⁠the interests of Orban and his government. Sulyok has consistently refused to resign.
"I have told the president that if he maintains his stance ⁠and does not resign, I will inform... Tisza's lawmakers about our legislative proposals today and we will immediately start the necessary procedures," Magyar said after meeting Sulyok.
The legislative process would take about a month and would involve "removing all the puppets" who took part in "dismantling the rule of ‌law and democracy" under Orban's rule, Magyar said.

When an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific in January 2022, it sent a plume of ash, steam and gas nearly 40 miles above the Earth’s surface. It was one of the most violent volcanic eruptions of modern times. It may also have also revealed a new weapon in the fight against a potent planet-heating gas, according to new research.
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted with a power hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, setting off a tsunami and a sonic boom that went around the planet twice. It then did something “unexpected,” according to the authors of the new study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications. It started cleaning up some of its own pollution.
The scientists’ discovery came from looking at advanced satellite data of the eruption. “We found a huge cloud of formaldehyde that should normally not be there,” said Maarten van Herpen, a study author, and a physicist and executive director at Acacia Impact Innovation, a Dutch consultancy. Formaldehyde often forms when methane, a potent planet-heating gas, is destroyed in the atmosphere.
The researchers believed they were observing a chemical process that had previously been identified over the Atlantic Ocean.
Scientists had found that when Saharan dust is blown over the Atlantic, it mixes with salt spray and forms small iron-based particles. As the sunlight hits them, it produces chlorine atoms, which react with methane in the atmosphere and help break it down.

Over four years ago, Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko allowed longtime ally Russia to use his territory to invade Ukraine. Now officials in Kyiv are warning that Lukashenko could again allow his land to serve as a launchpad for more attacks by the Kremlin's forces.
While Belarus has not contributed troops to battle, Lukashenko has backed President Vladimir Putin’s war effort by hosting Russia’s nuclear weapons and military infrastructure, as well as producing components for Moscow’s military industries. Earlier this month, the countries held joint drills of nuclear forces involving Russian weapons deployed in Belarus.
Lukashenko, in power for over three decades, has ruled the nation of 9.5 million with an iron fist, relentlessly cracking down on dissent and relying on its close ties with Russia, as well as subsidies from the Kremlin's coffers, to counteract repeated Western sanctions.
Military cooperation between Moscow and Minsk is increasingly worrying Ukraine’s allies.
When Putin began the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Russian troops that gathered in Belarus under the guise of drills dashed toward Kyiv, only about 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of the border.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told CNN's State of the Union on Sunday that the country's 250th birthday is a "nonpartisan event" — one day after President Trump publicly called for replacing its concert lineup with a "Make America Great Again rally."
Host Dana Bash pushed back. "Trump called it a 'Make America Great Again rally,'" she said. "Which is the name of his political organization."
"Well, it is," Burgum replied. "But that's something I think we all can certainly understand."
In a Saturday Truth Social post, Trump suggested scrapping the Freedom 250 concert series on the National Mall after a wave of artists pulled out.
"We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who ****** ody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain," he wrote.