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Oil experts told PolitiFact gains for consumers will not materialize any time soon, and would likely take years -- long after November's midterm elections.

The strikes -- a day after U.S. President Donald Trump sought to minimize the conflict as "small potatoes" -- keep up a new tilt back toward fighting after six months of on-again, off-again war.

It's supposed to be the world's longest peaceful border, but you wouldn't know it listening to the country's leaders. What's next now that America and Canada, whose economies are intertwined, are on the verge of unwinding? Compass Points moderator .. ...

In our news wrap Friday, two men were pulled from a tunnel more than a week after the catastrophic deluge that barreled through Himalayan river valleys, Ukraine's president says a Russian drone struck the headquarters of the country's security ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that he calls the Iran war a "military conflict" because he thinks it's "small potatoes" for the United States.

The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as the conflict stretches toward five years since Moscow's invasion of its neighbor.

The Treasury Department accused the Turkish bank and its entities of being established to enable Iran's efforts to transfer oil revenues from China to Turkey, where they could then be converted to cash and gold.

A troubled nation's pride took a bruising last week when acting President Delcy Rodríguez agreed to give the United States control of roughly one-fifth of Venezuela's oil reserves - the largest in the world.

German police arrested two people suspected of attacking a weapons manufacturer in Munich. The incident comes after Germany officially blamed the Russian government for an attack involving drones that came close to downing an aircraft as it landed. . ...

With Russian military losses estimated at some 40,000 a month, there are signs the Kremlin is preparing for the possibility of a much broader call-up, perhaps after parliamentary elections later this month. Special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky ...