The Trump administration says the U.S. will release 172 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

New reporting from ProPublica finds that a program designed to prevent civilian deaths was gutted last year.

Stacey Schuhwerk and her son, Tyler, are back in Massachusetts.

The Trump administration has cut off oil to Cuba, resulting in blackouts, fuel shortages and severe economic unrest.

The United Nations Refugee Agency says more than 3 million people in Iran have been displaced by the war.

Iran's new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, said in televised remarks Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz — the shipping route for a fifth of the world’s oil supply — should remain closed.

The Pritzker Prize was awarded Thursday. "In every work, he is able to answer with radical originality, making the unobvious obvious," said fellow Chilean architect and prize chair Alejandro Aravena.

A potentially strong El Niño weather pattern will likely emerge this summer and persist through the rest of the year. The hottest years on record generally occur in years when El Niño is active.

Trump, who promised to lower gas prices, is tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as war drives prices up. And, the U.S. investigates the strike on an Iranian school that killed at least 165 people.

The visual album and documentary Songs from the Hole tells the story of James Jacobs, the hip-hop artist JJ'88, as he reflects on his coming-of-age within California's state prison system.