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Home Depot got a lift in the first quarter from professionals and also homeowners stocking up on spring supplies. “The underlying demand in our business was relatively similar to what we saw throughout fiscal 2025, despite greater consumer uncertainty and housing affordability pressure,” CEO Ted Decker said Tuesday. The housing market has been static as Americans consumers wrestle with rising costs and other economic concerns. Sales of previously occupied U.S. […]

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — At least 131 deaths and over 500 suspected cases have been reported in the latest Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, the Congolese health ministry said Tuesday as the World Health Organization’s head expressed concern over the “scale and speed of the epidemic.” The virus spread undetected for at least a few weeks since the first person died of the virus, health experts and aid workers said, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Trains are set to resume rolling on the Long Island Rail Road on Tuesday after a deal was reached to end a strike that had shut down the busiest commuter rail system in the country. Commuters in the New York City suburbs will still have to muddle through another tough morning rush hour, as trains won’t be running in time for the commute into work, railroad […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will appear on Capitol Hill Tuesday for his first congressional testimony since taking the reins at the Justice Department as the law enforcement agency faces intense scrutiny over its plans to create a $1.776 billion fund to pay allies of the Republican president who believe they were targeted politically. Blanche’s testimony before a Senate appropriations subcommittee follows Monday’s announcement about the creation […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — When Australian farmer Rhys Smoker announced he’d found a live frog in a bag of lettuce, his housemates didn’t believe him. Smoker had been preparing a steak and salad dinner on Saturday for the three people who share his house in Esperance in Western Australia state when he spotted the frog among the leaves inside the sealed plastic bag he’d bought from a supermarket, housemate Laura […]

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Tuesday concluded final arguments in a national security trial for two former organizers of the city’s vigils remembering the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Judge Alex Lee, one of the three government-vetted judges, said that they hoped to deliver a verdict in July for Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan, two former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic […]

By Zaheer Kachwala and Stephen Nellis May 19 (Reuters) – Nvidia is expected to deliver another blockbuster earnings report on Wednesday, but a shift in how artificial intelligence is used is raising doubts on how long its dominance in AI chips can last. After years of near-monopoly in chips used to train AI systems, Nvidia is facing competition from tech giants building their own chips to capture demand that is […]

By Nathan Layne May 19 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is targeting Representative Thomas Massie in Tuesday’s Republican primary in Kentucky, backing a challenger to try to purge one of his loudest critics from within the party. The party contest – the most expensive U.S. House of Representatives primary in history – will again test Trump’s hold over Republicans after he successfully pushed out another key critic, Senator Bill […]

By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) – It looks like the bond market is betting a Federal Reserve rate increase could be on the way — but Fed members and economists mostly don’t seem to think so. What’s going on? Fed funds futures – the market’s favorite tool for predicting rate moves – put roughly 50% odds on the U.S. central bank raising rates by December, following a […]