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CNN  —  The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday seemed open to backing the creation of a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, a decision that would expand the availability of taxpayer money for religious education in school systems across the nation. During more than two hours of at times feisty arguments in one of the year’s most closely watched cases, the court’s conservative justices pressed an attorney opposed to the creation of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School about how his position could be squared with a series of recent precedents that have eroded the proverbial wall that for…

New York CNN  —  The US economy is contracting faster than expected. Is it a recession? Maybe. For a variety of reasons, we can’t start bandying the R-word around just yet. But what we can do is step back, look at the data, and — in my very technical analysis — run a vibe check. The upshot: It feels like we’ve got a lot of recession energy. On Wednesday, government data showed economic growth contracting for the first time in three years. Gross domestic product, which measures all the goods and services produced in the economy, fell in the first…

New York CNN  —  The White House took aggressive aim at Amazon, with President Donald Trump putting in a call to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tuesday morning, after the company considered displaying the added cost of tariffs on certain items. Trump called Bezos to complain about reports that Amazon was considering displaying the cost of US tariffs next to prices for certain products on the company’s website, two senior White House officials told CNN. Trump later said it was a “good call.” “Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was terrific,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “He solved the problem very…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! UFC fighter Sedriques Dumas was arrested in Florida on Monday, just weeks after his last fight in the octagon, and remains in police custody with a lengthy list of charges, including robbery and battery charges. The 29-year-old fighter was booked into Escambia County Jail in Pensacola, Florida, on Monday and is being held on a $558,500 bond, according to online records.  UFC fighter Sedriques Dumas was booked into Escambia County Jail in Florida on Monday on several charges, including burglary. (Escambia County Jail)CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe details of Dumas’ arrest…

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action. CNN  —  The world’s smallest elephants are still big. Measuring around nine feet (2.7 meters) tall, Bornean elephants are the smallest subspecies of the Asian elephant, and are two feet (60 centimeters) shorter than their African counterparts. Found only on the island of Borneo, mostly in the Malaysian state of Sabah, there are fewer…

CNN  —  An American detained in Belarus has been freed, Special Envoy for Hostage Recovery Adam Boehler and a second US official told CNN on Wednesday. Youras Ziankovich was arrested in Moscow in 2021 and then was brought to Belarus’s capital Minsk, where he was accused of being part of a US-backed coup plot against Belarus’ strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko. The US State Department denied any such involvement. Ziankovich had been declared wrongfully detained in February 2025. There was not a prisoner swap that led to his release, Boehler and the unnamed official said. “No exchange,” Boehler told CNN Wednesday.…

CNN  —  Iran is crafting a potential nuclear agreement with the United States, wrapping it in language designed to flatter US President Donald Trump’s favorite persona: the dealmaker-in-chief. Officials in Tehran have seized on Trump’s anti-war, pro-business image to pitch an Iran-US nuclear agreement as a way to help Trump fulfill his pledge to “make America rich again.” Tehran’s argument is that a war with Iran would bleed American coffers, while diplomacy could open the door to economic prosperity. To that point, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi presented his country as being open for American business in a Washington Post…

CNN  —  In a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump’s trade war, China’s Foreign Ministry posted to social media a striking video that calls on the international community to stand up to America’s “bully” leader. “Bowing to a bully is like drinking poison to quench thirst – it only deepens the crisis,” China said in its video, narrated in English and subtitled in Chinese. “History has proven compromise won’t earn you mercy – kneeling only invites more bullying. China won’t kneel down.” The video narrates a history lesson of what China considers American economic aggression, forcing companies like Toshiba and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Katy Perry has never been one to shy away from online criticism. On Tuesday, the “Roar” songstress – who has recently kicked off her “Lifetimes” tour – took to social media to address the ongoing backlash she has received from “unhinged” critics just weeks after embarking on an 11-minute flight to space on the Blue Origin spacecraft. “I’m so grateful for you guys,” Perry, 40, wrote in the caption of an Instagram post, which featured a fan tribute displayed for her in New York City’s Times Square. “We’re in this beautiful and wild journey…

Forbes Chairman and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes warns over U.S. prices going up amid global tariff tensions and weighs in on Federal Reserve leadership. The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge showed that price growth slowed in March, with inflation trending closer to the central bank’s target rate. The Commerce Department on Wednesday reported that the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index was flat compared with the prior month and grew 2.3% on an annual basis. Those figures were largely in line with the estimates of economists polled by LSEG, which predicted flat monthly price growth and annual inflation to be 2.2%.Core PCE, which…