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The national average price for regular gas increased again on Tuesday to $4.483 per gallon. This is a 30-cent-per-gallon increase from a week ago, according to AAA. A gallon of regular gas in the United States last week averaged $4.176. Tuesday’s new average pricing was the thirteenth consecutive day in which gas prices increased, reaching […]

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A soldier of the Unmanned Systems Forces prepares a drone on March 31, 2026, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. | Nikoletta Stoyanova/Getty Images “I suggested a little bit of a ceasefire, and I think he might do that,” President Donald Trump told reporters this week after a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “There’s so many people being killed, it’s so ridiculous.” Putin has proposed “little” ceasefires before, but more than four years since its full-scale invasion, he shows little sign t

The ceasefire in the Middle East was in peril Tuesday after the United States and Iran traded fire and threats over President Donald Trump's new mission to force open the Strait of Hormuz.