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A Philippine Airlines plane takes off from Los Angeles International Airport in El Segundo, Calif., on Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

What consumers can do as the Iran war impacts the cost and availability of flights

2:53 PM on Saturday, April 18

As the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran squeezes global oil supplies, travelers have valid reasons to worry about the cost and availability of flights as they plan their late spring and summer trips

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a Venezuelan flag on stage in front of supporters at Madrid's Puerta del Sol, in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado draws a huge Madrid crowd and rebuffs meeting with Spain's PM

2:35 PM on Saturday, April 18

Venezuela's exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado has drawn several thousand supporters to a rally in Madrid

Police officers are seen at the site where a gunman killed at least six people in the streets before being shot dead by police, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)

A mass shooting in Ukraine's capital leaves 6 dead before police shot and killed the gunman

11:20 AM on Saturday, April 18

A gunman armed with an automatic weapon has killed six people and injured at least 14 in a mass shooting in Ukraine's capital before he was shot and killed by police

FILE - A sign stands in front of the New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police, in London, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

UK police investigate an arson attempt on a building once used by the Jewish community

10:42 AM on Saturday, April 18

British counterterrorism police are investigating an attempted arson attack in London

Pope Leo XIV arrives in procession to celebrate Mass at Yaounde Ville Airport, Cameroon, Saturday, April 18, 2026 on the sixth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Leo XIV says ‘not in my interest at all’ to debate Trump but will keep preaching peace

9:50 AM on Saturday, April 18

Pope Leo XIV says it is “not in my interest at all” to debate U.S. President Donald Trump about the war in Iran but that he will continue preaching the Gospel message of peace

Barber Mohammad Mehdi cuts the hair of his client Ayman Al Zein inside his shop, which was damaged in an Israeli airstrike that also damaged Al Zein's shop, in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

French soldier killed and 3 others wounded in an attack on peacekeepers in Lebanon, Macron says

8:44 AM on Saturday, April 18

French President Emmanuel Macron says a French soldier was killed and three others wounded in an attack on U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon

FILE - The milky way and traces of meteors illuminate the sky over Burg on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, northern Germany, April 20, 2018. (Daniel Reinhardt/dpa via AP, File)

The Lyrid meteor shower is visible now and peaking soon. Here's how to spot it

8:03 AM on Saturday, April 18

The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to bring fiery streaks to the night sky

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, left, embraces Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the end of the Global Progressive Mobilisation summit in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

While Trump lashes out at Spain, US Democrats join a progressive rally in Barcelona

5:59 AM on Saturday, April 18

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has hosted two events in Barcelona to rally progressive leaders from around the world who fear for a rules-based world order

Backdropped by ships in the Strait of Hormuz, damage, according to local witnesses caused by several recent airstrikes during the U.S.-Israel military campaign, is seen on a fishing pier in the port of Qeshm island, Iran, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Asghar Besharati)

Traffic and trepidation in the Persian Gulf could keep gasoline prices from dropping quickly

5:30 PM on Friday, April 17

Oil prices plunged and the stock market rallied after U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister said that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open

FILE - A colorful collection of shoes cross the starting line at the start of the 2017 Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, Mass., Monday, April 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, file)

Men caught competing in the women's category of a prestigious South African marathon

9:34 AM on Friday, April 17

Two male runners in South Africa who were discovered fraudulently competing on behalf of female colleagues in a top marathon have been disqualified

Two girls chant slogans as one holds an image of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A fragile calm in Lebanon as a US-brokered truce holds and families head home

5:40 AM on Friday, April 17

A fragile calm has settled over parts of Lebanon as a 10-day ceasefire brokered by the United States takes hold between Israel and Hezbollah

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks as Starmer hosts social media industry leaders to discuss child safety online Thursday, April 16, 2026, in London. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)

Starmer rejects calls to resign over Mandelson appointment as pressure builds

4:24 AM on Friday, April 17

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington, despite Mandelson failing security checks

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, right, and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva review troops during a Spain-Brazil summit in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

Lula and Sánchez to 'work for peace' at gathering of progressive leaders in Barcelona

3:32 AM on Friday, April 17

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has started a two-day visit to Spain on Friday when he and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez met a day before they will gather with other leaders who are concerned with the fate of the democratic order and the rise of the populist far right

A woman with her child attends Pope Leo XIV's meeting with University students and professors at the Catholic University of Central Africa, in Yaounde Cameroon, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope urges Africa's youth to resist dual temptations of migration and corruption in Cameroon

1:53 AM on Friday, April 17

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging young people in Cameroon to resist the temptation to migrate and to stay at home and fight corruption

A woman member of the Basij paramilitary, affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard, holds her gun during a state-organized rally in support of the supreme leader marking National Girl's Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

The Latest: Trump and Iran’s top diplomat say the Strait of Hormuz is fully open

1:45 AM on Friday, April 17

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister say the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to commercial vessels

Released prisoners, in a bus, are welcomed by family members and colleagues after they left Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, April 17, 2026, following Myanmar President's amnesty to mark the country's traditional new year. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Former President Win Myint freed in broad Myanmar prisoner amnesty

12:26 AM on Friday, April 17

Myanmar's former President Win Myint has been freed as part of a broad prisoner amnesty by newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron co-host a multinational virtual summit at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, Friday April 17, 2026 (Tom Nicholson/Pool Photo via AP)

Macron and Starmer welcome Hormuz reopening and push for permanent navigation security

12:08 AM on Friday, April 17

France and the U.K. have welcomed the announcement by Iran and the U.S. that the Strait of Hormuz is open

FILE - A Canada Post mail truck is seen parked in their distribution center, in Montreal, Nov. 27, 2024. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada Post taking steps to stop home mail delivery

10:23 PM on Thursday, April 16

The government-owned corporation that delivers mail in Canada is taking steps to stop home delivery

FILE - A worker fuels an Air Canada jet at DFW International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Jet fuel supplies are lagging. What does that mean for airlines and travelers?

3:52 PM on Thursday, April 16

A looming jet fuel shortage in Europe and Asia could compound the Iran war's impact on world travel if a fragile agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz collapses and Persian Gulf oil shipments stay blocked

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