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FILE - Ricky Bell, warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., gives a tour of the prison's execution chamber, Oct. 13, 1999. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Tennessee high court blocks order allowing media witnesses to view more parts of executions

3:56 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The Tennessee Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court’s order that would have let media witnesses view more parts of state-run executions

How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday 4/8/2026

3:26 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Oil prices plunged below $95 per barrel, and stock markets surged worldwide after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat of devastating attacks against Iran

FILE - Cody Roberts, who entered a plea of guilty to felony animal cruelty for allegedly taking a wolf into a Wyoming bar after hitting it with a snowmobile, is seen March 5, 2026, in Pinedale, Wy. (Kathryn Ziesig/Jackson Hole News & Guide via AP, File)

Wyoming man gets probation for hitting wolf with snowmobile, bringing it into bar

3:07 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A Wyoming judge has sentenced a man to 18 months of probation for hitting a wolf with a snowmobile and bringing the hurt animal into a bar before killing it

The top photos of the day by AP's photojournalists

3:03 PM on Wednesday, April 8

From left, Acting Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command William Hartman, FBI Director Kash Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, listen during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing to examine worldwide threats, Thursday, March 19, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Shaky ceasefire unlikely to stop cyberattacks from Iran-linked hackers for long

2:56 PM on Wednesday, April 8

An uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. and Israel may do little to stop cyberattacks from hackers allied with Tehran

FILE - NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell poses for a photo at the 30th annual Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom, April 14, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Paramount president Jeff Shell is stepping down from his post amid a legal battle

2:52 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Longtime media executive Jeff Shell is leaving Paramount

FILE - Two police officers walk in front of an anti-U.S. billboard depicting American aircraft being caught by Iranian armed forces in a fishing net beneath the words in Farsi, "The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed, The entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground," in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran's proposal to collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz violates trade norms

2:36 PM on Wednesday, April 8

To end the war with the United States and Israel, Iran is demanding the right to collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz as a precondition for reopening the waterway vital to world oil supplies

Armita, no surname given, poses for a photo in central Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Photos from Tehran, where daily life continues despite war

2:27 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Patrick Kolasinski, attorney for Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, speaks at a news conference accompanied by his client's girlfriend, Cindy, in Modesto, Calif., Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Attorney for man shot by ICE in California says his client did not try to run officers over

1:42 PM on Wednesday, April 8

An attorney for a man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an arrest in California says his client did not try to run officers over with his car and disputed claims that he has a warrant out for his arrest in El Salvador

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell addresses students at Harvard University, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

More Federal Reserve officials see possible rate hikes this year, minutes show

1:09 PM on Wednesday, April 8

More Federal Reserve policymakers were willing to consider an interest rate hike this year at their March meeting than in January, as higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war threatened to worsen inflation in the coming months

Fishing boats dot the sea as cargo ships, in the background, sail through the Arabian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz off the United Arab Emirates, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo)

What does the Iran ceasefire deal mean? It depends on which side you talk to

1:01 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran appears to be in jeopardy

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks during a fireside chat with CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Gabriela Passos)

RFK Jr is launching a podcast to expose 'lies' that have made Americans sick

12:58 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Health Secretary Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ is launching a new podcast called “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.”

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on a building in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

At least 182 killed as Israel strikes central Beirut after saying Iran truce doesn't apply there

7:27 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Lebanon’s health ministry says that Israeli strikes during the day killed 182 people, the highest single-day death toll in the Israel-Hezbollah war

FILE - Matthew Perry poses for a portrait in New York on Feb. 17, 2015. (Photo by Brian Ach/Invision/AP, File)

'Ketamine Queen' gets 15 years in prison for selling Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him

4:08 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A federal judge has handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling “Friends” star Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in a 2023 overdose

Government supporters chant slogans after the announcement of a two-week ceasefire with the United States and Israel in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Photos: US, Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire

2:14 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney speaks during a news conference after Rex Heuermann, accused in Long Island's Gilgo Beach serial killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Police Academy Gymnasium in Brentwood, N.Y. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to murder charges and admits he killed 8 women in the Gilgo Beach case

11:04 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A Long Island architect has pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings

Aadam Jacobs poses in front of LP (long play) record storage bookcase at his home in Chicago, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

11:02 PM on Tuesday, April 7

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

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