News for May 4, 2025

Oscar Piastri won the Miami Grand Prix and extended his lead over Lando Norris in the Formula 1 championship.

Trump’s trade war with China is threatening Panama Canal traffic and could hurt a major long-term source of revenue for Panama.

More than 30 adults were injured when a shuttle bus crashed into a ditch in Missouri on Saturday morning.

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake shook rural West Texas and southeastern New Mexico on Saturday night, and no damage was reported right away.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook remote West Texas on Saturday night, and it was part of a larger swarm of quakes in the area.

Elon Musk’s Starbase site in South Texas is on track to become an official Texas city after a local vote largely backed by SpaceX workers.

A small single-engine plane crashed in a Simi Valley neighborhood, killing the people on board and damaging two homes.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX won approval to incorporate Starbase as a new Texas city, giving the company greater local control over its rocket base.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called it “unacceptable” that two planes had to abort landings near Reagan National because of an Army helicopter, as safety concerns grow after the January crash.

A 78-year-old Cohasset man, John Canney, died after his pickup truck was hit by a Commuter Rail train at a crossing.