House Rebukes Trump On Iran War Powers

ST PETERSBURG - Ukrainian drones struck energy and military targets in St Petersburg early Wednesday, sending black smoke over the city hours before Russia's flagship economic forum opened.

Regional officials said several facilities were damaged and some people were injured. Kyiv said the oil terminal and a naval base in Kronstadt were among the targets. The forum, long billed as Russia's Davos, is still going ahead. The timing was the point.

KUWAIT CITY - Iran struck Kuwait International Airport overnight, killing one person and injuring more than 60 others, Kuwaiti authorities said. The attack damaged Terminal 1 and forced flights to stop before service resumed after safety checks. Kuwait released CCTV footage it said showed the drone strike and called it heinous aggression. The exchange came as U.S.-Iran fighting kept flaring despite the ceasefire.

NEW DELHI - At least 21 people were killed when a fire tore through a hotel in southern Delhi on Wednesday, police said. Several of the dead were foreign nationals who had come to India for medical treatment, local media reported.

The blaze started in the ground-floor restaurant and spread fast through the multi-storey building. More than 40 people were rescued, and witnesses said some trapped guests jumped from windows as firefighters worked to contain the fire. Investigators are still trying to pin down the cause.

WASHINGTON - President Trump named housing regulator Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, a job that oversees 18 U.S. spy agencies. Pulte has no intelligence background, and the choice drew quick skepticism from lawmakers. Trump said Pulte has “deep experience” managing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Senate Republicans are already debating the pick, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was pressed about a past clash with Pulte.

SACRAMENTO - California’s crowded governor primary was still unsettled Wednesday, with Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra leading the count and Tom Steyer trailing behind them. The top two will move on to November, but officials said it could take days to finish counting the ballots. In a state this big, patience is not optional.

WASHINGTON - President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at stripping job protections from federal workers, a move meant to make it easier to fire career officials who resist White House policy. The order is a response to the pushback Trump faced in his first term, when senior civil servants routinely challenged actions they believed crossed legal lines. The message is plain enough: fall in line, or else.

WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department said a case of New World screwworm may have been detected in South Texas, a fresh threat to cattle already at their lowest level in 75 years. The parasite, which can infest warm-blooded animals, has been creeping closer to the border for months. USDA says the risk to livestock and people in the United States remains very low, but ranchers have heard that line before.

NEW YORK - Elon Musk’s SpaceX is poised to go public later in June in what Bloomberg says would be the largest stock-market debut ever. The company is aiming to raise $75 billion, more than twice the previous IPO record. If it lands anywhere near that number, the old benchmark will look quaint. Wall Street loves a spectacle. This one comes with rockets.

NEW YORK - Liftoff Mobile Inc. raised $437 million in a US initial public offering that priced above its marketed range, in its second attempt to go public this year. The Blackstone-backed mobile ad company had already tried once and came back with a cleaner pitch and a better market. Investors bought it. For now, that counts as a win.

SAN ANTONIO - The Knicks and Spurs open the NBA Finals on Wednesday in a 1999 rematch, with New York chasing its first title since 1973 and San Antonio trying to start a new era around Victor Wembanyama. The Knicks arrive on an 11-game playoff win streak after sweeping their last two rounds. The Spurs are favored at home, but Game 1 has a way of ignoring the script.

RALEIGH - Tomas Hertl scored with 3:24 left, and the Vegas Golden Knights rallied from a 2-0 hole to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-4 in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Nikolaj Ehlers scored twice for Carolina, including 25 seconds in, but Vegas answered with three straight goals and never really blinked. Hertl had chances all night. He finally buried one when it mattered. Game 2 is Thursday in Raleigh, and the Hurricanes already know the assignment is ugly.

NEW YORK - Russell Wilson retired from the NFL on Wednesday at 37 and is headed to CBS Sports as an analyst on *The NFL Today*.

He confirmed the move in a social media video that doubled as a goodbye note to football. Wilson spent 14 seasons in the league, won a Super Bowl with Seattle, and now replaces Matt Ryan on the CBS pregame show. Not a bad second act.

NEW YORK - Martin Scorsese’s decision to join Black Forest Labs as an adviser and use its AI tools for storyboards has triggered a familiar Hollywood argument about whether convenience is just a nicer word for surrender. He says the technology helps him show his vision more clearly. Critics say he is lending his name to a tool that could undercut artists. Boots Riley was blunter: “extrafuck him.”

BERLIN - Wim Wenders is withdrawing his 1975 film Wrong Move from circulation after years of appeals from Nastassja Kinski, who was 13 when she appeared topless in it. The Wim Wenders Foundation said streaming, TV and distribution partners have been told to stop public access. Wenders apologized, saying Kinski should have been better protected. Her lawyer called the move long overdue.

NEW YORK - Questlove's new Earth, Wind and Fire documentary opened Tribeca on Friday with a portrait that is both celebratory and a little haunted. Variety says he captures the band's pop genius and Maurice White's harder story without flattening either one. The film leans into the group's fusion of funk, soul and pop, then lets the cost of that brilliance sit there. It sounds like a reminder that great music usually comes with a price.