AP Top Headlines at 12:03 a.m. EDT

The U.S. military says it has fired on a merchant vessel attempting to breach its blockade of Iranian ports, while Iran targeted American strongholds around the Persian GulfPresident Donald Trump says the United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practicesPresident Donald Trump has returned to the stage of the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinnerAn attorney for the family of a man who was shot and killed by Madison police says Corey Ruiz’s death was unjustified, and the officer should be criminally chargedSkydance-owned Paramount has agreed to delay closing its $81 billion buyout of Warner BrosStocks drifted on Wall Street and oil prices fell for the first time in a week, even as heavy fighting in the Middle East again threatened t