AP Top Headlines at 8:48 p.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 practicesThree months after a gunman foiled the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, guests at the rescheduled event arrived to a different pictureAn 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