![Rescue servicemen extinguish a bush fire after shelling in Mykolaivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 29, 2022.]()
Live updates | US official: Ukraine resistance slows RussiaWASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. defense official said Friday the Russian offensive is going much slower than planned in part because of the strength of the Ukrainian resistance. “We also assess that...By The Associated Press
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Houston is sinking at a rate faster than the rise of sea levels, which could lead to the city...
![Houston is sinking at a rate faster than the rise of sea levels, which could lead to the city disappearing in less than 100 years.]()
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Problems began before the flight even took off.
![A first-class passenger aboard a Friday Delta Airlines flight to Phoenix was arrested after allegedly assaulting and shouting homophobic slurs at a flight attendant while the plane was in transit.]()
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Vidor has a history as a 'sun-down town,' in which Black people were not permitted after dark.
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Use this natural remedy to boost your immune response as COVID cases rise.
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Power & Renewables
![Vistra Energy, headquartered in Irving, Texas, is the state's largest power generator. (David Woo/Dallas Morning News/TNS)]()
Vistra expects a hit of up to $1.3 billion to its earnings due to winter...Vistra, which posted a $625 million profit, said it spent more than $10 million to prepare its power plants for the bitter cold that swept into the state last week, but natural gas shortages...By Marcy de Luna
Oil & Gas
![The OPEC Secretariat building in Vienna on Dec. 4, 2019. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Stefan Wermuth.]()
Oil powers ahead as critical OPEC+ meeting loomsOil rebounded from its biggest slump since November ahead of a key OPEC+ meeting.By Saket Sundria and Alex Longley![As oil prices continue a steady rise, analysts say that if things go just right, $60 is a possibility by summer.]()
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Energy Services
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Weatherford CEO exits as struggling company faces 'Chapter 22 bankruptcy'Weatherford International CEO Mark McCollum left his post five days before the struggling oil field service company's stockholder meeting and amid a new debt crisis that observers say could...By Sergio Chapa
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![FILE - This April 28, 2021 photo shows an Exxon service station sign in Philadelphia. Exxon Mobil reported $5.48 billion in profits during the first quarter, Friday, April 29, 2022, as oil and gas prices rose steadily, more than doubling its profits compared to the same quarter last year.]()
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![This combination photo shows promotional art for “Meltdown: Three Mile Island," premiering May 4 on Netflix, "Sheryl," a documentary streaming May 6 on Showtime and "Hatching," a film premiering May 6 on Hulu. (Netflix/Showtime/Hulu via AP)]()
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![Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif visits Prophet Muhammad’s mosque in the holy city of Medina in western Saudi Arabia and performs prayers with his delegation late Thursday, April 28, 2022. Pakistan’s newly elected prime minister was visiting Saudi Arabia Friday on his first foreign trip since taking office, an attempt to boost economic relations with the wealthy, oil-rich kingdom as Pakistan struggles with huge debt, soaring inflation and a worsening energy crisis. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)]()
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![Heavy machines install a pipeline near Komotini town, northern Greece, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Crossing a remote border area of Greece and Bulgaria, a new pipeline nearing completion will help countries in the region dependent on Russian imports get greater access to the global natural gas market. The pipeline will ensure that large volumes of gas will flow between the two countries in both directions. (AVAX via AP)]()
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![FILE - Motorists in the Netherlands headed to the pumps after a government reduction in duties on fuel entered into force to help motorists hit by soaring fuel prices, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, April 1, 2022. Inflation hit a new record for the 19 countries that use the euro as skyrocketing fuel prices boosted by the war in Ukraine add new burdens to household finances and weigh on a slowing economic recovery from the latest outbreaks of COVID-19, the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat reported Friday, April 29, 2022.]()
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![FILE- Former Russian Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev is escorted to a court in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 7, 2017. Russia's former economic development minister, the country's highest-ranking official to be jailed in nearly two decades, has been granted parole after serving more than half of an eight-year sentence on a bribery conviction, Russian officials confirmed Friday, April 29, 2022.]()
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![Tader Sal Suarino, left, works on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, April 28, 2022. Stocks rose in afternoon trading on Wall Street as technology companies clawed back some of the ground they had lost recently. (Nicole Pereira/New York Stock Exchange via AP)]()
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![FILE - A United States Postal Service employee works outside a post office in Wheeling, Ill., Dec. 3, 2021. Four environmental groups that want the U.S. Postal Service to buy more electric delivery vehicles are suing to halt further purchases. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, April 28, 2022, in federal court in California, asks a judge to order the Postal Service to conduct a more thorough environmental review before moving forward with the next-generation vehicle program.]()
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![FILE - Cans and plastic bottles brought in for recycling fill containers at a recycling center in Sacramento, Calif., July 5, 2016. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday, April 28, 2022, that a subpoena has been issued to ExxonMobil as part of what he called a first-of-its-kind investigation into the petroleum industry for its part in causing a global plastics pollution crisis.]()
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![Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters during a news conference at the state Capitol on Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Juneau, Alaska. Dunleavy discussed issues he would like to see the Legislature act on in the remaining weeks of the legislative session.]()
