U.S. stocks rebounded Friday, capping a volatile week during which investors responded to a flurry of corporate-earnings reports and economic indicators. The news offered at-times conflicting narratives on the nation’s Continue Reading
Texas and California are once again facing potential energy crises as their aging energy grids struggle to cope with soaring demand. Despite promises from both the federal and state governments, Continue Reading
Los Angeles County may reinstate an indoor mask mandate. More than half the U.S. population lives in counties where Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are high enough that people should wear Continue Reading
It was a familiar, if excruciating, position for Democrats. A day after pulling the plug on his party’s plans to pass a climate, energy and tax package this summer, Senator Joe Manchin Continue Reading
As a blistering heat wave smothered Texas this week and taxed the power grid with record-high demand, bitcoin mining operators in the state shut down their electricity-guzzling machines. Complying with requests from Continue Reading
Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, pushed President Biden on Thursday to go beyond his public commitment to stopping Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon, declaring that all democratic Continue Reading
The temperatures in Texas and the Southern Plains are about to be turned up during an already historically hot summer. Next week, some areas of interior Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas Continue Reading
Senator Joe Manchin told Democratic leaders Thursday he would not support new spending on climate measures or tax increases, delivering a colossal blow to President Joe Biden’s ambitious economic agenda. Continue Reading
Senate Democrats have scrapped a $4,500 bonus tax credit for electric vehicles made with domestic union labor that was opposed by Senator Joe Manchin as they seek to wrap up Continue Reading
Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded level this month amid a two-decade drought, a grim milestone as researchers and politicians point to grave threats to wildlife and Continue Reading
