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___ Starbucks to train workers on 'unconscious bias,' CEO says PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Starbucks wants to add training for store managers on "unconscious bias," CEO Kevin Johnson said Monday, as activists held more protests at a Philadelphia store where two black men were arrested when employees said they were trespassing.

A refining supply economist with BP America Inc. faces up to 20 years in prison over a failed online extortion scheme against the Houston-based energy company.

The company that owns twin oil pipelines beneath the waterway that connects Lake Huron and Lake Michigan is preparing to launch an underwater vehicle to inspect damage that may have been caused by a ship's anchor.

Shares were mixed in Asia on Monday, with Chinese benchmarks leading decliners.

Shares were mixed in Asia after an upbeat start to the week, with Chinese benchmarks leading the retreat.

Canadian Prime Minister Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has instructed his finance minister to begin talks with Kinder Morgan to "remove the uncertainty" hanging over the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that would nearly triple the flow of oil from Canada's oil sands to the Pacific Coast Trudeau also said Sunday that legislation is coming that will "reassert and reinforce" the fact that the federal government is well within its jurisdiction to approve the project and ensure it goes ahead.

Republican members of Congress from the Pacific Northwest are upset with a federal judge's order to spill water from four Snake River dams to help speed migrating salmon to the Pacific Ocean.

Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan says the flow of crude oil through twin pipelines in a sensitive Great Lakes waterway should be suspended until authorities determine how severely they were damaged by what may have been a ship anchor strike.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday: Broadcom Inc., up $7.51 to $246.94

Big profit reports from several banks on Friday reminded markets that already healthy earnings for U.S. companies are climbing even higher, and the S&P 500 rose to put itself on track to close out its best week in a month and a half.

Duke Energy Corp. will pay a $156,000 penalty for polluting ground and surface waters with potentially toxic coal-ash waste around three power plants.

The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by five this week to 1,008.

Slovenia has signed a 5-year agreement with Russia's state monopoly Gazprom for the supply of gas, praising cooperation with Moscow despite a crisis over Syria.

A regulatory agency says it needs more financial information before it approves the Vermont Yankee sale.

German automaker Volkswagen is creating a new management structure it says will enable faster decision-making as autonomous and electric cars transform the industry.

Global stock markets were mostly higher Friday after the U.S. said it was exploring the possibility of returning to trade talks with 11 Pacific countries.

An array of business executives are expressing alarm to federal lawmakers Thursday about the impact that tariffs will have on their business.

South Carolina's state-owned utility says it wants a say in whether its partner in building two failed nuclear plants can merge with a Virginia utility.

Senate Republicans are moving to confirm a former coal industry lobbyist as the second-highest official at the Environmental Protection Agency, putting him next in line if embattled administrator Scott Pruitt were forced out.