Energy in America

Iraq says OPEC will decide by the end of this year whether to extend production cuts and by how long.

SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is announcing a $200 billion solar power project in Saudi Arabia.

Asian stock markets were in the red Wednesday as tech stocks extended losses following sell-offs of their U.S. peers overnight.

Softbank will invest in Saudi Arabia to create the world's biggest solar producer.

Pressure mounted Tuesday on the Republican-led Oklahoma Legislature to broker a deal on taxes to pay for hundreds of millions in new education spending and avert a threatened strike of teachers next week.

U.S. stocks edged higher in early trading Tuesday, adding to big gains from a day earlier.

Self-driving car pioneer Waymo will buy up to 20,000 electric vehicles from Jaguar Land Rover to help realize its vision for a robotic ride-hailing service.

U.S. stocks rose sharply in early trading Monday as the market made up some of its huge losses from last week.

The joke has always been that Alaska is so wealthy it pays its residents to live here.

The Latest on a judge's ruling on coal mining and climate change (all times local): 2:15 p.m.

A judge has ruled U.S. government officials engaged in regional planning for an area that supplies 40 percent of the nation's coal must consider reducing coal mining to fight climate change.

Mexico's state-owned oil company has signed what appears to be one of its first big gas fracking contracts with a subsidiary of the Texas-based Lewis Energy.

A longtime energy company executive and major donor has been named the next president of the University of Oklahoma.

A new report says the son of Angola's former leader has been accused of fraud and prevented from leaving the oil-rich southern African nation.

The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline shot up 7 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to $2.66.

Stocks around the world plunged Friday as investors feared that a trade conflict between the U.S. and China, the biggest economies in the world, would escalate.

A toxic onslaught from the nation's petrochemical hub was largely overshadowed by the record-shattering deluge of Hurricane Harvey as residents and first responders struggled to save lives and property.

Stocks are stabilizing on Wall Street following a huge slump a day earlier when worries about an escalating trade conflict between the U.S. and China rattled investors.

___ Stocks tumble on trade fears; S&P has worst week in 2 years NEW YORK (AP) — Global stocks sink as fears about trade conflict between the U.S. and China send the S&P 500 to its worst week in two years.

The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by five this week to 995.