Energy in America

Iraq has brought forward the date for oil companies to bid on exploring and developing nearly a dozen hydrocarbon-rich areas to April 15, instead of June.

FirstEnergy is getting out of nuclear energy business. It made the announcement on the 39th anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident.

Most Asian stock markets rose on Thursday, as fears of a U.S.-China trade dispute eased and news of a rare summit between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea shored up investor sentiment.

The major U.S. stock indexes were mostly higher in early trading Wednesday as gains by health care and consumer-goods companies offset losses elsewhere.

Massachusetts has dropped a $1.6 billion project that was set to deliver hydropower from Canada through a 192-mile transmission line in New Hampshire.

Automakers Daimler and BMW say they have agreed to merge their transportation services businesses so they can expand their offerings in ride-hailing apps, car-sharing, parking and charging electric cars.

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.