Crowds surging forward as the main performer took to the stage at the Astroworld Festival led to chaos and crushed bodies in the darkness of the outdoor concert, say attendees who escaped the tragedy on Friday night.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to restart next week units shut in September for a planned overhaul at its 302,800 barrel-per-day (bpd) joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations on Thursday.
Large oil companies are racing to sell land in the largest U.S. shale formation as rising crude prices present them with a golden opportunity to jettison unwanted acreage and meet shareholder demands to lower costs, people involved with transactions told Reuters.
The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Texas on Thursday over a state law that places strict curbs on voting by mail, in the latest effort by the Biden administration to combat new voting restrictions being enacted in Republican-controlled states across the nation.
Exxon Mobil Corp and the United Steelworkers union (USW) said they met on Monday discuss the lockout of nearly 600 refinery workers from the company's Beaumont, Texas, refinery, but no progress was reported on the months-long dispute.