This story has been updated. The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve a four-year contract granting annual raises of up to 5% to 3,661 state employees, setting aside Republican ...

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Sheikh Nawaf al-Sabah, the CEO of the Kuwait Petroleum Corp., said Iran is imposing an economic blockade against the Persian Gulf by closing the Strait of Hormuz. Al-Sabah said the closure of the ...

Gasoline prices over $4 a gallon, part of a shock in the energy markets, might seem like a cue for the Fed to raise interest rates to head off inflation. At least for now, that looks like a bad bet.

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SYDNEY: A cyclone off Australia triggered outages at two of the world's largest LNG plants, energy giant Chevron said Friday (Mar 27) as Middle East turmoil stoked soaring demand for the fuel. The ...

Bitcoin’s (BTC) failure to close the week above the 200-week exponential moving average (EMA) on Sunday put it at risk of another downward leg over the coming weeks or months. Bitcoin price signals ...

TOKYO, March 27 : The Bank of Japan released on Friday an updated estimate on Japan's natural rate of interest, which showed it in a range of around -0.9 per cent to +0.5 per cent. The range was ...

Donald Trump could spark a "nuclear conflict" in the Middle East with the "biggest war" yet to come, warned the Kremlin. The former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev — now a senior security official — ...

NEW YORK (AP) — One of only two air traffic controllers on duty at LaGuardia Airport cleared a fire truck to cross a runway just 12 seconds before an Air Canada flight touched down, leaving little ...