The Department of the Interior on Thursday called for a deepwater oil and natural gas containment exercise, designed to test the oil industry's readiness and capacity to respond to a future accident like the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City said Thursday that manufacturing growth in the Midwest and part of the Rocky Mountain region rebounded in May and that firms were more optimistic than in previous months.
Alleged Beltran Leyva drug cartel boss Sergio Villarreal was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Thursday, where he faces federal cocaine trafficking and money laundering charges.
The national debate on the Keystone XL pipeline enters the courtroom, as Nebraska landowners sue their state over how the pipeline project could be approved.
The second largest public pension fund said on Tuesday it plans to vote all of its Wal-Mart Stores Inc shares against the entire board in the wake of bribery allegations in Mexico that Wal-Mart officials failed to fully investigate.
The WTTC argues that travel and tourism?s contribution to GDP is faster than most other sectors in the Americas and will grow by 3.6 percent over the next 10 years, a much faster rate than mining (1.5 percent), education (2 percent), chemicals (2.5 percent) and financial services (3.4 percent).
Led by New York's Eric Schneiderman, a group of 23 Democratic and Republican attorneys general asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold Montana's ban on direct corporate spending in local campaigns.
Mexican troops arrested the Los Zetas cartel commander who allegedly ordered the murder and decapitation of 49 people last week.
When you walk into a clothing store, how can you tell which items are actually popular with previous or would-be customers? Brazilian fashion retailer C&A has the answer: Clothes hangers that leverage the 900 million-plus users on Facebook to show who likes a particular item.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan demurred at the chance to reveal his status as presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney's potential running mate on Sunday's Meet The Press.
As the wildfires in Colorado rages on, more than 500 firefighters are being deployed to 12 square miles of flames in order to prevent the blaze from reaching a reservoir for the city of Greeley. However, rising temperatures and dry thunderstorms will make their work all the more difficult and dangerous.
Brazilian oil company Petrobras, which helps U.S.-based Chevron develop offshore oil fields in Brazil, said regulators there are not likely to shut down Chevron's operations in the Frade oil field in the wake of oil spills.
Mexico's drug war has left 50,000 people dead; if generals are playing both sides, who is winning?
On Thursday, a Malaysian high court sentenced five people, including three Mexican brothers, to be hanged by the neck for drug trafficking.
Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's most eloquent and widely read authors and a fierce critic of governments, has died after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83.
Kurt Mix, the former BP engineer arrested for deleting messages revealing how much oil was really seeping from the stricken Deepwater Horizon well in 2010, said evidence not yet submitted to federal investigators will absolve him of all criminal charges.
In a joint presentation to both Republican and Democratic party platform committees, the American Petroleum Institute, the largest petroleum industry-backed trade group, released a series of recommendations it would like to see implemented by the next presidential administration.
Investigators in Mexico believe that the 49 headless bodies found on the side of a highway on Sunday morning may have been the latest victims of a war between rival drug gangs Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel.
The world's youngest billionaire has turned 28, and his birthday has come as a landmark moment for his company, as Facebook Inc is all set to start trading.
Suspected drug gang killers dumped the mutilated bodies of more than 40 people on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey in one of the worst atrocities to hit Mexico in recent years.
The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City has spewed huge plumes of ash and fiery rocks Saturday night, terrifying local villagers and forcing a local airport to close down.
All the latest news on the players being linked with transfers to Manchester United.
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