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Texas grid operator defends storm performance as sixth director resigns

By Gary McWilliams

(Reuters) – Officials of Texas’ grid operator on Wednesday defended their handling of the state’s massive power (More…)

Derailed BNSF fuel train fire in Texas nearly extinguished

(Reuters) – A BNSF Railway Company train carrying products including coal and gasoline to Houston in Texas was still burning (More…)

U.S. public power/natgas groups urge Biden to cap prices in last week’s freeze

(Reuters) – Trade groups representing U.S. public power and natural gas companies urged President Joe Biden to declare a gas (More…)

Congress to weigh reforms to U.S. Postal Service over finance woes

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A panel of the U.S. House of Representatives will hear testimony on Wednesday from (More…)

Analysis: Urban states come out ahead, rural states get less in Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill

By Andy Sullivan and Jason Lange

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package now making its way through (More…)

Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine effective and safe: FDA staff

(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine appeared safe and effective in trials, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (More…)

New York grand jury votes not to indict police officers for Daniel Prude death

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A grand jury in New York state voted not to indict police officers for the death (More…)

Several board members of Texas’s electric grid operator to resign: filing

(Reuters) – Top directors of Texas’s electric grid operator, who faced sharp criticism from the massive failure of the state (More…)

Powell’s Econ 101: Jobs not inflation. And forget about the money supply

By Howard Schneider

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a congressional hearing dominated by talk of the pandemic and what may be (More…)

Analysis: Prices lurch higher as Home Depot, other importers battle surging cargo, commodity costs

By Lisa Baertlein

(Reuters) – As Home Depot heads into its busy spring project season – when shoppers build backyard (More…)