A cursory look across social media will show it is flooded with viral hacks celebrating the wide and wonderful uses of common household materials. Coca-Cola makes a great slug and snail bait, shampoo ...

China is more in control of its oil consumption than anyone realized. That will unsettle oil bosses. During one of the worst energy crises in history, brought on by the Iran war, the crude market’s ...

Small pumps and truck engines are used to extract crude from the ground in parts of the country, which has tens of thousands of community-run oil wells. Indonesia Dispatch Small pumps and truck ...

Tariffs are back, but this time there is a war in the Persian Gulf and oil has hit $100 a barrel. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen, the global economics correspondent in London, has been has been ...

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy. When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, experts ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY — Tens of thousands of gallons of fluid spilled from the open pit, urged on by heavy spring rains and unencumbered by an emergency pump disabled by a power failure. The toxic mix of ...

It can do so much more than wash your dishes. Dishwasher tablets can do so much more than clean your dishes. These tiny grease-cutters are packed with enzymes and surfactants that can cut through ...

Blowout earnings from Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Valero Energy this past week showed how the U.S.-Iran war created massive short-term profits in oil. ETFs targeting oil refiners and crude oil price ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Austin Ramzy of the Wall Street Journal about how China is able to import oil from Iran despite blockades on the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump indicated on social ...

President Donald Trump told reporters that the U.S. has collected more than $13 billion from the sale of Venezuelan oil. The U.S. seized control of Venezuela's oil exports after capturing former ...

BEIRUT — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for attacks on Saudi oil facilities Saturday, in the first such strikes since 2022. In a video statement, Houthi military spokesperson ...

The expanding conflict in the Middle East is thwarting the Trump administration’s bid to lower gasoline prices ahead of the looming midterm elections. It’s not just the Strait of Hormuz — oil tankers ...