Crude and petroleum products futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Brent contract on the Intercontinental Exchange settled Thursday's session lower, although all contacts moved off intrasession lows.

The EPA on Thursday finalized a pesticides handling rule designed to protect agriculture workers from exposure.

Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) --Philadelphia police pledged to release 911 tapes and police body camera footage “in the near future” in the shooting death of a Black man with a history of mental health problems, a death that prompted...

PARIS (AP) -- An attacker armed with a knife killed three people at a church Thursday in the Mediterranean city of Nice, authorities said. It was the third attack in two months in France.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) --A typhoon that officials said was the most powerful to hit Vietnam in 20 years blew away from the country on Thursday after setting off landslides, sinking boats and knocking out power to at least 1.7 million people.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) --A fast-moving Zeta weakened to a tropical storm as it barreled northeast Thursday morning after ripping through Louisiana and Mississippi where storm-weary residents were advised to stay indoors overnight while officials assessed the havoc the storm...