Current price of oil as of September 2, 2026
At 8 a.m. Eastern Time on September 2, 2026, the price of oil sits at $96.11 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark (we’ll explain what that means shortly). That’s…
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China is beating Germany at its own game of making highly engineered machinery and Europe is struggling to keep up
The heart of the German economy is making and exporting the big-ticket, complex goods that make global business run: everything from cars and locomotives to factory machinery, aircraft and construction equipment. Recommended Video That…
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World to surpass 1.5-degree climate goal ‘in the next few years,’ UN warns
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms.…
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From a German airport to a Polish drone factory fire, the EU confronts a wave of suspected Russian sabotage
The European Union on Wednesday weighed how best to respond to an attempted drone attack at a German airport blamed on Russia but struggled to find new ways to meet the challenge…
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‘Critical employees will begin to retire’: Trump’s new pay plan will deny most federal roles a raise, and it has workers warning of a retention crunch
President Donald Trump is taking action to ensure most federal workers do not see a pay increase next year and denying concerns about its impact on employee retention and agency…
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Big tech is investing millions in data centers and saving a quick tax buck while doing it—leaving some states collecting revenue loss
It’s no secret AI giants are racing against each other to build data centers across the country. With the AI boom skyrocketing in the 2020s, the U.S. has grown to…
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Toilet paper becomes a kitchen table issue for Trump again as Canada’s retaliatory tariffs could spell another shortage
It seems like so long ago, but in the not-so-distant past, all of us were roaming the supermarket aisles for the last roll of TP, cursing at those who began…
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X’s AI tool Grok now allows users to buy or lend crypto with MoonPay integration
The era of buying crypto on social media has arrived. Crypto payments company MoonPay announced Monday that it launched PayBox, its AI-enabled payment and wallet tool, inside Grok, X’s native…
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She founded Cosee Home at 24 and now designs $12 million homes. An app she built took her firm from a ‘carriage’ to ‘a high-end sports car’
Kristina Leigh Wiggins Johnson knew she wanted to design homes “kind of since the womb,” she told Fortune. She learned specialized architecture and design software early on, sat in on…
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Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’ in Venezuela reeks of ‘colonial cronyism’ and could easily fall apart, experts say
President Trump’s plan for the U.S. to own majority control of Venezuelan oilfields harkens back to a century-old era of colonialism and backroom dealmaking with Venezuelan oilmen and politicians, energy…
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