Oil price fall weighs on Asia Pacific equitiesFinancial TimesAsian equities were enduring a directionless morning session on Thursday as benchmarks in the region were weighed on by energy stocks falling in reaction to an oil price slide during the previous …

Alaska Dispatch NewsPolice investigate explosion at Anchorage apartment involving hash oilAlaska Dispatch NewsAnchorage police said Wednesday that investigators are looking into an explosion caused by a "hash oil operation." Police dispatchers re …

New York TimesOil Exports, Illegal for Decades, Now Fuel a Texas Port BoomNew York TimesFor 40 years it was virtually impossible to sell American oil to any country except Canada because of an export ban that was a bedrock of United States energy policy. T …