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The Biden administration is weighing new, harsher sanctions against Russia’s lucrative oil trade, seeking to tighten the squeeze on the Kremlin’s war machine.

An indictment in a New Orleans-area scheme to stage crashes with tractor-trailers names two law firms, two individual attorneys and multiple participants in a sweeping conspiracy.

OPEC cut oil demand growth forecasts for this year and next for a fifth straight month, making its deepest reduction to the 2024 outlook so far after agreeing to extend its supply curbs.

Albertsons is giving up on its merger with Kroger and it is suing the grocery chain, saying it didn’t do enough to secure regulatory approval for the $24.6 billion agreement.

The program, called RhodeWorks, has been mired in court battles since American Trucking Associations and two motor carriers in 2018 challenged the law’s constitutionality.

WASHINGTON — Fueled by pricier used cars, hotel rooms and auto insurance, inflation in the United States moved slightly higher last month while remaining far below its peak of two years ago.

The president plans to formally block the $14.1 billion sale on national security grounds once the deal is referred back to him later this month, people familiar with the matter said.

A judge blocked Kroger's $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons Cos., finding the takeover would lessen competition for grocery shoppers in a ruling that marks a likely death knell for the deal.

The company specializes in oversized-load and special transport equipment, including semi-lowloaders, flatbed trailers, lowbed trailers and drawbar trailers.

The U.S. reversed its forecast for a crude glut next year and is now calling for a small oil-market deficit.