• Reuters

    UPDATE 1-APA Corp misses first-quarter profit estimates on lower production

    APA Corp missed Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Wednesday as the oil and gas producer weighed down by lower production in the period. Natural gas producers such as APA, with high exposure to declining natural gas prices, have resorted to curtailing production and reduce spending to offset the price fall. The company had announced in April that it had already put in place output cuts of about 35 million cubic feet per day of natural gas production during the first quarter after disclosing that it expects oil and gas production to be relatively flat year-over-year.

  • The Daily Beast

    Arizona Senate Votes to Overturn 1864 Abortion Ban

    Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty ImagesArizona Republicans voted to overturn the state’s 1864-era abortion ban Wednesday in a shocking about-face that could have ripple effects into November.Two Republicans, Sens. Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope, voted with Democrats in the Senate to repeal the ban, which bans all abortions except to save the woman’s life, in a contentious session in which one Republican called the state of his party “disgusting.”The reversal comes after last month’s ruling by the Ari

  • Associated Press

    Duane Eddy, twangy guitar hero of early rock, dead at age 86

    Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as "Rebel Rouser" and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock 'n' roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86. Eddy died of cancer Tuesday at the Williamson Health hospital in Franklin, Tennessee, according to his wife, Deed Abbate. With his raucous rhythms, and backing hollers and hand claps, Eddy sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and mastered a distinctive sound based on the premise that a guitar's bass strings sounded better on tape than the high ones.