HOUSTON (AP) _ LyondellBasell Industries (LYB) on Friday reported first-quarter profit of $1.07 billion.

On a per-share basis, the Houston-based company said it had net income of $3.18.

The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.65 per share.

The oil refiner and chemical company posted revenue of $9.08 billion in the period, which missed Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $9.33 billion.

LyondellBasell shares have risen 17% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has increased 12%. The stock has climbed 79% in the last 12 months.

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HOUSTON (AP) _ Civeo Corp. (CVEO) on Friday reported a loss of $9.5 million in its first quarter.

The Houston-based company said it had a loss of 70 cents per share.

The provider of remote-site workforce housing posted revenue of $125.4 million in the period.

Civeo expects full-year revenue in the range of $555 million to $580 million.

Civeo shares have risen 22% since the beginning of the year. The stock has more than doubled in the last 12 months.

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THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) _ Huntsman Corp. (HUN) on Friday reported first-quarter profit of $83 million.

On a per-share basis, the The Woodlands, Texas-based company said it had net income of 37 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 66 cents per share.

The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 59 cents per share.

The chemical company posted revenue of $1.84 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.75 billion.

Huntsman shares have climbed 17% since the beginning of the year. The stock has risen 68% in the last 12 months.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bad news, knowing no time zones, arrives in a jarring burst of messages, calls and posts informing millions of members of India's worldwide diaspora that yet another loved one has been sickened or lost to the coronavirus.

Sometimes it comes in a barrage of WhatsApp messages first thing in the morning, and sometimes it lands in the middle of the night, as it did for Mohini Gadré's father. A 3 a.m. call at his San Francisco Bay Area home let him know that his octogenarian mother — who had tested positive in Mumbai — was too weak to say her morning prayers, setting off a mad scramble to find her the hospital bed where she remained for days.

In the U.S., where half of the adult population has gotten at least one COVID-19 shot, the talk has been of reopening, moving forward and healing. But for Indian Americans, the daily crush of dark news from “desh,” the homeland, is a stark reminder that the pandemic is far from over.

“We’re seeing life slowly start to get back to normal in small ways, and you’re feeling like a bit of hope — like with spring. You know that things are improving, it’s been a year,” Gadré, 27, said. “And meanwhile there’s this tinderbox that’s been ignited in India.”

The more than 4.2 million people like Gadré who make up the Indian diaspora in the U.S., according to census estimates, have watched in horror as the latest coronavirus surge burns through India, killing thousands of people a day and catapulting the death toll to more than 200,000 — the fourth-highest in the world.

In a culture that generally makes no distinctions between cousin and sibling, biological aunt or close friend, family is family. Many Indian Americans are wracked with guilt over emerging from more than a year of isolation as relatives overseas struggle to find...

MANSFIELD, Texas (AP) — Adam Kinzinger came to Texas this week to hunt unicorns.

The Illinois congressman was looking for Republicans who, like him, see former President Donald Trump as a scourge on their party and a threat to democracy. Kinzinger met privately with one sympathetic Republican, former President George W. Bush, on his first day in the state. And on the second, he had lunch with Michael Wood, the only openly anti-Trump Republican competing on Saturday in a crowded special election for a seat in Congress.

Kinzinger, a 43-year-old Air Force pilot who flew missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, is positioning himself as a leading antagonist to Trump in a party that is largely refusing to move on from the former president. The congressman's nascent political organization, Country First, has endorsed every House Republican who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. And as Kinzinger eyes a potential run for higher office himself, he came to Texas to test how many other Republicans share his outlook.

Kinzinger’s hope lies in Wood, another fresh-faced combat veteran, who is fighting to stand out in a field of 23. If none of the candidates on Saturday’s ballot earns 50% of the vote, the top two will compete in a runoff election later in the spring.

“The Trump thing, it’s got nowhere to go but down. It’s not growing,” Kinzinger said during his lunch with Wood at the Fork in the Road cafe in the Dallas suburbs. “But it took a lot of time for the Republican Party to be what it is today. It may take a lot of time to bring it back.”

The contest to replace Republican Rep. Ron Wright, who died of COVID-19 in February, has gone virtually unnoticed outside this north Texas district. But it offers a window into the forces tearing at the...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Around 400 migrants expelled from the United States have camped out in a plaza in the dangerous Mexican border city of Reynosa, the aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday.

The group said some migrants have disappeared and others are living in poor conditions at the plaza in Reynosa, which is plagued by drug cartels.

The plaza is close to the border bridge where most of the migrants were expelled under pandemic-related powers known as “Title 42.” Many are sleeping in a small kiosk at the plaza, without water supplies or health services, the group said.

“We have reports of people disappearing day and night at the square, which is very worrisome,” said Jose Antonio Silva, the group's coordinator in Reynosa.

The group said that the numbers of returned or deported migrants are increasing and that the improvised camp could turn into a more longstanding camp like one in the neighboring city of Matamoros that was dismantled a couple of months ago.

The group said Mexico has not established enough shelters to handle returned migrants.

Title 42 is named for a section of an obscure public health law the Trump administration invoked a year ago. Many migrants are expelled to Mexico under the pandemic-era rule that denies them a chance to seek humanitarian protection.

President Joe Biden has kept Title 42 in place as he designs what he promises will be “a humane asylum system.” Citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are usually sent back to Mexico, while other nationalities are held in the U.S. to be flown home without a chance at asylum.

Reynosa, a city of 700,000 people, is where many migrants are returned after being expelled from Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. The U.S. Border Patrol has said the...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:

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HOUSTON (AP) — Reforms recommended by a community task force that aim to improve policing in Houston and boost trust between residents and officers are being implemented in the nation's fourth largest city, officials announced Thursday.

Among the new initiatives are a timeline for the release of body-camera video and changes to the city’s Independent Police Oversight Board. The overhaul will make it easier for members of the public to register complaints against officers, and $25 million will be invested in programs that help officers respond to mental health crisis calls.

“Police reform is society’s reform ... Change does come and change will continue to come,” said Larry Payne, chairman of the task force.

Mayor Sylvester Turner created the task force of residents, community advocates, and faith and business leaders last summer during protests calling for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, was convicted last week of murder and manslaughter for killing Floyd, a Black man who grew up in Houston.

The task force submitted its recommendations in September.

The Houston police department has been criticized for taking too long to release body camera footage after police shootings and has faced scrutiny over a 2019 deadly drug raid that resulted in the death of a couple and the indictments of a dozen current and former officers.

“If the chief of police or police officers can’t listen and hear the citizens and feel their hearts, we’re not going to be successful ... This is the start of much more to come,” Police Chief Troy Finner said at a news conference.

Finner and Turner said body camera footage from police shootings or use of force incidents would be released within 30 days. A new website...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday there was not enough evidence to support allegations that a Texas lobbyist drugged a legislative aide who works in the state Capitol, which had been shaken this week by the reports.

“We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support these allegations and that criminal charges are not appropriate,” the Texas Department of Public Safety and Travis County District Attorney's Office said in a joint statement.

“No crime occurred in this instance," they added. No other details about the investigation were released.

The allegations first surfaced last weekend and quickly rattled the state Capitol. By Monday, some lawmakers began restricting access to their offices and the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives said during a rare speech on the floor of the chamber: "I am disgusted this sort of predatory behavior is still taking place in and around our Capitol."

The report quickly put a new focus on the treatment of women and staffers at the Texas Capitol, and prompted calls for stronger sexual harassment training.

HOUSTON (AP) _ Archrock Inc. (AROC) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $4.2 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

On a per-share basis, the Houston-based company said it had profit of 3 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 8 cents per share.

The natural gas compression services business posted revenue of $195.4 million in the period.

Archrock Inc. shares have climbed 12% since the beginning of the year.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The family and representatives of Black men slain by the police met with senators and White House officials Thursday — and left optimistic that police reform could be approved by May 25, the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Following a joint congressional address Wednesday night in which President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve reform by May 25, the families and their representatives met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

“They said that we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we have a meaningful bill that we can put on President Biden’s desk,” said lawyer Ben Crump after a White House meeting Thursday afternoon.

Attending the meetings were representatives and family members of Floyd, Eric Garner, Terence Crutcher, Andrew Brown and Botham Jean — each of whom was killed by police. Floyd's death sparked protests worldwide and calls to hold police accountable after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was captured on video kneeling on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. Chauvin was convicted this month of murder and manslaughter.

Crump said the senators made a commitment to the families to pass a significant bill. “It's their blood that's in this legislation," Crump said of the families of the victims.

After the Senate meetings, the families and their representatives met with Cedric Richmond, the White House director of public engagement; Susan Rice, the director of the Domestic Policy Council; and Dana Remus, the White House counsel.

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act would ban chokeholds and qualified immunity for law enforcement...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The owners of the Dakota Access pipeline said Thursday they want the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court opinions confirming that the project deserves a thorough environmental review and is currently operating without a key federal permit.

A Washington, D.C., Circuit Court of Appeals panel earlier this year supported the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and other tribes on those two issues. That has left open the possibility that the pipeline will be shut down while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts the environmental study.

Texas-based Energy Transfer, which operates the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile (1,886 kilometer) pipeline, said in a filing to the circuit court that it hopes the Supreme Court will take up one or both of the questions on the environmental review and federal permit for an easement.

Standing Rock, which straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border and gets its water from the river, fears pollution from the pipeline.

“The courts have ordered a full environmental review of the pipeline’s risks and potential impacts on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, nothing more,” said Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman, who represents Standing Rock. “Energy Transfer’s increasingly desperate opposition to carrying out such a review tells us everything we need to know.”

DALLAS (AP) _ NETSTREIT Corp. (NTST) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter. The results met Wall Street expectations.

The real estate investment trust, based in Dallas, said it had funds from operations of $6.9 million, or 23 cents per share, in the period.

The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 23 cents per share.

Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.

The company said it had net income of $701,000, or 2 cents per share.

NETSTREIT, based in Dallas, posted revenue of $11.9 million in the period, which also matched Street forecasts.

NETSTREIT expects full-year funds from operations in the range of 95 cents to 99 cents per share.

The company's shares have increased nearly 7% since the beginning of the year.

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