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Waymo trying to educate emergency responders on how to deal with its autonomous vehicles

Pacific Gas & Electric says it’s restored power to 120,000 people whose electricity was cut amid windy, dry weather

A handful of ride-hailing companies are enabling parents to order rides, and in some cases childcare, for children using smartphone apps

US mortgage rates fell this week, supporting greater home sales

The Trump administration is scaling back chemical plant safety measures put in place after a Texas fertilizer plant explosion in 2013 killed 15 people

Pacific Gas & Electric has started restoring power to some of the 120,000 people it intentionally blacked out to ease the risk of catastrophic wildfires

Pacific Gas & Electric has started restoring power to some of the 120,000 people whose electricity was shut down amid windy, dry weather

US home sales rose 1.9% in October, boosted by lower mortgage rates

Italian rescue services say a blast at a fireworks factory in Sicily has killed five people and seriously injured two others

New electric vehicles, new small SUVs, a redesigned compact car, a plug-in version of Toyota’s top-selling vehicle and a futuristic electric station wagon concept car are among new models on display this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show

A safety board and senators are criticizing the federal highway regulator for its oversight of tests involving autonomous vehicles

Authorities say the former CEO of Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem SA has been arrested on U.S. corruption charges

Target, Lowe’s post gains; Urban Outfitters, Citigroup slide

Dubai’s carrier Emirates announces firm order for 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, revising previous deal for 777x

Celebration is the mot du jour in the Beaujolais region on the third Thursday of November

Asian shares retreat on poor Japan trade data, jitters over China trade, Hong Kong

The National Transportation Safety Board condemned a lack of state and federal regulation of autonomous vehicle testing before finding that a distracted human safety driver was the main cause of a 2018 crash in Arizona involving an Uber test vehicle

Japan exports, imports weaken amid trade tensions, tax hike

The CEO of the nation’s largest utility told California lawmakers that the company wasn’t as well prepared as it thought when it shut off power to millions of people last month

Asian shares retreat on poor Japan trade data, China news

Federal safety board says Boeing should redesign part of the casing on some jet engines to prevent accidents like one that killed a passenger last year

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is cracking down on oil producers by halting the approval of hundreds of fracking permits until independent scientists can review them

The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board says Uber had an ineffective safety culture when one of its autonomous test vehicles ran down and killed a female pedestrian last year in Tempe, Arizona

Boeing’s 737 Max jet gets another boost at Dubai Airshow from Kazakhstan’s newly-launched budget carrier