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A company based in Taiwan plans a $9.4 billion chemical manufacturing complex in Louisiana and has bought a 2,400-acre site

Korean Air Lines says daughters of chairman to resign over smuggling probe, scandals

Kuwait's state-run oil company says it has contained a fire at an onshore oil rig in the country's southwestern oilfields

Shanghai gets automated "unmanned bank" equipped with facial recognition software, a virtual reality room and talking robots

An entrepreneur wants to bring a global trend to the U.S. and put commercial airport terminals in the hands of private companies instead of the government

After air accidents, survivors face a question: Will they fly again?

The European Aviation Safety Agency has tightened a nearly month-old directive ordering inspections of some fan blades in engines like those used on a Southwest Airlines jet involved in a fatal accident

Southwest sends apology and compensation to passengers involved in emergency landing incident

Cities and even countries now such as Great Britain are looking at banning straws because plastic pollution is a huge global problem

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered inspections of more jet engines like the one that blew apart at 32,000 feet in a deadly accident aboard a Southwest Airlines plane

Mattel and Stanley Black & Decker decline while General Electric and Ericsson advance

Southwest offers apology and compensation to passengers involved in emergency landing incident

Recalls this week include electrical safety switches, toy xylophones, ski bindings

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a bill prohibiting oil and natural gas drilling in state waters, as well as preventing infrastructure like pipelines that could support drilling in more distant federal waters

Global shares are lower on trade worries and tech outlook after the IMF warned over the potential for trade tensions

Asian shares fall back on trade worries, tech outlook

Southwest Airlines sought more time last year to inspect fan blades like the one that snapped off during one of its flights Tuesday in an engine failure that left a passenger dead

A Texas company that owns an oil pipeline that spilled along the Santa Barbara coast faces a criminal trial three years after the disaster

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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette sues the company he says damaged electric cables and oil pipelines in a Great Lakes channel by dragging a tugboat anchor across them