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Officials have lifted an evacuation order for some 4,000 San Francisco Bay Area residents after emergency crews extinguished a fire burning in an underground storage vault near a Chevron natural gas pipeline

A fire that ignited in an underground natural gas storage area in the San Francisco Bay Area prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents, as Chevron emergency crews worked to purge gas from a pipeline and prevent an explosion

A fire is burning in an underground natural gas storage area in the San Francisco Bay Area and officials are working to empty the natural gas from a nearby Chevron pipeline after thousands of residents were evacuated

Hundreds of taxi drivers have driven slowly through Poland's capital city Warsaw causing some traffic jams in protest against low earnings and competition from unlicensed companies like Uber

The general contractor that managed construction of San Francisco's troubled $2 billion transit terminal is suing the agency in charge, alleging faulty design and mismanagement led to construction delays and costs overruns

Trump preparing to leave international postal union treaty in latest anti-China move

AP Exclusive: Emails show California's transportation agency coordinated with gas tax supporters as the political effort to repeal the law intensified

Shanghai's Hongqiao airport is using an automated flight check-in system powered by facial recognition technology, as China pushes to integrate biometrics into daily life

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is urging Russia to resume flights to Egyptian resorts

A Chinese government minister has told officials from central and eastern Europe that China wants to boost its cooperation in the region

Officials say a buckled stretch of track is believed to have caused a fiery freight train derailment in southwestern Indiana that belched black smoke into the sky and forced the evacuation of nearby homes

Correction: Gas Explosions story

Germany's national railway says the high-speed line between Frankfurt and Cologne, a major travel artery, is expected to remain closed until the end of the week after a train caught fire on Friday

Florida's disjointed property insurance system that relies almost exclusively on small and midsize companies will take a multi-billion dollar loss from Hurricane Michael, but has sufficient reserves and backups that providers should be able to pay claims

A nonprofit auto safety group is demanding that Hyundai and Kia recall 2.9 million cars and SUVs due to consumer complaints that they can catch fire

Microsoft, Citigroup and Starbucks climb while Ford, Wabash National slip

Italian Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio says that the struggling Alitalia airline will be relaunched with the state railway company as a strategic partner

Safety officials say faster reporting could have helped investigators understand how an Air Canada jet nearly crashed into other planes in San Francisco

Regulators fined the San Francisco Bay Area's transit agency $650,000 for safety failures that led a commuter train to strike and kill two workers inspecting track five years ago during a union strike

Federal judge in St. Louis orders companies from Missouri and California to pay a combined $7 million for shipping ingredients containing poultry feathers and other misbranded items to pet food manufacturers