Industrials

The birthplace of NASA's rockets lies in the land of cotton, hundreds of miles from Cape Canaveral's launch pads in Florida.

Japanese technology company Softbank says its profits grew to 313.7 billion yen ($2.8 billion) in the latest quarter as it saw gains in its main investment fund.

The United States is on pace to add about 2.6 million jobs this year under President Donald Trump's watch.

A company that makes semiconductors for Apple iPhones says it is recovering from a virus outbreak but expects the incident to delay shipments and raise costs.

Environmental regulators aren't sure where a northwestern Indiana steel mill's emissions end up after the pollution is released by the sprawling mill, which is a major source of industrial lead and benzene emissions, a newspaper has found.

Top national Republicans and grassroots donors alike are pouring money into the campaign to repeal California's gas tax increase with the hopes it will drive turnout in November and help the GOP hold onto U.S. House seats in the heavily Democratic state.

American boat makers are getting pummeled on multiple fronts by tariffs in an escalating trade war.

A Russian helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday in Siberia, killing all 18 people aboard, mostly oil workers, authorities said.

More than a year after a train slammed into a bus stuck on a railroad crossing on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and killed four people, investigators report that local officials and the railroad, CSX Corp., were well aware the crossing was a trouble spot, but the information does not appear to have been reflected in the GPS mapping program the bus driver used.

The North American subsidiary of a French chemical manufacturer and two senior staff members have been indicted in connection with last year's explosion at the Crosby, Texas, plant in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

Woodings Industrial Corp. manufactures equipment that steelmakers need to make blast furnaces.

A federal judge in Montana has given the Trump administration until late 2019 to analyze reduced mining in the nation's most productive coal fields as a way to fight climate change.

The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into a report that Atlanta used airport funds to pay legal expenses arising from a grand jury investigating City Hall corruption.

The U.S. Commerce Department is going ahead with a tax on Canadian newsprint, a threat to the already-struggling American newspaper industry.

World stocks indexes are falling Thursday after the Trump administration said it will consider an even higher tax rate of 25 percent on $200 billion in imports from China, raising the stakes in the trade war between the two largest economies.

Bosnia's public broadcaster is reporting that an accident at a hydroelectric power plant has killed three people.

Blue Apron Holdings Inc. (APRN) on Thursday reported a loss of $32.8 million in its second quarter.

Russia's Foreign Ministry says there were no signs of torture on the bodies of three Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic this week.

Siemens AG saw net profit fall 14 percent in the most recent quarter as higher taxes and lagging profits at its oil and gas business weighed on earnings.

A major Australian supermarket chain has set a third deadline to end free plastic bags for shoppers, balancing customer anger at an additional shopping expense with environmentalists' demand for corporate action against plastic pollution.