Industrials

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.

The former president of the nation's largest fuel retailer convicted of defrauding customers of more than $23 million is seeking to delay his sentencing, citing faulty math.

Five months after Uber pulled its self-driving cars out of Arizona following a fatal accident, Google spinoff Waymo is putting the technology back on Phoenix streets in partnership with the city's transit system.

The White House said Wednesday that the Justice Department did not consult President Donald Trump when it dropped litigation that would have prevented the posting of instructions on how to make 3D-printed plastic guns, which are illegal to own or assemble.

An aviation expert says passengers in plane crashes like Tuesday's Aeromexico accident — in which no one died — have better chances of survival due to more robust aircraft construction.

A can of Coca-Cola, a package of Pampers and plane tickets will likely cost more in the coming months, as consumers feel the impact of rising fuel prices, higher raw-materials costs and a range of new tariffs.