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U.S. stock indexes joined a worldwide slide Thursday, as investors wait to see if Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will again move markets with his testimony before Congress.

Uber is driving deeper into health care by offering to take patients in every U.S. market where it operates to their next medical appointment.

A blackout hit Puerto Rico's capital and surrounding areas on Thursday after two of the U.S. territory's main power plants shut down as officials warn the power company is struggling to remain operational.

The mother of a woman killed when a speeding Amtrak train hurtled from the tracks in May 2015 told a Senate committee on Thursday that she is seething over the prospect of more delays in installing speed controls that could have prevented that wreck and dozens of others.

The Latest on Republican efforts to deny Delta Air Lines a tax break after the company cut ties with the National Rifle Association (all times local): 12:40 p.m.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m.

The Czech government has canceled a deal that could have given an Australian company the right to mine a huge deposit of lithium, a key component in electric batteries.

New York-area airports have set a record for passenger traffic for a fifth straight year.

BNSF Railway and five environmental groups are seeking to intervene on opposing sides of a lawsuit brought against Washington state by developers of a blocked export terminal that would send U.S. coal to Asian markets.

The top proponent in Congress for privatizing the nation's air traffic control system says the idea won't fly this year.

A federal judge who halted construction of a crude oil pipeline through a Louisiana swamp says the project's irreversible environmental damage outweighs the economic harm that a delay brings to the company building it.

Two regional governments in Germany have sold troubled HSH Nordbank to private investors for around 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion).

A tax break that would save Delta Air Lines millions of dollars on jet fuel purchases appeared to be sailing through the Georgia legislature without much opposition — until the airline cut business ties with the National Rifle Association.

U.S. officials say Chinese aluminum foil suppliers have been selling their products at unfairly low prices, so duties will be imposed on the imports.

A Republican lawmaker says Georgia officials are working behind the scenes to resolve a dispute pitting some GOP leaders against Delta Air Lines over the company's decision to cut ties with the National Rifle Association.

The president of the Georgia Senate says he will prevent Delta Air Lines from receiving a lucrative tax cut unless it re-establishes its discount program with the National Rifle Association.