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The National Transportation Safety Board announced that it was a confluence of factors that contributed to the sinking of the El Faro in the fury of Hurricane Joaquin on Oct. 1, 2015, which killed all 33 people on board.

Minnesota announced restrictions Tuesday on how farmers can use the herbicide dicamba in 2018, responding to complaints by soybean growers across the country that it harmed their crops this year.

Toshiba and Western Digital say they have resolved a dispute that was preventing the embattled Japanese electronics giant from selling its flash memory unit to raise cash to stay afloat.

A U.S. appeals court has kept in place an Obama administration ban on new mining claims around the Grand Canyon.

Federal accident investigators are set to determine the probable cause of the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro in 2015, the worst maritime disaster for a U.S.-flagged vessel in decades in which 33 mariners were killed.

Johns Hopkins University will stop buying stocks and bonds of companies that produce coal for electric power as a major part of their business.

The Latest on the final hearing to determine probable cause in the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro, which killed 33 mariners (all times local): 9:45 a.m.

Canada has ditched a plan to buy 18 Super Hornet jet fighters from U.S.-based Boeing and will instead buy 18 used F-18 fighters from Australia.

The Latest on the climate summit taking place in Paris (all times local): 9:50 a.m.

Gov. Scott Walker planned to sign a bill Monday lifting Wisconsin's moratorium on gold and silver mining, reversing his vote from nearly 20 years ago imposing the ban.

The Latest on a Republican bill that would lift Wisconsin's moratorium on gold and silver mining (all times local): 1:25 p.m. Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill lifting Wisconsin's moratorium on gold and silver mining.

A Swedish think tank says South Korea's arms sales hit record levels last year, pushed by the continuous military threat from North Korea, complicated relations with China and a government decision to increase domestic arms production.

Germany's Siemens says it has signed contracts worth some 700 million euros ($824 million) to build two gas-powered electricity plants in Libya.

Austrian media are reporting that a tunnel-boring machine has caught fire at the construction site of a railway tunnel under the Alps that will link Austria with Italy.

British aerospace company BAE Systems has agreed to sell 24 Typhoon fighter planes to Qatar as part of a 6 billion pound ($8 billion) deal with European defense contractors.

A town in Oregon, near one of America's microbrew meccas, is thirsting for a piece of the action and offering incentives for the first brewery to establish itself in the community.

A freight train has derailed in New Jersey, causing delays on a busy commuter rail line just before the evening rush.

Authorities say a dust collector exploded outside a Vermont aerospace plant, injuring three people.

The second stealthy destroyer being built for the U.S. Navy cut short its first sea trials because an equipment failure prevented testing of propulsion and electrical systems under full power, officials said Friday.