Industrials

President Donald Trump's administration is dropping a proposal that would have forced mining companies to prove they have the financial wherewithal to clean up their pollution.

A small Montana company that landed and lost a $300 million contract to restore Puerto Rico's hurricane-shattered electric grid is suing a subcontractor for allegedly interfering with tens of millions of dollars in payments.

American Airlines has reached an agreement with its pilots' union to avoid canceling thousands of flights during the holiday season.

Seeking to bolster the ailing U.S. Postal Service, federal regulators moved on Friday to allow bigger jumps to stamp prices beyond the rate of inflation, a move that could eventually add millions more dollars to companies' shipping rates and consumer costs.

___ Top Republican claims enough votes for Senate OK of tax bill WASHINGTON (AP) — A $1.4 trillion tax bill written by Republicans is headed toward passage after some last-minute wrangling.

Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday, after an overnight recovery of technology stocks on Wall Street.

The Chinese company that is the world's biggest maker of commercial drones is denying claims in a U.S. government document circulated online that it might be giving Beijing information about American law enforcement and utility companies.

The Latest on Senate Republicans' tax overhaul bill (all times local): 11:01 a.m.

U.S. oil refineries that are unable to sell a dirty fuel waste product at home are exporting vast quantities of it to India instead.

A plan to have the largest private prison operator in the U.S. build a new state prison for Kansas immediately faced bipartisan criticism from legislators Thursday because the state would pay for the project by leasing the facility from the company for 20 years.

Under pressure from the NAACP, American Airlines is promising changes in the way it trains employees and handles passenger complaints about racially biased treatment.

Alaska Airlines said Thursday it's investigating a claim that flight attendants allowed a passenger to sexually harass a former Facebook executive on a flight.

An aggressive plan to repair and improve New York's aging subway system in the next 15 years and a proposal to turn a wide swath of New Jersey's Meadowlands into a national park to help combat sea level rise are among recommendations in a master plan released Thursday by an urban planning think tank.

Federal officials say a Netherlands-based maker of equipment for offshore oil drilling will pay $238 million to settle charges of paying bribes to officials in five oil-producing countries.

The Latest on recommendations by the Regional Plan Association to curtail weekday, overnight subway service in New York to accelerate repairs to the problem-plagued system (all times local): 12:30 p.m.

It's lining up to be another strong year for investors who own homebuilding stocks.

Bali's international airport is expected to reopen although a volcano on the island is still erupting.

The Latest on a rumbling volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali (all times local): 7 a.m.

An Augusta, Georgia-based factory that looks like a giant paper cup is closing.

With the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, U.S. stocks are little changed Wednesday morning after they finished at all-time highs the day before.