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U.S. airline earnings jumped 54 percent in the latest quarter thanks mostly to lower jet fuel costs and higher revenue from baggage and ticket-change fees.

With melting glaciers and rising seas as his backdrop, President Barack Obama will visit Alaska next week to press for urgent global action to combat climate change, even as he carefully calibrates his message in a state heavily dependent on oil.

The grain elevator that towers over this small prairie town has been humming with workers loading crops onto rail cars destined for domestic and worldwide markets.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Freeport-McMoRan Inc, down $1.17 to $10.88 The copper producer said it may sell another $1 billion of its own shares after completing a similar-sized stock sale.

The team behind George Lucas' art and movie museum released revised renderings Thursday showing more green space at the Chicago site but no radical changes to the undulating, futuristic building stoking passions in a city that guards its Lake Michigan shoreline with religious-like devotion.

An American company that has labored for a decade to build a high-speed train between Southern California and Las Vegas is hoping help from China will get the project on track.

Officials say the transit bus system in Tucson, Arizona, and a union representing hundreds of workers have reached a tentative contract agreement to end a strike that began Aug. 6.

Records show a subcontractor involved in a fatal accident at the Minnesota Vikings stadium construction site has received numerous citations for safety violations at its worksites.

Getting from New Jersey to Philadelphia to see Pope Francis might not be as cumbersome as officials had warned.

Business travelers to London always have plenty of options for exploring the city after the workday is done.

FedEx says it will raise a number of shipping rates in January, and will increase the surcharge on very large packages starting in November.

The governors of New York and New Jersey are asking the federal government to pay for half the cost of a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

Less-lethal weapons are drawing new interest as a series of fatal police shootings have sparked outrage and protests around the country.

Estonia is ready to create a new airline should the European Union rule that the existing national flag carrier illegally received state aid, a decision that would put it out of business.

Ford and Alcoa are broadening their partnership through the use of a newer form of aluminum that's stronger and more easily shaped into auto body parts for the carmaker's popular F-150 series pick-up trucks.

Scandinavian Airlines says it will stop flying between the Norwegian city of Stavanger and Houston, Texas, because of "a severe decrease" in demand following a downturn in the oil industry.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has reached a $2.5 million settlement with an energy company over a massive fish kill six years ago.

An official says a damaged engine will be removed from a British Airways aircraft that aborted takeoff and caught fire on a Las Vegas airport runway, forcing 170 people to evacuate.

A massive drill has finished the job of boring a 4.5-mile tunnel hundreds of feet below the city in a project aimed at stopping water pollution.