Industrials

California's attorney general has told a federal judge it's possible the state's largest power utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., could face charges up to murder if investigators find reckless operation of power equipment caused any deadly wildfires in the past two years.

We may remember 2018 as the year when technology's dystopian potential became clear.

America's retailers, struggling to fill jobs, have been raising pay to try to keep and attract enough employees.

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Most Asian stock markets gained Friday while Japan edged down following Wall Street's rally at the end of a turbulent week.

The Army is looking for a few good robots.

Amazon's rise is forcing laundry detergents to shrink.

In South Korea's largest shipyard, thousands of workers in yellow hard hats move ceaselessly between towering cranes lifting hulks of steel.

The U.S. Forest Service is taking comments and holding a public meeting on proposed exploratory drilling for an open-pit molybdenum mine being considered in Boise National Forest in Idaho.

British police say they have released a man and a woman who had been arrested in connection with the drone incursions at London's Gatwick Airport that had disrupted holiday plans for tens of thousands of travelers.

Rescue teams in Russia's Ural Mountains are still looking for a construction worker trapped inside a burning potash mine after the bodies of eight of his colleagues were found.

School districts throughout the U.S. are struggling to find school bus drivers, a challenge that has worsened with low unemployment and a strong economy.

The U.S. dispute with China over a ban on tech giant Huawei is spilling over to Europe, the company's biggest foreign market, where some countries are also starting to shun its network systems over data security concerns.

A temporary injunction freezing a joint venture between airplane manufacturers Boeing and Embraer has been overruled by a Brazilian justice.

London's Gatwick Airport says flights are resuming after drones sparked the shutdown of the airfield for more than 24 hours, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded during the busy holiday season.

U.S. stocks are modestly higher Friday morning and indexes overseas are slightly lower as a steep plunge in global stock markets comes to at least a temporary halt.

Self-driving car startup Zoox Inc. has won permission to start offering rides to passengers in California.

___ A decade-long rally on Wall Street looks like it's ending NEW YORK (AP) — The nearly 10-year stock market rally looks like it's fading after another day of big losses Friday left the U.S. market with its worst week in more than seven years.

Germany is closing the last of its black coal mines, ending an industry that laid the foundations for the country's industrial revolution and its post-war economic recovery.