Industrials

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.

Parker Waldridge had worked in the Oklahoma oilfields since he was 16 and acquired the traits that make a good driller: fortitude, intellect and a healthy respect for the power of a runaway gas well.

Indonesia has finalized transfer of majority control over giant gold and copper mine from Freeport-McMoRan.

Japan's Cabinet has approved a record 5.26 trillion yen ($47 billion) defense budget as the country seeks to bolster its arms capability by increasingly buying advanced U.S. weapons.

A spokesman for a mining company says the death toll in a methane explosion that hit a coal mine in northeast Czech Republic has increased to 13. Ivo Celechovsky of the OKD mining company said Friday that 11 of the dead were Polish nationals while two were Czechs.

Ford is recalling more than 410,000 F-Series pickup trucks with engine block heaters in the U.S. because they can catch fire.

Czech mining company says death toll in blast at coal mine increases to 13.

The Trump administration miscalculated potential damages from train derailments when it canceled an Obama-era rule requiring the installation of more advanced brakes by railroads hauling explosive fuels.

Jared Kushner's family company plans to buy another property in a New Jersey beach town where developers can get big tax breaks thanks to a new federal program pushed by Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump.

A spokesman for a mining company in the Czech Republic says a methane explosion in a coal mine in the country's northeast has killed at least one miner.

Fears of a recession have been mounting with the U.S. stock market appearing to be headed for its worst December since 1931 — during the Great Depression.

State pollution regulators on Thursday issued the last major state permits sought by the developers of the planned PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, leaving only one major federal permit still pending.

When drones buzzing over the runway forced London's busy Gatwick Airport to shut down, many travelers wondered why it's so hard for authorities to stop such intruders.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel says the United States "wholly supports" plans for a pipeline that would transport east Mediterranean gas to Europe.

Three more former executives of the largest U.S. fuel retailer have been sentenced to prison in a plot to cheat trucking companies out of millions of dollars.

A Brazilian judge has for the second time in a month stalled a US$5.26 billion deal between airplane manufacturers Boeing and Embraer.

Altria is spending $12.8 billion for a stake in e-vapor company JUUL as one of the world's biggest tobacco companies tries to offset declining cigarette use.