Transportation

A major French railway strike has brought the country's famed high-speed trains to a halt, leaving passengers stranded and posing the biggest test so far for President Emmanuel Macron's economic strategy.

A harsh drought in Argentina that began in November is causing big losses, reduced expectations of economic growth and growing concern among farmers, government officials and experts.

When a drone flew within meters of a landing plane last week, endangering 278 passengers and crew, Air New Zealand responded by saying that such reckless drone operators should be thrown in prison.

House Speaker Paul Ryan stopped by Southwest Airlines Monday during a fund-raising trip to Texas to tout benefits of the new tax law and talk about modernizing the nation's air-traffic control system.

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President Donald Trump is trumpeting the start of his U.S.-Mexico border wall, but no new work on it is underway.

Some people regarded the service as a potential threat to FedEx.

An airline that recently lost service to a northern Maine region will no longer offer flights to Bar Harbor Airport this summer.

The flag carrier's unions have called for action on Tuesday and on April 7 and plan further walkouts on April 10 and 11, over demands for a 6 percent wage increase that management has rejected.

President Donald Trump is again attacking online retailer Amazon.com,

The United States says it has the support of the U.N. Security Council for a new package of sanctions against North Korea.

Five big U.S. airlines might add flights to Havana after some carriers dropped service to Cuba's capital.

An international port operator wants to take over the Port of Wilmington, a move that Delaware officials say could bring more than 5,000 new jobs to the state.

Attempting a policy reset, President Donald Trump will push for upgrades to the nation's aging roads and bridges Thursday in his first public appearance since an adult-film actress claimed on national TV that they had sex months after his wife gave birth to his fifth child.

President Donald Trump is going after Amazon again.

An Emirates Airline superjumbo jet has landed at Beirut's international airport as Lebanon looks to sustain a revival of its tourism industry.

A bill that would continue providing tens of millions of dollars in state tax breaks to a Navy shipbuilder is getting support from Maine lawmakers.

A federal judge has ordered an airline to pay about $272,000 in damages to a Connecticut woman injured in a plane crash in South America in 2011.

It was not immediately clear if the driver in the fatal accident had been using an automated control system.