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U.S. companies closed out 2017 with strong hiring in December, adding the most jobs in nine months.

Poland has created a new aviation company based on the national airline, LOT, that aims to capitalize on a planned major airport and on the region's growing air travel market.

Tesla Inc shares fell 3.5 percent in premarket trading on Thursday, setting the company up to lose nearly $1.9 billion in market value after it pushed back a production target for its much-anticipated Model 3 sedan yet again.

Two drivers take a Tesla Model 3 across country from Los Angeles to New York City in 50 hours, 16 minutes and 32 seconds, setting another Cannonball Run record for an electric vehicle.

The CEO of American Airlines just raised $19.2 million by selling some of his shares.

Gov.-elect Phil Murphy might have been quoting a Twitter rant from one of the legions of frustrated commuters when he characterized the state's public transportation corporation last month as "the national disgrace that is New Jersey Transit."

An Amtrak station used by thousands of people a year to reach the Grand Canyon has closed.

European planemaker Airbus delivered over 700 aircraft in 2017, reaching a company record and meeting its core output target for the year, industry sources said.

Immigration desk computers at various airports went down for about two hours on Monday.

NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. is on track to deliver its repeatedly delayed commercial jet by mid-2020, the head of its aircraft unit said, despite a risk of an order cancellation.

The nation's federal transportation agency is criticizing a plan to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

President Donald Trump is criticizing the U.S. Postal Service, saying the agency is "losing many billions of dollars a year" and asking why it is "charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages."

Boeing was the top performing Dow component stock in 2017, with shares up over 90% as of the last full trading day of the year.

SkyWest Airlines says a flight from Iowa to Detroit made an emergency landing in Milwaukee after a sudden loss of cabin pressure.

The operator of a New York City ferry that got stuck on a sandbar and took hours to evacuate says the boat apparently went off its usual route and the company is looking into what happened.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: Range Resources Corp., up 65 cents to $17.61 Natural gas companies continued to rise as cold weather boosted the price of natural gas.

Brazil's defense minister said on Thursday no country in the world would agree to give up control of a company like Embraer SA, while voicing support for a deal with Boeing Co. that maintains local control of the Brazilian planemaker.

European planemaker Airbus sealed on Thursday a formal order from AerCap for 50 Airbus A320neo planes, in a deal worth an estimated $5.4 billion at list prices.