Transportation

If there's anything that can unite Democrats and Republicans in the partisan swamp of Capitol Hill, it's free money.

The House is poised to act on a bill that would temporarily patch over a multibillion-dollar pothole in federal highway and transit programs while ducking the issue of how to put the programs on sound financial footing.

Two environmental groups are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to immediately ban shipments of volatile crude oil in older railroad tank cars, citing recent explosive oil train wrecks and the department's own findings that those accidents pose an "imminent hazard." The petition filed Tuesday by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics seeks an emergency order within 30 days to prohibit crude from the Northern Plains' Bakken region and elsewhere from being carried in the older tank cars, known as DOT-111s.

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Truck drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach agreed Saturday to a cooling-off period following five days of striking that briefly shut the massive ports.

Fewer people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, driving down the level of applications to nearly the lowest in seven years.

A House committee took a step Thursday toward keeping highway and transit aid flowing to states just three weeks before transportation programs are forecast to go broke.

Second-quarter earnings for SanDisk exceeded estimates, coming in $1.21 per share. Meanwhile, gas prices continue to creep up.

The number of drone owners who completed the registration process for unmanned aircraft easily outnumbered the number of planes listed with the FAA.

Safety advocates say that a Senate transportation bill would allow car rental companies to rent recalled vehicles that haven't been repaired.

Taxi drivers in France went on strike Thursday, smashing car windows, setting tires on fire and blocking traffic to express their displeasure with American ride-hailing service Uber.

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A federal grand jury indicted the veteran police chief for the Port of Los Angeles in an alleged kickback and bribery scheme involving the development of a smartphone app that was supposed to help reduce crime at the nation's busiest seaport.

California's Department of Motor Vehicles will miss a year-end deadline to adopt rules governing the self-driving cars of the future.

Uber says it's suspending operations in Portland, Oregon, for three months to work out its differences with city officials, less than two weeks after the ride-hailing app's launch was greeted with a lawsuit.

Indian police are questioning an Uber executive about the company's claim it conducts comprehensive background checks after one of its New Delhi drivers was accused of rape.

FedEx says the indictment handed down against it on Thursday for allegedly helping illegal online pharmacies traffic in the sale of prescription drugs boils down to privacy.

New York's attorney general has sued to block Lyft, the on-demand ride-sharing app, from operating in New York.

In the aftermath of several high-profile crashes, U.S. regulators issued an emergency order requiring stricter standards to transport oil from the Bakken region.

Despite a recent string of fires, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reaffirmed its five-star rating on Tesla's Model S.