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FedEx expects another record for holiday-season deliveries.

Target Corp. is offering for the first time free holiday shipping on all items, including even $6 lipsticks, as the discounter throws itself in the ring to compete better with the likes of Amazon.

Shares of some top airlines companies were up at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $1.44 or 4.0 percent, to $37.48.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.91 or 2.5 percent, to $36.95.

Work has begun on a $15 million project that will replace the Amtrak station in Schenectady and alleviate delays for passenger trains.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.89 or 2.6 percent, to $35.28.

U.S. airlines are raising base fares on many domestic flights even though they are getting a windfall from lower fuel prices.

UPS says it is raising rates for a number of its shipping services by an average of 4.9 percent for 2015.

American Airlines and US Airways say they have finishes combining their cargo operations.

Local officials say the Canadian coast guard has secured a towline to a Russian container ship carrying hundreds of tons of fuel that was drifting without power in rough seas off British Columbia's pristine northern coast.

Travel agents say customers are asking whether it's safe to fly, and what steps they should take to guard against Ebola.

A National Transportation Safety Board member says a train that collided with a stalled passenger train in Arkansas was coming to help the train and was apparently going too fast.

Demands are rising in Washington for the U.S. to ban travelers from countries in West Africa, but the Obama administration is resisting and says the screening measures already in place for travelers are more effective.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $1.42 or 4.3 percent, to $34.74.

Shares of some top airlines companies were up at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $.94 or 2.9 percent, to $33.32.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.78 or 2.4 percent, to $33.16.

Frontier Airlines says it is notifying passengers on seven flights that they either flew with a nurse who later tested positive for Ebola or on a later flight using the same plane.

The head of the Transportation Security Administration, John Pistole, says he will retire at the end of this year.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $1.08 or 3.3 percent, to $33.46.

Delta Air Lines Inc. said Thursday that third-quarter profit fell 74 percent on one-time costs such as retiring older planes, although the results excluding those items beat expectations.