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German prosecutors have indicted former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn and four others on charges of fraud and unfair competition, saying he failed to prevent the manipulation of engine software that let Volkswagen cars cheat on diesel emission tests.
President Trump lent Boeing “branding” advice Monday on how to salvage its Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliners after two of their planes crashed in recent months, leading to the rest being grounded from flying in multiple nations.
Korean Air’s chairman, whose leadership included scandals such as his daughter’s infamous incident of “nut rage,” has died due to illness, the company said Monday.
Los Angeles is seeking to follow New York City in charging commuters for driving on congested downtown streets.
A federal judge will hear oral arguments Thursday about whether Tesla CEO Elon Musk should be held in contempt of court for violating an agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The crew of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed shortly after takeoff last month performed all of the procedures recommended by Boeing when the plane started to nose dive but could not save it, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by Ethiopia’s government.
Tokyo prosecutors arrested Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn on Thursday, for a fourth time, cutting short his brief time outside detention.
China’s expansion in Latin America of its Belt and Road initiative to build ports and other trade-related facilities is stirring alarm in Washington over Beijing’s ambitions in a region that American leaders since the 19th century have seen as off-limits to other powers.
A technical outage is impacting major airlines and causing flight delays that may impact travel.
David Johnston stands over a table full of peculiar items confiscated at Dulles International Airport: A glittery clutch with brass knuckles as a clasp. A perfume bottle shaped like a grenade. A rusted circular saw blade. A pocket-sized pitchfork.
European travel operator TUI Group has warned that its profits this year could be a quarter lower than anticipated as a result of the grounding of Boeing 737 Max jets.
American Airlines is indefinitely suspending flights to Venezuela as political turmoil and unrest continues to grip the country.
Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar is pitching an infrastructure plan she says will provide $1 trillion to fix roads and bridges, protect against flooding and rebuild schools, airports and other projects.
Icelandic budget airline WOW Air ceased operations on Thursday, stranding passengers across two continents.
President Trump has ordered federal government agencies to harden the nation’s infrastructure against potentially devastating attacks by a nuclear-bomb-produced electromagnetic pulse, or EMP.
Southwest Airlines says thousands of canceled flights, including 2,800 due to grounding its Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, are contributing to weaker bookings and $150 million less in first-quarter revenue than previously expected.
Ride-hailing service Uber announced on Tuesday it has acquired Mideast competitor Careem for $3.1 billion, giving the San Francisco-based firm the commanding edge in a region with a large, young, tech-savvy population.
The chairman of Indonesia’s transportation safety agency confirmed Thursday that a third pilot was in the cockpit of a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 on a troubled flight the day before the aircraft crashed on Oct. 29, just minutes after takeoff.
President Trump on Tuesday nominated retired airline executive Stephen Dickson to be administrator of the embattled Federal Aviation Administration, which is under fire for hesitating to ground a Boeing aircraft after two deadly crashes.
Sen. Sherrod Brown said Tuesday the closing of a General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, is a “tax policy” issue, suggesting the 2017 GOP tax reform law is pushing American companies to move overseas.
President Trump urged General Motors and the United Auto Workers union to start “talks” Monday to keep a Lordstown, Ohio, auto plant open.
Lyft officially kicked off the road show for its initial public offering, putting 30 million shares up for sale Monday with an anticipated price of between $62 and $68 per share.
President Trump urged General Motors CEO Mary Barra Sunday to sell the automaker’s shuttered plant in Lordstown, Ohio, after the closing laid off thousands of auto workers.
President Trump on Friday told Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that U.S. investigators will support the African country’s efforts to determine what caused an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people last weekend.
For more than six decades, the Federal Aviation Administration has relied on employees of airplane manufacturers to do government-required safety inspections as planes are being designed or assembled.
President Trump said Thursday that Boeing is under pressure to find out quickly why two of its new passenger jets crashed within the past five months, leading to the grounding of the planes worldwide.
The black box from the Boeing jet that crashed and killed all 157 people on board will be sent overseas for analysis but no country has been chosen, an Ethiopian Airlines spokesman said Wednesday, as much of the world grounded or barred the plane model and grieving families arrived at the disaster site.
Europe joined a growing list of nations and airlines Tuesday to ground flights of Boeing 737 Max jets after a deadly crash in Ethiopia, as President Trump, an avid promoter of the American aerospace giant, worried aloud that high-tech planes “are becoming far too complex to fly.”
Britain joined a growing number of countries grounding a new Boeing plane involved in the Ethiopian Airlines disaster as a global team of investigators began picking through the rural crash site on Tuesday.
Honda is recalling about 1.2 million vehicles in North and Central America because their Takata air bag inflators can explode and send shrapnel into the passenger compartment.
A Chinese navy fighter jet crashed during a training mission Tuesday in the southern island province of Hainan, killing both pilots, the navy said.
U.S. aviation experts on Tuesday joined a global investigation into the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people, as a growing number of airlines grounded the new Boeing plane involved in the crash.
Tesla is walking back plans to close most of its showrooms worldwide and announced price hikes for most of its electric vehicles.
Three Austrian physicians. The co-founder of an international aid organization. A career ambassador. The wife and children of a Slovak legislator. A Nigerian-born Canadian college professor, author and satirist. They were all among the 157 people from 35 countries who died Sunday morning when an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa en route to Nairobi, Kenya. Here are some of their stories.
Boeing’s stock plunged Monday as the list of countries and airlines grounding the Boeing 737 Max 8 planes continued to grow the day after one crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board.
Aviation authorities in China, Indonesia and Ethiopia ordered airlines to ground their Boeing 737 Max 8 planes Monday after one crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board.
Systems used by self-driving cars to avoid pedestrians may be less accurate at detecting people with darker skin, a report out of the Georgia Institute of Technology warned recently.
Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s dream of an express tunnel transit system could finally become a reality in Las Vegas after major setbacks in other cities.
Egyptian authorities have arrested another five people over a deadly train crash and explosion last week at Cairo’s main railway station.
Disguised as a construction worker, the former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., Carlos Ghosn, left a Tokyo detention center Wednesday after posting 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) bail.
Leaders of California’s high-speed rail project are telling the Trump administration its plans to withhold or claw back $3.5 billion in federal money for the project is “legally indefensible” and “disastrous policy.”
Southwest is suing its mechanics’ union over what it claims is an illegal work slowdown that is grounding planes and disrupting flights.
Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said Thursday the federal government has a right to have California return the money it was given to build a high-speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Hyundai and Kia have added more than a half-million vehicles to 3 1/2-year string of U.S. recalls for engine failures and fires.
President Trump praised Vietnam Wednesday for its “thriving” economy as he signed a trade deal with Vietnamese leaders and seeks to persuade North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un to follow Hanoi’s example.
Five members of Congress representing the D.C. region echoed fears on Monday about foreign adversaries gaining control of local infrastructure by winning the contract to build Metro’s future fleet of railcars.
Congress eventually stopped the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” but what about the permanent bridge, the one seemingly under construction forever, or whose budget keeps rising?
Passengers stranded on an Amtrak train for more than a day in a remote and snowed-in part of Oregon said the train was moving again Tuesday after it got stuck when it hit a tree that fell on the tracks.
More than four years after a Malaysian passenger jet was shot down over conflict-ravaged eastern Ukraine, airlines around the world still need more and better information to make risk assessments about flying over war zones, a Dutch safety watchdog said Thursday.
No one knows what it might cost to build a high-speed rail system in California like the one sold to voters in 2008 — and worse yet, it’s not clear just who, if anyone, would ride it.
Hundreds of passengers throughout Europe have been stranded by the abrupt collapse of the British regional airline Flybmi.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sparring with President Donald Trump over $3.5 billion in federal money the state was awarded to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Arizona police refuted a recent human trafficking claim made by Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Sen. John McCain, when she was at a Phoenix airport, according to a local radio news station.
New research shows that ride-sharing companies are crushing urban mass transit ridership.
