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Amtrak to restore service from NYC to Boston
Amtrak will resume service between New York City and Boston on Friday following the repair of commuter rail tracks damaged by Superstorm Sandy, the ...
Derailed tanker burns in Ky. with no end in sight
The blaze that authorities initially said would end in a couple of hours instead spewed flames and smoke from a derailed tanker car for a second day ...
Flying gets easier but travel woes still persist
Planes are getting up to speed faster than trains and automobiles in the storm-stricken Northeast. All the region's major airports were open once New ...
Floods render NYC hospitals powerless
There are few places in the U.S. where hospitals have put as much thought and money into disaster planning as New York. And yet two of the city's ...
Ford's Mark Fields promoted, could become CEO
Ford's leaders have watched Mark Fields, a brash Harvard MBA, turn the company's North American business into a profit machine. Now they're eyeing him ...
Astronauts take spacewalk to find ammonia leak
Two spacewalking astronauts worked on a leaky radiator system outside the International Space Station on Thursday, just hours after barely dodging a ...
Last shuttle's retirement move pains workers
Space shuttle Atlantis isn't going far to its retirement home at Kennedy Space Center's main tourist stop. But it might as well be a world away for ...
Gov't paying for emergency transportation in NY
For the next week the federal government will pay all of the costs to help get public transportation and power restored to parts of New York and New ...
US manufacturing expands at faster pace in October
U.S. manufacturing expanded for the second straight month in October, boosted by growth in new orders and production. The Institute for Supply ...
FAA upgrades Israel's aviation safety rating
The Federal Aviation Administration says Israel is now complying with international aviation standards and its U.S. safety rating has been upgraded.
US builders boost September spending 0.6 percent
U.S. builders spent more on home construction in September, a gain that helped offset weakness in nonresidential building and government projects.
All 3 of NYC's major airports back in operation
All three major New York airports are open again after Superstorm Sandy shut them down. LaGuardia reopened Thursday on a limited schedule. Its bigger ...
NYC's 3 airports all due to open after Sandy
New York's three major airports will be operating under reduced schedules on Thursday as flight services start returning to normal following ...
China fund buys stake in London's Heathrow airport
The Chinese government's main sovereign wealth fund said Thursday it has bought a 10 percent stake in the operator of London's Heathrow Airport, ...
Romney campaign challenges criticism by automakers
Mitt Romney came under withering criticism Wednesday over his depiction of President Barack Obama's auto industry bailout, with Vice President Joe ...
Northeast travel slowly resumes
Travel in the Northeast creaked back into motion Wednesday as Superstorm Sandy receded, allowing workers to check runways and railroad tracks for ...
Nets opener postponed by Sandy; NYC Marathon on
The Nets' regular-season debut in Brooklyn will have to wait. The New York City Marathon, however, is good to go. With mass transportation still ...
Report blames DOE for compromised security test
A federal investigation into how security guards at a Tennessee nuclear weapons plant got advance copies of test questions faults the Department of ...
Nets-Knicks opener in Brooklyn postponed
Barclays Center sits right above a major mass-transit hub, an ideal destination for fans throughout New York. Not right now, though. With those ...
Syria war puts anti-US alliance on the defensive
When the Hamas rulers of Gaza recently gave a hero's welcome to the ruler of Qatar, an arch foe of the Syrian regime, it sent a strong message ...
Royals fight Alzheimer's, hope to raise money
Day by day, Alzheimer's disease is robbing Edith Royal of her beloved husband Darrell. "He's in his childhood now," she said in an interview this week ...
Fiat Industrial Q3 profits up 30 percent
Fiat Industrial SpA, the Italian maker of trucks, farming and construction equipment, reported a 30 percent increase in third-quarter earnings ...
Few housing solutions offered in presidential race
This suburb in a battleground state is pockmarked with half-built subdivisions, foreclosed homes and voters like Leslie Levin. Levin, who retired from ...
A slowed, darkened NYC begins to stir to life
Two days after superstorm Sandy brought New York to a standstill, residents itching to get back to work and their old lives noticed small signs that ...
Iran leader warns against public political clashes
Iran's supreme leader warned government officials and politicians Wednesday against turning their disputes into a public discussion, calling it ...