Canada Wildfires Prompt New Evacuations

Uncontrolled forest fires forced the evacuation of some 8,000 oil-sands workers on Monday, nearly two weeks after the blazes began.

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Top 10 Questions About Exporting

Top 10 Questions About Exporting

When it comes to exporting, U.S.-based companies that are considering selling their goods and services internationally, or that have limited experience and want to expand their footprint, have similar concerns. Learn more.

Yusaku Maezawa attends a training session at the Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Center outside Moscow, Oct. 14, 2021.

Billionaire Gets Ready for Space Mission

The mission will give the public a closer look at life on the International Space Station.

This Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020 file photo shows a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in the first round of staff vaccinations at a hospital in Denver. On Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, U.S. health advisers said that some Americans who received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine should get a half-dose booster to bolster protection against the virus.

FDA Panel Endorses Lower-Dose Moderna COVID Shot for Booster

But there's no evidence that it's time to open booster doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine to everybody, the panel stressed.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on efforts to address global supply chain bottlenecks during an event in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, in Washington.

Biden Tries to Tame Inflation by Having LA Port Open 24/7

Prices are jumping in large part because container ships are stranded at ports and because unloaded goods are waiting for trucks.

Thousands of shipping containers at the Port of Felixstowe, south east England on Oct. 13.

Major Backlog at UK's Busiest Commercial Port Worsens to Christmas Fears

Worries have mounted over recent weeks that the U.K.'s economic recovery is being hobbled by widespread shortages.

A beach goer sits on the beach in Seal Beach Calif., Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, as container ships waiting to dock at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are seen in the distance. With three months until Christmas, toy companies are racing to get their toys onto store shelves as they face a severe supply network crunch. Toy makers are feverishly trying to find containers to ship their goods while searching for new alternative routes and ports.

Aim to Ease Supply Chain Bottlenecks with LA Port Going 24/7

Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, account for 40% of all shipping containers entering the United States.

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Paint Manufacturer Fined $709,960 After Deadly Explosion

The company improperly altered a kettle reactor vessel and then returned it to service.

In this Feb. 22, 2020 file photo, a power generation plant stands idle near Huexca, Morelos state, Mexico. A constitutional reform presented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would cancel contracts under which some private power generating plants plants sell power into the national grid, declares “illegal” other private plants that sell energy direct to corporate clients in Mexico and would cancel many long-term energy supply contracts and clean-energy preferential buying schemes.

Mexico Plans to Shutter Private Power Plants

The proposal may provoke complaints under the Mexico-U.S.-Canada free trade accord.

In this June 7, 2017 file photo, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) headquarters is pictured in Paris, France. Nearly 140 countries have agreed on a tentative deal that would make sweeping changes to how big, multinational companies are taxed in order to deter them from stashing their profits in offshore tax havens where they pay little or no tax. The agreement announced Friday foresees countries enacting a global minimum corporate tax of 15% on the biggest, internationally active companies.

130+ Countries Reach Deal on Minimum Corporate Tax

But the deal faces several hurdles before it can take effect.

A glass worker heats glass in a methane-powered oven in a factory in Murano island, Venice, Italy, Oct. 7, 2021.

Methane Price Surge Hammers Glassblowers

The price for the methane that powers their ovens has skyrocketed fivefold since the beginning of the month.

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NAM: China 'Remains a Hub of Bad Behaviors'

NAM CEO says China's IP theft and market-distorting industrial subsidies are harming manufacturers and their employees.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a mug, during a visit to a construction site in Manchester, England, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021.

UK Pledges to Hit All-Renewable Electricity by 2035

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK could get to “complete clean energy production” by the next decade.