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U.S. manufacturing expanded at a slower pace in November, easing back from the strongest reading in two years as orders, employment and production cooled.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate unveiled a $908 billion stimulus proposal Dec. 1 in an effort to break a monthslong impasse that is threatening to tip the economy back into contraction.

President Donald Trump has created a new federal employment category that makes permanent jobs that were initially political appointments, formalizing a practice that presidential administrations have employed for years. However, congressional Democrats are expressing concern over the move.

President-elect Joe Biden is considering former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a substantial and somewhat divisive figure in Democratic Party politics, to serve as his transportation secretary.

The Chicago City Council has voted to approve Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2021 budget proposal, which includes a fuel tax increase.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Nov. 30 in its weekly survey that trucking’s main fuel increased 4 cents nationwide.

U.S. air travelers rose to the most in more than eight months as flyers brushed aside the advice of public health officials to avoid trips around the Thanksgiving holiday.

Plans to extend the world’s biggest carbon market into shipping drew criticism from the industry and Asian nations, highlighting growing conflict over Europe’s unprecedented moves to protect the environment.

Minnesota is making another attempt to gain reprieve from certain federal commercial driver license testing requirements, marking the continuation of a four-year effort for exemption.

Construction of the planned Tesla factory in southeastern Travis County, Texas, has been proceeding so fast that watching it take shape is practically a spectator sport.