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WASHINGTON — U.S. producer prices rose in March from a year earlier at the fastest pace in nearly a year, but the gain was less than economists expected. 

DETROIT — The driver of a Ford electric SUV involved in a February fatal crash in Texas was using the company's partially automated driving system before the wreck, investigators said.

Global oil demand won’t peak before the end of this decade due to underwhelming fuel economy standards and slowing adoption of electric vehicles in the U.S., energy researcher Enverus says.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board told senators the agency expects to unveil a report in June detailing last year’s freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

The world’s largest container carrier will push back against a proposed U.S. government fine that would rank among the stiffest penalties handed down by the Washington regulator.

Closure of the Port of Baltimore — America’s second-biggest hub for coal — has choked exports of the fossil fuel, with flows expected to plunge 35% this month.

Operations have begun in Missouri at a 600,000-square-foot fulfillment center for women’s rental clothing company Nuuly in a $60 million two-phase project to create 750 jobs in five years.

Federal investigators looking into what caused a ship to crash into a vital Baltimore bridge last month are homing in on the vessel’s electrical system, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said.

WASHINGTON — Consumer inflation remained persistently high last month, boosted by gas, rents, auto insurance and other items, the government said April 10.

A subsidiary of Core X Partners is investing $73 million to establish a Mississippi cold storage site at the Port of Gulfport in a venture to revitalize the Gulf Coast cold supply chain.