Boeing Co is one step closer to relegating the 737 Max crisis to the history books. The aerospace giant entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department under which the company will pay $2.5 billion to resolve a criminal charge that it conspired to defraud the US by deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration about certain characteristics of its ...

The night is darkest just before dawn, they say. Dark it certainly is right now. The more contagious variants of Sars-CoV-2 coming out of the UK and South Africa will make the pandemic worse before mass vaccination can make it better. But take another look at some of these new vaccines. And then contemplate the dawn to come — not ...

The arrests of more than 50 pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong mark Beijing’s most sweeping attempt yet to redefine the “One Country, Two Systems” arrangement that governed the former British colony’s return to China 23 years ago. They are a challenge to both the incoming US administration of President-elect Joe Biden and the European Union, which concluded an ill-timed investment ...