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Boeing Buying Stake in Brazil's Embraer for $4.2 Billion

Boeing is buying a majority stake in Embraer's commercial aircraft and services operations for $4.2 billion. The joint venture, announced Monday, gives Boeing 80 percent ownership of those operations, with Embraer owning the remaining stake. Boeing will have operational and management control of the company. Embraer will keep consent rights for some decisions, such as the transfer of operations from Brazil. The deal still needs approval from the Brazilian government, as well as...

Everything You Need for Christmas

At more than one hectare under one roof, Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland promotes itself as the largest Christmas store in the world. Erika Celeste visited the store in Frankenmuth, Michigan for a tour through the eyes of some of its smallest customers, children!

Protester Who Climbed Statue of Liberty Found Guilty

A woman who climbed the State of Liberty to protest the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families has been found guilty of three misdemeanor counts. Therese Okoumou faces up to 18 months in federal prison after being found guilty of trespassing, interference with government agency functions and disorderly conduct. The Congo-born naturalized U.S. citizen climbed the base of the iconic statue on the Fourth of July. Okoumou choked up as she testified Monday,...

US, China Trade Barbs at WTO Amid Calls for Reform

The United States said on Monday that China's "unfair competitive practices" were harming foreign companies and workers in a way that violates World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, but vowed to lead reform efforts. U.S. trade ambassador Dennis Shea drew fire from Chinese envoy Zhang Xiangchen who said the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum products allowed protectionism under the guise of dubious national security concerns. The heated words, in...

GOP Waits on Trump as Clock Ticks Toward Partial Shutdown

The fight over President Donald Trump's $5 billion wall funds deepened Monday, threatening a partial government shutdown in a standoff that has become increasingly common in Washington. It wasn't always like this, with Congress and the White House at a crisis over government funding. The House and Senate used to pass annual appropriation bills, and the president signed them into law. But in recent years the shutdown scenario has become so routine that it raises the question: Have...

Google to Spend $1 Billion on New Campus in New York

Alphabet's Google is investing more than $1 billion on a new campus in New York, becoming the second major technology company after Amazon to pick America's financial capital to expand and create thousands of jobs. The 1.7 million-square-foot campus, called Google Hudson Square, will include leased properties at Hudson Street and Washington Street, the company said in a blog post Monday. The new campus will be the main location for Google's advertising sales division, the...

256,000 People Deported in First Full Fiscal Year of Trump Administration

U.S. immigration officials deported about 256,000 people in the first full fiscal year of the Trump administration, a slight increase over the previous year but well below the peaks of the Obama era when that number approached 500,000, official data shows. Interior removals climbed from 65,332 to 95,360, following a policy shift in 2017 under President Donald Trump that deprioritized who is detained and opened up a broader number of immigrants to the risk of deportation. The remaining...