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The bloc’s antitrust regulator said Tuesday the purchase would stifle innovation and reduce choice in an emerging market for early cancer-detection blood tests. The decision could force Illumina, a maker of gene-sequencing machines, to shed Grail just over a year after scooping it up. The antitrust regulator said Illumina didn’t offer sufficient remedies to address its concerns about the deal, and that it would issue a separate decision ordering Illumina and Grail to dissolve their transaction. “It is vital to…

JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—NASA scrubbed a lunar-orbit launch set for Monday due to technical glitches, a fresh hurdle for the space agency as it looks to prove its most powerful rocket ever can handle planned missions to the moon.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said engineers need time to resolve problems related to temperature and pressure in one of the four engines installed on the main part of the Space Launch System rocket. The space agency halted the countdown clock at one point Monday, and…

Boeing Co. BA 2.82% said fewer employees who represent air-safety regulators are reporting interference with their jobs, though some still say they encounter obstacles.The plane maker said a recent internal survey found about 14% of its employees who act on behalf of the Federal Aviation Administration perceived interference in their work on aircraft development and safety matters. In 2019, Boeing said, a similar survey found about 40% of the company’s employees who…

American Airlines Group Inc. AAL 1.11% agreed to buy 20 planes from Boom Supersonic, betting on the future of an ultra-fast plane that is still years away. American put down a nonrefundable deposit on its initial 20 aircraft, known as the Overture, and has the option to purchase 40 more, the companies said Tuesday. The companies didn’t disclose additional financial details of the transaction. Aerospace startup Boom is…

Delivery of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner would be the first new 787 to a customer in more than a year. Photo: Nicolas Economou/Zuma Press…

Airbus EADSY 2.01% SE has scrapped a deal valued at billions of dollars to supply Qatar Airways with 19 of its largest aircraft, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest fallout in an escalating dispute between the European plane maker and one of its biggest customers. The company has canceled Qatar Airways’ remaining orders for its A350 wide-body jet, the people said. The 19 aircraft are valued at roughly $7 billion at…

A Boeing plant in St. Louis. The new three-year contract offers new workers an $8,000 lump-sum payment. Photo: Alex FLynn/Bloomberg News…

For all of the effort companies have poured into hiring and advancing people of color, those moves rarely benefit the biggest—and most diverse—pool of workers they employ: the millions of low-wage workers in America’s stores, warehouses, plants and other front-line workplaces. Companies have devoted no shortage of resources and rhetoric to making their corporate and management ranks more racially diverse in recent years—from recruiting more at historically Black universities and colleges to appointing…

Boeing’s proposed three-year contract offers new workers an $8,000 lump-sum payment. Photo: Ted Shaffrey/Associated Press…

Boeing hasn’t been able to deliver Dreamliners for much of the past two years. Photo: Michal Dyjuk/Associated Press…