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Ahead of Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary election, the closure of both the General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin — Speaker Paul Ryan’s hometown — as well as the recent closure of the Oscar Meyer plant in Madison, Wisconsin has put a spotlight on Paul Ryan’s long-standing support for trade globalism.

A General Motors Technical Center employee says he was fired after drawing his gun to stop a stabbing and save a woman’s life on February 10.

General Motors Co. and ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. are forming an unprecedented partnership that could help them beat their rivals to the self-driving future.

A drawn out Great Recession in the U.S. over the course of Barack Obama’s Presidency is prompting businesses to outsource operations to Mexico and contributes more to Mexicans leaving America than arriving, according to a new Pew Research study. If Pew estimates are accurate,

U.S. corporate giant General Motors has backed down today, in a statement seen by Breitbart London, that claims it will alter its bid to build luxury apartments that would otherwise see the closure of the Westminster Arms pub in London. The pub, famously

The value of Venezuela’s bolivar currency collapsed this month, as air carriers and U.S. automakers announce they will only do business in U.S. dollars.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times ran a column by Jennifer Carlson claiming that men carry guns because they are insecure over the size and sustainability of their paychecks.

London, UNITED KINGDOM – The US State Department has launched a competition for British and American students to submit a statement that best describes relations between the two countries. The winning entry will be carved into the stone wall surrounding

Russell Brand – soap-dodger, lech, former husband of the infinitely more talented Katy Perry – is the most irritating person on earth. This much we knew. But I don’t think any of us realised just HOW irritating till his most

General Motors Co. announced on Wednesday six new recalls for 717,950 U.S. vehicles, bringing its 2014 total recalls to 29 million worldwide, 25.7 million of which have been in the United States.  That works out to more recalls worldwide than

SiriusXM punished Anthony Cumia for his racially tinged Tweets last week, canning the radio personality from his long-running Opie and Anthony show. Now, Cumia’s fans are fighting back. And it could cost the satellite radio company dearly. The Daily Beast

As Silicon Valley expands from the Internet of people to the Internet of Things, the failure of Detroit and Google to form a partnership to build self-driving cars is an instructive tale regarding the challenges Silicon Valley and industrial America

Something is rotten in the state of General Motors, the company that Barack Obama bailed out. GM announced this past week that they would have to recall nearly 500,000 more cars for a variety of reasons, including: Recalibrating the transfer

(Reuters) – A former head of General Motors corporate quality audit warned the company’s board in a letter in 2002 that it needed to “stop the continued shipment of unsafe vehicles” and “recall suspect vehicles that were already in customers’

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling another 3 million cars because of a defect that causes a similar problem to one that led to an earlier massive recall of small cars, and is linked to 13 deaths. The ignition

Pope Francis, speaking to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, issued a blistering assault on “the god of money,” asserting that it is the root of problems facing the young people of the world.  He also said that the world economy

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors said Tuesday it’s recalling 2.4 million vehicles in the U.S. as part of a broader effort to resolve outstanding safety issues more quickly. The latest action brings to 13.6 million the number of vehicles GM

As millions more vehicles are being recalled by General Motors due to safety concerns, news is emerging that the auto maker demanded employees investigating the problems to stop using words such as “safety,” “chaotic,” and “problem” in their reports to bosses.

The Department of Transportation announced Friday that it has reached an agreement with General Motors, and the company will pay a $35 million penalty for delaying a recall of vehicles with faulty ignition switches. But $35 million is only a

In the continuing fallout following General Motors’ admission that for years it failed to recall of 2.6 million vehicles with known life threatening risks, Toyota Motor Corp on April 9th announced it would recall 6.39 million faulty vehicles in the company’s

Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, was called before Senate and House Committees last week to explain why a faulty ignition switch, responsible for at least 13 crash deaths, was not recalled for several years in vehicles manufactured by GM.

For the cold opening of it’s Saturday night show, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” parodied General Motors CEO Mary Barra’s testimony before a House committee earlier this week over the recall of Chevrolet Cobalts and Saturn Ions. SNL’s Kate McKinnon played

AP: In testimony before Congress on Tuesday, General Motors CEO Mary Barra apologized to victims and family members affected by it’s defective ignition switches, but was short in her answers to questions from the committee. (April 1)

Michael Moore doesn’t believe in the death penalty, even in horrific murder cases or other stomach-churning acts. The far-left filmmaker will make an exception to his anti-death penalty stance, though. He wants the GM executives responsible for preventing a recall

New General Motors CEO Mary Barra will testify before Congress Tuesday about why it took so long for GM to issue product safety recalls involving faulty ignition switches that caused air bags to fail in crashes, contributing to thirteen deaths.

Last week, a New York Times analysis of General Motors federal crash data found that 303 people died when their air bags failed to deploy in two GM models that were recalled early this year. Then on Friday, GM got

If you think the Kennedy dynasty seems to have lasted forever, that’s nothing compared to Michigan’s 12th congressional district, where Democratic Congressman John Dingell, Jr., 87, who succeeded his father in 1955 and is the longest serving Congressman in U.S.

Is President Obama really this ignorant of business and economics? Telling American employers to raise their wages sounds innocent enough, but it ceases to be innocent when people lose their jobs as a result. In his State of the Union

This year, Citizens United celebrates ten years in the conservative filmmaking and documentary business. We had the honor to work with Breitbart’s Executive Chairman Steve Bannon who directed and wrote Occupy Unmasked back in 2012.  The film featured Andrew Breitbart and

Ford was famously the one Detroit-based automaker that did not take any federal bailouts from Barack Obama and now, for some unexplainable reason, one of its executives has gotten the personal thanks of no less than Vice President Joe Biden.

(AP) Chinese biz to put plant at former Ohio GM siteBy ANN SANNERAssociated PressCOLUMBUS, OhioA Chinese company will build an automotive glass-making plant in southwest Ohio, creating about 800 jobs and revitalizing a former General Motors factory site, officials said

Barack Obama covered himself with praise in a statement released on the White House website trumpeting his success in bailing out the auto industry. There’s just one little problem with Obama’s rose-colored view: he never admitted that taxpayers lost $10