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A worker assembles an SUV at a car plant of Li Auto, a major Chinese EV maker, in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu province March 27, 2024. (Chinatopix Via AP, File)

Trump promises growth in the auto industry from new tariffs

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

U.S. investigating reports that some Jeep SUVs, pickups can catch fire after engines are turned off

Associated Press

This photo provided by Jeep shows the 2024 Wagoneer. The Wagoneer can tow up to 10,000 pounds when properly equipped. (Courtesy of Stellantis via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. investigating some Jeep and Ram vehicles after getting complaints of abrupt engine stalling

Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, announcing plans to impose major new tariffs on electric vehicles, semiconductors, solar equipment and medical supplies imported from China. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump campaign slams Biden Chinese EV tariffs

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A Seagull electric vehicle from Chinese automaker BYD for test driving is parked outside a showroom in Beijing, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The tiny, low-priced electric vehicle called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling. The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China. But it drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S.-made electric vehicles that cost three times as much. Tariffs on imported Chinese vehicles probably will keep the Seagull away from America’s shores for now.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the U.S. auto industry

By Tom Krisher and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

FILE - A 2019 Jeep Compass is seen on display at the 2019 Pittsburgh International Auto Show in Pittsburgh on Feb. 14, 2019. U.S. auto safety regulators have closed an investigation into complaints that engines on some small Jeeps can shut down while being driven. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023 it will not seek a recall of about 229,000 Jeep Compass SUVs from the 2019 and 2020 model years. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

U.S. safety agency ends investigation into Jeep Compass engines shutting down

Associated Press

Hyundai to start selling cars on Amazon next year

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A ship is moored at the port of Malmo as port workers are blocking the loading of vehicles from Tesla, in Malmo, Sweden, Tuesday Nov. 7, 2023. Pressure is growing on Tesla in Sweden, where a trade union is demanding that the Texas-based automaker sign a collective bargaining agreement, as most employees in the Scandinavian country have. Tesla has no manufacturing plant in Sweden, but 130 members of the powerful metalworkers’ union IF Metall walked out on Oct. 27 at seven workshops across the country where its popular cars are serviced. Other trade unions joined in solidarity, including dockworkers at Sweden’s four largest ports who decided Tuesday to stop the delivery of Tesla vehicles to increase pressure on the automaker to accept the metal workers’ demands. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Swedish dockworkers block Tesla imports in labor action expansion

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

United Auto Workers union pact with Detroit three Automakers illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

UAW suicide pact with Detroit Three will mean higher costs, lower profits, overseas manufacturing

By Peter Navarro

Kaleb Delfine, of the United Auto Workers Local 12, pickets during the ongoing UAW strike at the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, in Toledo, Ohio. (Kurt Steiss/The Blade via AP)

America needs a nonpartisan negotiator to end UAW strike

By John Burnett

United Auto Workers including Joseph Burch, wearing a mask, hold signs while on strike Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, at the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex in Toledo, Ohio. (Jeremy Wadsworth/The Blade via AP)

About 13K workers on strike at all 3 Detroit automakers for the first time in their union’s history

By Tom Krisher, Corey Williams and Mike Householder - Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, speaks as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol listens during a news conference at the People's House inside the Ministry of National Defense, Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Seoul, South Korea. Biden will host South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for a state visit on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Smiles at South Korea summit to mask issues dividing allies; Biden, Yoon to talk trade, security

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Biden sees `win’ for US in electric vehicle battery deal

By MATTHEW DALY and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

Today in History

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Illustration on President Trump's effect on global direction by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Trump’s foreign policy course correction may rescue today’s globalized world

By Henry R. Nau

US agency finds no apparent air bag defect in older GM cars

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press