Oh, sure, Mitt Romney gets himself in trouble when he talks about money and dogs, but the real gaffe trap for the presidential candidate is cars.
The Pentagon plans to roll out a new slate of clean- and renewable-energy initiatives on Wednesday as part of its long-term “Operational Energy Strategy” aimed at reducing the military’s dependence on fossil fuels while increasing its front-line fighting power.
For his embarrassing partial quote of the day, Mitt Romney ended a speech in Detroit with an apparent attempt to reach out to the car-making community there, saying, "Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually."
Mitt Romney's argument for why he'd be a better president than Barack Obama is that he'd be a better manager of the economy, but a new poll finds that a majority of Americans think at least one Obama economic policy worked.
Mitt Romney says that he opposed the government bailout of Detroit because the private market would have provided loans so GM and Chrysler could go through managed bankruptcy, but it turns out the firm Romney once led, Bain Capital, turned down the chance to do so.
As evidence he is not a cartoonish rich man, Mitt Romney has invoked a political form of the discarded theory of Lamarckism while talking about how his father grew up poor and worked with his hands.
Clint Eastwood's much commented upon "Halftime in America" Chrysler ad has apparently raised the ire of some conservatives who dislike its implicit approval of the auto-bailout.
Chrysler's campaign to convince Americans how great it was that automaker got bailed out has the side effect of helping the man who did the bailing: President Obama.
Kid Rock's "Made In Detroit" clothing line is selling pretty well and claims to be doing its part to support America's comeback city, but The Detroit Free Press has found that the shirts are coming from the Dominican Republic, India, Honduras and... Ohio.
One of the Big Three automakers many people thought was headed for extinction has not only survived the economic downturn but had its best year in a decade and a half in 2011, the company has announced.
Tonight's Republican primary debate in Detroit will be about the economy, which means it will give Herman Cain a chance to talk about something other than how tall various women are. Plus: our liveblog starts around 7 p.m.
They may seem all but forgotten, but there are still seven other presidential candidates trying to get voters to pay attention to them while Herman Cain does inexplicable things on television. These are there stories.
Plus: Wedding etiquette when a guest is stabbed
For instance: "Hey dude, your pants are on fire"
The Detroit automaker strikes a four-year deal with the United Auto Workers union
Believe it or not, the Motor City is one of the only two markets where prices rose
Companies will remain competitors even as they work together to lower hybrid costs
Kwame Kilpatrick will serve two years of parole in Texas
Cars will get 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 if they don't get caught in legal loopholes
How could the numbers be right, they ask, when this city is so awesome?
Leonard Pitts on the violent Bible, The Wall Street Journal on the Consumer Protection Bureau, and more
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