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Trump vs. the Gas Station: Political Theater or Actual Policy?
President Trump has found a new villain, and this time it isn’t OPEC, China, or the ghost of the Green New Deal. It’s the guy standing behind the counter at your local gas station. Over the weekend, Trump took to Truth Social to warn fuel retailers of “big problems” unless the national average price of…
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Corvette Driver Hit 156 MPH Running From Troopers, Then Said He’d Just “Buy Another One”
A red Chevrolet Corvette ripped down Interstate 55 at 156 mph trying to outrun an Arkansas state trooper, and the way it ended says everything about how the driver saw the whole thing. Court and law enforcement records of the pursuit describe a chase that crossed state lines, shredded tires on stop sticks, ended in…
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Two North Carolina Men Allegedly Stole $630,000 In Semi-Trucks, Then Rented Them Back Out To Unsuspecting Businesses
Boosting a car is one kind of trouble. Making off with a fully loaded semi that weighs somewhere near 80,000 pounds is another challenge entirely, simply because there is no easy way to hide a machine that enormous. Even so, investigators say a pair of men in North Carolina figured out a system that kept…
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Lucid Just Axed Another 1,500 Workers, And The Numbers Behind The Cuts Are Brutal
Lucid didn’t trim. It cut to the bone. Another 1,500 people — roughly 18% of the U.S. workforce — just got shown the door, and the story hiding under that number is worse than the number itself. The Math Is Uglier Than the Headline Start with the bleed. Lucid’s negative free cash flow has ballooned…
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GM Patent Wants Your Car To Swap Insurance Info After A Crash So You Don’t Have To
The seconds after a collision are pure misery — hands shaking, glovebox open, paperwork you can’t find, and a stranger you’re somehow supposed to trade details with. GM’s pitch? Let the cars handle it. Check This Out: 5 Genius Garage Upgrades Under $100 That Make a Big Difference The automaker has filed a patent application…
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Porsche Reportedly Wants To Pull Cayenne Production Out Of Slovakia And Move It Home To Germany
Porsche is reportedly hauling one of its bread-and-butter models back onto home turf. According to reporting out of Germany, the automaker intends to shift Cayenne production out of Bratislava, Slovakia, and hand it to its plant in Leipzig. The reasoning is refreshingly blunt: Porsche has spare capacity sitting open at its German factories, and it…
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Ford’s 2026 Recall Tally Tops 10 Million Vehicles as Park-System Defect Hits 741,000 SUVs and Trucks
Ford’s year with federal safety regulators keeps getting worse, and Tuesday piled on another headline. The automaker is recalling 741,195 trucks and SUVs in the United States over a transmission defect that can wreck the park system and let a parked vehicle roll away on its own, per the federal safety filing with NHTSA. The…
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Ford Fired a Diabetic 11-Year Veteran Over a $1.95 Cookie He Actually Paid For
Imagine grinding out 11 years at one of America’s most brutal factories, then getting your entire career vaporized over a chocolate chip cookie. Not a case of cookies. One cookie. A $1.95 Grandma’s cookie that — plot twist — was actually paid for. According to reporting from Shifting Gears, that is the genuinely unhinged saga of Kurt…
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McLaren Driver Allegedly Ran a Red Light on a Suspended License, Killing a Chicago Woman in a Brutal Chain-Reaction Crash
A six-figure supercar, an empty pre-dawn intersection, and one ignored traffic signal. That’s the arithmetic that ended in tragedy in Chicago this week — and it’s since spiraled into a criminal case, a fatality, and a manhunt for a second driver who reportedly vanished from the scene. Chicago police say 38-year-old Garland Spikes now faces…
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Porsche CEO Promises the 911 Will Never Go Fully Electric, So Put Down the Pitchforks
If you’ve spent the last couple of years lying awake, sweating over the possibility that the Porsche 911 would one day trade its glorious flat-six for a silent stack of batteries, you can finally get some sleep. Porsche CEO Michael Leiters has gone on the record, and the message is about as clear as it…
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Florida Man Tried to Pull Over an Unmarked Cop. It Was an Undercover Sheriff’s Car
There’s a special kind of bad luck in trying to impersonate a cop and accidentally picking an actual cop as your victim. That, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, is exactly what happened on June 24, 2026, when a black Chevrolet Suburban lit up its emergency lights and tried to pull over a vehicle…
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Florida Man Ditches a Stolen Ford Rental, Then Tries to Pedal Away From the Crime Scene
Grand theft auto usually implies a getaway with some horsepower behind it. Not in the Florida Keys, where a 41-year-old man allegedly swapped a stolen Ford rental for a bicycle mid-escape, and it ended up being the detail that sank him. Deputies say the mismatch between the crime and the exit strategy made the case…
