APNewsBreak: GOP’s Pearce rents out oilfield equipment

In this July 30, 2018 file photo, New Mexico Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Pearce speaks to business leaders in Albuquerque, N.M. Pearce owns two companies that actively lease oilfield equipment to undisclosed customers even as he campaigns to regulate a booming petroleum sector and expand an oil-dependent economy.

GOP’s Pearce rents equipment to oil companies

Republican gubernatorial candidate and U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce owns two companies that actively lease oilfield equipment to undisclosed customers even as he campaigns to regulate a booming petroleum sector and expand an oil-dependent economy. A spokesman for Pearce's campaign confirmed this week that the congressman's businesses, Trinity Industries and LFT, provide oilfield equipment rentals after The Associated Press found corporate registration documents that describe the activities.

Cadillac headquarters is moving back to metro Detroit after 4 years in New York City

General Motor's luxury brand Cadillac is returning its global headquarters to Warren, Michigan, after nearly four years in New York's SoHo. Cadillac headquarters is moving back to metro Detroit after 4 years in New York City General Motor's luxury brand Cadillac is returning its global headquarters to Warren, Michigan, after nearly four years in New York's SoHo.

Mnuchin Says Trump Asked Harley-Davidson Not to Move Jobs Abroad

Harley-Davidson Inc. after the motorcycle maker said it would move some production overseas as a result of retaliatory tariffs from the European Union, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Mnuchin's "sense" was that Harley planned to move some production overseas prior to the tariff announcement, but he hasn't spoken to the company directly, he said Thursday in response to questioning by Representative Maxine Waters in a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee.

US punitive trade tariffs come into effect

A US flag is pictured in front of Harley-Davidson bikes at the "Hamburg Harley Days" in Hamburg, Germany, on June 24. BEIJING: US President Donald Trump fired the biggest shot yet in the global trade war by imposing tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese imports. China immediately said it would be forced to retaliate.

Amid Harley feud, Trump hails economy at future factory site

President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Fargo, N.D. . President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Fargo, N.D. .

Trump comes to Wisconsin to tout Foxconn amid Harley flap

In this July 26, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump, waves as he departs with House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, and Terry Gou, president and chief executive officer of Foxconn, after an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The ceremonial groundbreaking for a massive $10 billion Foxconn factory complex in Wisconsin was supposed to be evidence that the manufacturing revival fueled by President Donald Trump's "America First" policy is well underway.

Whiskey, Harley prices expected to jump in Europe as tariffs take effect

In the heart of London's Soho, whiskey mecca Milroy's of Soho has a section dedicated exclusively to American whiskey. "The rarer products we get in ... they'll be hit fairly quickly because there's not that much of it in the country," the owner of the shop, Simo, who prefers to go by just one name, told ABC News.

Trump tells world’s top automakers to build more cars in US

President Donald Trump told leaders of the world's top automakers on Friday that he wants to see more cars built in the United States as his administration weighs plans to reduce gas mileage and pollution requirements enacted during the Obama administration. Trump said in a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House that he intended to discuss environmental controls, fuel efficiency standards and the "manufacturing of millions of more cars within the United States, for Michigan, for Ohio, for Pennsylvania" and states like South Carolina and North Carolina.

The four Marines killed during a helicopter crash were in their 20s…

The four Marines killed during a helicopter crash were in their 20s and 30s and from the South and the Midwest. Four Marines killed when their helicopter crashed on a training mission in the Southern California desert were identified Thursday as men in their 20s and 30s from the South and Midwest, including one who served in Iraq and another who recently became a father.

Stratford settles guardrail ‘spear’ lawsuit for $400K

A proposed Canadian class action that alleged secret cost-saving design changes made to a highway safety guardrail had in fact turned the barrier into a potentially lethal spear has been settled, court documents show. This week's settlement of the $500-million action filed by the City of Stratford in February 2015 will see Trinity Industries pay $400,000 - without any admission it did anything wrong.

Special software may have helped Daimler violate U.S. emissions standards, report says

U.S. investigators probing Mercedes maker Daimler have found that its cars were equipped with software which may have help them to pass diesel emissions tests, a German newspaper reported on Sunday, citing confidential documents. There has been growing scrutiny of diesel vehicles since Volkswagen AG admitted in 2015 to installing secret software on 580,000 U.S. vehicles that allowed them to emit up to 40 times legally allowable emissions while meeting standards when tested by regulators.

Chariot fined for discriminating against wheelchair users

Chariot , the private bus startup owned by Ford Motor Company, which has been having a rough time navigating San Francisco's political scene lately, settled a dispute with the U.S. Department of Justice, agreeing to pay $50,000 and initiate a series of reforms to amend discriminatory practices against people with disabilities.