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After attracting some dubious criticism regarding its US-based production, BMW fired back with some cold, rational stats that solidified its reputation as an exporter and manufacturer. But apparently, the automaker wasn’t content to stop there. Perhaps fueled by indignation—but more likely demand and forecasting—BMW is mulling over the addition of shifts at its Spartanburg plant. Apparently, the boosted productivity could result in up to 80,000 additional units entering production. Anticipating the Year Ahead Reportedly, BMW’s US inventory is sitting around a month’s days supply. A primary benefit of the production increase is price protection. A ramp up ensures models that...

IMMEDIATELY ARREST FOR CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW THE USG THE FOLLOWING AND BRING THEM IN FOR QUESTIONING: @BarackObama @JohnBrennan Jim Clapper (he’ll talk) Susan Rice Jim Comey (he’ll talk) Andrew McCabe (he’ll talk) This is full blown Treason! Yes, you’re damn right, I’m biased about this but if these people aren’t held accountable, they’ll do it again and again and again. These are communist thugs who use the idea of the ends justifying the means. But what is at grave risk is our country. The United States of America will only remain great if we maintain two examples our founders showed...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — In the wake of the Trump administration freezing $2.3 billion in federal funding to Harvard University, leaders of the university are sounding the alarm that the loss of funding will severely cripple their ability to find a final solution to the Jewish Problem. The Jewish Problem, according to Harvard, is that there are many Jews on campus and these Jews believe they have a right to attend classes without being harmed, even though they are Jews. Trump had frozen federal funding in part over a disagreement with the university's tolerance for violent antisemitism on campus, which Harvard...

881 views Apr 7, 2025 #Corvette #CorvetteC9 General Motors has expanded its global design studio footprint with the official opening of a new advanced design studio in Royal Leamington Spa, about 20 miles from Birmingham. In connection with the opening, GM revealed an advanced design study Chevrolet Corvette concept car developed by the UK team as part of a global design project involving multiple studios that will see additional Corvette concepts revealed throughout 2025. Concept technical specifications and assumptions: Body structure: Additive manufacturing body structure For low mass, manufacturing efficiency, part count reduction and driving agility Halo roof structure with...

We can all only hope we'll be this prepared when disaster — any kind of disaster! — eventually strikes: A Tennessee family managed to save their home from biblical floods by building their own levee around the property. The Humphrey family home in Ridgely - about three hours outside of Nashville - was seen untouched by brown, murky flood water on April 8 after severe rainfall trapped more than 100 people in the area. Miraculously, the large home was still standing, as incredible aerial images posted to Facebook showed it sitting alone in the middle of a disaster zone while...

This is about 30 seconds. A video from Chinese Communist propaganda sources showing AI fake factory workers, supposedly Americans who are all obese. It ends with the caption “Make America Great Again”

Active shooter reported at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas. Massive police and fire presence.

Honda is reportedly preparing to significantly expand its US manufacturing footprint in response to the Trump administration’s sweeping new tariffs on foreign imports. The Japanese automaker is considering shifting production of several key models from Mexico and Canada to the US with the goal of ensuring that 90% of the cars it sells in the states are built domestically, according to a report in the Nikkei newspaper. Honda plans to boost its production in the US by up to 30% over the next two-to-three years, the outlet reported. The move would be a direct response to President Donald Trump’s recently...

Nancy Pelosi is adamant she won’t release her grip on the Democrat Party despite their resounding defeat in 2024 and a growing chorus urging her to step down.. Joe Biden named Pelosi one of the chief architects of the move to push him aside .. she was instrumental in the disastrous $1 billion campaign – leading the party to lose the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. ... Hakeem Jeffries .. time for a refresh and new leadership.. but Pelosi insists on business as usual. “As long as Nancy takes a breath, she is going to do what she...

QUIET PART OUT LOUD: Rep. Laura Friedman (D-CA) admits that House Democrats are meeting "every single week behind the scenes" with left-wing attorneys general to employ lawfare against President Trump's agenda. pic.twitter.com/HBsjVDg8Ip— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 15, 2025

The Chinese Progressive Association gave Judge Indira Talwani its Workers Justice award in 2012. This group has deep ties to the CCP. This judge is now trying to stop Trump from reversing legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants allowed in by Biden. The Chinese Progressive Association was started by operatives of the Maoist militant group supportive of the Chinese Communist Party. Its leadership has repeatedly expressed support for the CCP, with founder Fay Wong noting: “What China was able to accomplish, with the revolution, was very inspiring.”

Judge Paula Xinis is setting the stage to hold Trump officials in contempt. Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia demanded the Trump Administration ‘comply’ with the Supreme Court order and release the MS-13 gang member from the CECOT prison. In a new court filing on Tuesday Abrego Garcia’s attorneys said the Trump Administration has to at least request his release from the CECOT prison and help ‘facilitate’ his return from El Salvador. The attorneys said, “There is no evidence that anyone has requested the release of Abrego Garcia.”

Sustained research funding is essential to progressI don't usually talk about my cancer diagnosis. But as a physician-scientist who survived leukemia at 18 years old and now cares for people facing their own cancer diagnoses, I feel compelled to share my story -- because it speaks directly to what's at stake in medicine today. The clinical trial that saved my life wouldn't have existed without robust investment in biomedical research. And as debates over federal research funding continue, I think about whether future patients will have access to the same life-saving opportunities I did. It was the summer of 2007....

A VIGILANTE PHENOMENON has been playing out on the open web for almost a decade: Content creators in the U.S. pose as minors on dating apps and websites, then target the people who message them. Many of these vigilantes, commonly known as pedophile hunters, were inspired by “To Catch a Predator,” a popular television series that ran until 2007. The “hunters” have copied the show’s format, exposing their targets on social media.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A female Army Ranger for the first time competed in the annual Best Ranger Competition, and her two-soldier team finished the grueling three-day event over the weekend and came in 14th overall. First Lt. Gabrielle White, and her teammate, Capt. Seth Deltenre, were among the 16 teams that made it through the final events, where Ranger teams compete for accolades as the best of the elite military force. All together, 52 teams competed and all of the others were made up of only male soldiers. The two Rangers on the winning team were 1st Lt. Griff Hokanson...

DETROIT (FOX 2) - Two brothers are in critical condition, and at least three other family members were shot after an altercation at a house in the 14500 block of Sussex Street in Detroit on Saturday afternoon. Assistant Chief Charles Fitzgerald of the Detroit Police Department said that two brothers were arguing over a family matter, when they got into a fight. A family member who called FOX 2 said that the two brothers were fighting over something to do with their mother, who had died earlier in the day. Fitzgerald said that during a fight, the gun fell out...

When President Trump recently griped about Europe's distaste for buying American chicken, his comments touched on a long-running and divisive trade spat that's flared up from time to time. Europeans disparage U.S. poultry as "chlorinated chicken," or "Chlorhünchen" in the German press, and see it as possibly unsafe. The phrase refers to the use of chlorine in poultry processing plants after the birds have been slaughtered in order to cut down on harmful bacteria that are frequent sources of food-borne illness like Salmonella and Campylobacter. Rinsing poultry in chlorine was common practice in the U.S. when the European Union first...

Love them or hate them, those marshmallow Peeps that come in blindingly bright colors and an array of flavors are inescapable around the Easter holiday. Millions are made daily in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, by Just Born Quality Confections, a family-owned candy manufacturer that also churns out Hot Tamales, Mike and Ike fruit chews and Goldenberg's Peanut Chews. Peeps is Just Born's most recognizable brand and one of a handful of candies that evoke strong reactions — good and bad. Some say an Easter basket isn't complete without Peeps while others deride them as being indestructible. Some use them in recipes or...

Sudan is facing the worst humanitarian crisis on record, according to the British government, which is hosting a conference on Sudan today. After they killed nine health workers, raped scores of women, killed hundreds, set fire to people’s shacks and forced up to 80,000 to flee, the men of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) filmed themselves careering through Zamzam Camp in Sudan’s Darfur Province in mud-covered military vehicles yelling “God is great!” and flashing victory signs. A thousand kilometres to the east, their primary enemy, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), are consolidating their hold on the capital, Khartoum, which they...

Two months ago, the English podcast host Louise Perry hosted David Betz, a professor at King’s College, London, and an expert in civil wars. The topic? “The Coming British Civil War.” Betz argues that the United Kingdom now has all the traditional hallmarks of a society on the verge of violent civil conflict. He mentions the collapse of faith in British institutions, the two-tier justice system, Islamic radicalization, and the polarization wrought by official multiculturalism, among other factors. The YouTube version of the interview has had nearly 200,000 views—so many that Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley noticed, writing in his April...