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Were we there for the first test of the Audi R-18 e-tron quattro Monday at Sebring International Raceway? Yes, we were there, watching the disguised car swoosh around the 3.7-mile full track.

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President Obama is winging his way back to Washington after a whirlwind visit to South Africa.

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Five years after Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff's arrest, his claim that he alone was responsible for the more than $17.3 billion fraud is being demolished in the trial of five former employees accused of helping him.

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Outgoing General Motors CEO Dan Akerson explains why Mary Barra is the best choice to take over the reigns at GM.

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Thousands of them refused to budge from Kiev's snow-covered streets Tuesday, while the European Union's top diplomat made her way there to try to thaw the tensions.

As she takes the reins of America's largest automaker, Mary Barra will run a company in vastly better shape than the one that struggled through the recession.

While Elon Musk is CEO of space launch firm SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Motors, he is also chairman of solar power provider SolarCity.

The St. Louis-based Really Big Coloring Books, Inc. published "Ted Cruz to the Future," an "educational" activity and comic book for kids featuring the freshman senator from Texas and tea party favorite.

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A New Mexico State Police officer who fired shots at a minivan full of children during a chaotic October traffic stop in Taos plans to appeal his firing.

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U.S. taxpayers no longer own any of automaker General Motors. The Treasury sold the last of its remaining 31.1 million GM shares today.

Richard Pilat and his 18 year-old daughter Jennifer Pilat pictured near the car with a special safety system outside Richard's insurance office in Parma, Ohio, in this 2012 file photo If you're wondering why automakers seem so hellbent all of a sudden on developing driverless car, blame Gen Y. The technologies that Gen Y consumers want the most in ... (more)

If there were ever a reason for automakers like Audi and Volkswagen to get their "clean diesel" technology or something even cleaner, i.e., zero-emission vehicles on the road, this is it.

Watching digital artist Kyle Lambert's stunning photo-realistic iPad paintings emerge from a blank screen is an awe-inspiring experience.

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