DETROIT, May 29 (UPI) -- American Axle and Holding Inc. announced Thursday it would cut 2,000 jobs, paring its workforce down at six plants in New York and Michigan.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., July 21 (UPI) -- The future of the U.S. auto industry was on the table as contract talks began in suburban Detroit between car makers and the United Auto Workers union.

WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- India has so many visa applications from U.S. business executives that its Washington embassy plans to outsource some of the processing.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Peter Hass Sr., who boosted civil rights while building Levi Strauss & Co. into a world-class jeans maker, died in San Francisco of natural causes at age 86.