WASHINGTON (AP) — New applications for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week as General Motors and other manufacturers skipped their usual summer shutdowns….

DETROIT (AP) — Sales of General Motors Co. cars and trucks fell nearly 13 percent from May to June, a sign that this year’s slow recovery in auto sales may be stalling….

BERLIN (AP) — General Motors Co. said Wednesday that it is withdrawing applications for some euro1.8 billion ($2.2 billion) in European government aid to its Opel and Vauxhall units and will fund their restructuring itself….

WASHINGTON (AP) — General Motors Co., not the government, will determine when the automaker will conduct a public stock offering at the heart of the company’s revival, the Obama administration said Thursday….