From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Do America's big three automakers still have a chance?

Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. Sales at Ford Motor Company dropped 18% last month and Toyota outsold Ford by 35,000 vehicles, many of which were made in America.

Meantime, workers at GM are voting on a contract. Some say will save the company, although skeptics say the union didn't give up enough.

On to the Point, these are

bad times for the industry that once dominated the world's strongest economy. Can it become

competitive once again? We'll hear more about that GM contract, mileage standards, global

warming, and clean diesel. On reporter's notebook later on, questions about a death in Afghanistan.

First, here's the news.

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D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Hello again. Marman Alney, back with To the Point.

Toyota outsold Ford again last month. The Big Three are not all American anymore.

On To the Point, will a new contract give new life to General Motors, maybe to Ford and Chrysler as well?

Will clean diesel make American cars more competitive?

What about hybrids and global warming? On a reporter's

notebook, there are more questions than answers about the shooting death of a National Guard

soldier in Afghanistan. Why isn't the Army telling her family what happened? First, this news

update. This week, at their second meeting since the Korean War ended in 1954, the leaders of

North and South Korea

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