Barack Obama

The Biggest Loser: Chrysler Sales Fall 53-Percent for Month, 30-Percent for Year

2009-01-09 16:36:54

DETROIT - Here's what you need to know about car/truck sales in the U.S.: All the majors were down 30 percent or more in December. All of them. General Motors? Down 31 percent. Toyota? Down 36.7 percent. Ford Motor Company (excluding Volvo)? Off 32...

Bush Punts CAFE to Obama, Makes Life Even More Uncertain for Automakers

2009-01-09 16:36:51

DETROIT - Before oil tickled the $150/barrel level last summer, before the financial industry burned up most of the Detroit Three's cash last fall, domestic and foreign automakers were anxious about 2011-15 Corporate Average Fuel Economy proposals. The...

Top 10 People We Watched in 2008

2009-01-09 16:36:56

DETROIT - You don't need a reminder of how bad 2008 was for the auto industry. General Motors, Chrysler LLC and Ford Motor Company were the poster children for what has happened to American manufacturing as we shifted to a nation that runs on the...

Support Builds for Hybrid, EV Battery Funding in U.S. Economic Stimulus Plan

2009-01-09 16:36:51

All that lobbying last year about the need to develop U.S. battery production capacity for advanced vehicles may have paid off. ---------- A rack of lithium-ion batteries being tested at Argonne National Laboratory. ---------- The Detroit News is...

Obama's green team, including a Marylander

2009-01-09 16:38:21

Carol Browner is back! The former Environmental Protection Agency chief and Maryland resident has been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to be his climate "czar." She's pictured above, third from left, in the Associated Press photo of Obama's press...

Secret Service Readies a Controversial Set of Wheels for Barack Obama

2009-01-09 16:36:51

The new presidential limo will be unveiled on January 20 during the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C. But the critics have already begun howling....

Bush Administration, Disregarding Commitment, Defers CAFE Decision to Obama

2009-01-09 16:36:51

In a reversal on President Bush's commitment to make a key decision on the issue of Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, the U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that it will leave the decision to the incoming administration of Barack...

Corn Ethanol Receives More Federal Aid Than Other Alt-Energy Industries Combined

2009-01-09 16:36:50

The corn-based ethanol industry dominates federal programs to support renewable energy, having taken two-thirds of all subsidies for renewable energy sources in 2007, the latest year for which such information is now available. Corn-based ethanol received...

Blagojevich Impeached

2009-01-09 09:54:34

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Correction: Clinton Confirmation story

2009-01-09 09:57:00

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a Jan. 7 story about Senate confirmation of Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, The Associated Press incorrectly reported when she could be confirmed by the full Senate. The confirmation would be after President-...

Obama: Major-college football still needs a playoff

2009-01-09 08:41:00

President-elect Barack Obama says he still thinks there needs to be a playoff system for determining the country's college football champion. Obama, asked what he thought about Florida's 24-14 victory Thursday night over Oklahoma in the BCS...

Obama says political appointees will serve in some embassies

2009-01-09 08:41:00

WASHINGTON (AP) — He's vowed to change the way business is done in Washington, but that doesn't mean Barack Obama won't be making some political appointments to ambassadorial posts around the world. The president-elect told reporters Friday that...

's personal favorites. In this photo, Obama eats shaved ice at the Koko Marina Shopping Center while on vacation Dec.

2009-01-09 09:52:42

Barack Obama giving his victory speech in Grant Park on Nov. 4.

2009-01-08 17:02:54

Attorney General-designate Eric Holder shown speaking during a news conference with President-elect Barack Obama in Chicago in December.

2009-01-08 15:28:44