Barack Obama used to be a walker, breaking from his work for 15 minutes each afternoon to stroll outside and clear his head. But that was then. On the first day of his life as the 44th president of the United States, Obama needed to travel three blocks from his temporary home to a church service.......

SALTILLO, Mexico -- They ordered the goat. That's what the kitchen is famous for at the upscale La Principal restaurant in Saltillo, a prosperous manufacturing city in the high desert of northern Mexico. And so it was only natural that Felix Batista, an American expert in corporate security, and his...

SALTILLO, Mexico -- They ordered the goat. That's what the kitchen is famous for at the upscale La Principal restaurant in Saltillo, a prosperous manufacturing city in the high desert of northern Mexico. And so it was only natural that Felix Batista, an American expert in corporate security, and his...

A new Capitol Visitor Center recently opened, just in time for the transformation of the Capitol building into a tomb for the antiquated idea that the legislative branch matters. The center is supposed to enhance the experience of visitors to Congress, although why there are visitors is a mystery....

U.S. battery manufacturers are taking steps to raise the industry's profile, a move that backers hope will speed commercialization of high-tech, American-made car batteries....

SMYRNA, Tenn., Dec. 13 -- People in this small town surrounding one of Nissan's busiest U.S. car plants have followed the news of the auto bailout with particular interest....

SMYRNA, Tenn., Dec. 13 -- People in this small town surrounding one of Nissan's busiest U.S. car plants have followed the news of the auto bailout with particular interest....

After 88 years of selling Buicks in Northern Virginia's exurbs, the Dick C. Weaver & Son dealership sold its remaining cars, parts and tools back to General Motors this fall....

Somewhere between birth and what is now the possible demise of the domestic automobile industry, "American" became a bad word....

The economy is in a tailspin, the city's former mayor is in jail and the auto executives are a punch line, but it's become hard to distinguish between the Lions and Detroit....