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WASHINGTON – The White House plans to promote its work to develop electric cars this week, dispatching administration officials across the nation to discuss advanced batteries and new vehicles powered by electricity. President Barack Obama will travel to Holland, Mich., on Thursday for the groundbreaking of a Compact Power Inc. factory, which received $151 million from a federal stimulus program to open the $303 million plant. The factory is expected to manufacture lithium ion cells and employ about 450 people by 2013. Pushing clean energy, Obama has vowed to bring 1 million plug-in hybrid vehicles to U.S. highways by 2015...

WASHINGTON, March 16, 2007 – Recent improvements in Baghdad’s security situation are the result of compounding “evolutionary” developments, the U.S. official responsible for training the Iraqi army said today. “My personal opinion is this is more evolutionary vs. revolutionary in terms of modification of the strategy,” Army Brig. Gen. Terry Wolff told a group of online journalists. Wolff commands the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team under Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq. “It’s not like “everyone’s walked in anew or woken up in the morning and said, ‘If we just did this, everything will work its way out,’” the general...

SACRAMENTO - Federal authorities who arrested two men and detained three others this week in a terrorism probe say they have been investigating members of a Central Valley Pakistani community for years and expect more developments in the weeks ahead. But they aren't saying just how the men came to their attention, how far the connections extend and exactly what kind of attacks - if any - they were plotting. FBI spokesman John Cauthen on Thursday said the investigation was not triggered by an internal rift within Lodi's Pakistani community, as some members had suggested. "This specific investigation has been...

District debatiung policy that would allow incentives for Home Depot data centerx By Shonda Novak and Robert Elder Jr. AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, June 22, 2004 The business of tax breaks may be ready to boom once again in Austin. Austin Independent School District trustees Monday night debated whether to adopt a policy permitting tax breaks to lure companies. It could pave the way for the district's first effort under a 2001 state law that lets school districts offer tax breaks for major economic development projects. The district itself wouldn't lose any revenue; the state essentially subsidizes districts that grant property...

The United States declared Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Baath Party dead, dispatching the war's commander Gen. Tommy Franks to tell Iraqis that the instrument of their deposed dictator's power was dissolved and promising to purge its influence from the country it dominated for 35 years. _ The U.S. administration in Iraq saw the beginning of a shakeup in staff, with its new chief, L. Paul Bremer, meeting in Qatar with the man he will replace, retired general Jay Garner. Barbara Bodine, coordinator for central Iraq, including Baghdad, within the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, left her post....

Key Developments in the War Against Iraq Sunday April 6, 2003 2:00 AM Key developments in the war in Iraq: - Deafening explosions rocked central Baghdad early Sunday as Iraqi troops, members of President Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen militia and teenage soldiers patrolled streets to protect the capital from U.S.-led forces. - U.S. forces dashed inside Baghdad, sweeping through industrial neighborhoods with tanks and armored vehicles and sending a message to regime loyalists that the city could be breached at any time of the coalition's choosing. - Black-clad members of Iraq's Fedayeen militia appeared for the first time on streets in...

Britain set out a list of conditions for Iraq's disarmament, hoping to break an impasse at the United Nations (news - web sites) that has left Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) vulnerable at home because of his support for the tough U.S. line. The conditions include a TV appearance by Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) renouncing weapons of mass destruction. _ President Bush (news - web sites) spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites), Blair and the leaders of Mexico, Chile and Pakistan, all members of the Security Council, the White House said....