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Toyota says Prius had brake design problems (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:47 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius is on display at the automaker's showroom in Tokyo. Toyota said on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 it has received 77 complaints in Japan over brake problems with its popular hybrid. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)AP - Toyota admitted design problems with the brakes in its prized Prius, adding to the catalog of woes for the world's No. 1 automaker still reeling from a massive U.S. recall involving faulty gas pedals.

House faces tough vote on $1.9 trillion more debt (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:42 AM PST

The National Debt Clock is shown Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 in New York. President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.83 trillion budget on Monday that would pour more money into the fight against high unemployment, boost taxes on the wealthy and freeze spending for a wide swath of government programs. The deficit for this year would surge to a record-breaking $1.56 trillion. The Debt Clock is a privately funded estimate of the national debt. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Facing a politically excruciating vote, House Democratic leaders are counting on new budget deficit curbs to help smooth the way for a bill allowing the government to go $1.9 trillion deeper into debt over the next year — or about $6,000 more for every U.S. resident.

Brown taking over the late Sen. Kennedy's seat (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:21 AM PST

FILE - Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, attends the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast, in this Jan. 18, 2010 file photo taken at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. A swearing-in ceremony was set for 5 p.m. Thursday for the little-known Massachusetts state senator who shocked the nation with his upset victory last month over a favored Democrat and put the 2010 midterm elections in play for a possible GOP takeover of Congress. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)AP - Republican Scott Brown is poised to take over the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's long-held seat a week earlier than he had planned, ending the Democrats' Senate supermajority and giving the GOP 41 votes they can use to block President Barack Obama's agenda.

Pakistani police: Bomber rammed US soldiers' car (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:25 AM PST

Pakistani soldiers stand guard near the site of a bomb blast on the outskirts of Peshawar in December, 2009. A powerful roadside bomb struck a convoy near a girls' school in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing eight people including four foreign aid workers and three school girls, police said.(AFP/File/A Majeed)AP - The suicide bomber who killed three U.S. soldiers in northwestern Pakistan rammed his car into their vehicle, raising questions about whether the attacker had inside information on the location of the troops, police said Thursday.

US Baptists to appear before Haitian prosecutor (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:12 AM PST

Women, who are U.S. citizens arrested for their involvement in a suspected illegal adoption scheme, talk to a journalist at a holding cell at the judicial police station in Port-au-Prince February 1, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensAP - Parents unable to feed or clothe their children after an earthquake devastated their Haitian village handed the youngsters over to a group of American missionaries who promised to give them a better life.

Motivational speaker charged in sweat lodge deaths (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:30 AM PST

Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray, foreground, is led into the Yavapai County jail in Camp Verde, Ariz. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Ray was arrested on three counts of manslaughter for the deaths of three people at a sweat lodge ceremony he led in October 2009. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray was arrested Wednesday on manslaughter charges after three people died following a northern Arizona sweat lodge ceremony he led last year.

Source: Jackson's doctor to be arraigned Friday (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:34 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2009 file picture, Dr. Conrad Murray arrives at his clinic in Houston. Michael Jackson's physician has arrived in Los Angeles in anticipation of a decision from the district attorney's office on whether to charge him for the singer's death, a spokeswoman said Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)AP - Michael Jackson's doctor is set to be arraigned Friday on a charge connected to the pop singer's death, a source told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Intelligence official: US believes Mehsud is dead (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:32 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud arrives to meet with media in Sararogha of Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border. The Pakistani Taliban said Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 that there is no need to release proof that the group's leader is alive to refute reports that he died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone strike in mid-January. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud, File)AP - U.S. counterterrorism officials believe Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead following a missile attack last month, a senior intelligence official said Wednesday in the strongest signal that Washington has offered about the militant's fate.

Stewart tells O'Reilly he's voice of sanity on Fox (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:35 AM PST

In this image taken from video and provided by the Fox News, 'The O'Reilly Factor' host Bill O'Reilly points across the table at 'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart, on the set of the 'The O'Reilly Factor,' Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Fox News Channel) NO SALESAP - Comic Jon Stewart told Bill O'Reilly that the "no spin zone" ringleader had become the voice of sanity on Fox News Channel, although "that's like being the thinnest kid at fat camp."

Concussion awareness grabbing hold across the NFL (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:41 AM PST

New Orleans Saints defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove stretches during NFL football practice in Miami on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. The Saints will play the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - New Orleans defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove has endured plenty of concussions. The exact number, that's a mystery, even to him.

Toyota sees $2 billion hit from recall problems (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 11:31 PM PST

A Toyota car is displayed at a dealership in Tel Aviv February 3, 2010. REUTERS/Gil Cohen MagenReuters - Toyota Motor Corp expects costs and lost sales from its largest ever safety recall to total $2 billion for the year to March, but raised its outlook after posting its strongest operating profit in six quarters.

U.S., Haiti holding talks on detained missionaries (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:36 PM PST

Laura Silsby, the detained head of New Life Children's Refuge, is pictured at a police station in Port-au-Prince on January 31. Silsby is one of a group of Americans accused of trying to smuggle children out of quake-stricken Haiti. She has insisted that the group simply wanted to give the children a better life in an orphanage it planned to set up in the Dominican Republic.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)Reuters - The U.S. and Haitian governments are holding talks on the fate of 10 American missionaries accused of illegally trying to take children out of the quake-hit Caribbean country, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.

China hits back at Obama over currency criticism (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:40 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference at the Newseum in Washington, February 3, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - China dismissed on Thursday U.S. threats it would get tough with Beijing on trade and currency to ensure American goods did not face a competitive disadvantage, saying its yuan currency was at a reasonable level.

Obama presses Democrats on health, financial reforms (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 01:02 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference at the Newseum in Washington, February 3, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama pressed Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday to redouble their efforts to pass healthcare and financial regulatory reforms, telling them "our mission is far from accomplished."

Bomb in Pakistan kills 3 U.S. soldiers, 3 children (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 02:38 PM PST

Security officials walk past the crater of a bombing and destroyed school in Timergara, the main town in Lower Dir district, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province on February 3, 2010. REUTERS/Ali ShahReuters - Pakistan's Taliban claimed responsibility for a bomb on Wednesday that killed three U.S. Special Operations soldiers near a girls' school in northwest Pakistan and threatened more attacks on Americans.

Pakistani convicted in NY of Afghanistan shooting (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 01:59 PM PST

Reuters - A Pakistani woman was found guilty in a New York court on Wednesday of shooting at her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan.

U.S. Black Hawk crashes in Germany (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:13 PM PST

Reuters - A U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter crashed in a forest near a motorway in south-western Germany, police in the state of Hesse said on Wednesday, and German media said two people had been killed. A spokesman for the U.S. Army Europe said there were at least three people in the Black Hawk, a transport helicopter.

G7 Arctic meeting told not to fret about armed men (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 01:11 PM PST

Reuters - Foreign ministers and central bankers nervous about meeting in Canada's Arctic should not be worried if they see armed men speeding around on snowmobiles, local police said on Wednesday.

China and US spar on trade as row rolls on (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:14 AM PST

File photo shows Chinese and United States flags at the International Trade Center in Washington, DC. China hit back at the United States on Thursday after President Barack Obama vowed to get tougher with the Asian giant on trade, further stoking tensions already high over Taiwan and Tibet.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - China hit back at the United States on Thursday after President Barack Obama vowed to get tougher with the Asian giant on trade, further stoking tensions already high over Taiwan and Tibet.

Iran urged to follow up on nuclear U-turn (AFP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 07:17 PM PST

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (7th L) poses with government officials underneath the Simorgh (Phoenix) Iran-built satellite rocket during an unveiling ceremony in Tehran February 3. The United States and key allies urged Iran Wednesday to follow up on a surprise U-turn from Ahmadinejad by formally committing to a UN-brokered deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel.(AFP/Rohollah Vahdati)AFP - The United States and key allies urged Iran Wednesday to follow up on a surprise U-turn from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by formally committing to a UN-brokered deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel.
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