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Los Angeles Times: Toyota Motor Corp.’s massive recalls for acceleration and braking problems are creating a huge legal liability for the company — and Toyota owners may share in the pain. The Japanese automaker faces dozens of lawsuits over injuries and deaths attributed to safety problems, with many more suits expected. Lawyers and legal experts [...]

Politico: Labor groups are furious with the Democrats they helped put in office — and are threatening to stay home this fall when Democratic incumbents will need their help fending off Republican challengers. The Senate’s failure to confirm labor lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was just the latest blow, but the [...]

CNN: Roland S. Martin, a CNN political analyst, is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of “Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith,” and the forthcoming book, “The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House.” He is a commentator for TV One Cable Network and host of a one-hour Sunday morning [...]

ABC News: Former President Bill Clinton was taken to a Manhattan hospital late this afternoon and two stents were installed in one of his coronary arteries, his office said. The former president’s counselor Douglas Band released a statement saying that Clinton, 63, is in “good spirits.” “Today President Bill Clinton was admitted to the Columbia [...]

Politico: President Barack Obama only leads a generic Republican candidate by 2 percentage points in a potential 2012 match up, according to a new Gallup Poll out Thursday that also shows a continued drift of independents from Democrats. Obama leads 44 percent to 42 percent, a statistical dead heat, against a nameless Republican, according to [...]

CNET: Two years ago, when the FBI was stymied by a band of armed robbers known as the “Scarecrow Bandits” that had robbed more than 20 Texas banks, it came up with a novel method of locating the thieves. FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone companies corresponding to what their cellular towers had recorded [...]

Daily Mail: Iran is now a ‘nuclear state’, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced this morning. As Gordon Brown warned that the world’s patience is wearing thin, Ahmadinejad told scores of cheering Iranians that the Islamic Republic is capable of producing weapons-grade uranium. He spoke as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Tehran [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States is likely to average 95,000 more jobs each month this year, while personal savings will remain high as credit remains tight, according to a White House report released Thursday. The Council of Economic Advisers also trumpeted the $787 billion economic stimulus package, which it said has saved or created [...]

The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—In a town where everything takes on political freight, this week’s historic snows have dumped a shovelful of mixed metaphors on the federal government. Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn found himself stranded inside the Capitol, an odd position for a small-government curmudgeon who called the government shutdown a “dream.” He cleaned [...]

The Daily Mail: Alec Baldwin was rushed to hospital after his daughter dialled 911, it has emerged. The 51-year-old actor, who stars in hit U.S. show 30 Rock, was in an ‘unresponsive’ state when taken to a hospital in New York. A 911 emergency call was made from his home in Manhattan. It is thought [...]

The Chicago Tribune: For months, the Food Network ran ads about a forthcoming episode of “Iron Chef America,” its flagship chefs plus secret ingredient versus time competition. The show would take place at the White House garden, with Michelle Obama making a cameo and plugging her responsible-eating initiative. The network promised it would be its [...]

FOX News: The White House on Wednesday slapped new sanctions on several affiliates of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp. in response to Iran’s defiant move to bolster its uranium enrichment program to levels capable of producing an atomic bomb. The new sanctions target one person and four companies for penalties over their alleged involvement in producing [...]

Telegraph: The envoy had only met the woman a few times, during which she had hidden her face behind a niqab, the Gulf News reported. After the marriage contract was signed, the ambassador attempted to kiss his bride-to-be. It was only then that he discovered her facial hair and eyes. The ambassador told an Islamic [...]

CNN: The leading Democratic challenger to Sen. Jim DeMint has decided to end his short-lived campaign to unseat the conservative South Carolina Republican, citing the need to spend more time with his family. The Democrat, Rock Hill trial attorney Chad McGowan, had struggled to gain traction and raise money since announcing his candidacy in October. [...]