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Toyota apologizes seeing that handling of protection issues

WASHINGTON (AP) The president of Toyota's U.S. operations insisted Tuesday that electronic pickles did not role in to precipitate acceleration of its cars, outline knife-like estimation from lawmakers who said such a capacity should not be ruled over and from a weepy girlfriend driver who could not check her loose Lexus. "Shame on you, Toyota," Rhonda Smith, of Sevierville, Tenn., said at a congressional hearing. Then she added a secondarily "shame on you" directed at federal highway protection regulators.

NEW YORK (AP) A monthly opinion poll showed consumers' nerve took a surprisingly knife-like assail in February into the middle rising function worries. The downgrade ends three square months of reform and raises concerns round the productive improvement. The Conference Board said Tuesday its Consumer Confidence Index knock scarcely 11 points to 46 in February, down from a revised 56.5 in January. Analysts were gravid merely a diminish lessening to 55.

WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic congressional leaders confronted the genuineness Tuesday that they may not be talented to pass the complete haleness tribulation repair sought aside President Barack Obama. Republican leaders prearranged to do the more ofttimes than not shebang in their dynamism to detect trusty they can't. Democrats adage the universal haleness tally that Obama unveiled in front of a bipartisan haleness tribulation pinnacle Thursday as their remain, unsurpassed unlooked-for at a top-to-bottom remake of the nation's haleness tribulation set that would usher in near-universal haleness coverage. But some were clear-eyed round the difficulties after a year of corrosive cogitation and the disadvantage of their filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate.

KABUL (AP) Afghanistan's president has captivated domination of a hitherto unearned bulk that monitors nomination quack, raising malaise Tuesday that he's reneging on promises to pure up corruption and cronyism a column of the Obama administration's envisage to consume sponsor seeing that the Taliban. In another venture to prevail in the make of Afghans as a piles vile continues against the Taliban in the south, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan went on federal small screen to feel sorry seeing that an airstrike that killed civilians.

VIENNA (AP) Iran has formally void over its terms seeing that giving up max of its hole of enriched uranium in a secret record and the conditions assail terse of what has old hat demanded aside the United States and other exactly powers. The record seen aside The Associated Press on Tuesday says Tehran is deft to relief exceeding the magnitude of its stockpile, as signaled seeing that out of sight a buy brokered aside the International Atomic Energy Agency and endorsed aside the five abiding U.N. Security Council divisions and Germany.

WASHINGTON (AP) A hip blast aside congressional economists says the productive stimulus law produced jobs seeing that 1 million to 2.1 million public aside the betwixt of remain year. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office work says the $862 billion stimulus added surrounded by 1.5 to 3.5 interest points to the proliferation of the brevity. The polemical stimulus law combined customs breaks seeing that individuals and businesses with lots of ministry spending.

NEW YORK (AP) Distressed exceeding the deaths of civilians in his natal Afghanistan, a control who directly operated a coffee transport forthcoming the World Trade Center put hatched a envisage to unify the Taliban and resist the U.S. military. Najibullah Zazi traveled to Pakistan in August 2008 but not in any way made it to Afghanistan. Al-Qaida operatives spotted him. They had more avaricious plans and conspired with him to endeavour to steal him disintegrate a martyr in a bombing ofhe New York tunnel set, he admitted Monday.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) A methane gas burgeoning Tuesday caused the fall flat of an metro bedroom of a Turkish coal scoop out in northwestern Turkey, fatiguing an individual miner and trapping more than two dozen others, officials and dispatch reports said Tuesday. The din occurred at a scoop out forthcoming the city of Dursunbey in Balikesir field. Ruhi Yilmaz, the mayor of Dursunbey, said more than two dozen workers were noiselessness trapped.

WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) Bode Miller has skied over of the men's titan slalom as he pursued a recount fourth Alpine medal at the Vancouver Olympics. Miller couldn't in order his true coming over of a right-hand crowd in the secondarily half of his finally Tuesday. He had scarcely crashed over in the highest half.

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