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AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were being treated in a hospital Thursday for serious injuries they sustained when their vehicle was rear-ended by a truck, a spokesman said.

AP - House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.

AP - With one eye on the calendar and the other on elusive bipartisanship, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.

AP - Government vehicle safety regulators may seek greater authority to investigate defects in cars and trucks and are weighing a range of new safety requirements in response to Toyota's recall of more than 8 million vehicles over brake and acceleration problems.

AP - President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work. But doubts remain about how many net jobs his trade agenda will create — and how he will get it done.

AFP - Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid's wife suffered a broken back and broken neck and his daughter a neck injury and facial cuts in a car accident Thursday, his office said.

AP - Over the years, "Little Billy" learned much from the country's top minds.

AP - A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the "al-Qaida Seven" has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal community, prompting even some fellow Republicans to denounce the group's attack.

AFP - World leaders should follow the example of US President Barack Obama and meet the Dalai Lama despite China's objections, the Tibetan spiritual leader's envoy to Europe said Thursday.

AP - Britain's High Court granted bail Thursday to former Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic, who was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on a Serbian war crimes warrant earlier this month.

AFP - US President Barack Obama will give his Nobel Peace Prize award money to 10 charities, including groups working on Haiti relief and supporting military families, the White House said Thursday.

Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.s handling of recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the automakers U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.