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The automaker initially defied a U.S. request to recall 2.7 million vehicles prone to dangerous fires in rear-end collisions. The move avoids a showdown with the federal government.
Hastings' 2010 portrait of Gen. Stanley McChrystal led the former top U.S. general in Afghanistan to resign. Hastings, 33, died in a car crash in Hancock Park, two of his employers say.
The move by the American Medical Assn. board means that one-third of adults and 17% of children in the U.S. have a medical condition that requires treatment.
In a speech in Berlin, Obama will say he wants to see a one-third cut in the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal, if the Russians agree to do the same.
Walter Lee Williams, who was charged with sexual exploitation of children abroad, is captured in Mexico, the FBI says.
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