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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says a $1.2 billion penalty against Toyota is the largest of its kind imposed on an auto company. Toyota agreed to settle claims that it hid information about defects that caused Toyota and Lexus vehicles to accelerate unexpectedly and resulted in injuries and deaths. Holder says Toyota confronted a public safety emergency "as if were a simple public relations problem."
WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AHN'-derz fohg RAHS'-moo-sihn) says Russia's advances in Ukraine are the greatest threat to European security since the Cold War. Rasmussen also told a Washington think tank that Russian interventions are a "wake-up call." In Ukraine, Russian forces seized military installations across the disputed Crimean Peninsula. Ukraine's security chief says his country will hold joint military exercises with the United States and Britain.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen says the Fed intends to keep short-term rates near zero for a "considerable" time and would raise them only gradually. Yellen says the job market is still weak.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner is suggesting that he may not support bipartisan legislation to renew long-term unemployment benefits. The measure is pending in the Senate. Boehner's aides have been circulating a letter from state officials envisioning a series of difficulties they would encounter in administering the measure. A spokesman for Senate leader Harry Reid says any concerns expressed by state officials can be resolved.
UNDATED (AP) — An analysis finds that nearly half of Americans ages 40 to 75 and almost all men over 60 qualify to consider cholesterol-lowering statin drugs under new heart disease prevention guidelines. But critics say the guidelines overreach by suggesting medications such as Zocor and Lipitor for such a broad swath of the population.
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