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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it needs to change or replace the keys for about 3.4 million cars. GM says they could cause the ignition switch to move out of position if they're carrying too much weight. GM is already recalling 2.6 million older small cars for a similar problem where the ignition switch slips out of "run" and causes an engine stall. In that case, the problem is with the mechanics of the switch. Here, it's the keys.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is considering sending a small number of American special forces soldiers to Iraq to help the government in Baghdad slow the nation's rampant Sunni insurgency. President Barack Obama has explicitly ruled out putting U.S. troops into direct combat in Iraq. The plan under consideration suggests he would be willing to send Americans into a collapsing security situation for training and other purposes.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's massive search for three missing Jewish seminary students has turned into the widest crackdown on the Islamic militant group Hamas in the West Bank in almost a decade. Israel is blaming Hamas for the apparent abductions, without providing proof, and has arrested more than 150 Palestinians since the three teens disappeared in the West Bank late Thursday.
CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys for a 20-year-old man accused of trying to ignite a bomb in Chicago will not be allowed unprecedented access to secret intelligence court records. A U.S. appeals court has reversed a trial court and handed a victory to the federal government in the case of Adel Daoud.
CHICAGO (AP) — Who you know may not be enough to land a job at Chicago's City Hall anymore. A federal judge has ended nine years of federal oversight of Chicago municipal hiring. The judge agrees the nation's third-largest city has put effective mechanisms in place to curb illegal patronage, or the hiring of people based on their political or personal connections.
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