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Associated Press: New York Senator Charles Schumer said his bill would prevent car rental agencies from renting vehicles under recall unless the problem has been fixed.

Los Angeles Times: “Toyota Motor Corp. has quietly settled a high-profile lawsuit over a fatal crash near San Diego last year that drew national attention to sudden acceleration in its vehicles and led to massive recalls,” Ken Bensinger reports.

New York Times: Two consumer safety groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to order Enterprise Rent-A-Car not to rent cars with safety recalls until repairs are made. There is not now any restriction on renting vehicles under recall that have not been fixed.

Wall Street Journal: Reporter Anjali Athavaley talks to experts in an effort to answer the question, “What exactly makes a safe crib?”

Washington Post: “There is so much information out there, if you paid attention to every recall notice that came out every day, you’d go nuts.”

USA Today: Documents revealed as part of a lawsuit showed Toyota was dealing with cracking and breaking steering relay rods for 12 years before recalling nearly a million trucks in the U.S. that had the problem.

New York Times: Edolphus Towns said Johnson & Johnson has held up an investigation his committee has undertaken into the company’s recent pediatric drug recalls.