In addition to the 6 million Toyota cars on recall in the United States due to sudden acceleration problems, documents show that a number of Camrys built before 2007, which were not subject to recalls, have shown comparable speed-control problems. The New York Times sifted through 12,700 complaints filed with the government over the last decade and found Toyota faced more crash complaints than any other carmaker, and that many of those complaints involved vehicles not subject to recalls, like the 2002 Camry. In an effort to regain public trust, Toyota is rolling out new consumer incentives including zero-percent financing for 60 months beginning Tuesday and running through March. Toyota’s sales dropped by 16 percent and are expected to fall 25 percent or more in February.

In the aftermath of Sunday’s 8.8 earthquake, Chile has deployed 10,000 troops to Concepcion, the city nearest the epicenter. So far, 150 people have been arrested for violating curfew in the city of 500,000. One person is also reported to have been killed in a firefight in the city; 711 people have been recorded dead since the 8.8 quake.

Ten House Democrats indicated they could switch their “no” votes to “yes” on President Obama’s health-care overhaul, according to an AP survey. Out of 39 Democrats, 10 said they were undecided or wouldn’t state their vote, putting them in the field of players Obama and Nancy Pelosi have to wrangle to their side in order to push through reforms using reconciliation, which would block a Republican filibuster. Pelosi needs 216 votes to pass the Senate version of the bill, which is exactly the number she has now if no one defects from last time, which is highly unlikely considering the different tack the Senate bill takes on abortion, and the changed political landscape since the House voted through its bill. Obama is expected to lay out a new plan on Wednesday that will incorporate some Republican ideas left over from last week’s summit, but few think this will persuade a single Republican to vote for the bill.

Word of advice to the fragile: Don’t ask Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) about his decision Monday to block a vote on a bill that would extend unemployment benefits and health insurance to laid-off workers. The senator threw a bit of a tantrum when a reporter for ABC News asked him about the move, allegedly flipping him the bird, and then insisting, once the cameras arrived, that “This is a senators-only elevator.” Bunning's move will put 2,000 federal workers on unpaid leave starting today, while federal reimbursements to states for transportation projects will also be halted. Medicare reimbursements to physicians will also be cut 20 percent.

What do a former astronaut, a sex tape star, and the mother of eight have in common? They’ll all be taking the stage for next season’s Dancing With the Stars. Buzz Aldrin, Pamela Anderson, and Kate Gosselin are just three of the 11 celebrities hitting center stage to show off their moves. Joining them will be ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews; Beverly Hills, 90210 star and former hellraiser Shannen Doherty; Olympic gold medalist figure skater Evan Lysacek; Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver and notorious end-zone dancer Chad Ochocinco; Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger; host of decluttering show Clean House Niecy Nash; Bachelor Jake Pavelka; and soap star Aidan Turner. The U.S. version of Dancing With the Stars premiered in 2005 and is set to begin its 10th season on March 22. According to Edyta Sliwinska’s Twitter feed, the professional pairings will be announced on Good Morning America on Tuesday. In the most recent season last fall, Donny Osmond beat out Mya and Kelly Osbourne for the crown.

Harold Ford, the former Tennessee congressman who had flirted with a bid against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), has decided not to run, The New York Times reports. The financial executive was facing pressure from Democratic leaders to back off Gillibrand, who is the protégé of the powerful Senator Chuck Schumer. Ford told friends that he thought he could beat Gillibrand in the Democratic primary but would then emerge without enough money to win the race if a moneyed Republican challenger emerged. He also mentioned he didn’t want to jeopardize the slim Democratic majority in the Senate. Ford burst on to the scene with an interview with the Times in which he said he got daily pedicures and had visited some boroughs of New York only by helicopter.

Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Bob Corker (R-TN) are near a deal to create a consumer-protection division within the Federal Reserve, a far cry from the president's request for an independent agency. The two senators did reach a deal that will empower the federal government to break up large, failing financial companies. Dodd has been one of the Fed's fiercest critics, and earlier suggested creating the consumer-protection agency within the Treasury Department, but Corker rejected that. Dodd could introduce the bill this week.

Gov. David Paterson personally directed his press secretary to ask a woman who had accused his close aide of attacking her to say the run-in was nonviolent and contradict her previous accounts to the police in court, The New York Times cites three sources as saying. Paterson also allegedly had a state employee, who was a mutual friend of both the woman and the governor, make contact with the accuser to “finalize an order of protection against the aide” before her court date. The state employee arranged a phone call between the governor and the woman, the sources say. The woman accused the aide, David Johnson, of “choking her, smashing her into a mirrored dresser and preventing her from calling for help,” but failed to appear in court after the phone call for her hearing, and the case was dropped. After the Times reported that Paterson and the State Police had intervened in the domestic-abuse case involving Johnson, Paterson ended his campaign for reelection.

In spite of record spending leading up to the Games, Russia had its worst-ever showing at this year’s Winter Olympics, and President Dmitry Medvedev wants the officials involved in training this year’s athletes to resign. “The responsible officials should take the brave decision and sign a resignation letter,” said Medvedev, who canceled his planned trip to the Closing Ceremony due to Russian athletes’ disappointing performance. “If they can't, we will help them.” With a scant three first-place finishes, Russia finished in 11th place in terms of gold medals in Vancouver, a serious concern because the nation is hosting the next Winter Games. Medvedev placed the blame on bureaucracy rather than the actual Olympic team, and said that when it comes to funding, “the athlete, not federations, those fat cats, must be given priority.”

How bad is GOP obstructionism in the Senate? Republican senators are on pace to more than triple the previous record for uses of a filibuster in a Congress. In 2009, there were a record 112 cloture votes (the number of cloture votes is how you measure the use of filibusters). So far in 2010, there have already been more than 40 cloture votes. The previous record was in 1995-1996, when the Republican-controlled Senate required 50 cloture votes.

White House social secretary Desiree Rogers may be resigning, but first she’s trying to clear her name. Rogers received most of the blame for the gate-crasher incident that allowed Tareq and Michaele Salahi into President Obama’s first State Dinner uninvited. “It’s wrong,” Rogers tells the New Orleans Times-Picayune. "Everyone is saying the same thing, and it's wrong." Rogers says that reports that she did not place a member of her staff at the main entrance alongside Secret Service are plainly untrue. Rogers says the Secret Service was supposed to tell her staff member about any persons on the list; the person from her staff would then check to see whether or not they should have been on it.

The Oracle of Omaha is rooting for health-care reform. Warren Buffett, the world’s second richest man, told CNBC that health-care costs are “like a tapeworm eating at our economic body.” He called them a “national emergency,” and then tepidly endorsed Obama’s health-care bill. "If it was a choice today between Plan A, which is what we've got, or Plan B, which is the Senate bill, I would vote for the Senate bill," he said. "But I would much rather see a Plan C that really attacks costs, and I think that's what the American public wants to see."

How does Michael Douglas feel about the drug-dealing conviction that landed his son Cameron in jail? “My priorities were very similar [to my father’s],” Douglas tells Vanity Fair. “Career first.” Douglas adds that, “This is one of those worst-case scenarios. It will ultimately be a painful lesson and very expensive as far as time is concerned,” but he hopes to repair things with Cameron once he is free. Douglas’ wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, says that he’s treated their children much better than he did Cameron: “I’m sure if he could breast-feed, he would have.”

An IRS building in Ogden, Utah, is on lockdown after hazardous-material teams were called in earlier today, reports the Standard-Examiner. FBI officials confirmed that they are investigating the situation. Two people in the building were also treated for medical emergencies, but officials said those were unrelated to the suspicious substance found. The past year has seen a 21.5 percent rise in threats against IRS employees. Last month, a man crashed his plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, after leaving behind an anti-tax manifesto.

After just a few years, TLC has pulled the plug on its deal to broadcast the Miss America Pageant. “Our three-year deal has concluded and we have chosen not to renew. We wish the Miss America Organization well,” said the network, which picked up the pageant from CMT in 2008. Over the past decade or so, the show’s ratings have dwindled, and it remains to be seen which network will next take on the struggling franchise.

A battle with throat cancer left film critic Roger Ebert without a voice, but technology has come to the rescue: Ebert will show off a text-to-audio computer program that “speaks” in his old voice on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday. The program, built by a Scottish company called CereProc, built the program using old recordings of Ebert, who hosted the television program At the Movies for years.

Guess it’s back to Pandora for James Cameron: Henry Holt and Company has canceled publication of a book about Hiroshima that Cameron had optioned after its author was unable to address charges of fabrication. “It is with deep regret that Henry Holt and Company announces that we will not print, correct, or ship copies of Charles Pellegrino’s The Last Train from Hiroshima,” the company said in a statement. Specifically, Pellegrino was “not able to answer” questions about whether two men in the book actually existed. Pellegrino, who refers to himself as “Dr. Pellegrino,” also claims to have a Ph.D. from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, but the school said it had no record of Pellegrino obtaining that degree. Henry Holt and Company is offering a refund for customers who have purchased the book.

An Internet rumor that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is going to buy The New York Times won’t have shareholders complaining: The New York Times’ stock has surged 6.2 percent to $11.62 as of 2:04 p.m. EST on Monday. A Slim spokesman tried to quash the rumors, telling CNBC that Slim will not be buying the Times from the Ochs-Sulzberger family. Slim owns 7 percent of the Times’ Class A shares and has warrants that will give him up to a 16 percent stake.

For all the talk of bipartisanship in campaign speeches, Lindsey Graham and Rahm Emanuel seem to actually be taking the idea to heart. Insiders on Capitol Hill have observed the unlikely friendship between President Obama's chief of staff and one of the Republican Party's most high-profile senators. The pair first worked together setting the rules of debates for the 2008 presidential election. "I just like Lindsey. I just like him, but it doesn't blind me to our differences," said Emanuel, who has taken more meetings with Graham than any other major Republican official. Graham echoed Emanuel, saying, "I just found [him] good to deal with. ... we formed a relationship that allows us to just pick up the phone." In spite of raised eyebrows on both sides of the aisle, the two have held meetings on a variety of issues, most notably Graham's proposed deal that would help close Guantanamo Bay, a key Obama campaign promise. Graham explained of the deal, "There are things that I want to do that require the administration's buy-in. There are things they want to do that require my buy-in. ... [Rahm] understands you can only go so far by yourself."

The Olympic torch went out in Vancouver on Sunday after the U.S. hockey team’s nail-biting loss to Canada in the finals. Still, despite that disappointing closing note, the U.S. Olympic team has much to be proud of: Its 37 medals were a new record for medals won by a single country in the Winter Games, and the U.S. led the overall medal count for only the second time ever (the first being in Lake Placid in 1932).  Canada, meanwhile, beat the record for gold medals won by a single country at the Winter Games, with the gold medal in hockey giving them their 14th and final gold.

Assassins in our midst! Two of the 26 suspects wanted in the January 20 Dubai assassination of a Hamas leader entered the U.S. after the hit job, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. One entered the country on February 14 with a British passport and another on January 21 with an Irish passport. There is no record of either having left the U.S., though it’s possible they exited with different papers, since their passports are suspected of being fraudulent. Dubai’s police chief has said he is 99 percent certain the Israeli intelligence service Mossad is responsible for the assassination, though he has not provided evidence to back up that claim.

For better or worse, Jay Leno will retake his Tonight Show desk Monday evening, after months of controversy thanks to NBC’s booting of Conan O’Brien after a mere seven months. This week, Leno’s guests will include Sarah Palin, the cast of Jersey Shore, and the American Olympic gold medalists fresh from Vancouver. Leno hopes to regain his dominance in the ratings; rival David Letterman has greatly benefited from NBC’s late-night scrambling.

Hard to imagine CNN’s Anderson Cooper stuck behind a desk after his daring escapades in Haiti, but The New York Times reports he might be replacing CBS anchor Katie Couric. Her contract expires in less than a year, and CBS may be eyeing consolidation with CNN in a survival strategy as major networks look to profit from pairing up with a cable channel. Couric was the first woman to solo anchor network evening news.

No surprise here: Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi is drawing criticism for unveiling a list of candidates for regional elections that includes an ex-weathergirl, a beauty pageant contestant, and a former showgirl. Nicole Minetti, 25, is the daughter of an English dance instructor; Italia Caruso competed to be Miss Italy; and Giovanna Del Giudice worked at one of Berlusconi’s nighttime hangouts and later became a weathergirl on one of the former prime minister’s TV stations. "I have my CV, I am prepared and I am up to fulfilling the role," Minetti said, and then asked reporters, "Can you stop publishing photos from when I worked in TV?" (She wore a gold bikini.) Del Giudice was dropped from Berlusconi’s candidate list last year after he drew negative press for pushing several showgirls. At the time, Berlusconi’s wife declared the move “shamelessly trashy” and asked for a divorce. Berlusconi now calls himself a “single man.”

Is health care almost here? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and an aide to President Obama said separately Sunday that congressional Democrats will have the votes to pass the health-care overhaul. Acknowledging that the vote could risk the political careers of some House Democrats, Pelosi said she’s confident she can pass a bill based on the version the Senate passed in December. “The American people need it. Why are we here? We’re not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress. We’re here to do the job for the American people,” Pelosi said. Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, also said the measure would have enough votes to pass in "simple up-or-down vote.”

By the power of Xenu: A scientology insider tells Page Six that Holmes is undergoing intense Scientology “auditing”—just like she was before giving birth to Suri. Holmes is spending hours at the Hollywood Scientology Center each week. "This is exactly what happened just before she got pregnant with Suri,” says the source. “Tom has made no secret of the fact that he would like another baby. It is almost as if she is being prepared for it."

President Obama is working on a new nuclear strategy that will reverse some policies of the Bush administration, The New York Times reports. Obama will likely cut the American arsenal by thousands of weapons, but he has yet to decide the country’s position on when to deploy nukes, an issue that’s been hotly debated within the administration as it prepares the Nuclear Policy Review. The new policy will call for no new nuclear weapons, and push for the development of non-nuclear alternatives and a greater reliance on missile defense. And tactical nukes could be removed from Europe. Some critics say Obama is naïve to commit to the anti-nuclear weapons movement as nations like North Korea and Iran move toward developing them, while others worry the president won’t change current policy that allows for a nuclear response to a chemical or biological attack.

A day after commenting that “we generally don’t ask for help,” Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signaled her country is ready to receive international aid to recover from the catastrophic quake that has killed more than 700 and displaced 2 million. Experts say recovery will take years and tens of billions of dollars. Bachelet sent in troops to keep order and distribute aid to the hardest-hit areas of the country Sunday, where police tear-gassed hundreds of residents who were attempting to break into stores. The president has reached a deal with supermarkets to provide free food to the neediest residents, The New York Times reports. Aftershocks—more than 100 since the original quake—have slowed rescue efforts, though workers continue to try to dig out residents trapped in rubble while survivors huddle around bonfires as their homes lay in ruin. An estimated 1.5 million homes have been destroyed or are unsafe to live in.

Hey, it's still a heckuva lot cheaper than AIG: Germany and France are putting together a $41 billion plan to bail out Greece, according to The Wall Street Journal. Greek officials are expected to sign off on the deal when Prime Minister George Papandreou visits Berlin, but German officials insist that no such deal is in the making. The Journal says Germany does not want to help until Greece has demonstrated progress in reducing its deficit, which ballooned to 13 percent of GDP this year.

With Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chris Dodd weakening financial-regulatory reform in hopes of attracting Republican votes, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes, “The question now seems to be whether we’ll get a watered-down bill or no bill at all. And I hate to say this, but the second option is starting to look preferable.” Krugman argues that “A weak financial reform … wouldn’t be tested until the next big crisis. All it would do is create a false sense of security and a fig leaf for politicians opposed to any serious action — then fail in the clinch.” He ends with a call to arms: “[I]t’s time to draw a line in the sand. No reform, coupled with a campaign to name and shame the people responsible, is better than a cosmetic reform that just covers up failure to act.”

A new profile of Rupert Murdoch in New York Magazine probes the depth of New York Times hatred at The Wall Street Journal. “It’s a spear-thrust right at the Times, intended to embarrass and bleed the Times,” a senior Journal editor says of the new Journal New York metro section that will launch next month. “The idea of the New York Times as a burning, sinking ship is something they fantasize about at night.” Another source close to the company says of the new section, “[Murdoch] will be completely irrational about spending.” Meanwhile, Journal editor Robert Thomson also fires some shots at the Times, saying “They are better than the Chinese Communist Party at committees. I’m sure they’ll always find what they’re doing at the New York Times is perfect.”