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**FILE** The Toyota logo is seen on a car at the New York International Auto Show in New York on March 31, 2010. (Associated Press)

**FILE** Sergei Filin (center) poses Sept. 20, 2011, with members of the Bolshoi Theater company involved in the Sleeping Beauty ballet after a rehearsal at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. (Associated Press)

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Statoil's chief executive officer, Helge Lund, arrives at the center in Bergen, Norway, set up for relatives of the hostages in Algeria. Algerian troops and helicopter gunships stormed the gas facility where Islamic extremists were holding foreign hostages on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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“The government is abetting the behavior by not preventing the deduction,” says Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, of big banks being able to write off foreclosure penalties on their taxes. (Associated Press)

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Amtrak plans to collaborate with the California High-Speed Rail Authority to purchase about 60 high-speed trains over the next decade. California is expected to begin construction on its high-speed rail this summer. (Associated Press)

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Islamist militants raided the Amenas natural gas field in Algeria on Wednesday, killing two and taking hostages, including some Americans and English, Norwegian and Japanese nationals. Algerian forces later caught up with and surrounded the kidnappers. Negotiations for the release of the hostages were ongoing, officials said. (BP via Associated Press)

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Claims of responsibility for an attack on an Algerian natural-gas field in January are tied to a group led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who had been a regional commander in northwestern Africa for al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. (IntelCenter)

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A Honda Accord is for sale at a Honda dealership in Des Plaines, Ill., on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Holiday shopping, strong auto sales and a recovering housing market helped boost the U.S. economy from the middle of November through early January, according to a Federal Reserve survey released on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)