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Ex-Anne Klein designer Charles Nolan dies in NY

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 02:00 PM PST

American fashion designer Charles Nolan has died in New York after battling cancer. The 53-year-old Nolan was known to be a fan of classic styles, but he skewed them with a modern edge and personal touch.

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Analysis: For US, Egypt crisis recalls 1979 Iran

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 01:40 PM PST

The mounting popular demand that Egypt's all-powerful ruler step aside has suddenly forced the United States to contemplate a Mideast without the guarantee of a bedrock Arab ally -- and raised the specter of the anti-American revolution in Iran a generation ago.

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Jimmy Carter: Unrest in Egypt 'earth-shaking'

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 01:30 PM PST

Former President Jimmy Carter, who brokered a peace accord between Israel and Egypt in 1978, on Sunday called the political unrest and rioting in Egypt earth-shaking and said that President Hosni Mubarak probably will have to step down.

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US set to fly thousands of Americans from Egypt

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 01:11 PM PST

The State Department is prepared to evacuate thousands of U.S. citizens from Egypt on chartered planes, but is relying largely on friends and families in the U.S. to relay that information to stranded Americans.

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Posted: 30 Jan 2011 01:11 PM PST

Leaders' power struggle roils 'most livable' Tulsa

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 01:01 PM PST

Tulsa was built by oil barons in the early 1900s, and their stone, columned mansions still adorn the old historic districts. Lately, the city's image has been less ostentatious -- as a middle-American family town, with a modest cost of living, comfortable neighborhoods spread across a rolling landscape, and a regular place on the most-livable-cities lists.

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Guard strangled at Wash. state prison

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 12:20 PM PST

A Washington state corrections officials says a guard has been found strangled inside a prison chapel.

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Face of Mideast unrest: young and hungry for jobs

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 12:10 PM PST

Just days before fleeing Tunisia, the embattled leader went on national television to promise 300,000 new jobs over two years.

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Obama calls foreign leaders about Egypt situation

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 12:00 PM PST

President Barack Obama has been foreign leaders this weekend to spread word of the U.S. administration's desire for restraint and an orderly transition to a more responsive government in Egypt.

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Father, son help each other after brain injuries

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 10:10 AM PST

The crisply ironed uniforms of the father and son hang side by side in what they have dubbed the "Marine Corps closet," a dark space filled with vestiges of their tours of duty.

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Man arrested with explosives at Michigan mosque

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 10:00 AM PST

A 63-year-old California man who had explosives with him was arrested outside one of the nation's largest mosques in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, authorities in Michigan said.

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Boehner says he cries because he cares so much

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 10:00 AM PST

Asking House Speaker John Boehner why he cries so much is one thing. If you want to turn his tears to mild annoyance, bring up his smoking.

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Daley asks GOP to detail its proposed budget cuts

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 09:50 AM PST

President Barack Obama's new chief of staff is responding to a proposal from congressional Republicans to cut $55 billion from the federal budget with a question: "Where's the beef?"

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Mom charged in 2 kids' slayings out of hospital

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 09:11 AM PST

A Florida woman accused of killing her teenage daughter and son has been released from a hospital and is back in jail.

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Ivy League case tests Rockefeller drug law change

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 08:10 AM PST

A case against five Columbia University students accused of dealing drugs on campus is putting a spotlight on a recent overhaul of New York's once-notoriously stringent drug laws.

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Obama to honor 28 victims of 1961 tower collapse

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 07:51 AM PST

President Barack Obama will soon recognize the sacrifice of 28 men killed five decades ago when a Cold War radar station collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Posted: 30 Jan 2011 07:51 AM PST

Political crisis in Haiti draws help from Clinton

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 07:31 AM PST

While the Obama administration keeps watch on violent protests in Egypt, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking to mediate in a political crisis in Haiti.

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NY Sen. Schumer wants ban on drug-like bath salts

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 04:21 AM PST

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says he wants the federal government to ban new designer drugs known as bath salts that pack as much punch as cocaine or methamphetamines.

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Calif. officer wounded, police search for shooter

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 03:41 AM PST

A Long Beach police anti-gang detective was shot and wounded as he drove in a squad car with another officer, police said Sunday.

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