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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama issued a plea for restraint in Egypt after meeting with national security aides Saturday to assess the Cairo government’s response to widespread protests threatening the stability of the country. A White House statement said Obama “reiterated our [...]

CAIRO | Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:25pm EST CAIRO (Reuters) – Army units secured the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo against possible looting on Friday, protecting a building with spectacular pharaonic treasures such as the death mask of the boy king Tutankhamun, state TV [...]

“You see,” the 50-year-old lawyer said, displaying the items. On the bottom of each were the words “Made in the USA.” “They are attacking us with American weapons,” he yelled as men gathered around him. To many protesters in the streets of Cairo, the Obama administration [...]

Gone was the president who told the nation in his inaugural speech that it was time to set aside childish things, and who spent much of his first two years bemoaning the mess his predecessor had left. medical marijuana physicians . In his place was an upbeat and forward-looking Mr. Obama, serving up [...]

Israel Fears Unrest in Egypt Could Jeopardize Peace Treaty Robert BergerJerusalemJanuary 29, 2011 Photo: AP An Egyptian anti-government protester holds a defaced poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, with the words “Mubarak, get out,” during a demonstration in Cairo, Egypt, Jan [...]

When he came to power, Barack Obama inherited wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the sudden upheaval in Egypt [...]

Divers searching the Delta-Mendota [...]

WASHINGTON — What Robert Gates once called “inconceivable to me” — his remaining defense secretary beyond Inauguration Day — is looking a bit more conceivable to the rest of Washington. The 65-year-old former spymaster has turned publicly mum on the circumstances under which [...]

While some protesters clashed with police, army tanks expected to disperse the crowds in central Cairo and in the northern city of Alexandria instead became rest points and even, on occasion, part of the protests as anti-Mubarak graffiti were scrawled on them without interference from soldiers. [...]

(01-29) 04:00 PST Sacramento - – Gov. Jerry Brown extended his cost-cutting crusade Friday, ordering state agencies and departments to reduce the number of taxpayer-funded vehicles they use and barring the purchase of new nonemergency cars. Brown seeks to cut the state fleet by half, and his executive [...]

(CNN) — Authorities on Friday night extracted a car that they believe was driven into a California canal by an alleged kidnapper — but didn’t find either the suspect or the 4-year-old boy he allegedly abducted inside. A 2003 silver Toyota Corrolla yanked late Friday out of the [...]

Protesters also gathered in Alexandria in the area surrounding the al-Qaed mosque, al-Jazeera reported. Earlier on Saturday, Mubarak fired his Cabinet and promised reforms in his first response to protesters who have mounted the biggest challenge ever to his 30-year rule. But many protesters were outraged [...]

Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson says the badly damaged Toyota Corolla pulled from the canal just before 6 p.m. Friday was empty. Divers have been combing the canal since last week after receiving a tip that a car matching the one in which the suspect allegedly fled was seen heading into [...]

(CNN) — John P. Wheeler III, a former Pentagon official and the first chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, “died as a result of blunt force trauma after being assaulted,” the Delaware medical examiner’s office said Friday. A toxicology analysis also was done during [...]

By Jeff Mason and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON | Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:40pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama spoke to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday and said he told him to undertake sweeping reforms, while U.S. officials made clear that $1.5 [...]

(01-28) 12:37 PST PATTERSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY – A car being sought in connection with the kidnapping of a 4-year-old boy who was snatched from his grandmother’s arms in Stanislaus County was found today in a San Joaquin Valley canal after a 10-day search, authorities said. The Toyota Corolla [...]

IDG News Service - Through its broad attempt to shut down Internet communications, Egypt’s government has not only successfully blocked Twitter but also significantly limited access to Facebook, Yahoo and Google, as it scrambles to squelch political unrest. While it’s not the first time a [...]