Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Egyptian President Mubarak to speak (AP)

Egyptian President Mubarak to speak (AP)

Egyptian President Mubarak to speak (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:45 PM PST

An anti-government protester displays spent shotgun cartridges in Tahrir, or Liberation Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - President Hosni Mubarak will make an "important speech" at the end of a day when a quarter-million people turned out Tuesday in the largest protest yet to demand his ouster. A visiting envoy of President Barack Obama told Mubarak that his ally the United States sees his presidency at an end, an administration official said.

AP sources: Obama envoy tells Mubarak time is up (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:05 PM PST

Young girls wave Egyptian flags atop an armored vehicle just outside Tahrir or Liberation Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou)AP - A special envoy dispatched to Egypt by President Barack Obama told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that the U.S. saw his presidency at an end and urged him not to seek another term in office while preparing for an orderly transition to real democracy in elections, American officials said Tuesday.

Dow has first close above 12,000 in 2 1/2 years (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:07 PM PST

In this Jan. 31, 2011 photo, trader Michael Urkonis, center, uses his handheld device as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - The Dow Jones industrial average has closed above 12,000 for the first time in 2 1/2 years — yet another sign that the economy is extending its recovery from the recession.

GOP presidential field praises health law ruling (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:11 PM PST

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. take part in a news conference,on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2011, to repeat their opposition to the national health care law and to call for legislation to allow individual states to opt out of his major provisions - the individual mandate, employer mandate, and expansion of Medicaid. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - A judge's ruling that called President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul unconstitutional renewed criticism from his potential 2012 rivals, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leading the unified pack on Tuesday.

Ice, snow closes roads, airports from Texas to RI (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:11 PM PST

With bare hands, Josh Fulgium assists a motorist whose car was stuck in drifting snow in Edmond, Okla., Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A monster storm began to bear down on the middle of the nation Tuesday, threatening to leave up to a third of the nation covered in brutal winter weather. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern)AP - Layers of dangerous ice and blowing snow closed roads and airports from Texas to Rhode Island on Tuesday as a monster storm began bearing down on the nation and those in its frigid path started to believe it would live up to its hype.

Senate report says Iraq is at critical juncture (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:11 PM PST

US Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The US ambassador in Baghdad, James Jeffrey, on Tuesday urged the Senate for the means to AP - American diplomats and other mission employees may not be safe in Iraq if the U.S. military withdraws its remaining 50,000 troops and leaves the volatile country at the end of the year as planned, according to a new Senate report released Tuesday.

Senators propose rigid spending cap (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:58 PM PST

Sen. Claire McCaskill,D-Mo., left, accompanied by Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to discuss the introduction of the 'CAP Act,' a bipartisan bill that would put binding cap on all federal spending. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Social Security, Medicare and virtually every other federal program would face the budget ax under legislation unveiled Tuesday aimed at forcing Congress to dramatically cut spending over the coming decade.

'Jihad Jane' terror suspect pleads guilty in Pa. (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:12 PM PST

FILE - This June 26, 1997 file booking photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, shows Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose who called herself 'Jihad Jane' online pleaded guilty Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to her role in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who had offended Muslims. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail, File)AP - A Pennsylvania woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" online pleaded guilty Tuesday to her role in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who had offended Muslims. Colleen LaRose, 47, helped foreign terror suspects intent on starting a holy war in Europe and South Asia, prosecutors said.

114-year-old believed to be world's oldest person (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:27 PM PST

Besse Cooper, who at 114 years and five months old, sits in her room at a nursing home Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in Monroe, Ga. Cooper is now the world's oldest person, according to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - At 114 years old and counting, Besse Cooper says it's "rather great" to be the oldest person in the world. She makes her 75-year-old son proud. "We were delighted when she got to 100. We thought that was a great achievement," said Sid Cooper. "We never imagined she'd live to be the oldest person in the world."

Sheen's woes a costly threat to CBS, Warner Bros. (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:34 PM PST

In this undated publicity image released by CBS, from left, Charlie Sheen, Angus T. Jones and Conchata Ferrell are shown during the taping of 'Two and a Half Men,' in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/CBS, Greg Gayne)AP - CBS is scrambling to replace a "Two and a Half Men"-sized hole in its current schedule, a problem that is eclipsed by the threat of losing the lucrative sitcom forever because of troubled star Charlie Sheen.

A million Egyptians clamor for Mubarak to go (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 11:56 AM PST

FILE - In this May 24, 2006 file photo, Frank Wisner, then U.S. Special Envoy for Kosovo Status Talks, speaks during a news conference in Budapest, Hungary. The State Department on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 said that Wisner, a former ambassador to Egypt, was now on the ground in Cairo and will meet Egyptian officials to urge them to embrace broad economic and political changes that can pave the way for free and fair elections. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)Reuters - A million people, maybe more, rallied across Egypt on Tuesday, clamoring for President Hosni Mubarak to give up power and piling pressure on a leader who has towered over Middle East politics for 30 years to make way.

GM, Chrysler lead as auto sales rise (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:03 PM PST

Vehicles for sale are parked at a Cadillac dealer in Sherman Oaks, California August 17, 2010. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniReuters - U.S. auto sales jumped by about 18 percent in January, led by gains for General Motors Co and Chrysler as the two Detroit automakers restructured by the government took share from rivals.

Big winter storm slams Midwest (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:02 PM PST

Reuters - A colossal winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine hit the agricultural heartland of the United States with snow and freezing rain on Tuesday, and experts said the worst was still to come as it moved northeast.

UPS profit tops estimates (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 11:11 AM PST

United Parcel Service aircrafts are loaded with containers full of packages bound for their final destination at the UPS Worldport All Points International Hub during the peak delivery day in Louisville, Kentucky, December 22, 2010. REUTERS/John Sommers IIReuters - United Parcel Service, the world's largest package delivery company, reported a quarterly profit that beat estimates and forecast record-high profits in 2011, sending its shares up more than 4 percent.

U.S. presses Mubarak for transition to democracy (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 10:30 AM PST

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday urged an orderly transition to democracy in Egypt to avoid creating a power vacuum but stopped short of calling on embattled President Hosni Mubarak to step down.

Jordan's king appoints new PM after protests (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 07:35 AM PST

Marouf al-Bakhit attends a news conference after meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (unseen) in Baghdad August 15, 2006. REUTERS/Karim Kadim/PoolReuters - King Abdullah of Jordan, a close U.S. ally, replaced his prime minister on Tuesday following protests inspired by mass demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt, but the opposition dismissed the move as insufficient.

Ireland to vote on February 25 (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 09:52 AM PST

Reuters - Ireland will vote on February 25 in the first general election in Europe dominated by the euro zone debt crisis and by demands to renegotiate an unpopular EU/IMF bailout.

U.S. envoy in Egypt spoke with ElBaradei: statement (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:53 PM PST

Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei speaks to protesters at Tahrir Square in Cairo January 30, 2011. REUTERS/Asmaa WaguihReuters - The U.S. ambassador to Cairo made contact with prominent Egyptian political activist Mohamed ElBaradei on Tuesday to discuss a political transition in Egypt, the U.S. Department of State said.

'March of a million' ups pressure on Mubarak (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:54 PM PST

Egyptian protestors hold up their national flag on a bridge over the Nile River. Massive tides of peaceful protesters flooded Cairo and Egypt's second city Alexandria on Tuesday in the biggest outpouring yet of defiance in a relentless drive to oust President Hosni Mubarak.(AFP/Mohammed Abed)AFP - Massive tides of peaceful protesters flooded Cairo and Egypt's second city Alexandria Tuesday in a "march of a million" that ratcheted up the pressure on President Hosni Mubarak to end his 30-year rule.

Ireland expels Russian diplomat over fake passports (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 09:02 AM PST

A custom official displays fake EU passports during a 2006 press conference in Corsica. Ireland has expelled a Russian diplomat after an investigation found Russia had stolen the identities of six Irish citizens to use for spies' passports.(AFP/File/Stephan Agostini)AFP - Ireland expelled a Russian diplomat on Tuesday after an investigation found Moscow had stolen the identities of six of its citizens to use for spies' passports, the foreign ministry said.
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