Published January 30, 2011 Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. –  Twenty-five people were arrested for trespassing Sunday as hundreds protested outside a strategy session of conservative political donors at a resort near Palm Springs, authorities said. The mostly peaceful demonstration had been arranged with authorities, but some protesters crossed the street to the entrance of [...]

Published January 31, 2011 Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is convening an unprecedented mass meeting of U.S. ambassadors. The top envoys from nearly all of America’s 260 embassies, consulates and other posts in more than 180 countries will be gathering at the State Department beginning on Monday. Officials say it’s [...]

By JEFF KAROUB Associated Press DETROIT January 31, 2011 (AP) California man charged with possessing explosives, threatening terror at Detroit-area mosque A 63-year-old Southern California man who was traveling with explosives in his vehicle with the intention of blowing up one of the nation’s largest mosques where mourners had gathered for a funeral was arrested [...]

Jan 30, 2011 By Aluf Benn The street revolts in Tunisia and Egypt show that the United States can do very little to save its friends from the wrath of their citizens. Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as “the president who lost Iran,” which during his term went from being a major [...]

Jan 30, 2011 Bodies littered the road outside a Cairo prison and troops with bayonets fixed moved into another facility after thousands of convicts broke out of jails or were abandoned by guards in protest-hit Egypt. Soldiers set up checkpoints along the Nile in the upmarket Maadi district, near the notorious Tora prison, searching cars [...]

Opposition group says will exclude reigning President’s National Democratic Party from talks; Mohammed ElBaradei: I have been mandated by the people. Jan 30, 2011 The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition group,is in talks with other anti-government figures to form a national unity government without President Hosni Mubarak, a group official told DPA on Sunday. Although [...]

By Edmund Blair and Samia Nakhoul Edmund Blair And Samia Nakhoul – Sun Jan 30, 6:18 pm ET CAIRO (Reuters) – The United States led an international push on Sunday to force President Hosni Mubarak to yield to Egyptians’ demands for democracy. But there was little sign the army was about to end his 30-year rule — just yet. [...]

By Maria Sheahan Maria Sheahan – Sun Jan 30, 4:14 pm ET FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Governments started arranging for planes on Sunday to bring home citizens stuck in Egypt, where violent protests of the rule of President Hosni Mubarak have given way in some parts of Cairo to looting. The United States and Turkey offered [...]

Jan 30, 2011 WSJ By CHARLES LEVINSON , MARGARET COKER And MATTHEW BRADLEY CAIRO—Egyptian protests continued and reports of looting spread as demonstrations to oust longtime President Hosni Mubarak entered a sixth day despite the appointment of intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to the post of vice president. Scenes of chaos ensued in Cairo and other [...]

Jan 30, 2011 WSJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The pan-Arab broadcaster al Jazeera said Sunday that Egyptian authorities ordered the closure of its Cairo news office overseeing coverage of the country’s massive street protests, denouncing the move as an attempt to “stifle and repress” open reporting. The Qatar-based network has given nearly round-the-clock coverage [...]