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Actress and former model Peggy Lipton, who rose to stardom in the late 1960s on the counterculture police series “The Mod Squad” and later starred on TV’s “Twin Peaks,” has died. Her death from cancer was announced Saturday by Kidada and Rashida Jones, her daughters from a marriage to famed music producer Quincy Jones. “She made her journey peacefully with her daughters and nieces by her side,” Lipton’s daughters said in a statement to The Times. “We feel so lucky for every moment we spent with her.” Born in New York on Aug. 30, 1946, Lipton began modeling at age...

Centrist Senate Republicans are likely to get a new ally in Sen.-elect Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), according to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).

<p>During the early years of Gray Davis' governorship, the ideological tone of the Capitol reflected his fence-straddling centrism, reinforced by the Assembly's dominance by then-Speaker Robert Hertzberg and moderate Democrats.</p> <p>The expansionist policy agendas of liberal legislators and their allied interest groups were frustrated by the incremental, business-friendly attitudes of Davis and Hertzberg. Corporate and professional groups, meanwhile, pumped millions of dollars into Davis' campaign coffers and those of Hertzberg and other "business Democrats," as they called themselves.</p>