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CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Tuesday set Feb. 16 as the start date for one of the multiple trials of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, this one on charges of conspiring with foreign groups. Egypt's prosecutor general has charged Morsi and other top Muslim Brotherhood leaders with conspiring with militant groups such as the Palestinian Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah, as well as with Iran, to destabilize Egypt. Morsi is also accused of orchestrating an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula to avenge his ouster.

In May 2011, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate the Barack H. Obama Foundation, which was soliciting tax-deductible contributions from the public although it was not tax exempt. The Foundation is named for Obama's father and is based in Kenya. Its founder and chairman is Abon'go Malik Obama, whose father is also the father of President Obama. The IRS not only failed to investigate, but in June 2011 it retroactively granted the Obama Foundation tax-exempt status. Click here to see the letter from Lois Lerner (in photo), Director of the Exempt...

Shades of Roger Clinton. Some first family huh? Kenyan police say the half brother of President Barack Obama has been arrested for possession of marijuana. Area police chief Joshua Omokulongolo said George Obama was picked up Saturday and was being held at the Huruma police post in the capital. Omokulongolo said officers found one joint of marijuana on him.

President-elect Barack Obama's brother has been filmed on Chinese television practising the ancient art of calligraphy, to the delight of local viewers. Mark Ndesandjo, a son of Mr Obama's Kenyan father by his third wife, lives in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, where he runs an internet business. He keeps a low profile, and has not given press interviews either during the presidential election campaign or since his brother won a landslide victory a month ago. He also uses his mother's maiden name as his own surname, rather than his father's. But Mr Obama's popularity in China has led...