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<p>Finally, the event we’ve all been waiting for: Lady M’s important White House "Fashion Education Workshop.”</p> <p>"Now, when it comes to the fashion industry, so often people think it’s all about catwalks and red carpets and 'who wore it best,' and whether some famous person wore the right belt with the right shoes –- like I’d know what that’s like," she said to laughter from the audience.</p>

The Obama campaign’s Muslim outreach director participated in a meeting in mid September that was attended by several controversial Muslim activists, NBC News has learned. The Obama campaign now concedes that was a misjudgment, and that its top Muslim staffer would not have attended the meeting if she had known the full participant list beforehand. “Would a campaign staffer have attended if they were aware of the complete list of attendees? No,” said Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt in an email statement to NBC. The Muslim outreach meeting On September 15, newly named Muslim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a...

Two leading women's magazines are misleading readers about the connection between abortion and breast cancer, an activist group contends. Last month it was Glamour, said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, "This month, it's Redbook, and it's Redbook's second attempt to erase the link from the public mind." Redbook's October issue includes an interview with Marissa Weiss, M.D., founder of the cancer fundraising business, breastcancer.org. Weiss said, "Two recent research reviews have found that abortion doesn't alter hormone levels in a way that could increase breast cancer risk, as some activists have claimed." Prof. Joel Brind of...

US chain store sales fell 2.7 pct 3 wks May-report Wednesday May 28, 8:57 am ET NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) - Sales at U.S. chain stores have fallen sharply so far in May as heavy promotions have failed to lure shoppers to stores, a report said on Wednesday.Chain store sales slipped 2.7 percent in the first three weeks of May compared with the same period in April, Instinet said in its weekly Redbook report. But sales for the week ended May 24 grew 1.5 percent compared with the same week last year. "The persistence of unseasonable weather the past...