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Santorum wins Minnesota, Missouri GOP votes

A resurgent Rick Santorum won Minnesota's Republican caucuses with ease Tuesday night, relegating front-runner Mitt Romney to a distant third-place finish that

Photos: On the campaign trail, Feb. 7

Three state contests are on the line Tuesday night in the GOP race for the White House.

Abortion, birth control grab political spotlight

A political firestorm over abortion and birth control spread suddenly to multiple fronts on Tuesday.

Wardrobe | Get rid of personal drama

In my first meeting with Sola at the beginning of February, I was able to “get” something through our in-depth chat over coffee that I’d been struggling with

Gingrich hits Romney, Obama, on Catholic rights

Newt Gingrich thrust the reproductive rights issue into the GOP campaign spotlight on Tuesday, criticizing both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama's

'Halftime in America' ad creates political debate

People rarely pick a fight with Dirty Harry. But Chrysler's "Halftime in America" ad featuring quintessential tough guy Clint Eastwood has generated fierce

Tucson shooting suspect to remain at Mo. facility

A federal judge ruled Monday that the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will spend four more months

McDonald's pulls ad after pit bull owner outrage

The ad said eating a Chicken McBite was less risky than petting a stray pit bull, shaving your head, naming your son Sue or giving friends your Facebook

Lots of junk food at elementary schools

Between 2006 and 2010, nearly half of public and private schools that were surveyed sold sweet or salty snack foods outside of lunch and breakfast.

Mo. teen describes killing as amazing, enjoyable

A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it

Lawyer: Plea deal reached in Chicago terror case

A Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver heard on FBI wiretaps allegedly talking about bombing a stadium and sending money to al-Qaida was expected to plead guilty

Chicago college offers class on Occupy movement

Thirty-two undergraduate students are enrolled at Roosevelt University's "Occupy Everywhere" class. It's a three-credit political science course that looks at

New York Giants win the Super Bowl

Eli Manning is the big man in the NFL after one-upping Tom Brady and leading the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Sunday's

M.I.A. flips bird during Super Bowl halftime show

For all the pomp and excess of Madonna's Super Bowl halftime show, it is likely to be a single extended middle finger by guest singer M.I.A. that is most

Obama refuses to pick sides in Super Bowl

President Barack Obama isn't picking sides this Super Bowl Sunday. In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer before the championship game, Obama would only say he

Ford asks GM to pull Super Bowl ad

Ford is demanding that rival General Motors pull a Super Bowl commercial that implies the Chevrolet Silverado pickup is more dependable than the Ford F-Series.

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