| BusinessWeek - 43 minutes ago By Jonathan D. Salant Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- After winning the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum more than doubled his fundraising last month as compared with the entire previous year. |
| New York Times - 56 minutes ago CAIRO - Two Iranian warships docked in a Syrian port on Monday as a senior Iranian lawmaker denounced American calls for arming the Syrian opposition, adding to the international tensions over the nearly yearlong crackdown by the government of ... |
| Bloomberg - 4 minutes ago Enlarge image Greece Moves Toward Second Bailout Greece Moves Toward Second Bailout Oli Scarff/Getty Images Graffiti depicting a young girl reaching for stars on a wall in Athens, on Feb. 18, 2012. |
| Reuters - 34 minutes ago By Samuel P. Jacobs | COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Sporting his signature sweater vest and telling stories of his coal miner grandfather, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has struck a chord in the US Rust Belt that is helping propel his once ... |
| USA TODAY - 52 minutes ago By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The weekend avalanche that killed three skiers near Stevens Pass, Wash., was the single-deadliest such accident in three years, but it highlighted a safety device that likely saved the life of a fourth skier caught in the slide ... |
| Jeff Van Gundy discusses how to guard Jeremy Lin and whether the surprising star can lead the Knicks to contend for the NBA title. |
| Wall Street Journal - 3 minutes ago By BENOIT FAUCON LONDON—An Iranian threat to pre-empt a European Union embargo pushed oil prices to a nine-month high, prompting the International Energy Agency to warn that the standoff between Iran and the West was bringing the burden of oil prices ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 7 minutes ago Authorities say 30 Zetas gang members escaped, with the apparent complicity of guards, and that all 44 slain inmates were from the rival Gulf cartel. |
| New York Times - 1 hour ago SANA, Yemen - A day before a national vote that will signify the formal end of his presidency, Ali Abdullah Saleh signaled his hope to be an anomaly in the Arab Spring: a toppled autocrat who can preserve some degree of influence in his nation's ... |
| Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago By RICHARD BOUDREAUX And ALEXANDER KOLYANDR MOSCOW—In his first meeting with leaders of the large rallies challenging Russia's leadership, President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday gave them seats on a Kremlin panel that will weigh political reforms but ... |
When the malnourished 15-year-old awoke each morning, she could hear her family eating and getting ready for the day. If she felt especially brave or desperate she would call to her stepmother and beg for food, but usually she just went back to bed and ... |
| Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich dangled the prospect Monday of gas as low as $2 a gallon if he's elected. The former House speaker has spoken in the past of gas dropping to $2.50 a gallon under a Gingrich administration. |
| New York Daily News - 4 hours ago AP Skeletal remains of Nicholle Coppler (l.) were found in the basement of Glen Fryer (r.), who killed himself in 2002. LIMA, Ohio -- The skeletal remains of a 14-year-old Ohio runaway who went missing in 1999 have been found after the home where she ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 4 hours ago By Rene Lynch Presidents Day has been unmasked as a fraud. And the keepers of Abraham Lincoln's legacy are plenty mad about this travesty. |
| Reuters - 38 minutes ago By Dominic Lau and Mari Saito | TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average steadied on Tuesday after hitting a six-month closing high, though shippers outperformed after a report that major shipping firms were considering cutting the size of their fleets ... |
| MarketWatch - 1 hour ago By Michael Kitchen LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong-listed financials traded mostly higher against a flat broader market in early Tuesday trading, as the Hang Seng Index (HSI:HK:HSI) slipped 0.1% to 21395.35, while the Hang Seng China Enterprises ... |
| New York Times - 1 hour ago Even as government officials prepare to unveil new standards this week for how banks treat millions of Americans facing foreclosure, housing advocates and homeowners are skeptical the rules will be able to do something past efforts have not: provide a ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 2 hours ago By Michael Muskal Pinal County, Ariz., Sheriff Paul Babeu -- whom a former boyfriend recently and publicly accused of threatening to deport him -- denied on Monday that he had done anything illegal. |
| Mitt Romney's presidential campaign spent nearly three times the money it generated in January, according to federal documents filed Monday night, but a top official described the operation's fundraising efforts as “on track. |
| New York Times - 11 minutes ago Weeks of intense campaigning in the early-nominating states have left the leading Republican presidential candidates increasingly dependent on outside “super PACs” spending millions of dollars on their behalf, reports filed with the Federal Election ... |
| The Associated Press - 16 minutes ago BISMARCK, ND (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul praised hemp as an alternative crop and said a free-market approach would protect the nation's environment Monday during North Dakota campaign stops that drew hundreds of cheering ... |
| PC Magazine - 13 minutes ago By Chloe Albanesius Microsoft jumped into the Google "Safari tracking" controversy today by accusing the search giant of doing the same thing with its Internet Explorer browser. |
| New York Times - Feb 19, 2012 BEIJING - The announcement Saturday that Foxconn Technology - one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers - will sharply raise salaries and reduce overtime at its Chinese factories signals that pressure from workers, international markets and ... |
| E! Online - 32 minutes ago AP Photo/David J. Phillip; Elsa/Getty Images This probably isn't going to help end speculation about the current status of Rihanna and Chris Brown. |
| Chicago Sun-Times - 27 minutes ago BY BILL ZWECKER February 20, 2012 8:08PM According to sources inside the Whitney Houston camp, the focus is now on the late superstar's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, who has a number of Whitney's closest friends and associates deeply worried. |
| CHICAGO (AP) - Between the nasty crossovers and fearless drives, Derrick Rose's back problems appear to be in the past - a very good thing for the Chicago Bulls. |
| AP PORTLAND, Ore. -- There appears to be no end in sight for Greg Oden and his troublesome knees. The Portland Trail Blazers said Monday that a procedure to clear debris out of Oden's left knee resulted in another microfracture surgery. |
| Washington Post - 45 minutes ago PHOENIX - Manny Ramirez found a taker in Oakland - at a bargain price. The suspended slugger agreed on a minor league contract Monday with the Athletics that is worth approximately $500000 if he's added to the big league roster. |
| Washington Post - 7 minutes ago COLUMBUS, Ohio - John Glenn, who launched into orbit for his historic spaceflight 50 years ago, was “no ordinary pilot,” fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong said Monday at a gala marking the anniversary. |
| Wired News - 1 hour ago By Cade Metz Physicists at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales have built a transistor from a single atom of phosphorous precisely placed on a bed of silicon, taking another step towards the holy grail of tech research: the quantum ... |
| San Francisco Chronicle - 17 minutes ago AP It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30000 years. |
| Medical News Today - 2 hours ago What's better for 16-18 year olds - seven or nine hours' sleep? Apparently, seven-hour sleepers do better academically than their 9-hour counterparts, even though guidelines recommend nine, researchers from Brigham Young University reported in The ... |
Medical News Today - 39 minutes ago Fructose does not make you gain more weight than other types of carbohydrates, Canadian researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine. |
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