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  • Romney and Santorum seek edge in 20th debate (AP)

    22 Feb 2012 at 6:51pm
    Arizona State University journalism students stand in for the Republican presidential candidates on stage at the Mesa Arts Center, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in advance of Wednesday night's debate, in Mesa, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT;AP - Struggling for an edge, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum campaigned Wednesday into the 20th and possibly final debate of the roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.
     

  • Poll: Obama benefitting from improving economy (AP)

    22 Feb 2012 at 7:13pm
    AP - President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading in the right direction and most independents n...
     

  • Shelling kills 2 Western journalists in Syria (AP)

    22 Feb 2012 at 7:13pm
    AP - Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage killed her and a Fren...
     

  • Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive' (AP)

    22 Feb 2012 at 7:13pm
    Imam Abdul A. Muhammad of the Masjid Imam K. Ali Muslim mosque in Newark, N.J., speaks in his clothing and accessories store, regarding surveillance of the Muslim community by the New York Police Department, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Americans in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive, even the city’s mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes NYPD officers snapped pictures of mosques and eavesdropped in Muslim neighborhoods. The result was a 60-page report, obtained by The Associated Press. It cited no evidence of crimes. It was just a guide to Newark’s Muslims. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, t...
     

  • 2nd degree murder verdict in lacrosse death trial (AP)

    22 Feb 2012 at 7:12pm
    AP - Jurors found a former University of Virginia lacrosse player guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the slaying of his ex-girlfriend that was fueled by jealousy over her relationship with another lacrosse player.
     

  • Police: Girl forced to run 3 hours dies; 2 charged (AP)

    22 Feb 2012 at 7:07pm
    AP - At a doublewide trailer along a dirt road in rural Alabama, authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin was forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars. The severely dehydrated girl ha...
     
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