The leading Republican presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, are keeping up their verbal attacks as Floridians prepare to vote in tomorrow's potentially game-changing primary. Meanwhile, a new report shows that unregulated Super PAC...
The two leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, are both campaigning in Florida today, two days before the primary. NPR's Greg Allen reports from Fort Myers both campaigns have unveiled some new a...
In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney is campaigning in Florida's Panhandle today. NPR's Greg Allen reports the former Massachusetts governor made a pitch to the many veterans who live in the area. Pensacola is home to a...
US economic growth is apparently picking up, although it came in at a modest pace in the final months of 2011. NPR's Dave Mattingly reports the latest numbers were not as strong as economists had been forecasting. Economists were expecting 3% growth....
President Obamas pitching his economic agenda to southwestern voters today, recapping the plan he outlined in his State of the Union address Tuesday. The president says everything his administration has done to build up manufacturing, clean energy an...
The Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise the benchmark interest rate before 2014. Its policymaking arm, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), is trying to reassure consumers and investors they'll be able to borrow cheaply well into the future. St...
Charges of discrimination and mistreatment of Latinos has landed four Connecticut police officers in jail. Today the FBI arrested the officers for allegedly assaulting undocumented immigrants in East Haven, conducting illegal searches of Hispanic-own...
A Marine sergeant who faced manslaughter charges for killing unarmed Iraqi men, women and children in 2005 has entered a plea deal with military prosecutors. Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich agreed to plead guilty to dereliction of duty for his role in the...
Italian divers have found a 13th body on the capsized Costa Concordia. Authorities say the woman was wearing a life vest and was found in the rear of the submerged portion of the ship. As NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, the search of the wreckage cont...
A rainy day in parts of South Carolina not stopping primary voters today, Johnston resident Bill Mercue voted for Newt Gingrich. I like his philosophy. I like his savvy. Yet I like he makes sense. Susan Leedom of Charleston voted for Mitt Romney. Our...
The Supreme Court has tossed out new legislative maps in the state of Texas only weeks before primary elections. In a unanimous order, the justices say a lower court in Texas that overhauled the maps did not use appropriate standards. NPR's Carrie Jo...
Four Republican presidential candidates remain just hours ahead of the debate in South Carolina. Texas Governor Rick Perry is out. I am suspending my campaign and endorsing Newt Gingrich for President of the United States. NPR's senior Washington edi...
The GOP-led House is likely to vote against an increase in the debt ceiling today, but that's not expected to go far in the Democratic-run Senate and with the threat of a presidential veto. NPR's Andrea Seabrook is on Capitol Hill. She says the House...
At least 11 people are confirmed dead and more than 20 remaining missing from a shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany. Several more bodies were located today aboard the Costa Concordia, the cruise liner that struck rocks last Friday and capsized. Republ...
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is suspending his campaign for the White House and is endorsing former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. We have details from NPR's Don Gonyea in Myrtle Beach. Huntsman made the announcement at the Convention Cente...
