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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said Tuesday he was surprised by Rick Santorum's departure from the nomination race and that he has yet to turn to matters such as gathering names of possible running mates....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sharpening the choice for the nation, President Barack Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney are offering dueling visions of how to fix the economy, framing in their most direct terms the fierce debate that will decide the November election. In a flash of campaign drama, the two are giving major speeches at nearly the same time Thursday from the same state, battleground Ohio....

He helped Romney by taking apart RomneyCare.

He says taxation is about fairness, not growth or revenue.

Polls say Americans want higher rates on the rich. But when one poll asked how much lottery winners should pay, over half said 10% or less.

A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, for Tuesday, April 10:...

Abu Hamza and friends may get the U.S. justice they deserve.

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) -- One candidate is worth up to $250 million, ran a private equity firm and plans to build an elevator for the cars at his beach house. The other is the former head of the Harvard Law Review who became a best-selling author and millionaire and now lives in the world's most famous mansion - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave....

Grand Junction: DA: Search central in State Trooper’s trial by Paul Shockley:

District Attorney Pete Hautzinger carried the unhinged front door that once stood at the Redlands home — splintered at an end and black shoe prints from police officers’ kicks elsewhere — into a courtroom today as the prosecution told jurors that the Fourth Amendment to U.S. Constitution was front and center in the trial of Colorado State Patrol trooper Ivan “Gene” Lawyer, who’s charged in the shooting death of 31-year-old Jason Kemp.

He told them to get a search warrant, prosecutors said.

“Jason Kemp died demanding his constitutional rights be honored,” Deputy District Attorney Todd Hildebrandt said during opening statements in Lawyer’s trial. “And the only force he (Kemp) used was trying to prevent them from coming inside his home.”

Kemp would have been justified that day in defending his home with deadly force as allowed under the doctrine of Colorado’s Make My Day law, the prosecutor told jurors.

“That force can be applied against a police officer,” Hildebrandt said.

"To Forgive Design" chronicles the most infamous engineering failures of our time. Matt Ridley reviews.

Prohibiting their bond trading will seriously weaken banks and the markets that banks supply with liquidity.

Are taxpayers really getting $20 billion worth of value from having an extra 25 days of oil sitting in a Louisiana salt mine?

It is tempting, but dangerous and premature, to write off Egypt and its dominant Muslim Brotherhood.

DANE, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's divisive governor officially hit the campaign trail for the first time Tuesday, kicking off a statewide tour by speaking at a farm in front of a tractor, as Democrats filed signatures needed to take him on in a recall election....

Thomas Hardy on what life was like before global trade.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- From obscure former senator driving a pickup truck across Iowa, Rick Santorum made a surprising - he calls it miraculous - leap to become the most formidable threat to Mitt Romney's march to the Republican nomination. His shoestring campaign, which ended Tuesday, was a constant reminder of Romney's trouble connecting with the party's conservative core....

Mark Zuckerberg needs media properties on which to post ads based on Facebook user data. He should start with ABC, CBS and NBC.

Several new government studies make it harder for unions to deny the need for reform.

A look at Rick Santorum's core values, his children and his country.

Julian Zelizer says Mitt Romney is more skilled as a politician than he is often given credit for