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Iranian buyers have defaulted on payments for about 200,000 tonnes of rice from their top supplier India, exporters and rice millers said on Tuesday, a sign of the mounting pressure on Tehran from a new wave of Western sanctions.

The Minnesota and Colorado Republicans will head to their caucus stations Tuesday to choose the states' Republican nominee to fight Barack Obama in the November general elections. Missouri will be holding a primary on the same date. However, no delegates will be awarded since the Missouri Republican Party will be holding a caucus on March 17 for choosing the convention delegates. Find live results of the Colorado and Minnesota Republican presidential election here.

Chrysler’s most recent Super Bowl XLVI commercial featuring Clint Eastwood has sparked innumerous debates about whether it talks about America’s most economically distressed city or if it is a campaign ad for President Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney on Monday focused his campaign's firepower on Rick Santorum to head off the former senator's surge in two of three states with nominating contests this week.

Bombardment of Homs on eve of visit by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov as world powers scramble for diplomatic strategy.

Stung by election-year criticism of a program used by one in seven Americans, administrators of U.S. food stamp benefits are intensifying efforts to combat fraud and protect the $75.3 billion plan from the budget axe.

A Syrian regime military assault on Homs killed dozens of people on the eve of a visit to Damascus by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov aimed at pressing President Bashar al-Assad to end an 11-month uprising by implementing swift reform.

Republicans in the House of Representatives will try to force quick approval of the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline using a highway funding bill, but the plan's author said Monday there may be more than one avenue for advancing the project.

Vice President Joe Biden warned on Monday that there is no way that China will be able to sustain its current level of economic growth because of what he called its God-awful one-child policy.

MSNBC hosted a one-on-one debate on Monday between former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, a Mitt Romney supporter, and former U.S. Rep. Bob Walker of Pennsylvania, a Newt Gingrich supporter -- and boy, did it get heated.

Syrian regime forces continued bombarding the rebellious city of Homs Monday, killing 50 more people in a sustained assault on several districts, the Syrian National Council opposition group said.

House Republicans Monday said a positive January jobs reporting showing 243,000 new jobs and a dip in the unemployment rate belied the number of discouraged job seekers who leave the workforce and underemployed Americans with college degrees.

Karl Rove said Chrysler's Halftime in America ad was pay back to President Barack Obama for the 2009 auto bailout.

President Barack Obama's Kenyan step-grandmother is recovering from shock and bruises after she was involved in a car accident on her way to her village, a relative and hospital official told reporters Monday.

The Super Bowl halftime commercial, produced by Chrysler, is a rally cry for the Motor City that dispenses with the political divide surrounding the government bailouts of insolvent American automakers.

The United States closed its embassy in Damascus on Monday and President Barack Obama vowed to ratchet up pressure on Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

The political undertones in Clint Eastwood's Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler Group LLC were evident in the reaction it provoked. The nationalistic tone for the ad, Halftime in America, left its audience wondering whether it advocated that the upcoming 2012 Presidential election is halftime for President Barack Obama and that he deserves a second term.

Speculation has intensified that Israel may be planning to strike Iran as soon as the spring.

The Chrysler Group LLC Super Bowl ad featuring Clint Eastwood is making the rounds this morning as one of the more memorable spots during the Giants' 21-17 win over the Patriots on Sunday night.

Almost half of likely voters said the United States should be willing to use military force to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, according to a new poll from The Hill.

Three years after receiving a hefty bailout check from the United States government and enduring a bankruptcy and restructuring process, General Motors Co. is set on attaining a goal of earning more than $10 billion a year.