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The Republican presidential primary is nearing the defining moment of the Super Tuesday. While Mitt Romney looks to throw rivals out of the park with emphatic wins in major Super Tuesday states, for the others, the future of their race will be decided no later than March 6.

Even as a national debate rages over contraception insurance, tens of thousands of low-income women and teenagers across the United States have lost access to subsidized birth control as states slash and restructure family planning funds.

Tornados sweeping through the Midwest and southeast have caused mass destruction and death. The violent storms have taken the lives of over 30 people in four states as people continue to search for survivors on Saturday.

A series of deadly tornadoes scoured the U.S. Midwest on Friday, leaving residents stunned as they searched through the resultant debris and tried to piece their lives back together on Saturday.

Even as a national debate rages over contraception insurance, tens of thousands of low-income women and teenagers across the United States have lost access to subsidized birth control as states slash and restructure family-planning funds.

Powerful tornadoes ripped through the nation's midsection on Friday, killing at least 27 people in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio as they splintered homes, damaged a prison, and tossed around vehicles. At least 13 people were killed in Indiana, another 12 in Kentucky, and two more in Ohio.

It's one of the biggest nights of the election year, and for the GOP presidential nomination contest, it could be a game-changer. Although the GOP primaries and caucuses began two months ago on Jan. 3 in Iowa, in recent weeks, everything has been building up to Super Tuesday.

A swarm of tornadoes tore through the U.S. midsection on Friday, splintering homes, damaging a prison, overturning trucks and killing at least four people in the hard-hit state of Indiana, officials said.

A study says Roberts Court justices are better educated than their predecessors, have spent more time in academia and serving on the federal appeals courts. But is that kind of experience necessarily a good thing?

A second round of storms are expected to hit southern Indiana, central Kentucky and northern middle Tennessee.

The Haywood County High School principal is under fire for a series of offensive remarks she made during a school assembly, telling pregnant girls that their life is over and gay students that they were damning their souls. Although many parents are outraged by Bond's comments, other residents have come to the principal's defense. HRC and the ACLU are both pressing the Haywood County School District for action.

Another 26 states and the District of Columbia have requested a federal waiver from parts of the No Child Left Behind law, bringing the total number of exemption-seekers to 38 and underscoring the widespread view that the landmark 2001 education overhaul has been a failure.

The storms raised fears that 2012 will be another bad year for tornadoes after 550 people died in the United States from them last year, the deadliest year in nearly a century, according to the Weather Service.

It may be strange for Democrats to cast their ballot for a man who is pro-life, anti-gay rights and a card-carrying member of the Tea Party. But there's a method to this madness.

A powerful storm system ravaged through the Midwest, tossing trailers, downing trees and tearing roofs from buildings, leaving at least 13 people dead.

A search in Decatur County, Tennessee last weekend for Holly Bobo, the nursing student that went missing on Apr. 13, 2011 turned up empty handed. Rumors spread that a body had been found during the three-day search. Officials of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) revealed that their search didn't lead to any new evidence in the 21-year-olds disappearance.

These are the remarks Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made after winning both the Arizona and Michigan primaries

There are very few things Rick Santorum and Democrats have in common, but both want liberals and independents to vote for the GOP hopeful in the Michigan primary tonight. Both just want it for very different reasons.

On Monday, Michael Moore assured MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow his Democratic friends in Michigan would cast a ballot in the state's open primary to aid Santorum, a move they believe will ultimately make it easier for President Obama to win a second term in November.

All eyes are on Michigan and Arizona today, but another big cash injection from billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has helped Newt Gingrich keep his gaze trained on the March 6 Super Tuesday primaries.

This comes as something of a breakthrough since Assad had long provided a sanctuary for Hamas exiles.