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The results of Michigan's primary Tuesday night could be a game-changer in the Republican presidential race, where Rick Santorum's surging poll numbers threaten Mitt Romney's chances in his home state.

Here's why the Dow closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, indicating that the stock market has finally returned to its pre-recession level.

An independent panel released a report Tuesday indicating that the U.S. Military disposed of some 9/11 victim remains at a landfill in the aftermath of the 2001 terror attack, and New Yorkers are beginning to react to the scandal.

The Village of Bath, N.Y., could be the latest local government in the state to bar hydraulic fracturing within its own municipal limits when it hosts a March 19 public hearing to adopt a fracking moratorium.

Rick Santorum offered a unique theory to what caused the recession: rising gas prices.

Republican voters in Arizona and Michigan will decide Tuesday who they would like their party to nominate against President Barack Obama. The contest in Michigan is seen as a must-win for Romney, who was born in the state and continues to face doubts about his campaign's central premise -- that he is best positioned to defeat Obama in November.

Mitt Romney faces a day of reckoning on Tuesday when Michigan votes to either grant him a big victory in the Republican presidential nomination battle or hand him a humiliating defeat.

The American Petroleum Institute will be hosting a hydraulic fracturing workshop in Albany, N.Y. as part of an ongoing national effort to educate the public about the drilling technique that has been the source of controversy and debate in recent years.

The United States has put too much focus on going to college and it has hurt the economy.

President Barack Obama reiterated that his support for post-high school education goes beyond four-year college degree programs.

Michigan is not the only state going to the voting booth on Tuesday. Arizona's 29 delegates are also up for grabs. While recent polls have shown Mitt Romney breaking away from Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator could still present a formidable challenge to Romney's presidential aspirations.

The co-creator of one the most beloved children's books, the Berenstain Bears, passed away on Friday.

The former Pennsylvania senator was referring to a speech JFK made to Baptist ministers in Houston while he was running for president, in which he said he believed in the absolute separation between church and state. ABC's George Stephanopoulos pulled up a video clip in which Santorum said he read the speech, and I almost threw up.

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum doesn't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, he said Sunday, two days ahead of the Michigan and Arizona primaries.

White House hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled over who was the most conservative Republican on Saturday -- while knocking President Barack Obama on account of accelerating gasoline prices -- as the high-octane race in Michigan moves toward a still-uncertain finish.

The youth vote is often assumed to go more to Democrats than to Republicans, but an impressive number of young conservatives made the trek to Washington in mid-February for the Conservative Political Action Conference -- more than one-half of the attendees were between 18 and 29 years of age.

A rally on Wall Street will be put to the test next week, with the S&P 500 index at its highest closing level since before the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008 and the European Central Bank about to flood the financial markets with a new wave of cheap money.

The infamous ‘bridge to nowhere’ found its way into the 2012 Republican presidential debate in Arizona Wednesday night, with Mitt Romney bringing up the term to attack Rick Santorum on his history with earmarks.

International leaders and supporters of Youcef Nadarkhani are calling for the release of the Christian pastor who has been sentenced to death in Iran.

When Amy Jung began to have a life-threatening diabetic reaction, she had no idea that the pet she had just adopted, a 21-pound orange and white cat named Pudding, would be the one to save her life. When she began to have a seizure the night she brought him home, Pudding jumped onto her bed and woke her up before running to her son's room to sound the alarm. Pudding is now being trained as a therapy animal.

Republican presidential candidates revved up discussion Wednesday night of the 2008 and 2009 auto bailouts of General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC during the 20th, and perhaps final, Republican debate in Arizona.