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Most of the Republican presidential candidates laid out their credentials as social conservatives in a debate on Saturday as the 2012 campaign prepares to move from New Hampshire to South Carolina. With another debate to be hosted by NBC's Meet the Press, they can do it all over again on Sunday.

In the early minutes of the debate, held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire and sponsored by ABC News, Yahoo! News, and WMUR News, it was Ron Paul's turn to talk early in the debate. When he spoke, the microphone hummed with feedback due to a sound system issue.

The debate will be held at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, at 9 p.m. It is sponsored by ABC News, Yahoo! News and WMUR-TV.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new plan to sell the Jacob Javits Center and build the largest convention center in the country at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens is an urban upheaval on a scale that evokes the legacy of Robert Moses, the parks commissioner who shaped the city in wide swaths in the middle of the last century.

The knives will come out at back-to-back debates this weekend as Republican presidential hopefuls frantically jockey for position days before New Hampshire's key primary.

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Rick Perry's team essentially calculated that Rick Santorum, who emerged in Iowa as the leading conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, isn't a strong enough candidate to hold that position in future contests.

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said Friday morning he misspoke when calling Rick Santorum weird for the way the GOP candidate handled the 1996 death of his infant son.

It been eight years since columnist and gay rights activist Dan Savage redefined his name to be a neologism for anal sex, but Santorum's Google problem continues to plague his campaign... in part because both Santorum and supporters like the pro-life, anti-gay group AFTAH keep calling voters' attention to it.

Investors are about to find out if the economic woes in Europe are going to deliver a deep wound to U.S. company earnings instead of the mere scratch that many expect.

Federal regulators once again visited the small town of Dimock, Penn., to collect additional data from families who claim their well water is contaminated by hydraulic fracturing.

U.S. Senator Marc Rubio from Florida sent a scathing letter urging President Obama to tackle the debt crisis and resist raising the debt ceiling. It's a tragic reality, he writes. But, on your watch, more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation inevitably heading toward a European-style debt crisis.

For the first time in beauty pageant history, not one but two openly gay women are competing for the title of Miss California 2012.

Rick Santorum is gaining ground in New Hampshire, but rival Mitt Romney still holds a strong lead ahead of Tuesday's primary, a poll released Thursday shows

A series of memos from the days following Jerry Sandusky's arrest show the PSU board of trustees and President Erickson were focused more on donor funding and maintaining secrecy than on the abuse that allegedly took place. The four memos detail Penn State's efforts to monitor its image, as well as adjust to a new university president.

Mitt Romney's win in the Iowa caucuses has slapped him with a once-familiar tag: frontrunner. It may signal a return to the common stasis of any campaign. Where once intra-party bickering sunk many past frontrunners, the common political mantra of punch up has taken hold in the 2012 campaign. Perhaps the era of surging candidates is over?

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has announced that she is quitting the presidential race after a dismal sixth place finish in the first Republican nominating contest in Iowa.

New Jersey's Legislature has briefly delayed a vote on a bill that would legalize online gambling but Gov. Chris Christie said the state should become an epicenter for the business.

The former Utah governor Jon Huntsman has put all of his campaign eggs in New Hampshire, hoping for a positive outcome in the state's primary next Tuesday. Despite languishing in the polls, Huntsman has made over 150 appearances in the Granite State, which he hopes will pay off and catapult him into the new Republican of Choice -- with Rick Santorum's success serving as the model.

It's been a productive couple weeks for Rick Santorum, who virtually tied with Mitt Romney for first place in the Iowa caucuses and has finally managed to push Dan Savage's Spreading Santorum Web site out of the top spot in Google searches for his name.