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Rick Santorum may have been declared the victor of the Deep South, but Mitt Romney is anything but a loser. The former Massachusetts governor still won more delegates at the end of the day.

Mitt Romney's southern struggles shouldn't be too big of a problem if Romney secures the nomination, as seems likely. Far-right voters are not about to vote for President Barack Obama, no matter who his opponent is.

The frequent runner-up urged supporters to help him beat presumptive front-runner Romney. Now is the time to pull together, Santorum said. We are campaigning everywhere there are delegates because we are going to win this nomination before the convention.

Rick Santorum is winning the hearts of Republican conservatives but the cold realities of time and math are working against his presidential election effort.

Rick Santorum takes crucial Alabama and Mississippi nominations, setting off alarm bells for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.

For the first time since early July, more Americans approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing than disapprove, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows his approval rating now at 50 percent.

American Atheists, the organization behind several pro-atheism billboards, is no stranger to controversy. But this time, it was about more than just religion--many people found their Harrisburg sign racially offensive.

Polls suggest both of the Southern states up for grabs Tuesday night will be close races, and not just between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Newt Gingrich has a rare chance to rack up another win, and either he or Santorum could still emerge as a strong alternative to Romney.

The share of power generation in the U.S. by burning coal has fallen to near a 35-year low, as electric power plants showed less interest in thermal coal due to a mild winter and a shift to cheaper gas.

The Assembly, the state legislature's lower house, allocated $100,000 to study the effects on public health of the controversial practice of horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in which millions of gallons of water and chemicals are blasted into the ground to split apart rocks containing natural gas, then pumped out to extract fuel.

A collection of rare movie posters from the Golden Age of Hollywood has been found in an attic in Pennsylvania and is expected to fetch around $250,000 at a Texas auction on March.23, 2012.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are closing the gap on President Barack Obama, a new CBS News/New York Times poll found Monday.

Rick Santorum says he can deny Mitt Romney the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination and then win at the convention himself.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum sought to distance himself from his GOP opponents with an op-ed tying Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney to radical environmentalists sounding the alarm on climate change.

The Penn State Board of Trustees released a statement on Monday detailing their reasons for firing head coach Joe Paterno last fall in the wake of sex abuse allegations against former assistant Jerry Sandusky.

Need I also point out how Bruce himself has extravagantly prospered in a capitalist economic system he has repeatedly condemned as “unfair,” “cruel” and “exploitative”?

Ron Paul's Missouri campaign event Saturday drew a huge crowd and the libertarian Republican presidential candidate stressed the need for freedom and a small government based on the U.S. Constitution.

Both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum claimed victories in Republican Party presidential-nomination contests conducted Saturday, as the former won the caucuses in Wyoming, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, while the latter won the caucuses in Kansas.

Rick Santorum is the winner of the Republican caucus in Kansas.

The San Diego Chargers quarterback endorses the former Pennsylvania senator.

A series of earthquakes near Youngstown, Ohio were probably spurred by a natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, according to oil and gas regulators.