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President Barack Obama will make no further changes to the rule requiring health insurance plans to provide women with coverage for contraception, although U.S. Catholic bishops still object, his chief of staff said Sunday.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Maine Republican caucus vote and the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2012 straw poll Saturday. But recent polls suggest he is still on shaky ground as far as his front-runner status in the Republican presidential race is concerned.

Jeremy Lin, the New York Knicks' newest star, has exploded into the national spotlight, scoring 20 or more points in each of his first four starts for the team, including a stunning 38 points Friday night against the Los Angeles Lakers. Here's 10 things to know about the Knicks' great hope.

A fight is brewing in the U.S. South between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, while Mitt Romney's priority is winning Arizona and Michigan. Those are the presidential campaign strategies becoming clear as fundraising efforts and spending plans shine a light on how the GOP race is likely to play out between now and March 6.

How many of us would agree that we are all tempted and maybe we almost always do a little bit of retouching to our pictures before we upload them on networking sites for our friends to see? Well, it's no secret, but almost all of us have done it.

Maine's Republican presidential caucuses look like a two-man race between Mitt Romney, the party's current front-runner, and Ron Paul in a small-state contest that has taken on new importance for Romney after his losses in three states last Tuesday.

I am constantly astounded by the lengths to which same-sex marriage opponents go to draw distinctions between their cause and the long-discredited cause of anti-miscegenation activists, when any clearheaded examination will show how similar they are.

Economically inclined Twitter users flocked to the hashtag #FedValentines on Friday, pairing references to the Federal Reserve with the romantic holiday, which arrives on Tuesday.

Rick Santorum said that his opposition to President Barack Obama's birth control bill has nothing to do with social conservatism and that the White House's compromise to appeal to Catholic voters wasn't a compromise at all.

Winter has been mild in the northeast this year, with warmer temperatures than average and far less snowfall than last year. But residents of the Northeast including major cities Boston and New York will get a reminder that winter isn't gone yet -- as an approaching system is expected to combine with another developing on and bring 1-4 inches of snow this weekend.

Fresh off of his triple win on Tuesday, Rick Santorum told an enthusiastic audience at CPAC 2012 in Washington, D.C., Friday morning to put your honor on the line and choose him for the Republican presidential nomination.

A purple squirrel - yes purple - is turning out to be an animal mystery after a couple in Pennsylvania found the unusual critter in their backyard.

A lot happened as thousands of Republicans flooded the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Thursday for the massive three-day gathering of conservatives. At the end of the day, however, there was a clear list of winners and losers.

In the fallout of months-worth of bitter debate, the Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania is trying to find out if the state's General Assembly did indeed put in place a fair and reasonable impact fee.

The Pennsylvania legislature, after a full day's debate, narrow approved a bill that would levy annual fees against natural gas companies for each natural gas well they drill in the state.

Rick Santorum, who stunned the nation with his three-state sweep on Tuesday, is known for his hard-line stances on abortion and gay marriage, but where does he stand on a broader range of policy issues?

A few hydraulic fracturing permits could be approved by year-end, New York Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said.

Rick Santorum said Wednesday that Michigan is a great place for us to plant our flag in the next batch of Republican primary contests.

The former Pennsylvania senator, who surged back into relevancy with wins in Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota, has worked to position himself as the social values-centric conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. But he has also articulated a muscular foreign policy vision centered on his belief that radical Islam, particularly the Iranian regime, poses a dire threat to American security.

Pennsylvania lawmakers in the state's Senate have set a template for the rest of the Northeast U.S. to follow in approving a measure to impose annual fees on natural gas companies for each natural gas well they drill.

Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania doesn’t have the same old vending machines that most schools do. They don’t carry chocolate bars, bags of chips or soda. A vending machine at Shippensburg University has been providing students with the Plan B, “morning-after pill,” for the past two years. The $25 emergency contraceptive pill isn’t the only product that students can buy from these machines. Condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests can also be found in the vending machine on the Pennsylv...