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Just a day to go until Super Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful former, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney walks aboard his charter campaign jet at the airport in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by LM Otero / AP)

Just who will survive Super Tuesday?

One of the most extraordinary presidential elections in U.S. history reaches its first epic milestone when nearly half the country holds primary and caucus elections.

NY Daily News

McCain may seal victory as Clinton and Obama battle

Bloomberg

Dems prep for photo finish

MSNBC

Super Tuesday's delegates at stake

Christian Science Monitor

Police hunt for Chicago store gunman

The victims of a store shooting at a suburban strip mall included a part-time nurse, a social worker employed at the high school she attended and a real estate agent who had two sons.

Guardian

One of five women in Illinois bloodbath linked to gunman, officials suspect

NY Daily News

Giants upset Patriots in Super Bowl thriller

New York Sun

Nobody's Perfect

Boston Globe

Super Bowl XLII

Yahoo! News

Bush administration loses ruling on Guantánamo detainees

A federal appeals court ruled against the Bush administration in a central case on Guantánamo detainees, declining to reconsider an order that the government has to turn over its detainee information.

International Herald Tribune

Rare suicide bombing hits Israel

A suicide bomber has killed a woman in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, the first such attack in over a year.

BBC

Bhutto claimed plot by Bin Laden's son

In an autobiography being published after her death, Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto says Osama bin Laden's son would lead a suicide squad trying to kill her.

AOL News

NATION

Snow closes Calif. freeway; skiers and hiker still missing

A winter storm hit California, closing a 40-mile stretch of a main highway. Meanwhile, crews planned to resume the search for two missing skiers and a hiker.

USA Today

New clues in the Holloway mystery

A video was aired in the Netherlands linking Dutch citizen, Joran van der Sloot, with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old American who went missing from the island of Auba in 2005.

TIME

POLITICS

Federal probe, retirements add to Cole’s angst at NRCC

Tom Cole, National Republican Congressional Chairman, had a bad week -- a probe of financial irregularities at the NRCC and five House Republicans announced they would not seek reelection.

The Hill

Feds subpoena unions for ties to Senate majority leader

Newsday

Bill Clinton attends black church in La.

Former President Clinton struck a conciliatory tone with black parishioners today, noting the historic nature of the Democratic presidential race and not once mentioning her rival by name.

Houston Chronicle

Sen. Clinton weighs garnishing wages to pay for universal health care

ABC News

BUSINESS

Ready to file? Roll up your sleeves

This tax-filing season looks like one to dread because of late changes in tax laws, outdated or bad instructions and forms, increasing complexity and the widening gulf between federal and state tax rules.

San Jose Mercury News

Super Bowl scores for the economy

The sputtering U.S. economy isn't stopping Americans from spending big bucks on this year's Super Bowl.

Financial Post

Advertisers go for the touchdown

MarketWatch

Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo under congressional lens

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) announced they will hold a hearing to examine the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger.

The Hill

Why Microsoft wants Yahoo!

MSNBC

SPORTS

Measuring the Santana trade

The New York Mets send outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitchers Philip Humber, Kevin Mulvey and Deolis Guerra to the Minnesota Twins for pitcher Johan Santana.

USA Today

Woods rallies, wins Dubai Desert Classic

Tiger Woods birdied his last two holes to rally from a four-shot deficit and win the Dubai Desert Classic, starting his season with two victories that looked nothing alike.

AOL News

HEALTH

Effects of baby products studied

A new study says infants whose parents applied baby-care products to their young skin had elevated levels of phthalates -- believed to harm developing endocrine and reproductive systems.

Baltimore Sun

Suicide warning for antismoking drug

Federal officials warned that Chantix, a popular antismoking drug, may be linked to suicides in some patients.

WebMD

RELIGION

Sports' top 12 evangelical Christians

We've scanned the sporting world to come up with a gallery of some of the most dominant athletes and coaches working today.

Beliefnet

For sale: bones of the saints

If real, the religious artifacts for sale on eBay break not only eBays's own rules, but the Roman Catholic canon which states that "it is absolutely forbidden to sell sacred relics."

Newsweek

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Weighing nearly 400 pounds, man walks off half his weight

Two years ago, Phill Novak weighed 387 pounds. With a diet and some exercise, he's cut his weight in half and improved his outlook on life.

CNN

Microlending benefits from online tools

Another way the Internet is having an effect on developing countries is by linking lenders and donors in developed countries with those in need.

InformationWeek

WORLD

Interrogator shares confessions of Saddam Hussein

For a man who drew America into two wars and countless military engagements, we never knew what Saddam Hussein was thinking. But you are going to hear more than has ever been revealed before.

CBS News

23 dead in Rwandan earthquake

At least 23 people are believed to have been killed in western Rwanda after a powerful earthquake battered the countries around the African Great Lakes region.

Telegraph.co.uk

Wave of anarchy blamed on Kenya's 'General Coward'

President Mwai Kibaki's handling of Kenya's crisis, so far limited to one visit to displaced people and reading out a few pre-written statements insisting he won fairly, has invited criticism.

Guardian

How Kenya's election was rigged

McClatchy Newspapers

ENVIRONMENT

Bad week for fish

Last week brought a perfect storm of bad PR for the world’s seafood. Or, it might have actually been good PR from the beleaguered fish’s perspective.

Environmental News Network

Humans to blame for western water woes

The Rocky Mountains have warmed by two degrees Fahrenheit. The snowpack in the Sierras has dwindled by 20 percent and the temperatures there have heated up by 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

Science Daily

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A brand-new giant elephant shrew

Charismatic and cuddly new species aren't often discovered in a world so mapped, traveled and studied -- so give a warm welcome to Rhynchocyon udzungwensis.

Wired

Lusty voles mate like rabbits

Forgetful Casanovas are lucky in love. At least that's how University of Florida researchers interpret the results of new research on the mating habits and nervous systems of prairie voles.

Science Daily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

What’s behind ‘Cloverfield’ illness?

The movie, Cloverfield, had a record-breaking opening weekend, but there was an unforeseen side effect: nausea. And it didn't come from the popcorn - but the camerawork.

WebMD

Peter Travers reviews 'Cloverfield'

Rolling Stone

Sarkozy and Bruni keep a low profile

French president Nicolas Sarkozy, freshly remarried, will not take his glamorous new wife on a honeymoon, his office said. Instead, he will meet with French workers at a factory threatened by closure.

International Herald Tribune

EDUCATION

Tuition assistance for the middle class

Following announcements by Ivy League heavyweights Harvard and Yale that they were cutting costs for families earning in the low six figures, a growing number of competitors have fallen in line.

BusinessWeek

Bush seeks no increase for schools

In a year when many federal programs are in line for hefty budget cuts, President Bush is asking Congress to largely leave education alone.

Associated Press

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