WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Rick Santorum is looking to capitalize on a string of stunning victories that snapped his four-state losing streak and raised new questions about front-runner Mitt Romney's clout with conservatives....

2/8/2012 5:16:25 AM

DENVER (AP) -- Mitt Romney just can't shake his difficulty attracting conservatives. And that reality is undercutting his effort to cast himself as the inevitable Republican presidential nominee and prolonging a race that each day exposes deep divisions within the party....

2/8/2012 4:54:53 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States appears to be out of answers on what to do with Syria....

2/8/2012 4:14:15 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Conservative critics like to point out that the federal appeals court that just declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional has its decisions overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court more often than other judicial circuits, a record that could prove predictive if the high court agrees to review the gay marriage case on appeal....

2/8/2012 3:28:52 AM

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri teenager who confessed to murdering a 9-year-old girl faces the possibility of life in prison when she's sentenced Wednesday morning....

2/8/2012 4:10:35 AM

JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- Shot through the upper back on a rooftop in Afghanistan and gasping for breath after a bullet ripped through his chest, Marine Sgt. Ben Tomlinson had a fear worse than death....

2/8/2012 3:28:11 AM

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is not without its risks....

2/8/2012 3:06:42 AM

MOSCOW (AP) -- After more than two decades of drilling, Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica that had been hidden under miles of ice for 20 million years, potentially holding life from the distant past and a clue to the search for life on other planets....

2/8/2012 5:49:41 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama and "Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon turned the White House into a playground to promote the first lady's "Let's Move!" fitness campaign....

2/8/2012 3:27:47 AM

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Florida coach Billy Donovan handicapped what could be the national title game in April....

2/8/2012 3:22:15 AM