AP - Bombs and booby-traps slowed the advance of thousands of U.S.
Marines and Afghan soldiers moving through the Taliban-controlled town of Marjah — NATO's most ambitious effort yet to break the militants' grip over their southern heartland.
AP survey: Economy to pick up but still vulnerable (AP)
AP - The U.S. economy will grow faster in 2012 — if it isn't knocked off track by upheavals in Europe, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists.
Panetta formally shuts down US war in Iraq (AP)
AP - After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq — a conflict that U.S. Defense Secretary...
US urges ban on texting, talking while driving (AP)
AP - Ren Bishop is one of many American drivers who texts, tweets and talks on her cellphone while she's behind the wheel — and thinks it should be up to drivers to use their discretion...
Eurozone ministers meet amid fears of euro breakup (AP)
AP - Eurozone finance ministers are streaming into Brussels on Tuesday in a desperate bid to save the 17-nation euro currency — and to protect Europe, the United States, Asia and the...
Republicans pile on Romney, looking to block him (AP)
AP - They're coming to what is essentially his home turf — and they are ready to challenge Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney on the economy, the central issue to the former...
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