GOP candidate claims 'conservative' mantle

Gingrich pitches Florida voters

With GOP soul-searching, Obama looks strong in State of the Union

Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr.'s remark left emotions raw in the town's large Hispanic community.

Even after 19 of them, the debates are still influencing the GOP race.

Army chief calls troop cuts "a correction."

The FBI wants to develop a program that would track Twitter and Facebook updates.

Occupy activists broke into Oakland City Hall, damaging displays and burning an American flag, the culmination of protests Saturday that saw police and protesters trade allegations over who was responsible for clashes in the Northern California city that ended with the arrest of more than 100 people.

A jury in Kingston, Ontario, resumes its deliberations Sunday in the "honor" murder trial of three members of a Montreal family who are accused of killing four relatives.

The Arab League has suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of a sharp spike in violence, the group said Saturday, the same day opposition activists reported at least 98 deaths.

Bank of Nova Scotia, (BNS, BNS.T), one of Canada's big five banks, said Saturday it will consolidate its investment bank and other wholesale brands under the Scotiabank name, in a move to capitalize on the greater global awareness of that name.

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China will continue to crack down on illegal cross-border capital flow this year in an aim to protect its economic and financial security, the country's top foreign exchange regulator said, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday.

Regulators closed four more banks in the U.S. Friday, raising the nationwide tally of failures so far in 2012 to seven, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.