Nation and World
February 5, 2012 - 3:34 p.m.•By AMY GARDNER – The Washington Post
LAS VEGAS – In a meeting room at the Palazzo hotel here over the past week, Newt Gingrich mapped out a detailed strategy that would keep him in the presidential race all the way to the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla.,in August.
February 5, 2012 - 12:09 a.m.•By DAN BALZ – The Washington Post
LAS VEGAS – Mitt Romney won an overwhelming victory in Saturday's Nevada caucuses, giving the former Massachusetts governor his second consecutive victory of the year as he tightened his claim to dominant front-runner status in what had been a turbulent Republican presidential race.
February 3, 2012 - 1:01 p.m.•By BOB WILLIS – The Washington Post
WASHINGTON – Employment climbed more than forecast in January and the jobless rate unexpectedly fell to the lowest in three years, casting doubt on the Federal Reserve's pledge to keep interest rates low until late 2014.
February 1, 2012 - 8:18 p.m.•By MATT SCHUDEL – The Washington Post
Don Cornelius, creator and host of "Soul Train," a milestone in television programming that introduced generations of viewers to new music and dance trends emerging from black America, died Feb. 1 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Los Angeles, according to police. He was 75.
January 31, 2012 - 6:24 p.m.•By AARON BLAKE – The Washington Post
There is a good bit of confusion about how Florida will award its delegates following Tuesday's primary.
January 29, 2012 - 8:46 a.m.•By PHILIP RUCKER and AMY GARDNER – The Washington Post
PANAMA CITY, Fla. – The stakes are high, but Mitt Romney isn't showing much worry as he caravans across Florida this weekend with a sudden swagger and the newfound looseness of a front-runner who thinks he's cleared the obstacles in his path.
January 25, 2012 - 9:30 a.m.•By SANDHYA SOMASHEKHAR – The Washington Post
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night prompted an array of reactions from conservative critics, whose divergent responses mirrored the fractures on display this year in a bruising Republican presidential primary.
January 24, 2012 - 9:29 p.m.•By SCOTT WILSON and DAVID NAKAMURA – The Washington Post
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama warned the nation Tuesday that the decades-old promise of a secure and rising middle class is under threat because of growing disparities between the rich and everyone else in America.
January 24, 2012 - 5:53 p.m.•By DAN BALZ – The Washington Post
TAMPA – The role reversal that took place at Monday's Republican debate proved two things: Mitt Romney knows he desperately needs a victory in next Tuesday's Florida primary, and Newt Gingrich isn't the same candidate on stage without a boisterous audience behind him.
January 23, 2012 - 10:10 a.m.•By ALBERT R. HUNT – Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama may make a few headlines in his re-election year State of the Union address; in a similar setting, Bill Clinton declared the "era of big government is over," while George W. Bush suggested he had tamed Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.
January 22, 2012 - 4:57 p.m.•By SANDHYA SOMASHEKHAR – The Washington Post
WASHINGTON – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously wounded in a mass shooting in Arizona last year, announced Sunday that she will step down from her congressional seat this week to focus on her recovery.
January 22, 2012 - 4:43 p.m.•By DAVE SHEINAN – The Washington Post
Longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, patriarch of the storied but wounded program, died early Sunday morning, his family said in a statement. His death came two months after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Paterno was 85.
January 22, 2012 - 12:26 a.m.•By KAREN TUMULTY – The Washington Post
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich scored an easy victory Saturday in the South Carolina primary, blowing a hole in Mitt Romney's aura of inevitability.
January 13, 2012 - 6:42 p.m.•By ANITA KUMAR – The Washington Post
RICHMOND, Va. – A federal judge denied a request Friday by four presidential candidates to add their names to Virginia's Republican primary ballot.
January 11, 2012 - 9:13 a.m.•By DAN BALZ – The Washington Post
MANCHESTER, N.H. – Mitt Romney got virtually everything he needed out of the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night. He won a decisive victory that put him in a dominant position to win the Republican presidential nomination, and he will move on to South Carolina with his opposition badly splintered and running out of time to stop him.
