Newt Gingrich's second wife says the GOP presidential candidate asked her for an "open marriage" in which he could have both a wife and a mistress.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is abandoning his presidential bid and endorsing Newt Gingrich.

The Des Moines Register newspaper reports Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney by 34 votes in the Iowa Caucuses. Romney was declared the initial winner earlier this month, by just eight votes.

Italian officials say two more bodies have been pulled from the wreckage of a cruise liner capsized off the Tuscan coast, bringing the number of confirmed dead to 15.

The house proposal for a 1700-mile oil pipeline that runs from Alberta, Canada to Texas has been denied by President Obama.

An Obama campaign official says the campaign has bought advertising time in at least six states that will be critical to the president's re-election bid -- North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa and on national cable television.

Don't be surprised if you can't access Wikipedia today. The website is participating in a 24-hour blackout to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress.

Search teams have suspended operations after an enormous cruise ship grounded and partially submerged off the coast of Tuscany shifted under turbulent seas.

Take a look at this! Old cypress tree burns down, winter weather, and "Mount Myrtle"

Mitt Romney says he will release his tax returns in April and they will show he pays close to 15 percent of his income in taxes.

Romney came under criticism from Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum across two hours in the first of a pair of debates in the run-up to this weekend's first-in-the-South primary in South Carolina.

A lawyer says the captain who allegedly abandoned the crippled Costa Concordia cruise liner will be released from jail and placed under house arrest.

Republican Rick Santorum is calling on GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney to call off a political action committee he says is blatantly lying about the former Pennsylvania senator's record on felon voting rights and spending.

The chief executive of the Italian owner of the cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany says the captain made an unauthorized, unapproved deviation from the ship's programmed course.

There is no easing of gasoline prices this January like we usually see.

Jon Huntsman has suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

An Iraqi health official says the death toll from a bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims near the southern port city of Basra has risen to 53 people.

One of the Republican candidates in the 2008 race, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, is hosting this year's GOP candidates at a noon forum in Charleston, S.C.

A burn hazard prompts the recall of about 19,000 Honeywell portable electric heaters.

At least three people are dead and at least two injured people are reported in grave condition after a luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany.

A quotation inscribed on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial will be changed following months of complaints that the statement was edited out of its original context, a spokesman said Friday.

The recent improvement in the job market comes as welcome news for President Obama as he struggles to answer GOP attacks on the campaign trail that he’s mismanaged the economic recovery.

Take a look at this! A pilot is suspected of drunkenly crashing his plane, a boat show accident, and a groom becomes a YouTube sensation.

A senior administration official says President Barack Obama will ask Congress for more power to streamline the government by merging agencies.

If you shop at big lots, you need to be aware of a lamp recall.