Romney poised to win Nevada caucuses Mitt Romney has a chance today in Nevada to do what no Republican presidential candidate has done so far this election cycle: win two contests back to back.
Martin: Why don't candidates see poor? In the 1,257 GOP debates we have had to sit through, poverty and the poor have rarely come up, so it was no surprise that Mitt Romney would be dismissive of them in an interview this week with CNN's Soledad O'Brien.
Civilian deaths rise in Afghanistan Across Afghanistan, civilians live in fear that they will become part of a grim and ever growing tally -- as innocent casualties in a decade of conflict. And according to a United Nations report released Saturday tracking civilian casualties, that rate of such deaths rose yet again in 2011.
Fidel Castro unveils 1,000-page memoir Fidel Castro has released a previously unannounced two-volume memoir of his life, Cuban state-run media reported Saturday.