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  • The bill would keep taxes from rising for 160 million Americans. Republicans said they were dropping their demand for that revenue decrease to be paid for by other cuts.
  • It's a question that Catholic-sponsored employers have objected to the administration's requirement that health plans cover contraceptives at no charge to the insured. What about coverage for medicines to help men with erectile dysfunction?
  • LinkedIn co-founder and chairman Reid Hoffman shares his secrets for career advancement — namely, managing a career as though it's a startup business — in his new book, The Start-up of You.
  • The natural gas boom in Pennsylvania has new workers flooding into the state. That's causing a housing crunch in some communities, as locals get priced out of the rental market. One rural county in the northern part of the state has opened its first homeless shelter.
  • On this day 50 years ago, first lady Jackie Kennedy offered a Valentine to America: A televised tour of the newly-restored White House. She had been shocked at how little of the past was in the White House. So she threw her heart into bringing that history back. A record number of Americans tuned in to watch the tour.
  • A year after an uprising began in the Gulf nation much remains the same. Government security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to stop protests before they began.
  • The carrier was escorted by U.S. choppers and shadowed by Iranian patrol boats.
  • In a state so auto-industry dependent, it would seem dubious to call for GM and Chrysler to go through the regular bankruptcy process with all their uncertainties and pain. Experts inside and outside the industry at the time and since said bankruptcies would have meant millions of jobs lost. But Romney's position could appeal to many Michigan conservatives who opposed the bailouts.
  • Congress appears to have avoided another fight over the payroll tax reduction that has been pumping billions of dollars back into the economy. There may even be a deal ahead on jobless benefits and payments to Medicare doctors. Those issues had Congress in knots back in December.
  • The frigid temperatures of Winnipeg, Canada, are legendary. So much so it's called Winterpeg. But this winter is one of the warmest in a century. Which has forced an annual festival that includes a snow-sculpting competition to truck in snow.
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