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The former House speaker is trying to cut into the resurgent front-runner's lead before Tuesday's primary in the Sunshine State. Newt Gingrich accused the former Massachusetts governor of "carpet-bombing" his record. Mitt Romney meanwhile shifted his focus back to President Obama's record.

The duo wrote original music for a sparkling new restoration of Le Voyage Dans La Lune, Georges Melies' groundbreaking science-fiction film.

Newt Gingrich sharpened his attacks on Republican rival Mitt Romney on Sunday. A new poll shows Romney leading the former House speaker just days ahead of Tuesday's presidential primary in Florida.

If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has his way, New York City will no longer fingerprint food stamp recipients. He says fingerprinting stigmatizes needy people and stops them from applying for assistance. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg disagrees, arguing that without fingerprinting, fraud would escalate.

A new casino set to open in Atlantic City has announced it will set term limits for its front-line staff and employees will have to go through the hiring process again.

In Consent of the Networked, Rebecca MacKinnon investigates how the governments and corporations that control the digital world can impinge on civil liberties.

In Muslim-majority Malaysia, religious authorities recently broke up a meeting of a controversial religious group. The group is observing the Prophet Muhammad's birthday with a campaign to promote what it describes as an "Islamic sex life," based on polygamy and the obedience of wives to their husbands. The group's critics are not sure whether it's a joke to be dismissed or a threat to be eliminated.

Currently, there's no quick fix for severe depression. Antidepressants usually take weeks to work, if they work at all. But patients who received experimental doses of ketamine — long used as an anesthetic, and an illegal club drug — report an astounding relief from their symptoms in less than a day.

Fighting in Syria has intensified within a few miles of the capital city. Damascus has remained under firm government control but in the suburbs, the army has sent in tanks to retake areas that had been under the effective control of rebels. Activists inside Syria say more than 60 people have died in the past day.

Freddie Mac has invested billions of dollars betting that U.S. homeowners won't be able to refinance their mortgages at today's lower rates, according to an investigation by NPR and ProPublica.