Gas Prices Keep Climbing; Now Above $4 in Six States

Gasoline prices rose again Friday and are now averaging more than $4 in six states and Washington, D.C. Oil had its biggest gain in three weeks and natural gas prices also rose.

Retail gasoline prices were up a penny on Friday to a national average of $3.831 per gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service.

George Clooney, Ben Jealous, and MLK III to Protest at Sudan Embassy in D.C.

Actor George Clooney will highlight a protest planned for Friday at Sudan’s embassy in Washington.

Pickup in Economy Is Helping Obama’s Bid for Re-election

President Obama’s re-election prospects are getting a boost from the plunging unemployment rate and the pickup in the economy and financial markets this year, economic and political analysts say.

Romney Takes 6 Super Tuesday States, Santorum Nets 3, Gingrich Takes Georgia

CBS News projects that Mitt Romney will win Ohio’s key primary contest Tuesday, after a neck-and-neck race with rival Rick Santorum to eke out a victory in the pivotal battleground state.

 

With 96 percent reporting in Ohio, Romney has 38 percent support to Santorum’s 37 percent. Newt Gingrich is in third place with 15 percent and Ron Paul follows with 9 percent.

President Obama Assures Netanyahu that United States ‘Will Always Have Israel’s Back’ When It Comes to Security

In a display of unity between allies who often disagree, President Barack Obama assured Israel’s visiting leader Monday that the United States “will always have Israel’s back,” and said the U.S. and Israel agree that diplomacy is the best way to resolve the crisis over potential Iranian nuclear weapons.

Pastors Lead the Way in Helping Chardon, Ohio Pull Out of a Terrible Situation

Emotions are running high in the city of Chardon, Ohio, where a gunman went on a horrific shooting spree at Chardon High School on Monday that has resulted in the death of three students and the wounding of two others. But as members of the community mourn, area pastors have banded together to lend an ear, help residents with the grieving process and show people that there is hope in God.

The Demonizing of Barack Obama

February is African American History Month. Yet these are days of sadness.

The brilliance of hope, so blinding a few short years ago, has dimmed. The dreams of a 21st-century America, where achievement is based on skills, determination and merit, free from an arbitrary color standard, have been replaced with injuries inflicted by present-day haters as malevolent as some of our worst enemies of the past.