(Fox News) Newt Gingrich swept to a projected victory Tuesday night in Georgia while Mitt Romney answered back with projected wins in Virginia and Vermont -- as the candidates anxiously await the results from Super Tuesday's most hard-fought contest in Ohio, which is too close to call.

(Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama on Monday that Israel has not made any decision on attacking Iran's nuclear sites, sources close to the talks said, but the Israeli prime minister gave no sign of backing away from possible military action.

(Fox News) The top U.S. commander in the Middle East will warn Congress on Tuesday against efforts to scale back the Navy's presence in the embattled region, saying threats from Iran and elsewhere will require more ships and maritime missile defense capabilities.

(Bloomberg) U.S. stocks retreated, giving the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index its biggest decline since December, after a report showed that the European economy contracted and as concern grew about the success of a Greece swap deal.

(Reuters) - Mitt Romney can take a big step toward finishing off chief rival Rick Santorum and seizing command of the Republican presidential race on Tuesday as 10 states hold contests with Ohio at ground zero.

(Fox News) The race for the Republican presidential nomination is about to take a big step forward, with 10 states weighing in Tuesday on the biggest day of voting yet in the two-month-old campaign.

(Bloomberg) Ford Motor Co. (F), Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) and their competitors are preparing for a deeper slump in European sales after deliveries at the beginning of the year were at the low end of their expectations.

(Fox News) As Republican-supporting Super PACs spend millions to keep their candidates in the presidential primary race, key Republicans are circling the wagons around Mitt Romney in hopes that Super Tuesday victories will create an air of inevitability as polls show the GOP suffering in public opinion polls from a protracted fight.

(Reuters) - Russian riot police detained hundreds of protesters including their figurehead, Alexei Navalny, on Monday at rallies challenging Vladimir Putin's victory in a presidential election.

(Fox News) A Yemeni government spokesman tells Fox News that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is responsible for the deaths of at least 60 Yemeni soldiers in the southern province of Abyan after a massacre Sunday.