George Zimmerman's lawyers announced Tuesday that they will no longer represent him, saying that he had failed to follow their legal advice and that he was no longer in contact with them.

Rick Santorum, under pressure to bow out of the presidential race, suspended his campaign Tuesday, saying he wants to devote more time to his ailing 3-year-old daughter Bella.

National Democrats are banking on a long-shot strategy to shield President Barack Obama from an expected onslaught of outside GOP spending in the 2012 election: nuking the messengers.

Mitt Romney's camp on Monday announced a temporary halt to its barrage of negative attack ads directed at Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania "out of deference" to the former senator's decision to stay at his ailing daughter's bedside.

The special prosecutor for Florida state's investigation into the shooting death of Trayvon Martin will not send the case to a grand jury, her office announced Monday, cautioning that the decision should not be interpreted as a signal about whether George Zimmerman will ultimately face charges.

The Republican Party’s alleged “war” against women is fast emerging as a major trope of the 2012 elections. And the charge is largely true: As the GOP has become increasingly conservative, so too has it become increasingly hostile to feminism and insensitive to women’s issues.

The National Review has fired longtime columnist John Derbyshire following an article he wrote for an online magazine that was widely viewed as racist.

For the last three months, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have been repeating the same argument against Mitt Romney: He’s a moderate, and a moderate Republican can’t win the White House. Naturally, given Gingrich’s stature as a historian, the critique dredges up memories of campaigns past. “We tried a moderate in 1996, and he couldn’t debate Bill Clinton effectively,” Gingrich said in January. “We tried a moderate in 2008. He couldn’t debate Barack Obama effectively and lost.” Santorum, too, has invoked the gruesome specters of Bob Dole and John McCain. “Look at the races in the last 30 years,” he chimed in last month. “[When] we nominated a moderate: McCain, Dole, Gerald Ford. When George [H.W.] Bush ran for re-election back in 1992 … [They] all lost.”

It might seem that in the United States, being pulled over for driving without a seat belt should not end with the government ordering you to take off your clothes and “lift your genitals.” But there is no guarantee that this is the case – not since the Supreme Court ruled this week that the Constitution does not prohibit the government from strip searching people charged with even minor offenses. The court’s 5-4 ruling turns a deeply humiliating procedure – one most Americans would very much like to avoid – into a routine law enforcement tactic.

The U.S. job market appears to be losing momentum. Job growth outside the agriculture sector slowed to 120,000 in March, far less than the 200,000 seen over the previous three months, reports the Associated Press. It was also far lower than the 203,000 jobs economists were expecting, notes the Wall Street Journal. While private companies added 121,000 jobs in March, governments cut jobs by 1,000.