| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Santorum surges in final days | | Rick Santorum started the new year riding the wave of a strong finish in the last major poll before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses and looked to rally his supporters in a series of events on Sunday. |
| More states allow same-sex civil unions | | Several same-sex couples came together in the first minutes of New Year's Day in Honolulu to become the first in the state's history to enter into civil unions. |
| Iowa caucuses: Pulling weeds from GOP field | | After a year when the Republican presidential race became defined by debates and cable news chatter instead of retail politics and town hall meetings, Iowa seems primed, in the end, to reward the candidates who did things the old-fashioned way. |
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