Richard John “Rick” Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician. He served as a United States Senatorrepresenting Pennsylvania (1995–2007) and was the Senate’s third-ranking Republican (2001–07).[1] He ran as a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination,[2] finishing second to the eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney. MORE
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Record rainfall is sowing havoc on corn, soybean futures

That is the position farmers and grain traders find themselves after spring and summer rains delayed planting of both crops across the eastern half of the Corn Belt and then continued to soak the region into early July. The Corn Belt is the corn-producing region encompassing western Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Kansas, eastern Nebraska and southern Minnesota. MORE
VIDEO: Venezuela’s hospitals on life support
Venezuela’s hospitals are in disarray. Betty Zapata reports on a country where inflation is forcing doctors’ salaries below $10 a month and patients are forced to buy life-saving drugs on the street MORE
18 raging wildfires force California Gov. to declare state of emergency
New York holds last mass services before dozens of Catholic church closures

The closures follow an announcement by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in November that it would consolidate 368 parishes into 294, reflecting a national trend of parish closures in the United States caused by low attendance, a shortage of priests and financial troubles. MORE

