A concentrated burst of advertising is putting the candidates? strategies out in the open and is highlighting the diverging financial fortunes of the two parties.
AP - Sen. John McCain barnstormed through a skeptical South on Saturday, campaigning for a Super Tuesday knockout in the Republican presidential race. Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton worked the West on the final weekend before primaries and caucuses in more than 20 states.
AP - Hundreds of rebels charged into Chad's capital aboard pickup trucks Saturday, clashing with government troops around the presidential palace in the most forceful attempt yet to oust President Idriss Deby.
AP - A gunman fatally shot five women in a robbery at a store in a suburban Chicago strip mall before fleeing Saturday, prompting police to sweep through neighboring shops as terrified customers watched.
Is Super Tuesday the end? The race isn't over until somebody gets a majority of delegates, and both parties have rules that make it difficult to get to a majority.
Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls fanned out across the nation Saturday as they made their final push for votes heading up to the Super Tuesday primaries.
A gunman who shot and killed five women in a clothing store at a suburban Chicago strip mall Saturday remains at large, police said. The motive for the shooting at the Lane Bryant store was a robbery that "at some point went rather poorly," said Tinley Park police Sgt. T.J. Grady.