The president's budget proposal offers both winners and losers for the Justice Department, but those differences are already stirring criticism from the Democratic Congress. The proposal for the department would cut the overall budget from last year by about $355 million, with aid to local law enforcement and to other grant programs bearing the brunt of the belt tightening.
AP - Mike Huckabee won the first contest declared on Super Tuesday, picking up all 18 national delegates awarded at West Virginia's state GOP convention.
The earliest results for Super Tuesday are in, but no candidate received a majority of the votes in the West Virginia GOP convention. Republicans in the state hold a convention rather than the more usual primary or caucuses. A second round of voting is under way. In all, 24 states are holding primaries or caucuses today.
Stocks tanked Tuesday afternoon, after a report showing a big slowdown in the services sector of the economy amplified fears that a recession is underway or imminent.