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• Veteran Stage, Film Actor Ben Gazzara Dies At 81

  Ben Gazzara has died at the age of 81. The actor known for his brooding tough-guy presence died of pancreatic cancer Friday in New York. Gazzara made his big break into film with his role as an accused killer in Otto Preminger's 1959 courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder.

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• Army To Try Bradley Manning In WikiLeaks Data Case

  Pfc. Bradley Manning, 24, will stand trial for allegedly giving more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents and classified combat video to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks for publication. Manning, a low-ranking intelligence analyst, is charged in the biggest leak of classified data in U.S. history.

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• Komen's Race To Reverse Course: Questions And A PR Challenge

  The nation's largest breast cancer charity now says it will continue giving grants to Planned Parenthood. But public relations specialists say the Komen foundation will have a tough time rebuilding its nonpartisan reputation.

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• Nevada A Safe Bet For Romney And Start Of Likely Bad Month For Rivals

  Nevada is, in part, such friendly territory for Romney because of its place in the Mormon Corridor, a group of states fanning out from Utah which, besides Nevada, include Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho and southern California with significant populations of Romney's fellow Mormons.

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• Argentina, Britain Trade Barbs, As Prince William Arrives At Falklands

  The upcoming 30th anniversary of the Falklands war has heightened tensions between the two countries.

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• Air Force To Cut Troop Levels By 10,000

  The Air Force on Friday detailed plans to cut the service by nearly 10,000 active, National Guard and Reserve members next year, as part of a broad move to downsize and shift capabilities around the country to be better prepared for wars of the future.

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• Federal Prosecutors Drop Doping Case Against Cyclist Lance Armstrong

  A federal prosecutor said the case had been closed, but gave no details as to why.

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• Voting Heads West: A Nevada Republican Presidential Caucus Primer

  While hotels along the Vegas Strip are full of Super Bowl fans and convention attendees this weekend, another event will be playing out Saturday at more than 100 locations across the state. Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses will be taking place, and mostly in low-key places.

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