(Fox News) The Congressional Budget Office has extended its cost estimates for President Obama's health care law out to 2022, taking in more years of full implementation, and showing that the bill is substantially more expensive -- twice as much as the original $900 billion price tag.

(Fox News) A military source tells Fox News the strange incident on the tarmac Wednesday at Camp Bastion that occurred moments before Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived via C-17 was an attempted attack.

(Bloomberg) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is keeping additional easing on the policy-making table even after upgrading his view on the U.S. expansion.

(Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad always said Syria would be different. When the Arab uprisings first erupted more than a year ago, the Syrian president confidently said his government was in tune with its people, ready to reform on its own terms, and immune from the turmoil starting to sweep the region.

(Bloomberg) Citigroup Inc. (C), the lender that took the most government aid during the financial crisis, will try again to win approval for its capital plan after failing to meet minimum standards in U.S. stress tests.

(Reuters) - The Syrian refugees appeared silently through the late morning fog, at first one by one, then in groups of five or more, settling on the damp grass just behind the barbed wire fence that separates their homeland from Turkey.

(Fox News) Rick Santorum ensured that the Republican nominating battle will drag on, possibly into the spring and beyond, after pulling off a pair of victories in the Deep South on Tuesday – the last big night of primaries until April.

(Bloomberg) Facebook Inc. (FB) was accused in a lawsuit by Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) of infringing patents covering functions critical to websites, including Internet advertising, information sharing and privacy.

(Reuters) - An Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and militant groups in the Gaza Strip began to take hold on Tuesday after four days of violence in which 25 Palestinians were killed and 200 rockets were fired at Israel.

(Fox News) Mitt Romney may not know the butt side of a rifle or dine on cheesy grits, but he's hopeful Republican primary voters won't hold it against him when they vote Tuesday in two southern states where Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich need to excel to stay competitive.