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Djokovic wins Australian Open in longest final (AP)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia makes a forehand return to Rafael Nadal of Spain  during their men's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP – Novak Djokovic wore down Rafael Nadal in the longest Grand Slam singles final ever, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after 5 hours, 53 minutes to claim his third Australian Open title.


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Romney is the aggressor in final Florida debate (AP)

CORRECTS LOCATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA, INSTEAD OF UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA - Republican presidential candidates former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney participate in the Republican presidential candidates debate at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – An aggressive Mitt Romney repeatedly challenged Republican rival Newt Gingrich in a fast-paced campaign debate Thursday night just before a Florida primary that could be pivotal in the GOP presidential race. He rebuffed criticism of his own stance on immigration and ridiculed the former House speaker’s call to build costly projects in key primary states and to colonize the moon.


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After final drive, JoePa is laid to rest

On the second day of civic mourning in a place known as Happy Valley, thousands of people paid their respects to Joe Paterno again Wednesday morning, before a funeral procession was scheduled to make its way through the Penn State campus.

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Romney braces for final full day in South Carolina (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 1997 photo, House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia and his wife Marianne leave their home for Capitol Hill.  Dredging up a past that Newt Gingrich has worked hard to bury, the GOP presidential candidate's ex-wife says Gingrich asked for an 'open marriage' in which he could have both a wife and a mistress. In an interview with ABC News' 'Nightline' scheduled to air Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012,  Marianne Gingrich said she refused to go along with the proposal that she share her husband with Callista Bisek, who would later become his third wife.  (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)AP – Front-runner Mitt Romney and his presidential pursuers enter the final full day of campaigning in a South Carolina GOP primary contest significantly altered from just 24 hours earlier.


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Front-runner Romney bumps through final day in NH (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, gives a thumbs up as he campaigns on primary election day outside of a polling station at Webster School in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – Mitt Romney, long expected to glide to a smooth victory in New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary, bumped through a rough patch on voting day, trying to deflect his rivals’ portrayal of him as a business vulture who enjoys laying off workers. When Romney reached out for a supporter’s infant daughter at a polling place, someone in the crowd shouted, “Are you going to fire the baby?”


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Romney rivals make final NH appeals (AP)

Kenneth Dansby, center, of Greenville, S.C., confronts Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, at a campaign event on a recent comment about black people that has been criticized as being racially insensitive Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, in Greenville, S.C. Both Newt Gingrich and Santorum faced criticism this week when they spoke of overhauling food stamps and other welfare programs by seeming to equate food stamp recipients and blacks. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP – Time is running short for Mitt Romney’s Republican presidential rivals to derail him — at least in New Hampshire.


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Romney’s rivals attack in final Iowa caucus push (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, accompanied by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., right, campaigns during breakfast at a Londonderry, N.H. restaurant, Tuesday Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP – Displaying the confidence of a front-runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney swept into Iowa on Tuesday ahead of next week’s caucuses, shrugged off criticism from his Republican rivals and unleashed an attack on President Barack Obama.


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