Mitt Romney scored an overwhelming win Sunday in Puerto Rico’s Republican presidential primary, trouncing chief rival Rick Santorum on the Caribbean island even as the two rivals looked ahead to more competitive contests this week in Illinois and Louisiana. Rick Santorum, seen campaigning in Illinois on Saturday, hurt his chances to pick up delegates in [...]

With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for a U.S. Army sergeant suspected in the nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers was flying Sunday to Kansas and preparing for his first face-to-face meeting with the 10-year veteran. John Henry Browne of Seattle said he planned to meet Monday with Army Staff [...]

An explosion struck near a Syrian government security building in the northern city of Aleppo Sunday, while a harsh security crackdown prevented opposition rallies marking one year since the first nationwide protests of the uprising against President Bashar Assad. The Syrian state news agency called the Aleppo explosion a “terrorist bombing” and said a policeman [...]

Scott Hartnell needed every last tick of the clock to score the timeliest of goals for the Flyers. Hartnell scored his second goal of the game with less than one second left in overtime to lift the Philadelphia Flyers to a 3-2 victory over the Penguins on Sunday, snapping Pittsburgh’s 11-game winning streak. Hartnell took [...]

Canada’s Devon Kershaw finished with a silver medal after the men’s 15-kilometre pursuit on Sunday in Falun, Sweden in the last race of the World Cup finals. Fellow countryman Alex Harvey had the second-fastest time of the day (39:03.1) to cap a fine season and secure sixth place in the overall standings with 974 points. [...]