The Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday that MF Global's former chairman and CEO Jon S. Corzine ignored several internal warnings about the risks associated with taking on exposure to Europe before the company declared bankruptcy. Lynn Neary talks to Wall Street Journal reporter Julie Steinberg, one of the article's coauthors, for more.

The first votes of the 2012 Republican nominating contest will be cast four weeks from Tuesday in the Iowa caucuses. The air is crowded with ads and the campaigns are pulling together their ground operations.

President Obama was in Osawatomie, Kan., where he delivered an economic speech about the middle class. Osawatomie is the same city where, a century earlier, former President Teddy Roosevelt called for a "New Nationalism," in which he talked about the role of government. For more, Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Scott Horsley.

New California rules are meant to get school kids to drink fewer sugary drinks and more water. But many students don't want to drink out of public water fountains.

A pair of senators — one Democrat and one Republican — release a payroll tax plan they believe can find bipartisan support. It pays for the tax cut with a tax on millionaires, but it exempts those millionaires who actually are small business owners who create jobs.

Unionized businesses in Charlotte, N.C., have traditionally had to keep a low profile in this right-to-work state. But with the Democratic National Convention headed to town in 2012, having union ties could now be something to flaunt — and cash in on.

Election-day dirty tricksters be forewarned: getting caught trying in a voter-suppression scheme can draw you a prison term, at least in Maryland.That's one take away message from Tuesday's conviction of the man who served as campaign manager for the effort of Maryland's former Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich Jr.'s to regain the governorship.