The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Rick Santorum says government lets health insurers keep only 15 percent of their revenue

In a 40-minute speech to supporters near Knoxville ahead of Super Tuesday, presidential candidate Rick Santorum framed the health care debate in terms of government power versus individual choice. President Barack Obama, he said on Feb. 29, 2012, "wants that power in the hands of government. He wants to control your insurance policies and your access and the reimbursements to doctors and hospitals and how much insurance companies -- not how much they’ll make, how much they’re allowed to keep of the money they collect. "That’s already in place by the way. The ...

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As Mitt Romney reflects on his showing on Super Tuesday, he might sneak a peek at clips of President Barack Obama's news conference performance hours earlier. It was an object lesson about the power of incumbency and about the challenge facing Romney while his own party foes still nip at his heels.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian authorities have arrested a local journalist working for an Iranian news agency in connection with last month's Israeli embassy car bomb blast, a police official said Wednesday. It was the first arrest over the February 13 attack that Israel has blamed Iran of perpetrating. An Israeli diplomat's wife, her driver and two others were wounded, and the blast coincided with an attack on another Israeli diplomat in Tbilisi, Georgia. ...

Compiled by ABC News’ Jackie Fernandez and Jayce Hendeson SUPER TUESDAY ABC News’ Amy Walter: “Mitt Romney Wins the Night, But Not the Momentum” It wasn’t pretty and it wasn’t impressive, but Mitt Romney came out a winner Tuesday night. He came into Super Tuesday...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber has killed at least five policemen by blowing herself up at a traffic police post in the restive Dagestan region of southern Russia. The woman detonated her bomb late on Tuesday outside Karabudakhkent, a village 40 km (24 miles) south of the provincial capital Makhachkala, Russia's RIA news agency quoted local police as saying. Dagestan faces almost daily shootings and bomb attacks as part of an Islamist insurgency across the mainly Muslim North Caucasus following two separatist wars in Chechnya. ...

As Mitt Romney reflects on his showing on Super Tuesday, he might sneak a peek at clips of President Barack Obama's news conference performance hours earlier. It was an object lesson about the power of incumbency and about the challenge facing Romney while his own party foes still nip at his heels.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It might be difficult to upstage Republican presidential candidates on the most important day of their primary election, but President Barack Obama tried to do just that on Tuesday. Holding a news conference for the first time in months, Obama took advantage of the White House podium and national television coverage to outline his arguments for re-election just as his rivals battled it out in Super Tuesday states. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney won the Republican presidential caucuses in Idaho on Tuesday, Fox News projected. With 12 percent reporting, former Massachusetts governor Romney had 78 percent support, to 11 percent for Texas Congressman Ron Paul, his closest competitor. (Reporting By Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

Mitt Romney appears poised to take a solid majority of the delegates available on Super Tuesday, even as he and Rick Santorum remain deadlocked in Ohio. So far, ABC News estimates that Romney has won 70 delegates. Newt Gingrich (29) and Rick Santorum (16) follow....

Rick Santorum was projected the winner of the Tennessee primary on Super Tuesday by ABC News.

Santorum was projected to finish first in the Oklahoma primary on Tuesday night, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was projected to win primary contests in Vermont, Virginia and his home state of Massachusetts.

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  We’re journalists, not prognosticators. But we can have a little fun with the Super Tuesday elections. Below, ABC News staffers – from correspondents to interns – offer predictions on who will win the primaries and what percentages of the vote Romney and Santorum will...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It might be difficult to upstage Republican presidential candidates on the most important day of their primary election, but President Barack Obama tried to do just that on Tuesday. Holding a news conference for the first time in months, Obama took advantage of the White House podium and national television coverage to outline his arguments for re-election just as his rivals battled it out in Super Tuesday states. ...

Jonathan Cohn, TNR
How good is Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski? How lame are the opposition researchers for Mitt Romney's Republican rivals? We now know that the answer to both questions is "very."Kaczynski has turned up a televised interview and an an op-ed, both from 2009, in which Romney clearly suggests that the federal government ought to adopt an individual mandate for health care. Yes, Romney's support for such a mandate in Masscahusetts is old news: It was a key feature of the health care reform bill he signed there. 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the United States was committed to long-term ties with Afghanistan but did not want to keep troops there longer than needed to disable al Qaeda and ensure a modicum of stability as foreign forces withdraw. "President (Hamid) Karzai understands we are interested in a strategic partnership with the Afghan people and the Afghan government," Obama told reporters in a news conference. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department plans to take action in the coming months against individuals involved in corporate fraud, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday, adding that fines against companies are not enough of a deterrent. "We're gonna make some news with regard to holding individuals responsible for things we tend to think of as corporate crimes," Holder said at a meeting of state attorneys general in Washington. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World, London's Evening Standard reported Tuesday. Three sources close to the company confirmed that the two Sun journalists appeared to have tried to take their own lives, as investigations sparked by a phone-hacking scandal continue to expose other dubious practices by present and past employees. ...

The ABC News politics and government teams will offer a live fact-check of President Obama’s first press conference of the year, which kicks off at 1:15 p.m. ET at the White House. Watch the press conference, which takes place as Republicans in ten states are...

The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Santorum says when his grandfather came to the U.S. in 1925, 'there were no government benefits'

On a number of occasions, Rick Santorum has used speeches to tout the theme of self-reliance and limited government, including one claim about government programs at the time his grandfather immigrated to the United States. Here’s an excerpt from his Feb. 29, 2012, speech near Knoxville, Tenn.: "Eight or nine months ago, President (Barack) Obama, responding to Paul Ryan’s budget, gave a lecture on all these wonderful programs that Ryan was going to cut or change. Programs like unemployment insurance and food stamps and housing programs and Medicaid and Medicare. He listed them all. He ...

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Iran’s state-run news agency reported earlier today that Iran’s leaders have announced they will allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency into its Parchin military site. IAEA officials were not allowed to visit the site last month. The IAEA report released in November reported...

President Obama will try to divert some attention away from his Republican rivals today, holding his first White House news conference of  the year as voters head to the polls in 10  Super Tuesday  contests. Obama’s last  news conference was in November during the  Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said it will give the U.N. nuclear watchdog access to its Parchin military complex, ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday, a site where the agency believes Tehran pursued high explosives research relevant to nuclear weapons. An International Atomic Energy Agency report last year said that Iran had built a large containment chamber at Parchin, southeast of Tehran, to conduct explosives tests that are "strong indicators" of efforts to develop an atom bomb. ...

President Barack Obama is aiming mortgage relief at members of the military as well as homeowners with government-insured loans, the administration's latest efforts to address a persistent housing crisis.

Compiled by ABC News’ Jackie Fernandez, Jayce Henderson, and Amanda VanAllen SUPER TUESDAY USA Today’s Susan page: “Super Tuesday: Will Romney be able to seal the deal?” The Super Tuesday contests are headed toward a split decision, but the biggest election night on the Republican presidential...

President Barack Obama is holding his first news conference of the year in the midst of a modestly improving economy but in the face of international challenges that could test the current recovery as well as his presidency.