Sen. John McCain cements his front-runner status in the Republican presidential field with a string of big wins on Super Tuesday. On the Democratic side, the race remains much as it was: a neck-in-neck battle between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, each of whom scored victories.
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The number of racial harassment claims filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rose 24 percent in 2007, an increase that came in a year when there were several racial controversies, including the Jena Six case in Louisiana. There was also an outbreak of noose displays.

For the first time, the Bush administration acknowledges waterboarding three terrorism suspects, an admission that draws Democratic demands for a criminal investigation. Critics say waterboarding -- which involves a person being strapped down and having water poured over his face -- amounts to torture.

Critics bash a bill to prohibit restaurants from serving the obese in Mississippi, which has the highest obesity rate in the country. One of the proposal's authors says it was meant only to call attention to "the No. 1 problem" in the state. But another state legislator calls it "totally the wrong approach."