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  • Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano predicted Tuesday that airline passengers in the future will no longer be instructed to remove their shoes at airport security. But the technology to scan shoe-wearing passengers for bombs does not yet exist and may not be available soon.
  • GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday laid out a wide-ranging economic proposal. Romney announced his plan inside a giant truck warehouse in Nevada.
  • A parliamentary committee in London summoned four former top officials for Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire to face questions about the tabloid phone-hacking scandal there. Those former executives contradicted previous testimony from their old boss: James Murdoch.
  • Take 800 pounds of chicken, 500 pounds of onions and add carrots, bok choy and peanuts. And you've got the world's largest stir fry. Yes, the people at Guinness World Records keep track of this. The frying pan at the University of Massachusetts was 14 feet across.
  • Sources familiar with what the White House is considering tell the AP the president will call for a one-year extension of a payroll tax cut for workers and an extension of expiring jobless benefits. Republican leaders ask for a meeting with Obama.
  • New Mexico wants to make itself a home for new technology. And so it's welcoming a tech company that's building an entire new city — with no residents. The model metropolis would be designed to test everything from renewable energy to intelligent traffic systems.
  • U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has appointed Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) Commissioner Terry Holliday to the National Assessment…
  • With mail volumes falling and the nation's top postmaster projecting that the U.S. Postal Service could lose up to $10 billion this year, it's clear that the USPS is in dire need of an extreme makeover. Here are five ways to fix the system.
  • At a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee meeting, Sen. Enzi (R-WY) is expected to vote for nearly $700 million in funding for autism research and treatment.
  • The debate, the first for the Texas governor, is set to get started at 8 p.m. ET.
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