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- Rick Santorum won Republican presidential primaries in Colorado and Minnesota yesterday, as well as a non-binding vote in Missouri; Mitt Romney finished second in Colorado and Missouri, and third behind Ron Paul in Minnesota. [Washington Post]
- How Ed DeMarco, acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is blocking help for homeowners. [ProPublica]
- Greece missed yet another deadline to approve budget measures in return for a second round of bailout money. [Financial Times]
- China is considering investing $132 billion to help Europe resolve its debt crisis. [Bloomberg]
- Negotiations on extending the payroll tax cut that expires at the end of the month are going nowhere fast. [Politico]
- A news conference to unveil a foreclosure fraud settlement with the nation’s biggest banks was canceled at the last minute yesterday. [Washington Post]
- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke promised again yesterday that the Fed will prevent Europe’s economic woes from damaging the U.S. [CNBC]
- How the Minnesota Vikings plan to saddle taxpayers with the bill for a $1 billion stadium. [Huffington Post]
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