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The race is crucial for Hillary Clinton and John McCain. In last-minute campaigning, Clinton struggled to avoid a highly damaging second straight defeat in the Democratic presidential race. Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney fought hard for victory in New Hampshire, where neither could afford to lose.

Sen. John McCain claims victory in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary. McCain's victory is a stunning comeback for a candidate who was all but written off last summer. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in second.

Opposition supporters riot in Kenya after President Mwai Kibaki names new members to his cabinet, ending hopes of negotiations for power-sharing with Raila Odinga. Almost 500 people have died since the election Dec. 27 returned Kibaki to power. He is accused of stealing the election.

How did Sen. John McCain manage to make 150,000 votes enough to win South Carolina when the 250,000 votes he got in 2000 left him a loser to George W. Bush? He had a lot of help from Fred Thompson.

Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius, has died of kidney failure at a hospital in Iceland. He was 64. Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov talks with Melissa Block about Fischer's influence on the chess world. While in recent years Fischer seemed to have slipped into madness, his impact on the game is still unquestioned.

Plummeting stock markets around the world are affecting Wall Street, the international economy and individuals in a variety of ways. We break this down and examine why it's important to know what exactly a write-down is.

Florida is next on the Republican presidential program, and all of the big names are arriving ahead of the vote a week from Tuesday. But one major GOP contender has been working the state all month, counting on a breakthrough there to overcome the influence of the early contests: former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

When Nevada moved its caucuses up to January, the idea was to prompt debate on Western issues, such as water and energy. Instead, with the state facing the nation's highest home foreclosure rate and higher-than-average unemployment, the economy has been the No. 1 issue.

A tornado touched down Wednesday evening near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, prompting passengers to take shelter and disrupting hundreds of flights. There were no reports of injuries.

President Bush travels to the countries of U.S. Persian Gulf allies — Bahrain and Kuwait — where he visits military personnel and gets an update on the war in Iraq from Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. He is due to visit the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.