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Five Republican presidential candidates square off for their final debate before New Hampshire voters go to the polls Jan. 8. At the Fox News forum, they spar on taxes, spending and the buzzword of this year's campaign: change.

A multitude turns out for the funeral procession of Benazir Bhutto, the assassinated Pakistani opposition leader. She was interred at the grave of her father. Onlookers were silent as the plain wood casket holding her body passed through Karachi, the city where she was born.

Democrat John Edwards narrowly edged Hillary Clinton for second place in the Iowa caucuses, behind Barack Obama. Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, is already in New Hampshire to rally voters for next week's primaries.

Mike Huckabee was Iowa's choice among Republican presidential hopefuls. But Mitt Romney isn't settling for second place. He says he plans to come back to Iowa in the general election as the Republican nominee. The next challenge for the candidates is New Hampshire's primaries on Tuesday.

Iowa's voters caucus on Jan. 3. The state's 1,784 precinct caucus locations will receive Democratic voters who apportion delegates to various candidates. It takes place in public. But Republicans choose the winner by popular vote, putting a candidates name on paper and dropping it in a box.

Farias was discovered alive in Houston last month. Details that have emerged since then indicate that Farias had in fact returned home and was living with his mother.

Riot police fire water cannons and tear gas into crowds gathering for a banned rally in Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday. Brother Paul Brennan offers an update from Eldoret, where thousands fled.

The journey took 10 days and covered 215 miles.

Mike Gravel, former Alaska senator and Democratic presidential hopeful, talks about his upcoming campaign stops. Gravel trails behind the other candidates in fundraising and poll numbers, but his campaign videos have attracted a following of younger voters.

Bush administration lawyers told a federal judge Friday that there's no evidence that the CIA violated the judge's order when it destroyed videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaida suspects. Lawyers for detainees said the destruction of the tapes makes them fear that other related materials are not being saved.

Scientists are studying the Greenland glacier to see how quickly it might melt in a warming world. A team camping near a lake on the surface of the glacier cobbled together an impromptu instrument to try to measure how quickly water was rushing out of the lake to the ocean.

Congress has voted to freeze the alternative minimum tax. Created in the '60s to keep the wealthy from avoiding taxes, the tax has never been adjusted for inflation. Marketplace's Janet Babin discusses how the tax has been increasingly hitting the middle class.

New Jersey became the first state in more than four decades to abolish the death penalty. Gov. Jon Corzine signed into law a measure that replaced the death sentence with life in prison without parole. The law spares eight men currently on death row.

We've barely had time to interpret the results of last week's Iowa caucuses, and now it's New Hampshire's turn. What statement — if any — will the voters in the "Live Free or Die" state make Tuesday? How will the independents vote? What will the results mean for the winners — and for the losers? And where do the candidates go from here?

Arizona Sen. John McCain has won the N.H. GOP primary, largely because of the support of the state's independent voters. McCain also did well among Republicans disappointed with President Bush, according to exit polls.

Presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) emerged as the victors of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. Political analysts discuss New Hampshire's results and look ahead to Michigan, South Carolina and Super Tuesday.

The Supreme Court hears arguments in a lethal injection case from Kentucky. Two death-row inmates say that the way lethal injection is practiced by the state amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. This is the first time in more than a century that the court examines a method of execution.

Candidates are in New Hampshire, madly campaigning for Tuesday's primary. Reporter Dan Gorenstein talks with New Hampshire voters about who they like just hours before they cast their ballot. Many are undecided.

With just a day to go before the New Hampshire primary, Michele Norris checks in with former North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on his campaign bus. Given the recent polls and his rival's financing, Edwards admits he has a tough hill to climb.

Peter Galbraith, former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, was also a personal friend of Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated Thursday. Galbraith expresses sentiments over Bhutto's death and reflects on his longtime friendship with her. The two were schoolmates.

A group of undecided voters in New Hampshire work their way toward being decided. New Hampshire holds the nation's first presidential primary Jan. 8. The voters were paying attention to ABC News and Facebook debates over the weekend.

The Department of Homeland Security began to take shape five years ago, merging two dozen agencies and almost 200,000 federal employees. More than $200 billion later, the department faces low morale, missed deadlines and continued concerns about its abilities.

Hillary Clinton addressed the growing tension between her and presidential rival Barack Obama on Monday, telling a gathering in New York honoring Martin Luther King that the civil rights visionary made it possible for both a woman and a black man to run for president.

Bank of America Corp. agrees to buy Countrywide Financial for $4 billion, a deal that rescues the country's largest mortgage lender. It comes just months after Bank of America plugged $2 billion in Countrywide during the height of the summer's global credit crunch.

President Bush visits Saudi Arabia, a nation that has struggled to maintain good relations with Washington and rein in Islamic radicals at home. The al-Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, sparked animosity and suspicion toward Saudi Arabia, the country of origin for many of the hijackers.