Points to disagreements in Iowa speech.

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Mitt Tries to Break Up Barack and Bill

Plan speech in Iowa for Tuesday.

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Romney and RNC Plan Debt Attack

All nine states — Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin — voted for President Obama in 2008 but have since seen big Republican gains.

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9 Swing States, Critical to Presidential Race, Are Mixed Lot

D.C. United maintained its unbeaten run Saturday night, and at long last, claimed a winning streak. It’s just two victories in a row, but after faltering 21 times since June 2009 to win consecutive MLS regular season matches, United rebounded from relinquishing two leads and defeated the Houston Dynamo, 3-2 , in front of 13,975 at RFK Stadium. Read full article > >

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D.C. United tops Houston Dynamo for first MLS win streak in nearly three years

Twenty-thousand physicians in four Midwest states received a glimpse into their financial future last month. Landing in their e-mail inboxes were links to reports from Medicare showing the amount their patients cost on average as well as the quality of the care they provided. The reports also showed how Medicare spending on each doctor’s patients compared with their peers in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. Read full article > >

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Medicare moves to tie doctors’ pay to quality and cost of care

Before filmmaker Lee Hirsch began shooting the documentary “Bully,” he walked into a school board meeting in Sioux City, Iowa, and asked for permission to film students and staff for months — while retaining full editorial control. Read full article > >

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Why a bullied student, a parent and a school official opened their lives to filmmaker

Redistricting in Iowa has pitted two longtime members of the house, Tom Latham, a Republican, and Leonard L. Boswell, a Democrat, against each other.

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In Full Swing: Latham and Boswell Campaign for Same Iowa Seat

Iowa, the country’s top producer of pork and eggs, attracted national attention this month when it became the first state to adopt a law that’s designed to curtail the undercover operations of animal rights activists on farms. Read full article > >

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Iowa law sets up fight between animal activists, farms

Love is in the air in Iowa — or at least the diplomatic equivalent of it. When Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived in this small town late Wednesday, carefully chosen welcoming gifts were on hand, nostalgic remembrances were on everyone’s lips and hearts all around were ready for the wooing. Read full article > >

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Xi Jinping visits Iowa, where the diplomatic equivalent of love is in the air

“Smash,” which NBC hyped as heavily as the Super Bowl, premiered Monday night. The show is many things: a musical within a show, a heavy-on-the-glitter-but-light-on-the-grit look behind the scenes of Broadway and an ode to every musical theater trope you know and possibly love, from the wide-eyed Iowa girl aching for her big break to the slimy director who wouldn’t mind breaking her in. Perhaps you expected this. Read full article > >

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Playwright Grote takes a turn at writing for ‘Smash’

The powerful political groups known as super PACs, whose heavy spending has become a significant factor in the presidential race, are also beginning to play a role in congressional races around the country. The groups have set off a scramble among candidates in both parties, who are now struggling to cope with a flood of negative ads run by organizations that are outside their direct control. Read full article > >

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Super PACs target congressional races

Perhaps Mitt Romney’s defeat had less to do with the place and more to do with the timing.

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FiveThirtyEight: Did Gingrich’s S.C. Win Break the Rules?

MANCHESTER, N.H. It’s going to be mean and dispiriting, this campaign. We’ll be assailed with talk of “ European socialism ” and “ vulture capitalism ” — not “hope” and “change” — and the months between now and November will seem an eternity. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s clear road out of New Hampshire

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Tuesday will be a day of reckoning for at least one of the Republican presidential hopefuls: Jon Huntsman , whose quirky and quietly rogue candidacy hinges entirely on a strong showing in the nation’s first primary. Huntsman went for broke here, skipping Iowa and spending virtually the entire campaign in a state that seemed more receptive to his moderate views. For months, he has been trundling from town to town in New Hampshire wearing a silver belt buckle and cowboy boots, delivering mild-mannered critiques of the president and occasionally breaking into his fluent Chinese. Read full article > >

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For Jon Huntsman, New Hampshire primary could be now or never

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — Republican front-runner Mitt Romney warned his supporters Saturday against complacency as his rivals prepared to gang up on him in a nationally televised nighttime debate with the goal of breaking his stride toward the GOP nomination. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, looking to translate his near-victory in Iowa into a solid second-place finish here on Tuesday, kept up his punishing pace of appearances Saturday. As others rested before the debate, he campaigned into the late afternoon, sharply criticizing Romney and dismissing questions about whether he would have a more difficult time defeating President Obama than Romney would. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney under attack from other GOP candidates ahead of N.H. debate