The decrepit condition of an east Detroit home owned by Michigan Rep. John Conyers’ family reportedly has driven up the insurance rate for at least one of the neighbors.  FOXNews.com [Continue]

A proposed bill in Michigan would amend the law to penalize the use of an imitation firearm in a crime if its required colored markings are removed, disguised or concealed. If passed, the bill would also ban real firearms from being doctored to look like a toy. Joshua Rhett Miller FOXNews.com [Continue]

As riots over the accidental improper disposal of the Koran led to seven deaths by Wednesday, two senior NATO military officials stressed that it was because of clandestine communications written into the Korans in the first place that a decision was made to have them destroyed by U.S. troops. Justin Fishel FOXNews.com [Continue]

A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization looking to spice up the 2012 election wants to use the latest technology to create the first online-based nominating process for a third and independent candidate to challenge President Obama and the GOP. Garrett Tenney FOXNews.com [Continue]

Mitt Romney leads in delegates but a surge by Rick Santorum in recent days has the Republican presidential frontrunner once again trying to cast an opponent as the flavor of the week — and stave off a potential loss in a state critical to proving his electability in a general election. FOXNews.com [Continue]

Under the Obama plan, the new taxes would be used to fund government outlays to encourage a more equal distribution of wealth either as direct government spending or in the form of tax subsidies given to businesses seen as desirable by the president, like manufacturing firms making products that comply with pending and proposed environmental [Continue]

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is drawing a disproportionately high amount of campaign funds from people who have given him the legal maximum, weakening his ability to raise money from such proven donors as the GOP nomination fight drags on. FOXNews.com [Continue]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to ramp up diplomatic efforts against President Bashar Assad’s regime on a trip to North Africa this week, as some countries begin to explore the possibility of arming Syria’s rebels FOXNews.com [Continue]

Laying down an election-year marker in the debate over taxes, the Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and to seek an even lower effective rate for manufacturers, a senior administration official says. FOXNews.com [Continue]

The government’s new consumer-watchdog agency is launching a probe into costly overdraft fees charged by big banks. FOXNews.com [Continue]