Jurors in the trial of Allen Stanford said on Monday they couldn't come to a decision on whether the financier had carried out a $7 billion ponzi scheme, but they changed their mind on Tuesday and convicted him on all but one of 14 criminal counts.
Ruth Madoff, who's being featured on 60 Minutes in the first interview she's done about her husband's crimes, says "I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening."
Cartoonist Lisa Benson gives her take on Social Security's 'terrible odds'
Scaring seniors is reckless and wrong, unless you're struggling in the polls
Attacking Rick Perry for his comments on Social Security might not help Romney
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