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Illinois, with its more upscale, well-educated and moderate Republicans, especially in the counties surrounding Chicago, was always favorable political terrain for Mitt Romney. It was no surprise that he won, but the margin was impressive. And he also showed strength among voters he has had trouble courting.

The Supreme Court recently said police overstepped their legal authority by planting a GPS tracker on the car of a suspected drug dealer without a search warrant. The decision set off alarm bells at the FBI, where officials are trying to determine whether they need to change the way they work.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case involving a Colorado man who was thrown in jail after telling Vice President Cheney in 2006 that the Bush administration's policies in Iraq were "disgusting." Even the Secret Service agents involved in the arrest disagree on what happened.

Enoteca Maria, an Italian restaurant on Staten Island, has no head chef. Instead, the owner brings in Italian grandmas to cook up the regional dishes they learned from their parents and grandparents.

Financial reports filed at the Federal Election Commission show that in February, Mitt Romney and a superPAC supporting him yet again spent more than all of his GOP opponents combined. But none of February's GOP contests translated into a fundraising bounce for the candidates.

Mitt Romney is inching closer to the Republican presidential nomination, winning Tuesday's Illinois primary by a significant margin. Illinoisans also voted in congressional primaries, with one race featuring two Republican incumbents facing off, and another in which a Democratic incumbent was challenged by a former member of Congress.

In the French city of Toulouse, police have a suspect in Monday's killing of three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi.

When Mitt Romney won the big Midwestern states of Michigan and Ohio, the margins were narrow enough that analysts were not impressed, given his huge advantage in money and organization. But in Illinois Tuesday night, even Romney's closest rival, Rick Santorum, did not come within 10 points.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley talks with Steve Inskeep about the latest developments in the French city of Toulouse, where police have surrounded a suspect in Monday's killing of three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi.