Quick: What's the national minimum wage? If you're, say, one of three Republican candidates running in Missouri's U.S. Senate primary, you might be hard pressed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7cIEMHYG0E to remember it. (It's $7.25) But if you're one of about 173,000 people living in Missouri, you can probably rattle it off the top of your head. That's the number of people in Missouri-- enough signatures to put the measure on the November ballot--who signed a petition to raise the state's minimum wage from the national average per hour to $8.25 in 2013, and provide for cost-of-living adjustments in the future.

GOP underdog tops frontrunner Mitt Romney in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado.

A cat named Hank is running for office in the US state of Virginia, in a mock campaign that is becoming an internet sensation.