The presidential campaign of Rick Santorum ended with $2.2 million in debts and only $1 million cash on hand, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday.

That amount of debt is up $300,000 from the $1.9 million the Santorum campaign reported at the end of March. The report for March was filed just 10 days before Santorum suspended his campaign citing a lack of funds to keep going. He had $1.8 million cash on hand at the time.

Santorum's unexpected string of victories put a strain on his limited organization as he tried to compete with the well-financed machine run by Mitt Romney. The big spending from the pro-Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future, put further pressures on Santorum's campaign.

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By Ross Kerber

May 20 (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduates on Sunday to take the radical step -- at least for their generation -- of tearing their eyes away from their smartphones and computer screens.

"Take one hour a day and turn that thing off," Schmidt told graduates at Boston University, where he received an honorary degree and was applauded by an audience that had grown up relying on the technology company's search engine, e-mail and other services.

"Take your eyes off that screen and look into the eyes of the person you love. Have a conversation, a real conversation," Schmidt said.

Schmidt's advice came midway through his remarks and provided context around his broader message that electronic tools such as social media are positive forces. He said that "a distinctive feature of your new world is that you can be unique while being completely connected." That feature, he said, is a "fulfillment of the American dream."

Google executives are comfortable with broad statements, having made "Don't be evil" a business motto and battled governments over Internet freedoms.

In his remarks, Schmidt did not address policy issues or business topics such as last week's initial public offering of Facebook Inc, in many spaces a Google rival. Schmidt also offered traditional sentiments that included urging graduates to reach high and not be afraid to fail.

He also emphasized they will be armed with technology as never before. "You are emblems of the sense of possibility that will define this age," he said, adding that, "If you're awake, you're online, you're connected.

"Some of you are probably tweeting this speech right now."

On Twitter, Miles Branman, who identifies himself as a Boston University student, quoted another part of Schmidt's speech and wrote: "Listening to Eric Schmidt of Google, advising us to write the code for all of us (the world) at #BU2012 Commencement."

Also on Twitter, Boston Univesity Dean of Students Kenn Elmore wrote: "Eric Schmidt works it at #BU2012 Commencement."

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NEW YORK -- Franklin Foer is returning as editor of the New Republic, the first major shake-up at the political magazine since Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes purchased it in March.

Richard Just -- who's been with the New Republic for eight and half years and took over as top editor when Foer left in Dec. 2010 -- is leaving the magazine.

"I'm so proud of what we accomplished over the last year and a half during some of the toughest financial times the magazine has ever had," Just told The Huffington Post on Sunday.

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PITTSBURGH -- Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn't.

Geisinger Health Systems is looking for more facts on the debate.

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AS THIS newspaper went to press, Facebook was about to become a public company. It will be one of the biggest stockmarket flotations ever: the social-networking giant expects investors to value it at $100 billion or so. The news raises several questions, from “Is it worth that much?” to “What will it do next?” But the most intriguing question is what Facebook’s flotation tells us about the state of the public company itself.At first glance, all is well. The public company was invented in the mid-19th century to provide the giants of the industrial age with capital. That Facebook is joining Microsoft and Google on the stockmarket suggests that public listings are performing the same miracle for the internet age. Not every 19th-century invention has weathered so well.But look closer and the picture changes (see article). Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s young founder, resisted going public for as long as he could, not least because so many heads of listed companies advised him to. He is taking the plunge only because American law requires...

NEARLY a year-and-a-half after the revolution that shook the Arab world, Egypt is poised to take another stride on the bumpy road to democracy. The recent spectacle of an Islamist candidate and his more secular-minded rival arguing it out for several hours on television before an audience of millions was historic (see article). On May 23rd, 52m voters in the most populous Arab country, 82m-strong, will be entitled to vote for their president. If no candidate among the 13 runners wins more than 50%, a run-off between the top pair will take place a month later. By the beginning of July, Egypt should have its first democratically elected head of state. If the vote passes off peacefully and cleanly, it will deserve a huge hurrah.It has not been easy. The process has been bungled by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, a cabal of senior soldiers. At times the SCAF has seemed reluctant to cede power. It has played tricks on the democrats and looked the other way or connived at human-rights abuses. It has made a hash of...

FOR 20 years NATO has wooed the Kremlin, with disappointing results. The alliance has repeatedly said it does not regard Russia as a threat and has forsworn putting nuclear weapons (or indeed anything else significant) in member states that were once part of the Soviet empire. Indeed, so keen was NATO not to offend Russia that for the first few years after the newcomers joined in 2004, it made no plans to defend them.Yet Russia’s behaviour to NATO is becoming nastier. The chief of the general staff, Nikolai Makarov, recently spoke openly about a first strike against future American missile-defence installations in Poland and Romania. Russia has conducted ostentatious military drills on its border with the Baltic states, NATO’s most vulnerable members. Vladimir Putin, newly reinstalled in the Kremlin, has gone back to bashing the West. He is shunning NATO’s Chicago summit next week (and also the G8’s, even though his hosts moved that one from Chicago to make him happier). Residual cold-war thinking is exemplified by Russia’s espionage efforts at NATO’s Brussels headquarters, where its military observers are rather...

NOT long ago, the BRICs were lionised as fast-growing superpowers-in-waiting. These days Russia is portrayed as a corrupt petrostate. India is ensnared in red tape, unable to muster the political will to break free. The mighty Chinese economy has slowed in recent weeks (see article). Even South Africa, which considers itself to be the “S” in BRICs, seems sluggish and hidebound next to the gazelles to its north.Now it is Brazil’s turn. Much is being made of Brazilian threats of huge fines and prison sentences against executives of Chevron, an American oil company, after a small leak of oil off the coast. Critics have taken to complaining about Brazil’s expensive welfare state and dependence on commodity exports. Its torpid economy ground to a halt in the middle of last year. Admittedly officials say that they deliberately cooled the economy, to drive down an overvalued currency and astronomic interest rates. Yet their expectation of growth of 4.5% this year and a bit more next looks implausible.Does Brazil deserve the backlash? Some of the...

Chicago Police in riot gear began swinging batons at angry “Black Bloc” protesters who were throwing sticks and bottles back at them at Michigan and Cermak — where a mostly peaceful march erupted into violence. Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy was near the front line — without a helmet. He was directly behind the front row of officers.

A law enforcement source Sunday said the group beaten at a Tinley Park restaurant Saturday was made up of white supremacists, and those who assaulted them were protesters attacking their beliefs.

Firefighters put out a two-alarm fire at the fieldhouse of Indian Boundary Park, 2500 W. Lunt Ave.

A CTA driver was critically injured and eight other people were hurt early Sunday after a bus and a Chicago Police squad car collided, leading to a chain reaction crash involving other vehicles. The crash happened at 11 p.m. near 79th and Halsted, Gresham District police said. A No. 8 Halsted which was headed southbound collided with the squad car heading eastbound, CTA spokeswoman Molly Sullivan said. The crash led to a chain reaction that injured people in nearby vehicles. A total of nine people were hospitalized following the crash, including the bus driver, who was in serious-to-critical condition, Fire …