Posted: 10:23 AM The White House, the Senate, the tea party revolution in the House and 11 governorships are on the line Tuesday in a fantastically costly, relentlessly negative election that's being played out in unsettled economic times.
Posted: 10:42 PM The world's largest marathon has come to a dead stop.
Posted: 1:05 PM Motorists have been waiting in gas lines of nearly a mile at those stations in the New York area that still have fuel, and still have the power with which to pump it
Posted: 8:57 AM A Central Texas middle school teacher has been put on paid leave after an 11-year-old student complained his mouth was taped shut.
Updated: 5:57 PM U.S. employers added 171,000 jobs in October and hiring was stronger over the previous two months than first thought. The unemployment rate inched up to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent in September because the work force grew.
Posted: 7:02 AM Stock futures are mixed in light trading with attention riveted on the latest U.S. jobs report, a final glimpse at the nation's employment landscape before the presidential election.
Updated: 6:39 AM The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Hyundai and Kia overstated the gas mileage on most of their models from the past three years.
Updated: 6:57 AM It's the busiest day of the campaign for the two presidential candidates, their running mates and their wives, who are visiting seven of the swing states that will help determine Tuesday which man will occupy the White House for the next four years.
Updated: 6:57 AM There's some rare good news for New Yorkers in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.
Posted: 9:47 AM Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street after a pair of encouraging reports on employment.
Posted: 7:12 AM President Barack Obama dives back into campaigning after three days immersed in managing the federal response to the storm that battered the East Coast.
Posted: 11:16 PM It's beginning to sound like New York again. The closing bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange. Jammed busses crept along in snarled traffic because subway trains still aren't rolling.
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Updated: 9:38 AM Officials say the death toll from Superstorm Sandy has reached 50.
Updated: 8:35 AM Disney is paying $4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company behind "Star Wars," from its chairman and founder, George Lucas. It's also making a seventh movie in the "Star Wars" series.
Updated: 9:10 AM LOS ANGELES (AP) - The act of Congress is in the books, the bills are paid, the sculptures are being cast, and one of the biggest parades in the world will start a glory tour and countdown to dedication.
Updated: 8:48 AM A furious Hurricane Sandy began the westward lurch that forecasters feared and took dead aim at New Jersey and Delaware on Monday, washing away part of the Atlantic City boardwalk, putting the presidential campaign on hold and threatening to cripple Wall Street and the New York subway system with an epic surge of seawater.
Updated: 8:37 AM A former KBTX producer living in New York City says it's "eerie and quiet" in the city after Hurricane Sandy made landfall.
Posted: 10:35 PM It's no longer classified a hurricane, but that's doesn't mean much to the folks who are feeling the effects of superstorm Sandy.
Posted: 11:15 AM A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues.
Posted: 10:43 AM The FBI says the number of violent crimes reported to police decreased 3.8 percent last year to 1.2 million, the fifth straight year of declines.
Posted: 7:05 AM There had been plans to allow electronic trading to go forward today on the New York Stock Exchange, but with all mass transit shut down, getting people in and out of New York was determined to be too dangerous.
Posted: 7:00 AM The presidential race's final full week was turning into a scheduling nightmare as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney grappled with how to push on with campaigning while a massive hurricane churned toward the East Coast.
Posted: 11:03 PM An unmanned space capsule carrying medical samples from the International Space Station has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, completing the first official private interstellar shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA.
