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| 'A mess everywhere': East Coast struggles to recover Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:49 AM PDT  The subway is running in New York City, but power remains out in parts of the city; N.J. and Long Island are still suffering. Full Story | Top |
| NYC Mayor Bloomberg endorses Obama Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 12:18 PM PDT  New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is endorsing President Barack Obama for re-election, citing his leadership on climate change. Full Story | Top |
| Photos: New Yorkers face new battle -- the commute Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:00 AM PDT  Full Story | Top |
| In final push, Obama casts election as Bush vs. Clinton Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:23 AM PDT  Do voters in 2012 face a choice between Bill Clinton and George W. Bush? Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Penn St. president accused of Sandusky conspiracy Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 09:47 AM PDT  Graham Spanier was charged today with perjury and child endangerment, accusing him of overseeing a cover-up that allowed convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky to prey on nearly a dozen children. Full Story | Top |
| Syrian rebels kill 28 soldiers, several executed Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:22 AM PDT  The soldiers were killed in attacks on three army checkpoints around Saraqeb, a town on Syria's main north-south highway, a monitoring group said. Full Story | Top |
| Geraldo slams ‘GOP bloodlust’ over Benghazi Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:32 AM PDT  The talk show host slammed the politicization of the attack in Benghazi, firing off a series of tweets on the controversy being pushed by some conservatives. Full Story | Top |
| Interactive: What we search about when we search about politics Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 11:30 AM PDT  By filtering down to search queries that lead to publications with a political slant, we can expose the conspiratorial fringe of political news. Full Story | Top |
| Police: Ex-Yankee Pascual Perez killed in home Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 09:33 AM PDT  Police in the Dominican Republic say former major league pitcher Pascual Perez has been killed in his home during an apparent robbery. Full Story | Top |
| NY brides trying to save Sandy-soaked wedding plans Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:51 AM PDT ABC News’ Linsey Davis reports: They say it’s good luck if it rains on your wedding day, but all those brides-to-be whose walk down the aisle has been interrupted by Sandy might disagree. These brides are now facing their worst fears for their fairy tale... Full Story | Top |
| Officer allegedly Tasers 10-year-old at career day Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:25 AM PDT A lawsuit claims an Albuquerque, N.M., police officer stunned a 10-year-old boy with a Taser after he refused to wash the officer's car. Officer Christopher Webb was visiting the boy's elementary school for a career day on May 4 when the incident occurred, according to Courthouse News. During the presentation, Webb apparently asked a group [...] Full Story | Top |
| Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling turns 500 Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:24 AM PDT Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week in St Peter's Basilica in Rome. Full Story | Top |
| Video: Why (and how) did the salmon cross the road? Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:45 AM PDT In Mason County, Wash., the salmon aren't just swimming upstreamâ€"they're also swimming across the street. Due to heavy rains, local rivers are flooding and the confused fish are winding up in some strange places. And that's just fine with at least one local dog. The pooch, who must be thinking that Christmas came early, wanders [...] Full Story | Top |
| At least 23 killed in Riyadh fuel truck blast Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:36 AM PDT  A truck crash triggered an explosion that brought down an industrial building, Saudi state television reported. Full Story | Top |
| NYPD officer dies after saving seven family members Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:01 AM PDT  Artur Kasprzak helped move six adults and his 15-month-old nephew into his home's attic. He then went back down to the basement to look for his father. Full Story | Top |
| Mystery of Angkor Wat's huge stones solved Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 04:59 AM PDT The massive sandstone bricks used to construct the 12th-century temple of Angkor Wat were brought to the site via a network of hundreds of canals, according to new research. Full Story | Top |
| Reddit co-founder defends site, freedom of speech Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 06:40 AM PDT  The huge website has had quite a few months of attention-grabbing news - both positive and negative. Full Story | Top |
| Anti-Obama text messages linked to marketing firm Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 06:00 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversial Virginia marketing and polling firm appears to have used a legal loophole to bombard scores of Americans with unsolicited text messages berating President Barack Obama less than a week before Election Day. More than a dozen different messages landed on the screens of phone users late on Tuesday, originating from mysterious websites instead of phone numbers. They attacked Obama and Democrats on a variety of issues such as abortion, foreign policy, same-sex marriage and taxation. The domain names of those websites had been registered with GoDaddy. ... Full Story | Top |
| Photos: Sandy-spawned storms blanketing Appalachia with snow Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 07:00 AM PDT  Rob Kohler, an electrical line worker from Kokomo, Indiana, clears snow-laden power lines on October 31, 2012 in Terra Alta, West Virginia. Hurricane Sandy mixed with colder temperatures in higher elevations and dumped as much as three feet of snow in some places. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) Full Story | Top |
| All eyes on—where else?—Ohio Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:33 AM PDT  Since the final presidential debate, 15 polls have surveyed voter opinion in Ohio, the state that is more likely than any other to determine the election. President Barack Obama leads former Gov. Mitt Romney in 13 of them. The candidates tied in one, and Romney leads in one. Those last two polls were both conducted [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bulgaria claims to find Europe's 'oldest town' Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 11:32 AM PDT A prehistoric town unearthed in eastern Bulgaria is the oldest urban settlement found to date in Europe, a Bulgarian archaeologist said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
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