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As a feat of event planning, there is nothing quite like an election-night party, which could be an evening of triumph or fiasco, a celebration or a wake.

In some ways, the tragic events in the Northeast from Hurricane Sandy and discussions around the upcoming fiscal cliff are likely to overshadow this lackluster jobs report as it generally just showed things are improving...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline, the nation's largest gasoline and heating oil pipeline, said on Saturday it was delivering oil products to three oil product terminals in Linden, New Jersey, with six more expected...

(Reuters) - The 16-million-barrel International-Matex Tank Terminals oil terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey has partially re-opened following power losses due to superstorm Sandy, its operator said on Saturday.

Among the wreckage removed in Joplin, Mo., after the 2011 tornado was 2,600 tons of asbestos debris. "That was a small community," said Linda Reinstein,...

While much of New York has power back and subway service has resumed, hundreds of thousands of people in New Jersey remain without electricity and some are being told it could be several more days until its restored..

In 2000, a financially struggling plastics company that supplied car parts received emergency funding from auto manufacturers General Motors and Ford Co. The plastics company...

Syrian rebels attacked a military air base on Saturday in an attempt to separate the country’s biggest city, Aleppo, from its capital Damascus, which is President Bashar al-Assad’s stronghold.

Running throughout the Romney-Ryan budget is a suspicion that by helping people you make them weaker, that the poor are easily swayed into behaving irresponsibly. The sad thing is, Romney and Ryan are the irresponsible o...

New York had to back off its promise of free gasoline, courtesy of the Department of Defense, and told the public to stay away until first responders could fuel up.

Basketball and football carry on as they’re considered less likely to draw crucial resources away from neighborhoods destroyed by superstorm Sandy.

This is an interesting little development out of the MIT labs: Predicting what topics will trend on Twitter A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance and offers a new technique for analyzi...

President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney are spending the last days of the election campaigning through states which could swing either way come Tuesday.

Two-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel takes CNN's John Defterios for a drive.

As the U.S. East Coast assesses the damage wreaked by Hurricane Sandy, photos have emerged revealing a very changed coastline. As NBC's Brian Williams said...

WASHINGTON -- Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch rewrote economic history during a Saturday appearance on Fox News, criticizing President Barack Obama for "the 2009...

Why Nations Fail is grand history in the style of Jared Diamond. Provocative and fun, the theme is that the reason nations fail or succeed is not economic policies, geography, culture, or value systems -- but rather poli...

Jane Fonda and boyfriend and Richard Perry have sold a home in West Hollywood for $8.5 million, the Los Angeles Times reported. Fond has reportedly been living in the 5-bedroom, 7-bathroom home with Perry, who has worked...

He can earn million-dollar gains without anybody knowing. He can execute make-believe trades by sending fake emails from hacked computers. He doesn't always lose money....

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in some of his toughest remarks on foreign investment yet, signaled a willingness to block foreign purchases of Canadian companies if other countries are not open to Cana...

U.S. stocks turn lower on Friday, giving up early gains as cheer over better-than-expected employment data give way to nervousness ahead of the U.S. presidential election next week.

The majority of New York subway service was restored Saturday, easing a tremendous transportation crunch in recent days after superstorm Sandy knocked out power and flooded tunnels.