Posted: 6:54 PM New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and officials on Long Island have decided to start rationing gasoline.

Posted: 6:52 PM Obama is expected to urge Congress to act, including passing a bill that would prevent Bush-era tax cuts from expiring for all but the wealthiest Americans.

Posted: 2:48 PM Jared Loughner, the shooter who killed six people, and gravely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona last year, has been sentenced to seven consecutive life terms in prison, plus 140 years for his crimes.

Posted: 12:57 PM Voters in Washington, Oregon and Colorado legalized some recreational use of marijuana.

Posted: 7:07 PM With a second term ahead of him, President Barack Obama faces the urgent task of working with Congress to address an impending financial crisis that economists say could send the country back into recession.

Posted: 6:58 PM Americans retained the fractious balance of power in re-electing President Barack Obama, a Republican House and a Democratic Senate.

Posted: 6:57 PM Spanier was arraigned Wednesday morning by a Harrisburg district justice on charges including perjury, obstruction and conspiracy.

Posted: 6:55 PM The failed Republican vice presidential nominee said Wednesday that he will be seated when the new House convenes in January.

Posted: 7:38 PM The 350-acre fire in Cajon Pass was 5 percent surrounded by late afternoon, and news helicopters overhead showed little smoke.

Posted: 7:36 PM Nearby staff responded "within seconds" on Sunday but quickly determined the dog attack was fatal and didn't send handlers into the enclosure to intervene.

Posted: 1:53 PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to visit Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and New Hampshire on this last day before the election. He'll go back to Ohio Tuesday.

Posted: 1:52 PM Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan.

Posted: 1:49 PM Prices are expected to fall in the coming weeks.

Posted: 1:34 PM President Obama is joined by rocker Bruce Springsteen at a campaign rally in Wisconsin Monday.

Posted: 10:08 PM Police say a 2-year-old boy visiting the Pittsburgh zoo was killed when he fell off a railing that his mother had put him on top of it to view a pack of African painted dogs.

Posted: 7:07 AM From an airport runway on a cold New Hampshire morning, Mitt Romney faced 2,000 supporters and delivered the same speech he had given the day before -- three times on the day before, actually.

Posted: 7:05 AM President Barack Obama has a problem with Florida's important Puerto Rican voters.

Posted: 7:03 AM One million ads. More than $1 billion. Ten battleground states.

Posted: 10:23 PM The government says the public should stay away from free New York fuel stations until emergency responders get their gas.

Updated: 7:24 AM Two weeks after the election, Vice President Joe Biden will turn 70, with 40 years in elective office. But win or lose, this may not be Biden's last campaign.

Posted: 7:21 AM Michigan voters will have their say on several ballot issues related to collective bargaining, but none is more specifically tailored to a particular industry than Proposal 4.

Posted: 7:18 AM One of two New York hospitals that had to evacuate patients at the height of Superstorm Sandy is set to begin reopening.

Posted: 7:16 AM President Barack Obama is telling Americans impacted by Superstorm Sandy that the country will be there for them as long as it takes to recover and rebuild.

Posted: 10:24 PM His statement Friday came after mounting criticism that this was not the time for a race.

Posted: 12:04 PM Money raised during the "Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together" telethon will go toward the American Red Cross relief efforts.