Election officials fear blocked roads like this one in Old Greenwich, Conn., could depress voting.
Along the Eastern Seaboard and beyond, elections officials are struggling to avoid storm-related voting disruptions.
Hurricane Sandy has cut off whole towns from basic information, supplies and electricity, leaving individuals who have lost everything increasingly desperate for help.
While FEMA is still viewed with caution, W. Craig Fugate has done much to shore up its image, in part through self-flagellation even as he races around storm-savaged regions.
Thousands of hourly workers took extreme measures to get to work following Hurricane Sandy with the fear that if they did not go to work , they probably would not be paid.
States will almost certainly request billions in federal aid, which could stir concerns about fraud.
Gov. Jerry Brown is finding the proposal, which would go to aid public education, is a tough sell with voters.
Religious groups and labor unions are among those working to persuade Latinos to vote against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 80, who has pursued illegal immigrants.
People recovering from meningitis in a national outbreak are now being diagnosed with epidural abscesses.
A state scientist says that a department involved in a lawsuit over the effects of fracking on drinking water did not request full test results.
In their accessories and the ceremony itself, Adrienne Baker and Austin Vitt of Chicago advocated same-sex marriage.
The male stereotype wrought by the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” may change rapidly, now that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has lowered the age for missionary service for women to 19.
For President Obama and Mitt Romney, a stubborn landscape of competitive states is producing equal shares of hope and fear amid conflicting signals about the election’s result.
Back-and-forth donations from a sliver of ordinary voters mirror the undulations of the swing electorate.
Virgil Goode’s third-party run for president is making some Republicans nervous in a crucial battleground state.
Nearly nine years passed before American forces reached their first 1,000 dead in the war in Afghanistan. The second 1,000 came just 27 months later, after a troop surge in 2010.
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teenagers talk about their lives in this weeklong series.
See the share of Americans’ income that comes from government benefit programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, veterans’ benefits and food stamps.
Browse data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.
The Maine Senate race has become so convoluted that at times it has seemed as if the candidates running against each other were Karl Rove and Michael R. Bloomberg.
Corn mazes have become big business night and day at some farms. In Milton, Tenn., Stan Vaught runs a corn maze on his family farm.
This series examines the expectations, disappointments and challenges that shape the lives of Donna Dove, her customers and the city they know intimately, Elyria, Ohio.
The United States is producing more grain than ever, for food, feed, and commercial applications like ethanol. But as other farm work has gotten safer, gruesome grain bin accidents persist.
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