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Bill de Blasio won re-election handily. Democratic incumbents also won in Boston and Detroit. And Charlotte, N.C., elected its first female African-American mayor.

Years ago, retailers had an unofficial agreement: Black Friday would be the start of the shopping season. Then some stores started opening their doors and offering sales on Thanksgiving Day. That created some conflicts between consumerism and turkey consumption and now the pendulum is swinging back again.

"I regret my health has become an ongoing challenge," the 80-year-old Republican said Monday. His decision sets up a nonpartisan special election to coincide with the November general election.

The delay has stalled the Democratic presidential race — after a year of time, money and effort was expended. It has some real consequences and raises major questions.

Democratic presidential candidates are attending a major party celebration in Iowa, which was the setting that helped launch Barack Obama on his way to the White House 12 years ago.

Google and its YouTube subsidiary are settling allegations that YouTube collected personal information from children without their parents' consent, the Federal Trade Commission said.

A new report backed by the State Department found a 10 percent jump in students coming to the U.S. for higher education.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he never applied to West Point, although in his book, he had written that he was "offered a full scholarship" to the elite military academy.

It’s sticker shock turned upside down. Filling up your gas tank is almost pleasant as prices at the pump continue to fall. In St. Louis on Monday, a...

Amanda Filipacchi's novel is about a costume designer who wears a fat suit after a suitor commits suicide. It's structured as a mashup of an old Friends episode, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.