Star Spangled Staggers

The legitimacy of the election result in New Jersey will be undermined as residents are still struggling to cope with the damage and devastation of SuperStorm Sandy.

Your guide to the American election: when each state declares, who is likely to win it, and what kind of hot dogs you need.

In Florida, the Democrat charge is that Republicans are trying to stop black people from voting.

"Naming and shaming" employers who don't pay the living wage is likely to have disappointing results.

When right-wing spinners try to attack mathematics itself, you know they're running scared.

Unemployment rate up 0.1%

With power still out, hitherto hidden communities emerge - people are actually meeting each other.

Congress must overcome its partisan rifts.

Hurricane an undecided voter.

Director Joss Whedon makes his case for Mitt Romney.

Will Trump take up the offer? (No.)

Nicky Woolf liveblogs tonights debate.

Romney's gaffe has legs.

Adam Taylor got a month's readers in a day thanks to a link from the Drudge Report. But, he wonders, is the Conservative icon's power waning?