It was a convoluted contest in New York that turned into an Election Day disaster for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Stay with us throughout the day as we file updates to the floor debate in the House of Representatives.

Hideki Matsui won't be there, but the House vote on health care reform is a World Series of sorts for fans of big-time politics.

Members of the local mosque in Killeen, Tex., say they hope good relations will prevail in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings.

The official jobless rate excludes millions of people who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want to be working full time.

Eight years of war have left people in Afghanistan exhausted, impatient and increasingly unsure that the Taliban can be defeated.

The closeness of his re-election may jeopardize the payouts, some as high as $400,000, that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has routinely given campaign workers.

Two government agencies are facing off over the right to regulate the popular online game World of Warcraft.

President Obama, extending condolences to Fort Hood, Texas, reminded Americans that people of “every race, faith and station” serve in the military — an oblique attempt to prevent a backlash against Muslims.

It is quickly becoming commonplace for people to spend a few dollars to get ahead in an online game or to give a friend a gift on a social network.

Survivors of the shooting say that in a few seconds, everything changed.

Officials were not prepared to say whether the attack was the act of a lone and troubled man or connected to terrorist groups, foreign or domestic.

Kimberly Munley, who brought down the gunman, was on her way to have her car repaired when she jumped into action.

In the Canyon of Heroes, teenage revelers stomped and hollered, horns blared and paper fluttered everywhere in the wind at the Yankees celebratory parade.

From towns large and small came reminiscences about some of the people gunned down at Fort Hood.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi raises funds in part to help re-elect her most vulnerable members, many from Republican-leaning districts leery of liberal health care proposals.

As an extra incentive to keep its bankers, Citigroup said it would grant one stock option at just above the current price for each share employees had accumulated.

In Lower Manhattan on Friday, the Yankees celebrated their 27th World Series championship with a parade.

The number of unemployed rose to 15.7 million in October, as 190,000 nonfarm jobs were lost, the government said, and economists do not expect relief until next year.

The American government has delayed food contributions out of fears they would be diverted to terrorists.