The first votes in Tuesday’s US presidential election produced a tie as nationwide polls showed Barack Obama and Mitt Romney neck and neck.
While schools and public transport have reopened, tens of thousands of people are still without electricity a week after Hurricane Sandy hit.
It has been a hectic weekend for foreign journalists and the White House press corps on the campaign trail in Ohio.
Studies show that Americans believe the economy is important, but they largely still vote according to race and class. Gary Younge reports.
Amid the chaos of the US election campaign’s closing days, Ohio has become a test centre for the growing science of political advertising.
Letting taxpayers fund parties directly could revive the rotten system – and it would be cheaper too, writes George Monbiot.
US President Barack Obama raced back to the White House on Monday ahead of Hurricane Sandy, which threw election endgame plans into turmoil.
A global poll for the BBC World Service has revealed that 20 out of 21 countries preferred Barack Obama to his challenger.
Obama has a variety of different routes to victory on November 6, but Romney’s hopes are next to moribund unless he wins in Ohio.
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have spent the weekend hammering out their foreign policy battle lines ahead of their final debate on Monday.
Barack Obama told a crowd of about 9 000 in the battleground state of Virginia that Romney was backtracking on his conservative-leaning promises.
Barack Obama may have had the upper hand in the latest presidential debate, but the real loser was politics, writes Gary Younge.
The US debate tradition began in 1858 when, during the senatorial campaign, Abraham Lincoln challenged an opponent from the audience.
The 2012 US presidential election campaign is being fought with tweets, hashtags, Facebook updates and emails in a battle for digital supremacy.
Mitt Romney took his campaign into the weekend with a spring in his step, as Obama went behind closed doors to prepare for a crucial debate.
A world in which Mitt Romney holds the single most powerful office may sound a very different place from that of President Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney charged ahead with his economic arguments in spite of unemployment dropping to its lowest level since President Barack Obama took office.
Mitt Romney has raised Republican hopes of an election comeback with a spirited and aggressive performance in the first televised presidential debate.
The Palm Beach County elections office first reported finding 106 potentially fraudulent registration forms earlier this week.
Arizona is a red state – red in rock and politics – and political red herrings are obscuring the issues in the desert state, writes Nikiwe Nikitsha.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, whose wealth is estimated at around $250-million, seems hemmed in by a comment over his taxes last year.
A deeply divided and unproductive Congress wrapped up its final business before November’s elections early on Saturday.
Mitt Romney’s battered presidential bid has been hit by a secretly recorded video in which he sets out views on the Israel-Palestine issue.
When people go out in Chicago, it transpires, they are more likely to get shot. The murder rate for the first half of the year was up by 38%.
President Barack Obama will this week look Americans in the eye and say he deserves four more White House years despite national economic despondency.
Dirty Harry himself nearly hijacked Mitt Romney’s presidential nomination with a rambling diatribe against Barack Obama – addressed to an empty chair.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s chief weakness is that he sounds like a chief executive.
As predicted by US President Barack Obama, the Republican National Convention has given a platform for opponents to vent their rage against him.
It is no coincidence Mitt Romney chose to hold his nominating convention in Florida, as the state could well decide the result of the US elections.
The Republican party has made it almost impossible for millions of black and Hispanic Americans to get the IDs they need to vote in November.
When it came to the biggest decision of his run Romney defied his stereotype as cautious politician eager to please an audience he’s speaking to.
The US vice-presidential candidate has denied he profited from a 2008 meeting with the Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke.