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Gas pump prices fall in wake of Sandy
The price of gasoline fell Tuesday after Hurricane Sandy left a wide swath of flooding, power outages and disrupted transportation in the eastern U.S.
Romney, Obama, talk of Sandy week before election
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney edged back into active campaigning on Tuesday while President Barack Obama stayed close to the White ...
Nature slams campaigns into real world
Suddenly, after drifting through months of confusing finger-pointing and iffy economic theory, the presidential candidates are getting walloped by an ...
Presidential race rained out even in sunny states
Crista Laughlin was a mile high and dry, but Superstorm Sandy still kept the 40-year-old Obama campaign volunteer from walking precincts or working ...
Nuclear plants shut down units as storm hits coast
Parts of two nuclear power plants were shut down late Monday and early Tuesday, while another plant — the nation's oldest — was put on alert after ...
Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake
As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's ...
Coastal areas bear brunt of Sandy's damaging wrath
A string of New Jersey's barrier islands got cut off from the mainland by storm surges. Crashing waves shattered part of a landmark fishing pier in ...
1 dead, captain missing after Sandy claims ship
When the Bounty set sail last week, the captain running the ship made famous in Hollywood adventure films believed he could navigate around Hurricane ...
Superstorm Sandy causes flooding in New York City
Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New ...
Mammoth storm Sandy plunges NYC into darkness
Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and ...
Nuclear plant shuts down unit as storm hits coast
Part of a nuclear power plant was shut down late Monday while another plant — the nation's oldest — was put on alert after waters from superstorm ...
Hurricane claims famous tall ship off NC coast
The final hours of the HMS Bounty were as dramatic as the Hollywood adventure films she starred in, with the crew abandoning ship in life rafts as ...
Hurricane upends final week of Mass. Sen. campaign
The powerful storm ravaging the East Coast is upending the final week of campaigning in Massachusetts' grueling U.S. Senate race. Republican Sen.
Superstorm Sandy takes aim at Atlantic coast
Stripped of hurricane status but every bit as dangerous, the weather monster known as Sandy wheeled toward the New Jersey and Delaware coast Monday ...
Sandy unlikely to damage US economy, analysts say
Airlines have canceled thousands of flights, stranding travelers around the globe. Insurers are bracing for possible damages of $5 billion.
Hurricane Sandy shuts stock trading for 2 days
Remember when President Grover Cleveland ran for a second consecutive term, Jack the Ripper spread terror in London and Kaiser Wilhelm II became ...
Romney scraps Monday night, Tuesday campaigning
Mitt Romney juggled politics and Hurricane Sandy's fury on Monday as he tweaked his campaign schedule and political rhetoric eight days before most ...
Forecasters: Sandy races toward NJ, Delaware coast
Forecasters say the eye of Hurricane Sandy is racing toward an expected landfall early Monday evening in southern New Jersey or Delaware. The National ...
Storm leads companies to postpone earnings reports
A number of major U.S. companies postponed quarterly earnings reports scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, as Hurricane Sandy barreled into the East ...
Hurricane Sandy grounds air travel in Northeast
Hurricane Sandy brought air travel to a halt in the Northeast Monday, grounding thousands of flights and upending travel plans across the globe.
Facebook, Twitter abuzz with hurricane chatter
Whether you call it Frankenstorm, Stormpocalypse or simply Hurricane Sandy, the giant weather system barreling into the East Coast is a favorite topic ...
Cuba's 2nd city without power, water after Sandy
Residents of Cuba's second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as ...