Bill Thompson

NEW YORK — Two years after resigning from Congress amid a lewd photo scandal, former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner announced in a video message Wednesday he is running for New York City mayor. "I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years after resigning from Congress in a lewd photo scandal, former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner announced in a video message early on Wednesday he is running for New York City mayor. "I made some big mistakes and I know...

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose once-shining political career collapsed after lewd online relationships with women forced him to resign from Congress two years ago, entered New York's mayoral race Wednesday with promises to make...

The Miami Herald's remaining employees closed down the newspaper's longstanding building at One Herald Plaza on Thursday night. Next home for the Miami Herald Media Company: Doral. The future of the 50-year-old building overlooking Biscayne Bay is...

Homer Glen has implemented a temporary moratorium on three unfinished subdivisions to the ire of some developers and residents. "None of these contractors or builders are the bad guys," Joan Pavlick, a resident of the unfinished Cypress Pointe, said...

Real Democrats don't whine. They fight. They figure out how to win in South Dakota. They elect people such as Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin to Congress, and Dick Butler and Curt Johnson and Bryce Healy and Steve Kolbeck and...

PIERRE – The Legislature’s special committee on redistricting decided on a work plan Wednesday that gives priority to the Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Indian reservation areas of South Dakota in drawing a new map of the state’s 35...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg loves to munch popcorn and makes shake-and-bake chicken when in a pinch. Though the multi-billionaire mayor can afford the finest meats, he's been known to put away a few hotdogs, which turns out to be a......

by Mark Silva One hundred years ago, black boys and girls attended school separately from white boys and girls, by law, in many parts of the United States, home of the free. One hundred years ago, black men and women......

The spin from Mayor Bloomberg's chief campaign spokesman is that oh, well, Democrat William C. Thompson Jr. had to fight for the Working Families Party endorsement. But behind the scenes, things weren't so mellow, according to the Voice's Tom......

Speaking of Bloomberg, did anyone notice Gov. Paterson's doubletalk on the mayor's plan to engage in the "absolute disgrace" of trying to circumvent term limits? Here's the statement he put out: "Mayor Bloomberg has been an exceptional leader and......

More voters want to change the law than allow Bloomberg to suddenly change the rules and get to run for a third term, according to a new Marist poll. The bad news for the current incumbent, who is due to......