Mikhail Gorbachev says he's feeling the effects of old age, but aims to stay active as long as he can.

Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan acknowledges that he was shocked when he and presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost last week's election. The Wisconsin congressman says President Barack Obama won fair and square.

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says she'll announce Wednesday whether she'll continue in her current position or step down after her party failed to gain the 25 seats it needed to win the House majority.

The nation's Roman Catholic bishops say they won't change their strategy on gay marriage or birth control coverage despite the outcome of the election.

Nevada's legislative races highlighted a tried and true rule of politics - money matters.

Republican leaders say the government can raise tax "revenues" without raising tax "rates."

Republican Sen. Dean Heller believes he and President Obama both won in Nevada because Nevadans could better relate to them than they could GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Only a couple of weeks after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, the man who would become his Republican challenger in the next election penned a New York Times column with a fateful headline: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."

The bungling of reports that powerful Britons sexually abused children has thrown one of the largest and most respected broadcasters in the world into a deep crisis.

Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future.

Vatican digs in after gay marriage advances in US, Europe by asking sarcastically, "Why not polygamy?"

The Northeast and the West Coast were never in doubt for Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney was always sure to win the South and rural Great Plains. Nothing was so certain in the Midwest.

Four days after the election, President Barack Obama can finally claim victory in Florida.

Tuesday's elections strengthened the political grip of Democrats in California, and Republicans in the Legislature are in danger of becoming mere spectators at the statehouse.

Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack and her Democratic challenger, Raul Ruiz, are awaiting elections' officials latest update of outstanding votes in their as-yet undecided congressional race.

Longtime Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack has lost her seat to Democrat Raul Ruiz, a Harvard-educated physician who mobilized the district's growing swath of Hispanic voters.

The newest members of the Reno City Council are set to have their first council meeting Wednesday.

President Barack Obama will hold a news conference on Wednesday, his first since being re-elected to a second term.

WSB reports that Usher took cellphone pictures of himself voting, then posted them on Twitter.

A White House official says President Barack Obama is inviting Congressional leaders of both parties to the White House next week for talks on how to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Republican Party must adapt better to rapidly changing demographics in the United States, saying the GOP sent "mixed messages" in the election campaign on immigration and women's issues.

A Texas official says a nephew of former President George W. Bush has made a campaign filing that is required for someone to run for office in his home state.

President Barack Obama will make his first postelection comments Friday about actions needed to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that could plunge the economy back into recession.

For the past two years, Wisconsin seemed to be the state where elections never ended.

Exit polls from Tuesday's election show that the voters have a plan: Consider raising taxes on the wealthy, but not everybody else. Shrink the government. Work harder on creating jobs and holding the line on prices, because they think economic worries are more important than cutting the deficit right now.