Ken Stanford

U.S. retail sales retreated in September as purchases of autos, gasoline, furniture and clothing slowed, a sign that recent job gains have yet to significantly boost consumer spending.

In the final weeks of a cross-country battle for Senate control, officials in both political parties are making multimillion-dollar advertising decisions that offer clues about where the real battlefields lie. But Democrats have pulled their ads in the Kentucky race while pumping more money into Georgia's.

More than 100 black candidates will be on the ballot in statewide and congressional races next month, a post-Reconstruction record that some observers say is a byproduct of President Barack Obama's historic presidency.

A mid-afternoon downpour pushed Tuesday's rainfall in Gainesville to more than 2.3 inches and similar amounts were reported elsewhere in north Georgia.

Walter John Victor, 97, of Dawsonville, died on Tuesday after a short hospitalization.

The United States and Russia vowed Tuesday to renew cooperation on a broad array of global security matters - including intelligence sharing on Islamic State militants - the even as the two powers remained deeply at odds over the crisis in Ukraine.

President Barack Obama does not plan to announce his choice for attorney general before the November elections, shielding the nomination from the midterm election politics while setting up a potential year-end showdown with the lame duck Senate.

Iraq's Shiite militias have abducted and killed scores of Sunni civilians with the tacit support of the government in retaliation for Islamic State group attacks, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as a suicide car bombing claimed by the Sunni extremists killed 23 people, including a Shiite lawmaker.

The Texas nurse who became the first person to contract Ebola on American soil said Tuesday that she is doing well as her hospital expressed optimism about her recovery.

A North Carolina company is voluntarily recalling several food products because they might be contaminated with an organism that can cause infections in some people, including young children.