While significant progress has been made since the storm hit two weeks ago, relief efforts are still underway with Governor Andrew Cuomo at the helm, announcing plans to ask the federal government for $30 billion to help the hardest hit state recover from Hurricane Sandy.

President Barack Obama will regain his seat in the White House after receiving 274 electoral votes just after 11 p.m. on Tuesday night. Each president only needed 270 of the 538 electoral college votes to secure the win.

Now in its last few hours, the U.S. presidential race is somewhat neck-and-neck.The focus of both the Republican and Democratic campaigns is to win over undecided voters by any means, whether that be through a pop singer's performance in a blue mini dress or a mass last-minute virtual prayer event.

The New York City marathon will not take place this Sunday, the mayor's office announced this evening.

Some Republicans have taken issue with the endorsement of President Obama by Former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Due to Hurricane Sandy's violent winds and deluge of water last night, much of the Northeast United States has been submerged in water, shutting down public transport, city hospitals and schools.

After the term "Romnesia" was coined by those in the Obama camp after the second presidential debate, many wondered how much Republican candidate Mitt Romney's facts would fare against President Obama's at the third and final debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fl.

The American people saw a more energized and more aggressive President Obama battling an on-edge, slightly belligerent Governor Romney at last night's presidential debate held at the Hofstra University campus in Hempstead, New York.