After losing the election last week, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney told campaign donors that he lost because Obama provided "gifts" to black, Hispanic and young voters.

An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday.

With almost all ballots in Florida counted, U.S. media on Saturday projected President Barack Obama the winner in that state four days after he won Tuesday's national election.

In response to a "special request" from some viewers, a TV traffic reporter in Tulsa, Okla., gave disappointed Mitt Romney supporters the driving directions to Canada.

A 106-year-old South Carolina woman voted for the first time ever in this year's U.S. presidential election, local media report.

After correctly predicting the results in 49 of the 50 states that have been called in the U.S. election (Florida remains too close to call), Nate Silver, the statistician behind the popular FiveThirtyEight blog, woke on Wednesday to find himself the poster child of what is sure to be a new data-driven approach to politics.