The Finish Line: New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio won 73% of the vote to be elected the city’s first Democratic mayor in 20 years. He ran against Mayor Bloomberg’s detested “stop and frisk” police techniques, but his …

1776: To the cheers of construction workers and spectators, the spire was set this morning on the new One World Trade Center building, bringing the height to a symbolic 1776 feet. The spire itself is 408 feet, weighs 758 tons, …

Give Me Liberty: The long lurid trial of 32-year-old Jodi Arias, a California photographer, ended in Phoenix with a 1st degree murder conviction for killing her ex boyfriend. Evidence included naked photos of the defendant and a one-hour recording of …

Money, Money: The Dow Jones index closed above 15,000 for the first time in history yesterday as the stock market races ahead of economic recovery for millions of unemployed Americans. The market is giving up some gains this morning. National: …

National: The three women held prisoner in a Cleveland house for 10 years or more were released from the hospital this morning. One of them is Amanda Berry, whose case was widely publicized when she disappeared at age 17 after …

  World: Syrian state television reports that Israeli rockets struck a military research center in Damascus. Israel has not claimed responsibility, but did admit attacking a shipment of missiles inside Syria Friday. Also in Syria, pro-government forces have killed at …

Bombers: Autopsy results show that Tamarlan Tsarnaev died of gunshot wounds and blunt force trauma to his head and torso the night of a shootout with police in Watertown, Mass. Tsarnaev was hit by police gunfire and run over by …

GitMo: President Obama in a news conference renewed his call to shut the terrorist holding center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “It hurts us in terms of our international standing, it lessens cooperation with our allies on counter-terrorism efforts, it is …