“Local governments” on The Daily Caller

CHICAGO (AP) — Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel officially announced his candidacy for mayor of Chicago Saturday, promising to fight any tax increase for city residents. (more)

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Californians may have rejected legalizing recreational marijuana, but voters across the state are more than ready to reap revenue from the state’s largest cash crop. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Hoping to drum up support for independent merchants, American Express’ CEO said Monday that his company will promote “Small Business Saturday” on the weekend after Thanksgiving. (more)

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Democrat Dan Malloy has won Connecticut’s gubernatorial election after days of back-and-forth over vote totals and irregularities, yet his Republican opponent is reviewing the numbers to see if he can make up the margin. (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan health workers say an epidemic that may be malaria has killed dozens of people, decimating three villages of the Yanomami Indians, whose struggle for survival in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest has attracted worldwide support. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents who ensnared a suburban father in a terrorism sting involving a fictional subway bomb plot have turned their attention to figuring out what may have made the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen turn against his adopted country. (more)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A day after Gov. Chris Christie killed the nation’s largest public works project, an underwater rail tunnel linking New York City to its populous New Jersey suburbs, he said Thursday that it’s time to focus on badly needed improvements to the state’s roads and bridges. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s federal police on Thursday announced they had arrested a drug gang member who detonated a car bomb that killed three people in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. (more)

CHICAGO (AP) — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is set to give up his influential national post Friday to begin a run for Chicago mayor, a job he has long coveted but won’t win unless he persuades voters he’s still one of them. (more)

PHOENIX (AP) — The mayor of Nogales was arrested Tuesday by FBI agents on multiple charges including bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering, Arizona’s attorney general said. (more)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Despite Taliban rocket strikes and bombings, Afghans voted for a new parliament, the first election since a fraud-marred presidential ballot last year cast doubt on the legitimacy of the embattled government. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is defending former eBay executive Meg Whitman’s record-breaking spending in the California gubernatorial race. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials want to take their smoking ban outdoors. (more)

MEXICO CITY — The movie that Mexican director Luis Estrada is putting out for his country’s bicentennial is bluntly named “Hell.” (more)

CINCINNATI (AP) — City Council members in Cincinnati on Thursday approved an ordinance banning the sending, reading or writing of text messages while driving. (more)

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Big Brother’s not watching anymore. At least not the pool. (more)

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the end of American combat operations Tuesday leaves his country independent and an equal to the United States and he assured his people their own security forces will protect them. (more)

KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq (AP) — A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The state of New Jersey has settled federal civil fraud charges of failing to inform bond investors that it had not met obligations to its largest pension plans, federal regulators said Wednesday. (more)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he has never seen anything like the flood disaster in Pakistan, and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the 20 million people affected. (more)