The talks aim at a deal that curbs Iran’s atomic program in exchange for an end to the nuclear-related sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Negotiators have been holed up for…
Boehner says he doubts Congress can reach agreement by break
BERLIN – The top U.S. intelligence official in Germany has left the country, a week after the government in Berlin asked him to go. U.S. Embassy spokesman Peter Claussen told…
Some Californians getting mixed message about watering lawns
It was the first major Israeli ground offensive in Gaza in just over five years and came after Egyptian-led efforts to broker a cease-fire failed. Earlier on Thursday, 13 Hamas…
President urges greater public-private cooperation
Ukraine: Malaysian jetliner downed by pro-Russian rebels
SAN FRANCISCO – Federal authorities have charged FedEx Corp. with assisting illegal pharmacies by knowingly delivering dangerous drugs to customers without prescriptions. The Department of Justice announced the charges Thursday.…
Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong walks away from the lunar module to explore the surface of the moon, becoming the first man to step onto another planetary body 45 years…
A Palestinian man sits outside the home of Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar after it was damaged in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City Wednesday.Khalil Hamra/Associated Press Israel said it…
Immigrants who have been caught crossing the border illegally are housed inside the McAllen Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas, where they were processed on Tuesday. More than 57,000 unaccompanied…
WASHINGTON – The House voted Wednesday in support of making it easier for banks to do business with legal pot shops and providers of medical marijuana. The 236-186 vote rejected…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, is accusing Senate Democrats of trying to “create divisions where there aren’t any” by pushing a bill to overturn a Supreme Court…
David Simas, President Barack Obama’s political director, left, and Rob Nabors, deputy chief of staff, accompany the president as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.…
WASHINGTON – The United States is considering imposing unilateral sanctions on Russia over its threatening moves in Ukraine, a shift in strategy that reflects the Obama administration’s frustration with Europe’s…
Graffiti covers a former Army Reserve Center in Westminister, Md., where the Department of Health and Human Services was considering sending youth who illegally entered the United States. House Republicans…
President Barack Obama visited the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Va., Tuesday, where he said he supports House and Senate bills that would keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent…
And now, findings from a new nationally representative survey, exclusive to USA TODAY, suggest that while some do have regrets, many older adults also have some lessons to offer those…
MOSCOW – A subway train derailed Tuesday deep below Moscow’s streets, twisting and mangling crowded rail cars at the height of the morning rush hour. At least 21 people were…
North Korean men ride in a farmer’s wagon in North Korea’s South Hamgyong province. North Korea has struggled to obtain tractor fuel for more than two decades, and because the…
Palestinian Suma Abu Mahsen, 7, Tuesday stands by a damaged wall of a house following an overnight Israeli missile strike to a nearby transition center for newly released convicts in…
The action Tuesday by the State Water Quality Control Board came after its own survey showed conservation measures to date have failed to achieve the 20 percent reduction in water…
The Army has reassigned Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to regular duty at the U.S. Army North at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in Texas, the same location where he has…
$2.5B to be provided for citizen relief
Officials say the fast-growing Moccasin Hill Fire in southern Oregon has destroyed homes and forced dozens of evacuations.South Central Oregon Fire Management Partnership/Associated Press The destructive Moccasin Hill Fire –…
Friends may share more genes than with strangers
Obama “We’re going to continue to do everything we can to facilitate a return to the 2012 cease-fire,” Obama said at a White House dinner celebrating the Muslim holy month…
WASHINGTON – Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who spent nearly five years as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan, was returned to regular Army duty Monday and will be made available…
Comic book everyman to take a bullet meant for gay senator
