A tentative deal has been reached in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against San Dieo Mayor Bob Filner and the city of San Diego. Local residents and the Democratic National…
Their aircraft have been flying the annual Red Flag Alaska training drills that end Friday, along with U.S. and Australian forces. The exercise has included simulated combat maneuvers in which…
Union Pacific asked a federal judge this week to declare it has the authority to install the cameras under the railroad’s existing labor agreements. Kansas City Southern railroad won a…
Contaiminated water is leaking from some of the steel storage tanks at the wrecked Fukusima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, raising fears that more radioactive water could start leaking.Kyodo News/Associated Press…
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, before a sentencing hearing in his court martial. The military judge overseeing Manning's…
The National Security Agency says it collected thousands of emails and other Internet communications from Americans with no terrorist connections by gathering up bundled Internet communications from fiber optic cables…
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be put under house arrest if he is released from prison after two years in custody. Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi ordered the house…
Syrian anti-government activists are accusing the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad of launching a chemical attack that killed at least 100 people in a Damascus suburb. The United States…
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, before a sentencing hearing in his court martial. The military judge overseeing Manning’s…
Journalists covering the turmoil in Egypt are coming under increasing danger from police and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Five journalists have been killed in the past week in…
The findings are from a draft of the 5th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report obtained by USA TODAY. The IPCC is a United Nations group that is the planet’s…
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has been shaken by recent bombings in Beirut bringing a sense of fear and unease to a community that has been largely spared the violence plaguing…
That’s why the Pentagon is looking for a contractor to upgrade the existing Afghan database to determine who is serving in the military, and whether those troops can read and…
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says her fellow justices aren’t the most technologically advanced people. She said justices still send messages to each other with paper memos, rather than emails.Michael…
Coverage costs still are climbing faster than wages. That means, in many cases, that a bigger portion of the average paycheck is sliced off for insurance instead of being deposited…
European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano talked on his online blog about how he nearly drowned during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station last month. He says he felt…
The acknowledgment is contained in documents obtained by the National Security Archive through a Freedom of Information Act. The archive, which is based at George Washington University’s Gelman Library in…
After calling nearly 90 witnesses in 11 days, prosecutors said they had completed their case during Maj. Nidal Hasan’s trial. Hasan also is accused of wounding more than 30 people…
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says the election of moderate President Hasan Rouhani has provided a good opportunity for world powers to…
White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest says President Barack Obama has called a meeting to discuss whether or not to continue U.S. aid to Egypt. The Obama administration has…
A Pakistani court has indicted former Pakistani President and military chief Pervez Musharraf on charges in connection with the assassination of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007. The indictment…
USA TODAY contacted the 50 states, and 19 had estimates for how many of their uninsured residents they expect will buy through the exchanges. About 48 million Americans were uninsured…
The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed the American ambassador and left three other Americans dead was cited as a reason for closing some 20 American embassies…
Political leaders in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Jordan have sided with the Egyptian military and secularists who backed the July 3 ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. On…
Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia also said at a town hall meeting in the Shenandoah Valley that he’ll do everything he can to ensure the House never takes up…
Hannah Anderson’s paternal grandmother was left $112,000 by the man suspected of kidnapping the 16-year-old California girl. James DiMaggio was shot and killed by FBI agents in a shootout in…
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan spoke up during his court-martial Monday, questioning a witness and challenging the prosecution’s definitino of “jihad.” Hasan is on trial in the 2009 shooting rampage that…
Underscoring the growing anger over Mohammed Morsi’s ouster, suspected Islamic militants ambushed two minibuses carrying off-duty policemen in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, forcing the men to lie on the sand and…
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, right, says he will start publishing more stories about National Security Agency surveillance programs after his partner, David Miranda, was detained by British authorities for several…
