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President Obama spoke to the nation from Afghanistan, where he made a surprise nighttime visit today to sign a new security agreement and pledge to wind down the decade-long war over the next two-and-a-half years.
Users in the United States and the U.K. can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world's biggest social networking site, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The links should make it easier for people who want to donate their organs to sign up.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, on the eve of suspending his roller coaster presidential bid, said in an interview with USA TODAY that he will embrace Mitt Romney's candidacy Wednesday and is ready to campaign for his former rival's election.
The partnership spells out the U.S. relationship with Afghanistan beyond 2014, covering security, economics and governance. The deal is limited in scope and essentially gives both sides political cover: Afghanistan gets its sovereignty and a promise it won't be abandoned, while the U.S. gets to end its combat mission but keep a foothold in the country.
Documents found in Osama bin Laden's compound detail a number of terrorist plots, including planned assassinations of President Obama and U.S. military commander David Petraeus.
Republican Mitt Romney said today that it was "totally appropriate" for President Barack Obama to claim credit for taking out Osama bin Laden a year ago but that his decision to politicize a unifying event for the country was not.
President Barack Obama made an unscheduled trip to Kabul and, according to the press pool traveling with him, is expected to sign a strategic agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai a year after the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
Emily Howell's frequent trips to the Planned Parenthood clinic on East Seventh Street here have less to do with preventing unwanted pregnancies and more about keeping cancer from creeping back into her body.
The suspect in the Trayvon Martin murder case may be in hiding, but he's highly visible on the Internet. George Zimmerman's defense team has set up a Twitter account, a Facebook page and a website for the neighborhood watch volunteer, who has been in seclusion following death threats. Zimmerman is awaiting trial for killing Martin, 17, on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla.
Nigerian violence A motorcycle-riding suicide bomber drove into a convoy carrying a top police official Monday in northeast Nigeria, detonating his explosives and killing at least 10 people, rescue officials said.
In fresh attacks on symbols of government power, twin suicide bombs exploded Monday near a government security compound in northern Syria and rockets struck the central bank in Damascus, killing nine people and wounding 100. The regime and the opposition traded blame, accusing each other of dooming a United Nations plan to calm violence that has largely failed so far.
U.S. and Chinese officials are ironing out a deal to secure American asylum for a blind Chinese activist who fled house arrest, with an agreement likely before Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives this week, a U.S. rights campaigner said Monday.
A year ago, Navy SEALs slipped into a heavily fortified compound in Pakistan and killed the face of international terrorism. There is a growing fear, however, that Osama bin Laden's death didn't even seriously wound the international terrorism threat.
Ohio officials are clearing the way for the return of five surviving exotic animals to a woman whose husband released dozens of wild creatures last fall, then committed suicide.
Three generations of a family died in a horrifying crash just a few miles from home when the SUV they were traveling in plunged more than 50 feet off a highway overpass and into a ravine on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo, killing all seven aboard, including three children.
An Australian billionaire said Monday he'll build a high-tech replica of the Titanic at a Chinese shipyard and its maiden voyage in late 2016 will be from England to New York, just like its namesake planned.
President Barack Obama gave a steely defense of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his re-election credentials a year later, saying Monday that it is appropriate to mark an anniversary that Republicans charge is being turned into a campaign bumper sticker.
A published report says Apple Inc. uses subsidiaries in Ireland, the Netherlands and other low-tax nations as part of a strategy that enables the technology giant to cut its global tax bill by billions of dollars every year.
Police are encountering more domestic violence related to the sluggish economy, a national survey of law enforcement agencies finds.
President Barack Obama scattered the barbs during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner as he poked fun at White House races past and present, the Secret Service and Donald Trump. Obama revisited last year's dinner, which took place as Navy SEALs were sent to capture and kill Osama bin Laden.
As the morning sun spilled over the New Orleans skyline, musicians kicked off International Jazz Day with a concert that included ritual drumming and a string of jazz performances.
A California man has sued BMW North America and a motorcycle-seat maker claiming that a four-hour round-trip ride on his 1993 BMW bike with a "ridge-like" seat gave him "a severe case of priapism (a persistent, lasting erection)" that's lasted 20 months and counting.
One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. New York City's tallest skyscraper today.
The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards broke down on the witness stand Monday as she recounted how the candidate asked the couple to hide an affair he was having and justified using wealthy donors' money to do it.
In a political development with global implications, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled Sunday that he could call early elections soon -- a decision that could delay Mideast peace efforts for months and cast more uncertainty on Israel's deliberations over whether to attack Iran's nuclear program.
The killing of Osama bin Laden, first presented as a moment of national unity by President Barack Obama, has become something else: a political weapon.
The surprising escape of a blind legal activist from house arrest to the presumed custody of U.S. diplomats is buoying China's embattled dissident community even as the government lashes out, detaining those who helped him and squelching mention of his name on the Internet.
Girder by girder, glass pane by glass pane, the rise of what is now New York City’s tallest skyscraper was documented.
When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers' paths had nowhere to hide. Now, many of those families are taking an unusual extra step to be ready next time: adding tornado shelters to their homes.
The head of the United Nations observer mission in Syria called on President Bashar Assad and the country's opposition on Sunday to stop fighting and allow a tenuous cease-fire to take hold.
Deadly yacht race A yacht involved in a race off the coast of California and Mexico apparently collided at night with a much larger vessel, leaving three crew members dead and one missing, a sailing organization said early Sunday. A search is under way for the fourth crew member. It was the state's second ocean racing tragedy this month.
As a teenager in Watertown, N.Y., Murray Pfaff tried buying a number of classic cars in need of some TLC. Each time, his dad, Eugene Pfaff, discouraged him from taking on such projects so he could stay focused on schoolwork. "He tried to buy an old Cadillac in high school and I said, 'Over my dead body,' " said Eugene Pfaff, 92.
Wedded bliss: It's rare, as many will attest, but nevertheless, it's the hallmark of the first year of marriage for royal stars Will and Kate, whose destiny as a future king and queen looks ever more brilliant since the dazzling day a year ago Sunday when they were married.
Secret Service agents are often portrayed in popular culture as disciplined, unflappable, loyal -- and male. A spiraling prostitution scandal that has highlighted the dearth of women in the agency that protects the president and dignitaries has many wondering: Would more females in the ranks prevent future dishonor?
Here is what you do after a massive tornado slashes the heart of your city, killing scores of citizens, wiping away landmarks of a lifetime. You rethink everything.
Once a tense rivalry, the relationship between President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has evolved into a genuine political and policy partnership. Both sides have a strong incentive in making the alliance work, especially in an election year.
The death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of U.S. Navy commandos a year ago was a setback to al-Qaeda, but the Islamic terror organization remains a potent threat around the world, intelligence experts say.
When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers' paths had nowhere to hide. Now many of those families are taking an unusual extra step to be ready next time: adding tornado shelters to their homes.
President Barack Obama scattered the barbs during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner as he poked fun at White House races past and present, the Secret Service and Donald Trump.
A top White House aide said President Barack Obama wants to strike an "appropriate balance" between advancing human rights and maintaining U.S. relations with China, the first public comments by the administration on its potential involvement in harboring a Chinese activist on the eve of diplomatic talks between the two world powers.
Authorities say an out-of-control SUV plunged off a highway into a ravine on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo in New York City, killing seven people aboard, including three children.
Three sailors are dead and the Coast Guard was looking for a fourth Sunday after a yacht apparently collided with another vessel during a race off the coast of Southern California.
The self-proclaimed "Ice Cream of the Future" apparently will have a future after all.
Kellogg's is facing anger on social media sites because of complaints that its popular Kashi brand of cold cereals doesn't live up to the company's "natural" billing on advertisements and box covers.
A teacher in southern New Jersey who oversees a classroom where a father says his autistic son was verbally abused by adults has been placed on paid leave, according to district officials. The father, Stuart Chaifetz, posted clips on YouTube days ago of secretly recorded audio that caught one adult calling his autistic 10-year-old son "a bastard."
One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday.
President Obama got the first - and biggest laughs at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night.
Matt Pizzo has a law degree, can-do attitude, proven leadership skills, and expertise in communications and satellite technology from his four years in the Air Force. Yet the 29-year-old has been told that he's overqualified, too old, too nontraditional, and that he's fallen behind his civilian contemporaries.
Body found After surrounding an underground bunker in Washington state for 23 hours, a police SWAT team used explosives to blow their way inside Saturday, where they found the body of a man believed to be survivalist Peter Keller.
Less than a week before the annual U.S.-Chinese diplomatic and economic talks, relations between the powers risked sharply deteriorating Saturday with an escaped Chinese activist reportedly under U.S. protection and a U.S. fighter jet sale to Taiwan now being considered.
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