al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader lashed out at President-elect Barack Obama in a new audio message Tuesday, accusing him of not doing ...

Forces from the U.S.-led coalition killed 32 armed insurgents during a clash in eastern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.

Israel has pasued its Gaza offensive for three hours Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the ...

Thousands of Iraqi security forces have been deployed to protect an estimated 2 million Shiite pilgrims joining a procession ...

The Department of Homeland Security will collect millions of new electronic records about private planes, imported cargo, foreign ...

Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that Russia had cut off all gas supplies through pipelines crossing Ukrainian territory, the ...

House and Senate leaders marked the first day of the 111th Congress by preaching bipartisanship Tuesday and promising to start ...

More than three weeks before Iraqis will go to the polls to elect their version of state legislatures, the campaigning here seems ...

Just before Christmas, a dude in a tricked-out big-boy truck roared into the parking lot of the little Rocky Mountain animal ...

Unless the next few months prove to be wet ones, tougher conservation steps and even water rationing from cities to farms could ...

Two weather systems rolling over opposite ends of the country likely will bring wet and wintry conditions today and tie up travel ...

Nearly 98% of emergency room physicians report that they believe some patients were victims of suspected excessive force by police, ...

New industrial plants and existing ones that increase emissions will have to install state-of-the-art pollution controls.

Army scientist Bruce Ivins behaved erratically in the weeks before taking his own life, according to new documents.

The surgeon general's office may be getting its first celebrity leader since C. Everett Koop left office in the 1980s: CNN's ...

A majority of Americans say Roland Burris should be blocked from taking a U.S. Senate seat and Illinois should hold a special ...

President-elect Barack Obama countered criticism Tuesday that his presumptive choice to lead the CIA lacks experience for the ...

California's Democratic leaders sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger an $18 billion deficit-cutting package on Tuesday.

From his office in a nondescript government building in downtown Washington, 30-year-old Inaugural Parade Director Peter Gage ...

During this leadership transition, USA TODAY answers reader-submitted questions about the presidential hand-off.