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A bomb squad investigated a report of a suspicious package after police evacuated four of six concourses at Miami International Airport for several ...
Some relatives of Muslim 9/11 victims worry the flap over a mosque near Ground Zero is feeding a revival of Islamophobia they felt in 2001.
Democratic congressional candidates face a political landscape even rockier than those in 1994 and 2006 that ended with election upheavals ...
College students use a number of strategies to prevent their female friends from engaging in risky sexual behavior after a night of heavy drinking, ...
Americans will take to the roads and skies for the Labor Day holiday in greater numbers than a year ago, thanks to low gas prices and pent-up ...
A visitor has to look closely to find it, but here, in a remote mountain forest of Southern California, is a sign of what's to come for state ...
Some veterinary hospitals approach felines as if they're more like small dogs than a separate species with its own unique needs.
The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records ...
A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants ...
Hurricane Earl is powerful Category 4 storm packing 140 mph winds and coastal residents in its path need to take action now, FEMA Administrator ...
An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.
Two days before Labor Day weekend and one day before the anticipated arrival of Hurricane Earl, many tourists were evacuating their North Carolina ...
Major mortgage lenders will now give state and local governments the right to buy foreclosed properties before they go on the market, HUD sa ...
Health care spending this year has grown at its at the slowest rate in a half-century, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds.
Investigators will begin recovery of the failed technology at the heart of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.
A new report on the condition of the USA's state highways finds that they are in the best shape now than they have been in nearly 20 years.
New study says cognitive stimulation has early benefits.
Ahead of an FDA meeting on the weight-loss pill, a study by Abbott Laboratories found it affects those with pre-existing cardiovascular disease. ...
The unemployment rate rose in nearly half of the nation's 372 largest metro areas in July, as the pace of hiring slowed from earlier this ye ...
Single, childless women in their 20s are finding success in the city: They are outearning their male counterparts in the USA's biggest metropolitan ...
Police in Maryland say a gunman is inside the Discovery Channel building in the Washington suburbs.
The number of immigrants coming to the USA illegally every year has plummeted in the first significant decline in two decades, according to a ...
Powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging ...
California lawmakers have rejected a bill seeking to ban plastic shopping bags, after a contentious debate over whether the state was going too ...
The Los Angeles County coroner's office says a 15-year-old girl who collapsed during the Electric Daisy Carnival rave in June died as the result ...
Several schools have banned rubber bracelets that have a cancer-awareness message some say is in poor taste: "I love boobies."
A former Osama bin Laden aide who stabbed a federal prison guard in the eye was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison after telling the court he's ...
Providing transportation for sterilization, working to ban puppy auctions and rescuing the horribly abused are just three projects that pet lovers ...
A helicopter chartered by the Department of Fish and Game plunged into a travel trailer and crashed Tuesday on a downtown street in the small ...
Storms were forecast to continue moving through the northern U.S. on Tuesday, while tropical storm activity remained high in the Atlantic Oc ...
