A Missouri woman knew her 13-year-old neighbor was depressed and suicidal when she sent cruel Internet messages to the teenager, ...

Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad ...

With the United States reevaluating strategy in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is telling allies that additional ...

Attorney General Michael Mukasey was hospitalized but conscious and alert early Friday after collapsing during a late-night speech ...

President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state as early as next week, a new milestone ...

The number of soldiers seeking help for substance abuse has climbed 25% in the past five years, but the Army's counseling program ...

Now what? That's the question for millions of volunteers who worked to elect Barack Obama and for the organization that mobilized ...

A hospital accreditation team that evaluated the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital's substance abuse counseling program ...

Democrats expanded their House majority with help from a flood of last-minute campaign cash including from groups that have ...

A trial that highlighted violence among biker gangs ended after two men with the Hells Angels were found not guilty of attempted ...

Nearly 300 families in Mississippi have returned to hotels as FEMA closes the last of its emergency housing sites in the state.

In 123 areas, 40% or more homeowners don't have a mortgage, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Census data.

Though battling incurable brain cancer, Sen. Edward Kennedy returned to Capitol Hill this week. He's a man on a mission that ...

Votes in California, Florida and Arizona that bring to 29 the number of states whose constitutions ban same-sex marriage are ...

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