Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary testified Friday that he told administrators he saw Jerry Sandusky sexually molesting a boy but said he wasn't certain that it was intercourse.
With the last pre-caucus debate in the rearview, the Republican presidential candidates are hitting the ground in a mad dash to meet and greet voters before their minds are made up and they tune politics out.
By SCOTT SHANE FORT MEADE, Md. - A defense lawyer for Bradley Manning, the Army private accused in the most famous leak of government secrets since the Pentagon Papers, began a frontal attack during Private Manning's first court appearance here on ...
Facebook's Timeline feature went live worldwide earlier this week, in both your regular browser and in the Android and mobile web versions, but beware, once you activate the stream of memories, there's no going back.
By Jonathan Alter Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- All US ground troops will be out of Iraq by Dec. 31, and soon this sorry conflict will fade quietly into the past, the second-dumbest war in American history.
By Tom Miles and Douglas Busvine GENEVA/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia was admitted into the World Trade Organisation on Friday after 18 years of negotiation, finally binding it into the global economy two decades after the Soviet Union collapsed.
PARIS (Reuters) - Russia's draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria is unacceptable to France, but Moscow's recognition that the body must react to the bloodshed is a positive step, France's Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
December 16, 2011 Hundreds of Thousands Rally in Syria, 4 Reported Dead VOA News Activists say Syrian security forces killed four people on Friday as more than 200000 protesters rallied against President Bashar al-Assad's government.
By Deirdre Walsh and Tom Cohen, CNN President Barack Obama says lawmakers "should not" go home for vacation without first passing the payroll tax-cut extension.
Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry listens as he gets the endorsement of Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Nov. 29, 2011, during a campaign stop at Joey's Diner in Amherst, NH Justice's Civil Rights Division alleged that ...
By GARY FINEOUT AP TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Rick Scott's call to suspend FAMU's president has triggered an uproar, prompting hundreds of students to march on the governor's mansion late Thursday night.
WASHINGTON - Nine states will share $500 million in grant money won in a high-profile competition intended to jump-start improvements in early childhood programs, the Obama administration announced Friday.
By David Glovin and Joshua Gallu - Fri Dec 16 16:07:09 GMT 2011 Daniel Mudd, left, president and CEO of Fannie Mae and Richard Syron chairman and CEO of Freddie Mac listen to questions during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill ...
by Brian Bennett December 16, 2011 9:01 AM PST Follow @boliverbennett Well, well, looks like if you really want Google Wallet on your shiny new Verizon Galaxy Nexus it's yours for the taking.
By Jared Newman, PCWorld Dec 16, 2011 8:17 AM As 2012 winds down, speculation about the iPad 3 is ramping up. Although it's too early to paint a clear picture of Apple's next iPad, unconfirmed reports give us a sense of what to expect.
The saga of Carrier IQ and its tracking software installed on untold numbers of mobile phones on carriers in the US continues. Senator Al Franken started his investigation into carriers by sending out letters demanding to know what major wireless ...
That's according to a Reuters report noting that, perhaps a bit surprisingly, the Korean electronics giant -- also a major smartphone rival of Apple -- is producing the sophisticated A5 processing chip that lies at the heart of Apple's iPhone 4S and ...
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY British-American writer Christopher Hitchens— the combative and caustic critic, intellectual, atheist and self-defined "conservative Marxist" - died Thursday at the age of 62 at a Texas hospital.
By DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer Ah, Paris. City of Light. Land of romance. Gobbler of all the best Golden Globe nominations. Presented by overseas reporters based in Hollywood, the Globes may be a worldwide affair, but this time, they have a real ...
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By Arienne Thompson, USA TODAY Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol has taken Tom Cruise and his co-stars Paula Patton, Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg around the world - literally.
PLAYA VISTA, Calif. -- Thankfully for the Los Angeles Clippers, Chris Paul has a short-term memory when it comes to history. At his introductory news conference on the floor of the Clippers practice facility, Paul cited the Clippers' history as a ...
By Robert Klemko, USA TODAY Steelers LB James Harrison will serve his one-game ban for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Browns QB Colt McCoy after losing an appeal, the league announced Friday.
A criminal complaint was filed yesterday against Sam Hurd, the soon-to-be-former wide receiver of the Chicago Bears. It is a shocking account of a pattern of activity from a player well respected and seen as nothing like the one depicted in the ...
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News Russia's space agency (Roscosmos) says its unsuccessful Mars probe will fall back to Earth next month.
Medical experiments on chimpanzees are largely unnecessary and should be rare, concluded a report released Thursday from special panel of the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Science.
Some of the business community's toughest critics welcome efforts to ease requirements as the law is implemented. But advocates for patients and consumers voice frustration.
