One of the longest cross-border drugs-smuggling tunnels between Mexico and the US has been found by authorities in San Diego, American officials say. They say the 800m (874 yards) tunnel was used to transport an "unprecedented cache" of cocaine and marijuana. It was the 13th sophisticated secret tunnel found along...
Remains found Thursday in a remote part of Shenandoah National Park have been tentatively identified as a Virginia firefighter missing since this past Friday. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller confirmed in an email to the Associated Press that the body is likely that of 31-year-old Nicole Mittendorff, of...
After it was announced yesterday that Michael Strahan was leaving "Live with Kelly and Michael" to take on a full-time role at "Good Morning America," the NFL Hall of Famer took some time out on Wednesday's show to share an emotional message with his fans. "Kelly's off today," he started,...
Volkswagen will pay "substantial compensation" and buy back cars in US as part of a deal to settle the diesel emissions scandal. The details were announced in a California court after a federal judge gave VW and regulators a deadline to agree a fix for the cars. Last year, US regulators discovered that VW cars were...
LONDON — When President Obama arrives in London late Thursday from his trip to Saudi Arabia, the main chatter here is whether he will wade into the heated debate on whether Britain should vote to leave the European Union. The president has made no secret of his wish for the United Kingdom to remain in the 28-member...
THE Saudi government may have been linked to the planning of the September 11 attacks, according to sensational new evidence. The possibility of Saudi involvement in the bloody terror attacks on New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in Washington DC could confirm long-held suspicions. And it has now emerged that...
KREMLIN officials have accused the US of intimidation after an American missile destroyer sailed close to the Russian border as tensions between the superpowers reach boiling point. Furious Moscow envoy Alexander Grushko used a NATO meeting to warn that Moscow will use “all necessary measures” against the US...
Actress Jennifer Aniston is once again People magazine’s World’s Most Beautiful Woman, the magazine announced today. The 47-year-old actress tops the list of fellow celebrities in a special double issue that hits newsstands on Friday. She said she was flattered when she learned she would be on the cover. "I...
Police and firefighters in Fairfax, Virginia gathered Tuesday at the fire department to announce increased efforts — and to request for tips from the public — in their search for missing firefighter-paramedic Nicole Mittendorff. Her family joined in the public call for help. Mittendorff, 31, of Woodbridge was...
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will announce that Alexander Hamilton will stay on the front of the $10 bill Wednesday, while anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman will go on the $20 bill, a department official told USA TODAY. Lew will also announce that a group of women voting rights activists will appear on the back of the $10...
Today marks the bittersweet end of an era. Today, I’m closing a chapter in my life that has lasted six years and yielded me four precious little beings — little bodies that I harbored safely within my own for a combined 160 weeks. Perfect little people that share my eyes, their dad’s nose, and have brought me...
The US state of Utah has become the first to declare pornography a public health risk in a move its governor says is to "protect our families and our young people". The bill does not ban pornography in the mainly Mormon state. However, it calls for greater "efforts to prevent pornography exposure and...