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A USA TODAY analysis sorts Americans into five groups with distinctive attitudes toward the economy and the 2012 presidential campaign.

A U.S. senator is calling on Ohio's top environmental regulator to answer questions about lead contamination around former factory sites.

The U.S. has agreed to sell unarmed surveillance drones to Iraq's navy as part of an effort to help protect that nation's oil exports.

New campaign-finance reports show President Obama and Mitt Romney's campaigns saw drops in fundraising in April.

At the NATO summit in Chicago, world leaders focus on winding down Afghanistan War.

Perjury and faulty eyewitness identification are key culprits in miscarriages of justice, university researchers find.

A prosecutor has charged three men in the assault and carjacking of Detroit pastor who delivered Whitney Houston's eulogy.

People have been injured or killed in car surfing, a thrill-seeking activity in which people ride on the exterior of a vehicle.

Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng made it out, but joining the human rights fight back in China is now a tougher proposition.

CT scans should be reserved for older current or heavy smokers, medical groups say.

Activists took part in a hunger strike in Cairo to protest the ruling military council's continued use of military courts to try civilians.

Mitt Romney raises $11.7 million and super PAC backing him collects $4.6 million.

President Obama says he won't have time to catch his beloved Chicago White Sox while he's in the Windy City.

Tropical Storm Alberto swirled off the South Carolina coast Sunday.

The websites were down for part of Sunday, the first day of a two-day NATO summit being held in Chicago.

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai gave special thanks to the American people for shouldering the financial burden in the decade-old war.

A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to "married."

Susan Gubar, 67, is author of the new book Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer.

Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod says that the president won't consider raising questions about Mitt Romney's Mormonism.

Police say five people were killed when a small sports plane crashed in Bosnia's northwest.