An appellate court on Monday declined to reconsider its decision to throw out a mortgage-fraud case against Bank of America Corp., a blow to the Justice Department as it tried to rescue one of its highest-profile cases tied to the financial crisis. Judges for the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said […]
How many caps did Galen Rupp wear during the men’s marathon race on Sunday morning, as a light rain fell in Rio, along with most of his rivals and doubters? It was hard to tell with all the poorly timed NBC commercial breaks, such as the one that prevented viewers from seeing when the Kenyan […]
These days, as the National Park Service celebrates its 100th birthday on Aug. 25, taking and sharing photographs of America’s national parks is nothing special. In 1861, when Carleton Watkins created this portfolio of 30 images of Yosemite Valley, the situation was very different. Creating the images required lugging thousands of pounds of equipment via […]
America’s oldest millennials — nearing 20 when airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center — can remember the economic prosperity of the 1990s, and when a different Clinton ran for president. The younger end of the generation — now nearing 20 — can’t recall a time without terrorism or economic worry. Now millennials have edged […]
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Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas will join the judges panel for the Miss America 2017 competition, the organization announced exclusively to USA TODAY Monday. USA TODAY Gabby Douglas will join the judges panel at the 2017 Miss America pageant – USA TODAY
The last NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, hailed from Denmark, which has 17,200 citizens under arms. That position did not allow him to deploy the American military, but it did give him unusual influence over U.S. policy. Even as the American people tire of trying to solve other nations’ problems, Rasmussen wants the United […]
The oldest millennials — nearing 20 when airplanes slammed into New York City’s Twin Towers — are old enough to remember the relative economic prosperity of the 1990s, and when a different Clinton was running for president. The nation’s youngest adults — now nearing 20 themselves — find it hard to recall a reality without […]
The United States is in long-term relative decline. In absolute terms, the America of the future will be richer. But because other countries like China and India, and other regions like Africa, are growing more rapidly, America’s share of global wealth will decline. So will America’s share of global military power, which, in the industrial […]
