Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is stepping down as chief executive, ending a rocky reign marked by his refusal to sell the Internet company to Microsoft for $47.5 billion more than triple Yahoo's current market value.

The easing of hot, dry desert winds allowed firefighters to control what was left of three major fires that burned 41,000 acres in five counties of Southern California.

All U.S. troops would have to leave Iraq by the end of 2011 under a historic agreement that Iraq's parliament will begin debating today. If approved, the pact would essentially spell out a timetable for the end of the war.

The government says it has supplied $33.56 billion to 21 banks in a second round of payments from the $700 billion rescue program.

Despite lower jet-fuel prices, fuel surcharges on international tickets are much higher than a year ago, according to an analysis of airline fare data for USA TODAY. Surcharges on many tickets have doubled, and many tickets on shorter flights which...

The U.S. Navy says pirates who seized a Saudi-owned oil supertanker are taking the ship to a Somali port where hijacked vessels are often held.

Promising to have a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country, President-elect Barack Obama met Monday with former rival John McCain.

An Atlanta lawyer undergoing treatment for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, XDR-TB, in Denver has a form of the disease that is less drug-resistant and more curable than previously reported, doctors said Tuesday.

U.S. health officials said Tuesday that they have issued a rare federal order of isolation to detain a Georgia man diagnosed with a highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis after he flew on international flights to Paris and Montreal, potentially...

Several prominent hedge fund managers told Congress Thursday they support a new central exchange to open the murky world of some complex investments partly blamed for the global financial crisis, but stopped short of endorsing stricter regulation of...