december 17
- Obama speaks to Australia PM about hostage crisis
- Get your gun: Idaho city allowing firearms at parades
- Uphill battle to tackle Indonesian shark fishing
- American airlines plane makes emergency landing in Japan
- Best new airport amenities in 2014
- Sydney cafe siege hostage speaks of relief
- Surprise! 'Voice' voters went country, again.
- Fed to walk 'tightrope' at meeting's end
- USA TODAY College 2014 holiday gift guide: Stocking stuffers
- Tragedy strengthens Pakistan resolve against Taliban
- Surprise! 'Voice' voters went country, again.
- In case you missed it … (top aviation stories)
- NBA trade season unofficially begins
- Alstom nears $700M settlement with U.S.
- Your end-of-year financial checklist
- USAID head to step down
- Cheaper gas cuts consumer prices in November
- J.K. Rowling confirms there was a Jewish character in 'Harry Potter'
- Jay Gruden, RG3, and the Redskins deserve each other and the mess they've made
- Rowling confirms a Jewish 'Potter' character
- NTSB: Visibility marginal when plane crashed into home
- Obama opens doors to Cuba after 56 years
- 'The Interview' NYC premiere canceled following threats
- Tech Five: Oracle to report earnings
- The Nets honor deceased superfan with touching tribute during warmups
- FedEx shares dropped on earnings miss
- Your Take Today: USA TODAY's top reader photo
- Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake go back to camp to sing some Third Eye Blind
- French club Lens' transfer ban partially lifted
- Fallon and Timberlake go back to summer camp
- Jets owner Woody Johnson apologizes for favoriting a tweet about firing the team's general manager
- Alan Gross released from Cuba
- La Salle guard hits halfcourt shot to send game into overtime
- DeMarco Murray most deserving of MVP
- Pope gets cake, tango and chicken for birthday
- With a bullet: Gold, cereal, holiday lights
- West side of Kyle Field to be imploded Sunday
- Britain's message for UAE visit: Nice, not naughty
- Dow jumps 288 points in best day of the year
- So, Bruno Mars just wore hair curlers onstage...
- Judd Apatow: Don't pull 'Interview' from theaters
- Kiplinger's Personal Finance "Best College Values"
- "Best College Values" include Ivy League campuses
- EVA Air to fly Hello Kitty Boeing 777s from Houston
- Peshawar shuts down to mourn deaths from Taliban attack
- Bruno Mars wore hair curlers onstage
- College football bowl rankings: No. 21 to No. 14
- Family suffers as Russia's ruble falls
- Charming ski chalets around the world
- Eight charming ski chalets around the world
- Mystery man gives $100 bills to coffee shop workers
- 'Lebowski,' 'Bueller' added to Film Registry
- Plumber threatened after Islamic militants use truck
- Classic is a welcome nod to BlackBerry's past
- Keep an eye on CUBA
- Baig: Hands on with the new BlackBerry Classic
- Daily fantasy basketball: Look for Deng to turn up Heat
- Could RG3 ruin Eagles' playoff hopes?
- Who is Alan Gross?
- City Council in Idaho lifts ban on guns at parades
- Kim Kardashian defends cropping baby North out of selfie
- This $600 phone charger is disguised as a jacket
- "Season's Eatings" with The Holderness Family
- Trade deficit rises to $100.3 billion
- Holderness family YouTube stars go caroling for Weight Watchers
- Fantasy football Week 16: Start Jackson, sit McCoy
- Man rescued from island drifted from Florida to Bahamas
- Kim Kardashian defends cropping baby North out of selfie
- Ongoing custody battle likely cause in deadly Pa. spree
- Online lender OnDeck sees 39% IPO pop
- Farewell to Robin Williams' magic in 'Museum'
- Could death someday be optional? (OZY)
- Punchlines: Exploring possibility of potential presidential bid
- EU court rules Hamas should be taken off terror list
- Sizing up the new generation of video game consoles
- Punchlines: Exploring possibility of potential presidential bid
- Wednesday tip-off: San Diego State visits Cincinnati
- Anderson Cooper expertly shuts down a Twitter troll
- Michael Garcia resigns as FIFA prosecutor
- Anderson Cooper expertly shuts down a troll
- Talkin' mullets with Mike Piazza
- Haitians protest to ask president's resignation
- Top Chef contestants make sausage to impress Rob Gronkowski
- 10Best: Tahoe happy hours
- Hanukkah Menorah lit at White House
- Life on Mars? Scientists take major step in finding out
- American released by Cuba was wasting away
- Oliver Luck leaving West Virginia for high-ranking NCAA job
- Investors expect Fed to delete 'considerable time' phrase
- Watch Panthers beat Capitals in longest shootout in NHL history
- Resignation statement from FIFA prosecutor Garcia
- Wreck of the day: FedEx
- West Virginia athletic director Luck joining NCAA
- Wisconsin to introduce new football coach
- Wisconsin to introduce new football coach
- Robin Williams' son misses him 'all the time'
- Damian Lillard's sister on verge of on-court breakout
- Johns Hopkins mistakenly sends 'welcome' e-mail to rejected applicants
- Pope Francis celebrates his 78th birthday
- Library gets its sculpture back, 43 years overdue
- Sabres return Grigorenko to AHL Rochester
- Rio Olympics creates 'super bacteria' task force
- iPhone 6 #bendgate, Flappy Bird top Tech news in 2014
- Jamie Dornan visited a sex dungeon for '50 Shades' role
- Lost weight lately? You breathed it out
- CostCo lags behind competitors during digital shopping Season
- Marc-Andre Fleury, two other Penguins being tested for mumps
- Bruno Mars gives 'Voice' to men in hair rollers | DailyDish
- T-Pain's advice for Florida State QB Jameis Winston
- Joni Ernst won't make presidential pick before Iowa caucuses
- Fantasy hockey: Go against the grain with your goalies
- Dornan visited a sex dungeon for '50 Shades' role
- Crosby returns to ice, 3 Penguins tested for mumps
- NFL's most tweeted-about players in Week 15
- A look at some of EVA Air's Hello Kitty aircraft
- Iowa senator won't endorse before 2016 caucuses
- 5 ways U.S.-Cuba relations are about to change
- Cuba through the years
- Peter Jackson dishes on Stephen Colbert's 'Hobbit' cameo
- One up, one down: Can Detroit keep its winning streak going?
- Five to Win: How Jets owner could diss his staff
- Peter Jackson dishes on Stephen Colbert's 'Hobbit' cameo
- Kendrick Lamar premieres untitled song on 'Colbert'
- Bo Pelini happy to have university president 'who understands football'
- Arkansas signs junior college defensive lineman
- New math: stronger ruble + higher oil = stock rally
- Red Wings goalie can't stop anything in shootout, and it's hurting his team
- Dive into plates that bridge cultures and generations
- Blatter to AP: "Surprised" by Garcia resignation
- Steph Curry's dad reveals the secret to his incredible shot
- Timeline: Cuba and U.S. relations through the years
- Pope Francis played key role in U.S.-Cuba deal
- Federal office investigates TSA for possible whistle-blower
- Larry Fitzgerald: Cardinals 'confident' in Ryan Lindley before Seahawks visit
- Celeb Pick 'Em Week 16 with John C. McGinley
- Inverness Club to host US Junior Amateur in 2019
- Tennessee signs junior-college RB Alvin Kamara
- Schools hire help to boost lunches' kid appeal
- Man rescued from island drifted from Florida to Bahamas
- U.S International Jozy Altidore continues to disappoint at Sunderland
- Facebook users create 200M videos to 'Say Thanks'
- All-state goalie comes out by dancing to Taylor Swift
- U.S. to let telecoms set up shop in Cuba
- Antonoff: Desktop-to-mobile shift alters shopping
- Food diversity in Gwinnett County, Ga.
- DeMarco Murray practicing with Cowboys two days after surgery
- Timeline: Buildup to Garcia's FIFA resignation
- Flash mob does the tango for the Pope
- Cuban cigars among goods travelers get OK to import
- Sam Ponder brought her adorable baby Scout on 'The View'
- Sprint facing lawsuit over bogus charges on bills
- Dads give beloved crossing guard awesome surprise
- Russia turmoil sparks flight to safety
- Dramatic video shows turbulence rock AA flight over Pacific
- Who needs Netflix when you could head to theaters daily?
- 'Unbroken' hits No. 1 on USA TODAY's list
- The Sacramento Kings are the biggest mess in the NBA
- With regular season winding down, who are NFL's dangerous spoilers?
- Raw video: Alan Gross sets foot on American soil
- Voices: Sexual assault survivors are people, not stats
- Russia to sell foreign currencies to support ruble
- Fidel Castro sits quietly off-stage as history unfolds
- Seattle acquires outfielder Justin Ruggiano from Cubs
- Congressional critics vow to block Cuba action
- Fiat Chrysler raises $3.9B in share, bond offerings
- GOP's Martha McSally declared winner in final House race
- Will the United States' new Cuba policy benefit Cuban baseball players?
- Ex of NASCAR'S Kurt Busch describes alleged attack
- Ruble, oil uncertainty sends markets on a roller coaster ride
- Judge throws out black teen's conviction from 1944
- GOP's McSally declared winner in final House race
- Giving kids 'Choice' makes school lunch successful
- U.S. firms stand to gain from Cuba ties
- Panthers' Newton practices 8 days after crash
- New York plans to prohibit fracking
- Sen. Grassley: Obama plays word game with executive orders
- Drew Barrymore talks dual holidays: We celebrate everything!
- Duke drought: Looking for 1st bowl win since 1961
- Obama: U.S. will reopen embassy in Cuba
- NFL plans to have roof open for Super Bowl in Arizona
- EWU's Adams, SDSU's Zenner lead FCS All-Americans
- Top photo galleries of 2014
- Drew Barrymore talks dual holidays: We celebrate everything!
- Jaguars 'leaning more toward playing' Bortles vs Titans
- AP FCS All-America Team, List
- Mariah Carey's Christmas concert was ... a bit of a mess
- First cougar seen in Kentucky since Civil War is killed
- The NFL playoff system is stupid and there's an easy way to fix it
- Europe cursed by economic ghosts of past, present, future
- J.K. Rowling confirms there was a Jewish character in 'Harry Potter'
- Could NFL come up with worse Thursday game?
- Sharon Osbourne loses a tooth on the air
- Mariah Carey's Christmas concert was ... a bit of a mess
- Acura NSX, Honda fuel cell due at Detroit auto show
- 49ers release McDonald amid further legal trouble
- Acura, Honda announce Detroit auto show reveals
- Bears safety Chris Conte says he'd rather 'die 10 to 15 years earlier' than not play in the NFL
- Kurt Busch takes stand, calls ex's testimony 'fabrication'
- Court clears way for Ariz. dreamers to get licenses
- Banner season: Another flyover at Jets practice