In honor of the nation's 250th birthday, USA TODAY is spending a year retracing some of the journeys that helped define the American identity. Journeys have always defined the American spirit. From ...

SPRINGFIELD — Some Jewish residents in Western Massachusetts are taking issue with a definition of antisemitism that a state commission is using and worry it could restrict free speech by conflating ...

NFL Week 2 had a bit of everything, and these are the 10 stats that stand out. The Dallas Cowboys outlasted the New York Giants in an overtime thriller. The Cincinnati Bengals were able to come back ...

Arizona has its fair share of place names that outsiders, and sometimes even locals, struggle to pronounce. If you’ve ever pronounced Prescott as “Press-scott” instead of “Press-kitt” or called the ...

Word association time! Quick, when we name a decade, you shout out the bands that come immediately to mind. Ready? The 70s! Okay, we hear you. And those are some of the same bands that we think of, ...

In ancient Hebrew tradition, Sheol was not a place of fire but a silent underworld where the dead dwelled without distinction. Bear attack in Florida caught on doorbell camera, watch the video HOA ban ...

House Democrats unveiled a new bill on Friday to set legal thresholds for chips deemed too advanced to send to China without congressional approval, attempting to set clear limits in the ongoing ...

THE TERM “ULTRAPROCESSED food” (or UPF, for short) has launched into the nutritional spotlight in recent years, with study after study linking the food group to obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes ...

In a July 15 message to the Columbia community, acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, announced “additional commitments to combatting antisemitism.” Among these, she informed ...

In a move not unfriendly to barndominiums, but designed to help them better coexist with more traditional forms of housing, the Porter County Plan Commission voted unanimously Wednesday evening to ...