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According to several international news reports on Thursday, a group of Japanese volunteers braved the nuclear exclusion zone to rescue stray dogs.

As Mexico drowns in drug-related bloodshed — suffering almost 12,000 murders in 2010 — it is perhaps unsurprising that government critics have turned up their screaming that the war on drugs isn't working.

Economic boycotts against Arizona after the state passed an immigration enforcement law in April have resulted in more than $250 million in losses to the state's conference and convention industry, according to a report released Thursday.

Rep. Charles Rangel of New York headed the House's tax-writing committee but acknowledged shortchanging the Internal Revenue Service on his own tax bill.

With the news that CT scans — or computerized tomography — can prevent lung cancer deaths, smokers and ex-smokers may wonder whether they should ask for a screening. USA TODAY asked experts for their advice.

Proposition 19 is the ballot measure in California that will legalize personal use, cultivation and transportation of marijuana. It will allow the government to tax the commercial sale of marijuana in attempts to close the $19 billion budget gap.

The two most potent symbols of the volatile election season — Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Tea Party standard-bearer Sharron Angle — rattled the political hierarchies in Washington, D.C., and left voters here wrung out after a nasty political fight in the  …