It was exciting – for a half. The United States soccer, which has spent more than 30 years promising to become an international force, was leading Brazil, 2-0, in the final of the Confederations Cup, which, the soccer mavens kept telling me, is a big deal despite the fact that most Americans had probably never heard of it. Complete Story...
Benny Feilhaber was in the United States' starting lineup in place of key midfielder Michael Bradley, who was suspended for Sunday's Confederations Cup final against Brazil after drawing a red card in the final minutes of the Americans' semifinal upset of Spain.
Next year's World Cup just got a little more interesting.
The U.S. is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan's drug trade, phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting efforts to fight trafficking and promote alternate crops, the U.S. envoy for Afghanistan said Saturday.
President Hamid Karzai accused Afghan guards working for U.S. coalition forces of killing a provincial police chief and at least four other security officers during a gunbattle outside a government office Monday.
Clay Stanley needed some time off following his professional club season, which came on the heels of his MVP performance in the U.S. men's volleyball run to the Olympic gold medal last August.
Michael Rodgers has won the men's 100-meter United States championship by defeating Darvis Patton by one-hundredth of a second.
The White House is considering whether to issue an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, concerned that Congress might otherwise stymie its plans to quickly close the naval prison in Cuba.
Being in Africa is an entirely new experience for most soccer players. For United States teammates Oguchi Onyewu and Freddy Adu, the continent is a second home.
The United States should aim to have manufacturing jobs comprise at least 20 percent of total employment, about twice what it is now, General Electric Co. Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt said Friday.
President Barack Obama says European nations have moved faster than the United States on global warming and that he'd like to see America play a greater leadership role.
The Europe Union wants a U.S. climate change bill to succeed so the United States can move swiftly to curb greenhouse gas emissions, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Friday.
Sometimes, paying three times the price for the same merchandise can be a good deal. That's the American calculation behind quiet negotiations that will allow the United States to hang onto a Central Asian air base crucial to the expanding war in Afghanistan.
President Hugo Chavez says a U.S. general shouldn't be raising concerns that Venezuela is buying arms, and the American commander is wrong to argue there isn't a "conventional military threat in the region."
Witnesses in Iran say police have clashed with up to 3,000 protesters near a mosque in north Tehran.
The United States gets another chance at Brazil. And this time, there's a nice, shiny trophy at stake.
A State Department official says the weaponry and military training that the United States has been supplying to the government of Somalia in recent weeks is valued at less than $10 million.
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called his tour of Europe and the United States a success Thursday, though he won few commitments of aid amid new U.N. warnings of food shortages in his country.
An Afghan citizen was flown to the United States on Wednesday and arraigned on drug charges.
Some have been faster than him, others more flamboyant.
Venezuela and the United States said Wednesday they will restore their ambassadors more than nine months after President Hugo Chavez expelled the U.S. envoy in his final diplomatic bout with the Bush administration.
Talk about a full reversal of fortunes.
A Canadian man who tried to drive nearly 200 pounds of the drug Ecstasy, worth an estimated $6.5 million, into the United States has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison.
The United States and Venezuela are working to send ambassadors back to each other's capitals.
Billionaire Warren Buffett says the United States has a good team leading the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve as it fights what he's called an economic war.