ABC News/Washington Post poll finds the Republican Party has made dramatic gains in public trust to handle the country's most pressing issues, capitalizing on economic discontent and doubts about President Obama's performance.

Donald Trump 'fires' Leno on his last show before returning to Tonight Show.

In its second recall in one day, Toyota announced Tuesday that it plans to recall just over 7,300 2010 Camrys for a brake defect. The problem, if not fixed, could result in leaking brake fluid, and make it more difficult for a driver to stop the car.

Scott Shackleton, relative of legendary polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, fulfills family dream.

NY Senate votes to expel Democratic lawmaker convicted of misdemeanor assault.

Myanmar court sentences U.S. man to 3 years over forged documents.

Public sector workers in Greece launch a national strike, rallying in protest at government measures to tackle the deficit.

Avalanches around a mountain tunnel in Afghanistan kill at least 150 people and injure hundreds more, officials say.

The UK government loses its bid to prevent the disclosure of secret information relating to the alleged torture of a UK resident.

China has indicted four Rio Tinto employees on charges of bribery and violating commercial secrets, reports say.

Honda heaps more woe on Japan's carmakers by extending an airbag safety recall to almost half a million cars worldwide.

The death toll from the Haiti quake could be 230,000, the government says - close to the number killed in the 2004 Asian tsunami.

The medical examiner has ruled that the death of Daniel Kerrigan, the father of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, was a homicide, the Middlesex County district attorney's office said Tuesday.

Police fired tear gas and water cannons Wednesday to disperse thousands of opposition protesters demanding the release of retired general and former presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka.

A leading English football club plying its trade in the world's richest league has moved a step closer to financial ruin, in a case which highlights the dire economic climate the beautiful game finds itself in.

Greek workers were holding a one-day strike Wednesday to protest government efforts to stave off a financial crisis.

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Marseille, France's second largest city and the country's gateway to north Africa and the Mediterranean, is home to almost a quarter of a million Muslims.

Plows that have been rolling around the clock in the nation's capital, Philadelphia and Baltimore won't be heading for the garage as another storm moves into the region.

Toyota's critics charge that the automaker still has not come to terms with the root causes of the safety issues and it has only just begun to acknowledge how badly it has lost its way.

The second stage of Haiti's medical emergency has begun, with diarrheal illnesses, acute respiratory infections and malnutrition beginning to claim lives by the dozen.

Honda Motor Co. is adding more than 378,000 cars to an existing safety recall for air bag inflation problems, the company said Tuesday.

Winderman: Unlike the NBA trading deadline in so many previous years, the Feb. 18 deadline features a collective set of variables heretofore unseen.

Youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay draws White House into debate over trying child soldier.

LONDON Reuters - Firming expectations of a Greek bailout lifted world stocks, the euro and commodity prices on Wednesday, and sent Greece's borrowing costs lower.

TOKYO/DETROIT Reuters - Honda Motor Co said it would recall another 440,000 cars around the world for faulty airbags as rival Toyota Motor Corp faced further probes over its largest-ever safety crisis.

ATHENS Reuters - Financial markets gave heavily indebted Greece a breather on Wednesday on growing expectations of a European Union rescue as civil servants staged the first major strike against Athens' crisis-driven austerity measures.

NEW YORK Reuters - Sprint Nextel Corp posted a narrower fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday, but revenue fell 7 percent even as the company's loss of bill-paying cellphone customers was slower than expected.

TOYOTA CITY, Japan/DETROIT Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp, the world's most dominant and profitable automaker, was not accustomed to outsiders telling it what to do, let alone some obscure bureaucrat from the United States, whose own car industry was on taxpayer-funded life support.

MELBOURNE Reuters - Top global miner BHP Billiton signaled caution over a sustained global recovery and held off from a share buyback after reporting its weakest first-half profit in four years. BHP's July-December profit nevertheless beat market forecasts and was 24 percent stronger than in the previous half, spurring the miner to raise its dividend slightly, pushing its shares up more than 3 percent.

As people on the East Coast waited for the second snowshoe to drop, airlines canceled thousands of flights, and Meals on Wheels ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is close to wrapping up a two-year investigation of safety violations at American Airlines ...

Recent accidents raise the question of what drivers should do when their vehicles break down or have accidents on busy interstates.

The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan insisted Tuesday that they do not blame anyone for her father's death and criticized ...

The Army needs to double its staff of substance-abuse counselors to handle the soaring numbers of soldiers seeking alcohol treatment, ...

Researchers at Northern Arizona University think they may have found an environmentally safe and readily available weapon against ...

A major snowstorm forced pre-emptive school closures in New York City and grounded hundreds of flights on the East Coast for the second time in a week.

The offer, aimed at preserving Pakistan’s influence once U.S. forces leave Afghanistan, is a departure from Pakistan’s previous reluctance to approach the Taliban.

The Obama administration hopes to undermine the Revolutionary Guards, the group that runs Iran’s nuclear program, supports militant organizations and cracks down on protesters.

The New York State Senate’s expulsion of Hiram Monserrate was about more than concerns over domestic violence.

Olympic officials decided that the torch would travel only within the home country of the Games, but the flame still dipped into the United States.

A country characterized by modesty is going all out in an effort to win the most gold medals in Vancouver.

A famous and powerful planner butts heads with an Indian tribe over land rights near Niagara Falls. Guess who wins.

Bedfellows were never more strange than those assembling this week in Long Beach, California, for the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design TED conference: Director James Cameron, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former covert CIA analyst Valerie Plame are among the eclectic mix of speakers.

To turn Benicio Del Toro into a werewolf for the remake of The Wolfman, Rick Baker integrated his handcrafted artistry with the latest digital effects.

Equipped with sensitive receivers and powerful nav apps, location-aware smartphones are now leading the way over standalone GPS units. Wired editors have picked the Motorola Droid, with its simple, intuitive app, as their fave.

Federal authorities bust a Las Vegas man accused of running a so-called cookie-stuffing operation. The scam included hawking website code to trick eBay into paying website owners tens of thousands of dollars in bogus advertising referral fees.

Photographers are offering to teach amateurs the art of documentary photography in Haiti ... for a price. Is this profiting off the misery of others, or a valuable service?

U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone.

A rare moderate earthquake struck northern Illinois Wednesday morning, waking up residents in the Chicago area.

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Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud has died, the country's top civilian security official told The Associated Press Wednesday, giving the government's first categorical confirmation of the death of the feared militant leader.

A top Iranian official says a nuclear fuel swap with the West proposed under a U.N.-drafted plan remains an option.

Honda Motor Co. is adding 437,000 vehicles to its 15-month old global recall for faulty airbags in the latest quality problem to hit a Japanese automaker.

Opposition supporters are demanding the release of Sarath Fonseka, the former chief of the armed forces

Amir Abdillah is facing terrorism-related charges in connection with the bombings of the Ritz Carlton and J.W. Marriot hotels

Sanctions planned in response to accelerated Iranian nuclear program

Foreign Ministry defends enrichment, saying it is part of nation's peaceful nuclear program

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran's intentions are clear

Communication services disrupted ahead of 1979 anniversary celebration as opposition activists call for peaceful demos

New details from the crisis enveloping Toyota reveal a growing rift between the auto maker and U.S. regulators. The heart of Toyota's problem: Its secretive corporate culture clashed with U.S. requirements that auto makers disclose safety threats.

Germany is considering a plan with its EU partners to offer Greece and other troubled euro-zone members loan guarantees in an effort to calm market fears of a default.

Prosecutors added two more securities fraud counts against Raj Rajaratnam in an alleged insider-trading scheme that prosecutors now claim topped $49 million.

John Paulson scored big on bets against subprime mortgages. He's so far having a tough time winning over investors for his gold fund.

CEO James Gorman's pledge last week to reduce the firm's compensation ratio followed prodding from some large shareholders about unusually high employee payouts in 2009, according to people familiar with the situation.

A nascent recovery in cable-television advertising and cost-cutting at its movie studio helped boost Disney's key divisions in the latest quarter. Overall, though, revenue and profit were essentially flat.

The fourth powerful winter storm of the season arrived with less force than expected overnight, dumping a relatively meager few inches of fresh snow onto buried cars, icy roads and already-straining rooftops and tree branches.

A high-pressure natural gas line burst with a loud bang Tuesday night outside a school in Northwest Washington, sending gas streaming into the neighborhood.

They call Washington the city of trees, but the beloved canopy has recently taken a beating.

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Q. Does your office encourage telework? What would be the effect on the workforce and its productivity level if the federal government allowed more telework?

Sari Anderson is the assistant chief of the field division, in charge of recruiting and hiring hundreds of thousands of temporary workers in the next few months for the 2010 Census. She has worked for the Census Bureau since 1996.

The 3-D revolution has spurred people to desert their home entertainment centers and actually go into theaters.

By rebuilding Yemen’s educational system, the West could prevent the country from becoming an Al Qaeda breeding ground.

Considering autism is a condition that runs along a spectrum, there is a scientific case for dropping the misleading diagnosis of Asperger’s.

The Republican propaganda that the Democrats are soft on terrorists is a distraction from the real issue: that the counterterrorism system needs to be fixed.

If the Security Council can’t act swiftly, or decisively, to impose sanctions on Iran, the United States and its allies must come up with their own tough resolutions.

A complaint about inadequate care provided by a doctor should have been reviewed by the medical board before a criminal prosecution.

Msnbc.com’s political cartoonists take a look back at the past week.

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Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The Automotive X Prize program has added a few twists to its route to awarding $10 million for more energy-efficient motor vehicles.

A Taiwanese man has taught his pit viper to smoke. Willie Geist has the amazing story.