• USA TODAY Sports

    32 things we learned in NFL Week 12: Missteps could cost some contenders

    While Week 12 didn't spark major movement in the NFL playoff picture, several contenders had setbacks that could come back to haunt them.

  • Reuters

    Uruguay's left returns to presidency as govt vows friendly transition

    MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) -Center-left opposition candidate Yamandu Orsi secured victory in Uruguay's presidential election, official results showed on Sunday, with 99% of votes tallied, in a second-round race that pollsters expected to be closely fought. Yamandu Orsi, the pre-election favorite by a few points, secured a small but comfortable margin of 49.81% of the vote to conservative Alvaro Delgado's 45.90%, official results showed. "The horizon is brightening," Orsi said as he addressed thousands of his Broad Front party supporters in Montevideo, who had gathered by a stage overlooking the capital city's waterfront to await the results.

  • USA TODAY

    2 dead, 1 injured in Civil Air Patrol plane crash in Colorado, officials say

    Two people are dead and one is injured after a Civil Air Patrol plane crashed in Colorado on Saturday, authorities said.