[Dominic Harr]

How would we know it was a hoax?

As with any headline in USA Today, odds are it's a hoax!

[HAL9000]

USA Today - "The USAToday web site is currently unavailable. Service to the site will be restored as soon as possible."

Netcraft - "The site www.usatoday.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000"

[OldFriend]

USA Today quickly reaching NYTimes proportions.