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Thursday, September 9

  • ACLU seeks federal probe of Newark police   UPI / 1:34AM
    NEWARK, N.J., Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Newark, N.J., police persist in abusing the public under Mayor Cory Booker, earning public distrust, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.
  • Wednesday, September 8

  • Clinton: Mexican drug war like insurgency   UPI / 11:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday likened drug cartel operations in Mexico and Central America to an insurgency.
  • 'State secrets' win in rendition lawsuit   UPI / 8:54PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. appeals court has tossed a lawsuit challenging a practice known as extraordinary rendition, finding national security trumps the right to a fair trial.
  • Laser backpack measures interiors   UPI / 8:04PM
    BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A portable laser backpack than can produce fast, automatic and realistic 3-D mapping of difficult interior environments has been developed, officials say.
  • Canada's oldest mayor running again   UPI / 7:54PM
    MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Hazel McCallion is 89 years old, has been mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, for 32 years and says she's not done yet.
  • No bail for veteran in hostage-taking   UPI / 6:44PM
    SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- An Iraq War veteran was ordered held without bond at an initial court appearance Wednesday on charges he took hostages at a Georgia Army hospital.
  • California court hears furlough arguments   UPI / 5:14PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Members of the California Supreme Court Wednesday challenged the claim that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not have the authority to furlough state employees.
  • Runaway Muslim teen gets green card   UPI / 3:35PM
    COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Rifqa Bary, the teenager who ran away from her Muslim parents in Ohio after becoming a Christian, has received a green card, her lawyer says.
  • Rodney King to marry civil case juror   UPI / 3:05PM
    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Rodney King, whose beating by the Los Angeles police became a national scandal, says he plans to marry a woman who served in the jury in his civil suit.
  • Mom of slain grad student may sue Yale   UPI / 1:54PM
    NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The mother of a Yale graduate student allegedly killed by a lab technician may sue the university, a lawyer said Wednesday at a hearing in Connecticut.
  • New York denies fault in illness breakout   UPI / 12:34PM
    ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- New York says a "sprayground" water feature in a state park was not at fault when 4,000 people were allegedly sickened by a parasite in the recycled water.
  • Court told of political massacre plan   UPI / 10:05AM
    MANILA, Philippines, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A servant of a Philippine political clan has testified he was present when a plot was hatched to prevent a rival from becoming a provincial governor.
  • Drone attacks kill 10 militants   UPI / 7:24AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Two U.S. missile attacks in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area Wednesday killed at least 10 militants, regional security officials said.
  • Tuesday, September 7

  • Report: Obama would let top tax cut expire   UPI / 10:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is set to reject any compromise on extending 2001 tax cuts that would apply to the wealthiest taxpayers, White House officials said.
  • 2 GIs killed in Iraq   AP / 8:34PM
    Two U.S. soldiers killed by a man in an Iraqi uniform Tuesday were the first killed since the United States ended combat operations in Iraq, officials said.
  • 2 GIs killed in Iraq   UPI / 8:14PM
    SAMARA, Iraq, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Two U.S. soldiers killed by a man in an Iraqi uniform Tuesday were the first killed since the United States ended combat operations in Iraq, officials said.
  • GOP, Dems tied in Gallup generic poll   UPI / 8:04PM
    PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Republicans and Democrats are tied in Gallup's weekly poll of congressional preferences, one week after Republicans held a 10-point lead in the generic poll.
  • HP suing ex-CEO Hurd   UPI / 7:34PM
    SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Mark Hurd was sued by his former employer, Hewlett-Packard, Tuesday, the day after he was hired as co-president of rival Oracle Corp., an HP spokeswoman said.
  • Chicago's Mayor Daley won't run   UPI / 6:44PM
    CHICAGO, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Longtime Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley shocked political observers Tuesday by saying he will not seek re-election to a seventh term.
  • Death row inmate sues victims' family   UPI / 2:14PM
    TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A Florida death row inmate lost his lawsuit claiming the pickup truck for which he killed his victims is rightfully his.
  • Mom says 5-year-old assaulted in school   UPI / 1:05PM
    NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A New York City woman says her 5-year-old son was sexually molested by four classmates at the school where he was attending kindergarten.
  • Armored trucks saving soldiers' lives   UPI / 8:14AM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The armored vehicles that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates made a top priority are reducing roadside deaths in Afghanistan, statistics indicate.
  • Labor to form new Australian government   UPI / 5:14AM
    CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Following 2 1/2 weeks of political deal-making, Labor leader Julia Gillard will remain prime minister of Australia, an official said Tuesday.
  • Monday, September 6

  • Former soldier held in hostage standoff   UPI / 7:44PM
    SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A former soldier was in custody after an early-morning hostage-taking incident Monday at a Fort Stewart, Ga., military hospital, an Army spokesman says.
  • New U.S. tactical missile is tested   UPI / 2:05PM
    PHOENIX, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Two aerospace giants teamed up to test a tactical missile, hoping to land a $5 billion contract to build it for the U.S. Army, Navy and Marines, officials said.
  • Labor unions join to back candidates   UPI / 12:44PM
    DETROIT, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. unions are increasing fundraising and campaign spending for what they say are the most important elections for the labor movement in decades.
  • Poll: GOP pulls further ahead of Democrats   UPI / 12:34PM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- The Republicans' advantage over Democrats in the battle for control of the U.S. Congress is on the rise, a CNN poll released Monday indicates.
  • Claims against Michael Moore thrown out   UPI / 12:24PM
    TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A federal magistrate in Washington state threw out major portions of a lawsuit filed against filmmaker Michael Moore and his documentary "Sicko."
  • Attacks across Iraq kill six, injure 21   UPI / 12:05PM
    BAGHDAD, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed a high-ranking Iraqi military officer and five civilians and injured at least 21 people, officials said.
  • Sunday, September 5

  • 7 people rescued off S.C. coast   UPI / 7:34PM
    CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Four adults and three children who abandoned their sinking boat off the coast of South Carolina were rescued Sunday by the U.S. Coast Guard, officials said.
  • Legal sparring over prayer still unsettled   UPI / 1:54PM
    AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- An attorney predicted the long-running legal battle over the National Day of Prayer in the United States will probably end up at U.S. Supreme Court.
  • 'Popcorn lung' verdict to be appealed   UPI / 12:14PM
    CHICAGO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A chemical company says it will appeal a $30.4 million award to an Illinois plant worker who suffered lung damage from an ingredient used in microwave popcorn.
  • Democrats examining candidates' strength   UPI / 11:24AM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Democratic leaders say they are scrutinizing the upcoming November elections to see where their resources will be best spent.
  • Twin blasts kill a dozen in Baghdad   UPI / 10:54AM
    BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Five suicide bombers executed twin attacks in central Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 29 others, police said.
  • Twilight star settles lawsuit   UPI / 10:24AM
    IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Actor Taylor Lautner's lawsuit against a California recreational vehicle company has been settled for $40,000, his lawyer says.
  • Life sentence in slaying of Georgia judge   UPI / 10:14AM
    JESUP, Ga., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A jury has sentenced the killer of a Georgia municipal judge to life in prison without parole, sparing him from the death penalty.
  • Report reveals site of secret Israeli base   UPI / 8:44AM
    JERUSALEM, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A French magazine has revealed the Israeli location of one of the largest and most important signals intelligence bases (SIGNIT) in the world.
  • Bomb blast on military base kills five   UPI / 8:24AM
    MOSCOW, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle rammed the gates of a military unit in Dagestan, killing five people Sunday, police said.
  • Saturday, September 4

  • U.S. withholds aid to Mexico   UPI / 6:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Allegations of human rights abuses by Mexican soldiers in the country's battle against drug cartels has cost Mexico $26 million in U.S. aid, officials say.
  • Jury awards $43.5M for nursing-home death   UPI / 2:44PM
    ROME, Ga., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A Georgia jury has concluded a former nursing-home operator was responsible for the death of an 80-year-old resident and set damages at $43.5 million.
  • Heiress's relatives seek to oust lawyer   UPI / 2:24PM
    NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The family of a 104-year-old heiress who has spent much of her life in seclusion has asked a New York court to bar her lawyer and accountant from her affairs.
  • Canada to deport fearful mom to Colombia   UPI / 12:24PM
    MONTREAL, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A Canadian judge ordered a Colombian woman to return to her homeland next week despite her fears she will be targeted by death squads.
  • Judge throws book at pair in Chicago arson   UPI / 11:54AM
    CHICAGO, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A federal judge said the physical and psychological scars suffered by two Chicago girls justified sending an arsonist to prison for 25 years.
  • Ex-treasurer admits stealing from GOP   UPI / 10:44AM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A former Republican Party financial official and consultant pleaded guilty Friday in Washington to embezzling $850,000 from party committees.
  • Poll: Most would agree to term limits   UPI / 10:34AM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A strong majority of U.S. voters approve of setting term limits for members of Congress, a Fox News poll indicated.
  • Senate panel investigates Blackwater   UPI / 10:34AM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Blackwater Worldwide established a large network of subsidiaries vying for military contracts after receiving a black eye in Iraq, a U.S. Senate committee says.
  • Nine dead in New Zealand plane crash   AP / 8:54AM
    A plane crash on the west coast of New Zealand has killed nine people, including tourists from Australia, England, Ireland and Germany, officials say.
  • Friday, September 3

  • Pa. man to get Medal of Honor posthumously   UPI / 10:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- An Air Force sergeant from Pennsylvania killed in combat in Laos during the Vietnam War will receive the Medal of Honor, the White House said Friday.
  • Brewer still forecast a winner in Arizona   UPI / 10:14PM
    PHOENIX, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, awkward in a debate this week, still is a likely winner against Democrat Terry Goddard, The New York Times said Friday.
  • Ohio officials get formal complaint on Fox   UPI / 9:34PM
    COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The Democratic Governors Association has filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission accusing Fox News Channel of illegal campaign contributions.
  • Colo.: Top GOP candidates split   UPI / 9:04PM
    DENVER, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Colorado's Republican U.S. Senate nominee said Friday he is joining other key Republicans in withdrawing support for the GOP nominee for governor, Dan Maes.
  • Court: Calif. need not defend Prop 8   UPI / 8:24PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Same-sex marriage opponents say they will appeal a court ruling that California officials need not defend a constitutional amendment banning the practice.
  • 'Fake' Mich. Tea Party tossed off ballot   UPI / 7:44PM
    DETROIT, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The allegedly fake Michigan Tea Party will not appear on the state's November ballot, the Michigan Supreme Court said in a 5-2 ruling Friday.
  • Iran: Peace talk participants 'traitors'   UPI / 7:05PM
    CAIRO, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Egypt says it has canceled a meeting with Iran's foreign minister after he called participants in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks "traitors."
  • U.S., China hold 'backdoor' military talk   UPI / 4:34PM
    BEIJING, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Chinese and U.S. defense experts discussed military ties between the two countries despite a freeze on military exchanges since January, officials said.
  • U.S., South Korea schedule more war drills   UPI / 4:24PM
    SEOUL, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- South Korean and U.S. forces will hold another joint drill as a show of force against North Korea, officials said, as North Korea again threatened retaliation.
  • Gates buoyed by progress in Afghanistan   UPI / 4:14PM
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited with American troops in Afghanistan Friday, saying he sees progress in the war against insurgents there.
  • France: No action in friendly fire case   UPI / 4:14PM
    PARIS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- No disciplinary action will be taken in a friendly fire incident involving French soldiers in Afghanistan last week, Defense Ministry officials said.
  • 25 suspects killed in Mexico shootout   UPI / 9:05AM
    MEXICO CITY, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A gunbattle between Mexican soldiers and a group of suspected drug dealers in northeast Mexico left 25 of the suspects dead, military officials said.
  • Thursday, September 2

  • 2 arrested in deadly West Bank shootings   UPI / 7:44PM
    HEBRON, West Bank, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Palestinian police arrested two suspects in the killing of four West Bank Israelis on the eve of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, officials said Thursday.
  • Democrats slam Fox support of GOP   UPI / 7:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A statement by the Democratic Governors Association says a $1 million contribution to Republicans by the parent company of Fox News "crosses a bright line."
  • Fla. billionaire sues 2 papers for libel   UPI / 6:34PM
    MIAMI, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A Florida billionaire and defeated primary candidate for the U.S. Senate filed a lawsuit accusing two newspapers of trying to destroy his candidacy.
  • Japan's Kan, Ozawa trade barbs in debate   UPI / 5:24PM
    TOKYO, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan accused challenger Ichiro Ozawa of backing money-driven politics Thursday while Ozawa rapped Kan for a bloated bureaucracy.
  • Justice Department sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio   UPI / 4:14PM
    PHOENIX, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department sued controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Thursday, saying he has refused to cooperate in a discrimination investigation.
  • 3 U.S. Senate seats could swing control   UPI / 4:05PM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The ballot fates of U.S. senators in California, Washington and Wisconsin may determine if Senate power swings to Republicans, a political writer says.
  • Israeli military in racial slur accusation   UPI / 3:05PM
    JERUSALEM, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- An Ethiopian soldier serving at an Israeli air force base has demanded the dismissal of a senior officer over a racial slur, military authorities say.
  • Military parents unhappy with Afghan war   UPI / 2:14PM
    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles couple who lost their son, a soldier, to a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan say the rules of engagement are jeopardizing the lives of U.S. troops.
  • Judge steps aside while sex complaint airs   UPI / 1:54PM
    WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A judge in Manitoba, Canada, has removed herself from bench duty while the Canadian Judicial Council reviews a sexual harassment complaint against her.
  • Report: Waters charges for campaign mail   UPI / 1:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has charged other candidates thousands of dollars to be on mailers and sample ballots, The Washington Times reported Thursday.
  • P. Diddy accused of age discrimination   UPI / 12:34PM
    NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A 51-year-old music executive at Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records in New York sued Combs for $12 million, alleging age discrimination, her lawsuit said.
  • Doctors in stem cell case speak out   UPI / 11:54AM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Two scientists involved in the lawsuit that has blocked federal funding for embryonic stem cell research say they acted because of ethical objections.
  • Somali pirates ally with both sides in war   UPI / 11:34AM
    HOBYO, Somalia, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Local Somali leaders increasingly align with former pirate foes to fight a much graver common enemy -- the militant al-Shabaab Islamic movement, officials say.
  • Wednesday, September 1

  • Lawyer: Salmonella suits coming in fast   UPI / 10:34PM
    MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis law firm specializing in food safety cases says lawsuits about salmonella-tainted eggs are coming in "like crazy."
  • Dad defends Kwame Kilpatrick   UPI / 9:44PM
    DETROIT, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The father of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, in a deposition in a lawsuit brought by the parents of a slain dancer, called the woman's parents greedy.
  • Lawyer: Healthcare reform violates rights   UPI / 9:24PM
    LAS VEGAS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A candidate for Nevada attorney general says healthcare reform violates at least seven amendments to the U.S. Constitution and has sued seeking to overturn it.
  • Catholic school hit with abuse lawsuit   UPI / 7:34PM
    MONTREAL, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A former student says he is suing a Montreal school for the deaf, alleging sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic brothers who taught there.
  • ACLU backs man wanting to fly flag   UPI / 7:24PM
    LAVEEN, Ariz., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union says it's backing an Arizona man against a homeowner association rule against flying the Gadsden Flag in front of his house.
  • New appeal seeks Wash. execution stay   UPI / 6:04PM
    SEATTLE, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A lawyer for a condemned Washington state inmate contends his client should have received a stay of execution from a federal judge.
  • Tribes win temporary stay on cigarette tax   UPI / 5:34PM
    BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A federal judge temporarily blocked New York state Wednesday from collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian tribes.
  • Star says marriage was for love, not card   UPI / 5:05PM
    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Mexican soap opera actress Fernanda Romero denied her marriage was a sham engineered so she could get a U.S. work permit during a federal trial in Los Angeles.
  • Biden formally hands over Iraq command   UPI / 4:44PM
    BAGHDAD, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday marked the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, saying a new chapter is opening in relations between the two countries.
  • Suit: Drunk courier lost $1.3M painting   UPI / 3:05PM
    NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The owner of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot's "Portrait of a Girl" is suing a courier after the man lost the painting during an alleged drunken night in New York.
  • Korean War MIA to be reburied in Kentucky   UPI / 2:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The Defense Department Wednesday said the body of a U.S. serviceman missing in action since the Korean War will be returned to his family.
  • Oil spill company's legal moves slammed   UPI / 1:05PM
    DETROIT, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The company responsible for an oil pipeline leak in Michigan may have compromised the legal rights of residents evacuated from the spill area, lawmakers allege.
  • S. Korea sets up G20 command center   UPI / 11:34AM
    SEOUL, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A single military command center will coordinate South Korean security operations during the Group of 20 summit in Seoul, officials announced Wednesday.
  • Pakistan officers rousted at D.C. airport   UPI / 11:06AM
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Pakistan's military said Wednesday it recalled an official delegation to Washington over the rude treatment its members received from airport security agents.
  • Judge nixes 2nd Ariz. immigration lawsuit   UPI / 8:34AM
    PHOENIX, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Arizona's tough immigration law, ruling a Tucson police officer did not have standing to challenge it.
  • Death toll from Pakistani airstrikes at 60   UPI / 8:24AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The death toll from airstrikes by Pakistani jet fighters in the country's tribal region has risen to 60, two military officials said.
  • Tuesday, August 31

  • Murkowski concedes in Alaska Sen. primary   UPI / 10:54PM
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, conceded Tuesday to Joe Miller, a relative political novice who challenged her in the state's Republican U.S. Senate primary.
  • Boehner lauds troops   UPI / 9:05PM
    MILWAUKEE, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner said Tuesday, the day marking the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq, "belongs to our troops."
  • Obama on Iraq: Time to turn the page   UPI / 8:34PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. combat role in Iraq is over, President Barack Obama told the nation Tuesday night, and it's time to focus on repairing the U.S. economy.
  • On eve of talks, Israelis, Palestinians agree only to meet   AP / 7:54PM
    WASHINGTON -- Israeli and Palestinian leaders will sit down at the State Department on Thursday for the first Middle East peace talks in 20 months, with almost nothing agreed on beyond the meeting itself, and widespread skepticism in the region that peace is anywhere close at hand.
  • Family sues over heart-stopping shock   UPI / 6:44PM
    DOVER, N.H., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The family of a student severely shocked during a prank in electrical trades class in Dover, N.H., is suing his teacher and school district, court papers say.
  • Mass. Supreme Court green lights wind farm   UPI / 6:34PM
    BOSTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A controversial wind-farm project in Nantucket Sound got a break Tuesday when the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled the state can overrule local communities.
  • Gates warns against cutting military   UPI / 6:24PM
    MILWAUKEE, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a national veterans group Tuesday the United States shouldn't bank any peace dividend reaped as it winds down the Iraq war.
  • Biden: Iraq 'much safer'   UPI / 5:35PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, in Baghdad to mark the transition of power to Iraqi leaders, said Iraq has become "much safer."
  • Reason for optimism in Mideast talks   AP / 4:54PM
    Israeli and Palestinian leaders are in Washington in an attempt to make peace -- again. This summit marks the latest chapter in a story that began on the White House lawn 17 years ago when Israelis and Palestinians committed themselves to ending the conflict once and for all. Since then, every round has failed and bloodshed has continued. Against the backdrop of Tuesday's Palestinian terrorist attack that left four Israeli civilians dead, why should these negotiations be different? Is there any reason for optimism?
  • Economy has turned up the heat in probate   UPI / 4:54PM
    DETROIT, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A Michigan probate attorney says the economic downturn had increased the number of court battles over large inheritances.
  • Costs awarded in Pa. school webcam case   UPI / 4:04PM
    PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania school district must pay a lawyer who sued the district for allegedly monitoring students through their computer webcams, a judge has ruled.
  • Obama calls Bush, visits troops   UPI / 3:44PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama talked with his predecessor and U.S. troops Tuesday before his prime time address on ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.
  • Chinese court to hear HIV-bias suit   UPI / 3:14PM
    ANQING, China, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A man infected with the virus that causes AIDS is likely to be the first test case of a 2006 Chinese anti-discrimination regulation, his lawyer said Tuesday.
  • Lautner suit target suggests push-ups   UPI / 3:05PM
    IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A California recreational vehicle dealer says he wants to resolve the lawsuit actor Taylor Lautner filed against him with a push-up contest instead of a trial.
  • Palin to headline Iowa GOP dinner   UPI / 3:05PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Sarah Palin is set to headline the annual Republican dinner Sept. 17 in Iowa, site of the first presidential caucuses in 2012, party officials confirm.
  • Ariz. Dems: Republicans running ringers   UPI / 2:54PM
    PHOENIX, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The Arizona Democratic Party has accused Republican rivals of running Green Party ringers in some competitive races in an effort to siphon off votes.
  • Arizona colleges sued for discrimination   UPI / 11:54AM
    PHOENIX, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department says it has filed an immigration lawsuit against Arizona authorities alleging hiring discrimination by schools in the state.
  • Kerry, Issa, top list of richest lawmakers   UPI / 11:44AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Financial disclosure forms indicate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is Washington's wealthiest lawmaker worth $188.6 million at the end of 2009.
  • Poll has GOP with 10-point lead   UPI / 10:14AM
    PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The last Gallup weekly tracking poll before Labor Day has Republicans with an unprecedented 10-point lead on the generic Congressional ballot.
  • Traficant may yet be on Ohio ballot   UPI / 7:54AM
    YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Jim Traficant, the ex-Ohio congressman convicted of taking bribes and cheating on his taxes, is close to getting on the November ballot, officials said Monday.
  • Monday, August 30

  • Deceased Ohioan casts vote in election   UPI / 2:14PM
    COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A Columbus, Ohio, man "voted" in the 2006 general election even though he died in 2005, elections officials said.
  • Biden marks end of Iraq combat role   UPI / 2:04PM
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad Monday to mark the formal end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, and to try to foster formation of a new government.
  • Hospital now denies liability for stents   UPI / 10:44AM
    BALTIMORE, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A Baltimore area hospital is turning its back on patients who had coronary stents wrongly implanted, patients' attorneys said.
  • Syria-Hezbollah would unite vs. Israel   UPI / 7:44AM
    KUWAIT CITY, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Hezbollah and the Syrian army would join forces on all levels in a war with Israel, sources told the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai.
  • Sunday, August 29

  • China to hold Yellow Sea naval exercises   UPI / 10:44PM
    BEIJING, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- China said Sunday it will conduct live-ammunition naval exercises in the Yellow Sea this week.
  • 30-plus insurgents killed in Afghanistan   UPI / 8:04PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Afghan and coalition forces battled back attacking militant fighters, killing more than 30 of the insurgents in weekend fighting, officials said Sunday.
  • Earl prompts Virgin Island warnings   AP / 5:54PM
    Hurricane Earl was about 150 miles east of Barbuda in the eastern Caribbean Sunday evening, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
  • Democrat says Republicans lean to extremes   UPI / 3:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., said Sunday the Republican Party was leaning toward extremist politics.
  • Washington funds Palestinian campaign   UPI / 2:44PM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Washington is funding an ad campaign in Israel featuring billboards of Palestinian officials asking: "We are partners -- what about you?"
  • November vote could cut women in Congress   UPI / 12:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Political analysts say the U.S. November elections could result in the first decrease in the number of women in Congress in many years.
  • Japan loses spy satellite   UPI / 11:05AM
    TOKYO, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Japan's only working radar satellite has malfunctioned and officials say they may not be able to save it.
  • In Mexico, drug war deaths mount   UPI / 10:54AM
    MEXICO CITY, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Human rights groups say the war on drugs in Mexico has gone badly awry with soldiers covering up atrocities that have included civilian deaths.
  • Man arrested after macing at funeral   UPI / 10:44AM
    OMAHA, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Sixteen protesters at a military funeral in Omaha were doused with pepper spray from passing motorists, police said.
  • Report says Israel to target weapon depots   UPI / 7:54AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Israel may be preparing to attack Hezbollah arms depots and weapons plants deep inside Syria, Western sources told a Kuwaiti newspaper.
  • Saturday, August 28

  • W.Va., La., voters pick Senate candidates   UPI / 11:14PM
    Voters in Louisiana and West Virginia Saturday picked candidates for their U.S. Senate general election races.
  • Beck rally draws big crowd, counter rally   UPI / 8:44PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A big crowd turned out for conservative radio and TV personalty Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington Saturday while others staged a counter rally.
  • Obama to mark Katrina anniversary in N.O.   UPI / 7:54PM
    NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- President Obama will be in New Orleans Sunday to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city and surrounding region in 2005.
  • Iraq on high alert   UPI / 6:54PM
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says he put the country on high alert in expectation of terrorist activity by al-Qaida and "remnants of the Baath party."
  • India, China in defense row   UPI / 4:54PM
    NEW DELHI, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Chinese officials have denied an apparent rift in defense ties between China and India even as an Indian general was denied permission to visit the country.
  • Police officer, wounded, kills war veteran   UPI / 4:14PM
    SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A Salt Lake City police officer was on leave Saturday, the day after killing an Afghanistan war veteran who had shot and wounded him, police said.
  • Man sues video-game maker over 'addiction'   UPI / 4:14PM
    HONOLULU, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A man in Hawaii is suing a video-game maker, claiming his addiction to the game left him unable to bathe, dress himself or wake during the day, a lawsuit says.
  • Fort Worth tops in political donations   UPI / 2:44PM
    FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Records show that a Texas ZIP code that is home to a bevy of law firms and energy companies is the leading source of political contributions this year.
  • Neo-Nazi must pay $545,000 for harassment   UPI / 2:44PM
    ROANOKE, Va., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A jury has awarded five black tenants $545,000 from a Virginia white supremacist who subjected them to racist harassment.
  • Wisconsin's bid for ballot waiver rejected   UPI / 2:44PM
    MADISON, Wis., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Wisconsin's bid for leeway on sending absentee ballots overseas has been rebuffed by the Pentagon.
  • Parents say priest got daughter pregnant   UPI / 2:44PM
    READING, Pa., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania family has sued the diocese of Allentown, saying Catholic officials failed to supervise the priest who impregnated their daughter.
  • Soviet plane grounded by U.S. court fight   UPI / 1:44PM
    MARQUETTE, Mich., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A Soviet-era Russian military plane remained grounded in the upper peninsula of Michigan because of its owner's dispute with a creditor.
  • Florida candidate Rubio chides Washington   UPI / 1:05PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Florida voters are fed up with spending by the Obama administration, U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio said in the weekly Republican radio address.
  • N.Y. family sues over organ harvesting   UPI / 12:14PM
    NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A New York family says their late mother's organs were taken without consent, but a donor network denies the charge.
  • Obama praises military vets   UPI / 6:14AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Saturday said America's commitment to military personnel and veterans is "a sacred trust" and a "moral obligation."
  • Miller tweet angers Murkowski camp   UPI / 12:14AM
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- With the race between Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her Republican primary challenger Joe Miller still undecided, a tweet on Miller's Web site set off a testy spat.
  • Friday, August 27

  • Democrats file complaint about foundation   UPI / 8:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Washington Democrats have filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service accusing the right-wing Americans for Prosperity Foundation of tax law violations.
  • Condom soup suit settled out of court   UPI / 8:24PM
    MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A California man's lawsuit against a restaurant that allegedly served him French onion soup with a condom in it has been settled out of court.
  • Paul Allen alleges patent infringement   UPI / 7:34PM
    SEATTLE, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sued in Seattle Friday, contending Apple, Google and others are profiting illegally from patents he owns, court records show.
  • Georgia sets border rules for tourists   UPI / 7:05PM
    MOSCOW, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Russians must cross the Georgian border to enter Abkhazia or South Ossetia or risk fine or jail, Georgian officials say.
  • 'Dirty' site cited for $11 million libel   UPI / 6:54PM
    LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A salacious Web site that became an issue in a congressional campaign in Arizona faces an $11 million libel judgment in an unrelated dispute in Kentucky.
  • Russian spy now faces copyright suit   UPI / 5:34PM
    MOSCOW, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A Russian magazine has threatened to sue exchanged spy Anna Chapman, saying she had no right to post a photo taken for its pages on her Facebook page.
  • Report: Taliban targeted British P.M.   UPI / 5:04PM
    LONDON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The Taliban planned to shoot down British Prime Minister David Cameron's helicopter during a trip to Afghanistan in June, sources tell The Daily Telegraph.
  • Somali pleads guilty to piracy   UPI / 5:04PM
    NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A Somali man Friday pleaded guilty in federal court in Norfolk, Va., to attacking the USS Ashland in the first successful U.S. piracy prosecution in 150 years.
  • Iraqis arrest 10 terrorist suspects   UPI / 3:54PM
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Iraqi forces arrested 10 people with suspected ties to terrorist groups Friday in three operations in Baghdad and Taji, the U.S. Defense Department said.
  • Palin Calif. speaking contract made public   UPI / 3:44PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A contract made public by court order shows former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin got $75,000 for speaking at a California university, authorities said.
  • Torpedo under Philly highway was replica   UPI / 2:54PM
    PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A torpedo discovered Friday at a Philadelphia construction site turned out to be a harmless replica, police said.
  • Afghan military recruits get driver's ed   UPI / 1:05PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Trainers at an Afghan training facility said they are focusing on road education because more than half of Afghan army injuries come from road accidents.
  • U.S. sides with utilities in court case   UPI / 12:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. environmental activists say they're angry at the Obama administration for siding with utility companies in a Supreme Court case on climate change.
  • Democrats wavering on tax rise for rich   UPI / 12:35PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Some Democrats are getting cold feet about raising taxes for the wealthy as the economy deteriorates, observers say.
  • Report alleges possible genocide in Africa   UPI / 10:54AM
    UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A United Nations draft report alleges the Rwandan army and allies may have committed genocide during a 10-year period in the Congo, the BBC reported.
  • Thursday, August 26

  • Iran said to ban local news of opposition   UPI / 8:54PM
    TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Iranian media are being prohibited from reporting about government opposition leaders under a purported media directive, opposition Web sites said.
  • Chilean miner family sues mine owner   UPI / 6:34PM
    SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- One of the families of 33 trapped Chilean miners entombed a half-mile underground filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing the mine owner of criminal negligence.
  • Judge OKs Hooters weight-bias lawsuits   UPI / 4:24PM
    MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Two former Hooters waitresses who allege they were fired because they were overweight may proceed with their lawsuits, a Michigan judge ruled.
  • Aussie troops may face court martial   UPI / 4:14PM
    SYDNEY, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A military prosecutor says she may pursue charges against several Australian troops in a raid in Afghanistan last year in which five children died.
  • Black Sea Group ends maneuvers   UPI / 3:05PM
    VARNA, Bulgaria, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The Black Sea Naval Group, an international force including Turkey and Russia, completed 15 days of maneuvers Thursday, officials said.
  • Mexico City mayor sues cardinal   UPI / 1:54PM
    MEXICO CITY, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has sued the archbishop of Guadalajara for accusing him of bribing the country's Supreme Court to approve gay adoption.
  • U.S.: No 'arms race' in South America   UPI / 1:24PM
    ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- South America spends less that 2 percent of its gross domestic product on defense, less than any other region in the world, a U.S. official said.
  • Election fraud charged in Michigan   UPI / 1:04PM
    DETROIT, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Michigan politics have produced claims of election fraud, calls for grand jury investigations and the resignation of a Democratic Party chairman, observers say.
  • Poll: Republicans more likely to vote   UPI / 12:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A Harris poll has good news for Republicans in this year's midterm elections for U.S. Congress: Their supporters are more likely to vote.
  • U.K. transsexual sues former employer   UPI / 12:34PM
    LONDON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A transsexual caregiver in England is suing her former employer for allegedly firing her after she turned up at work wearing a dress, authorities say.
  • Boehner: Democrats increasing pay gaps   UPI / 12:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The Obama administration is responsible for exacerbating a pay gap between public and private workers, a Republican leader says.
  • Polls: Americans oppose a return to Iraq   UPI / 12:24PM
    PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- About twice as many Americans say they oppose renewing U.S. combat operations in Iraq as say they favor it, a Gallup poll released Thursday indicated.
  • Kim leaves North Korea during Carter visit   UPI / 10:54AM
    SEOUL, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was in China with his youngest son as ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter was in Pyongyang, South Korean officials said.
  • Sen. Murkowski mum on plans in nail-biter   UPI / 10:34AM
    JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, trailing her primary election opponent, said she would wait until all ballots are counted before deciding what to do next.
  • Mexico asks for help to ID 72 bodies   UPI / 8:14AM
    MEXICO CITY, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Mexican investigators have asked diplomats from several Latin American countries to help identify the 72 bodies found this week at a ranch in northeast Mexico.
  • Wednesday, August 25

  • Air Force personnel warned of e-cigarettes   UPI / 7:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force warns all personnel about the danger of e-cigarettes and that they are banned wherever smoking is banned.
  • Murkowski: Count absentee ballots   UPI / 6:24PM
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski trails challenger Joe Miller in Alaska's Republican primary election, but she says it "ain't over" yet.
  • Mullen: Iraq can provide its own security   UPI / 5:44PM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday Iraq's armed forces are capable of providing for their own security.
  • Russian planes fuel Canadian dispute   UPI / 5:34PM
    OTTAWA, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Two Russian bombers came within 40 miles of Canadian territory this week, officials say.
  • Pentagon targets service suicides   UPI / 4:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. Defense Department task force announced new steps Wednesday to prevent service member suicides.
  • Video game allows players to be Taliban   UPI / 4:14PM
    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- "Medal of Honor," an upcoming video game from Electronic Arts, allows players to assume the roles of either U.S. soldiers or Taliban militants in Afghanistan.
  • Marine sergeant pleads to sex charges   UPI / 3:34PM
    NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. Marine staff sergeant has pleaded guilty to mistreating 17 male subordinates through sexual actions and comments, authorities say.
  • 5 soldiers charged with Afghan killings   UPI / 3:24PM
    SEATTLE, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Five U.S. soldiers from a Stryker infantry brigade have been charged with killing Afghan civilians, military officials say.
  • Proposed U.S. flight changes rile Japanese   UPI / 12:44PM
    TOKYO, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa may be saddled with increased noise and riskier flight paths for U.S. military jets, diplomatic sources say.
  • Tea Party, Mich. GOP sues fake Tea Party   UPI / 12:34PM
    DETROIT, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Michigan Tea Party activists and Republican leaders sued to keep candidates from what the plaintiffs call a fake Tea Party off the November ballot.
  • Tense calm in Beirut after violent clashes   UPI / 9:14AM
    BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A fragile calm prevailed in Beirut Wednesday following deadly clashes that erupted between members of Hezbollah and a Sunni faction.
  • Hezbollah wants Iran to arm Lebanese Army   UPI / 8:24AM
    BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on the Lebanese government to seek Iran's assistance in providing arms for the Lebanese army.
  • McCain wins, Murkowski trails   UPI / 4:54AM
    Voters in Arizona, Vermont, Alaska, Florida and Oklahoma Tuesday selected who they think should be on the Election Day ballot in November.
  • Tuesday, August 24

  • McCain wins Ariz. GOP primary   UPI / 11:54PM
    PHOENIX, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain held off a Republican primary challenge by conservative firebrand J.D. Hayworth in Arizona Tuesday, returns indicated.
  • Lankford, Thompson look like Okla. winners   UPI / 11:05PM
    OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Republicans James Lankford and Charles Thompson appeared headed to victories in congressional primary runoffs in Oklahoma Tuesday, returns showed.
  • Leahy wins handily in Vermont   UPI / 10:34PM
    MONTPELIER, Vt., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy had no difficulty winning the Democratic primary in Vermont Tuesday as he goes after a seventh term, returns indicated.
  • Alvin Greene not welcome at Dem meeting   UPI / 10:34PM
    SENECA, S.C., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate nominee Alvin Greene found himself on the outside looking in at a county Democratic Party meeting in South Carolina this past weekend, police said.
  • Meek, Rubio, Crist in U.S. Sen. showdown   UPI / 9:44PM
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek and Republican ex-state House Speaker Marco Rubio were winners in Florida's U.S. Senate primary election Tuesday, returns showed.
  • U.S. military confirms cyberattack   UPI / 9:34PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. officials have confirmed a significant breach of military computers caused by a flash drive plugged into a laptop computer in the Middle East in 2008.
  • Man sues over alleged beating during G20   UPI / 8:14PM
    PITTSBURGH, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A bank employee has filed the first lawsuit alleging physical brutality by police during last year's Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh, his lawyer said.
  • Ex-GI charged in Afghan bribe scheme   UPI / 7:34PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A former U.S. Army staff sergeant was charged Tuesday with accepting $400,000 in bribes from a government contractor in Afghanistan.
  • Marine general: Afghan war far from over   UPI / 6:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Marine Corps commandant Gen. James T. Conway said Tuesday he expects there will be a continued Marine presence in Afghanistan well beyond July 2011.
  • Biden touts Recovery Act's effects   UPI / 6:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden crowed Tuesday that federal stimulus is re-energizing the U.S. economy despite Republican naysaying.
  • U.S. troops in Iraq below 50,000   UPI / 3:24PM
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The United States now has fewer than 50,000 troops in Iraq, a goal set by President Obama last February, a White House spokesman said.
  • Body parts worker files suit against N.Y.   UPI / 1:54PM
    ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A New York tissue-recovery worker, acquitted of charges she harvested body parts without permission, is suing the state, court records say.
  • Jackson greets workers, stumps for march   UPI / 1:54PM
    DETROIT, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson and a union leader said they greeted Detroit-area auto workers Tuesday morning to get support for a march scheduled for Saturday.
  • Ga. man convicted for raping girl in Japan   UPI / 1:14PM
    VALDOSTA, Ga., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A Georgia man, convicted of raping a girl over a four-year period in Japan, faces a sentence of up to life in federal prison, court records show.
  • New crop of political attack ads sprout   UPI / 10:14AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Special interest groups are expected to pour lots of cash into ad blitzes against U.S. congressional candidates as midterm elections draw closer, observers say.
  • Insurgents rape 150 women in Congo attack   UPI / 8:24AM
    NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The United Nations has confirmed that more than 150 women were raped in an eastern village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a U.N. spokesperson says.
  • Israel: Iran's reactor a threat to region   UPI / 8:04AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Israel's deputy foreign minister says Iran's nuclear reactor represents a tremendous danger to the stability of the entire Middle East.
  • Iran: Israel and U.S. won't attack   UPI / 7:54AM
    TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A top Iranian general said Tuesday the United States and Israel are unlikely to launch a military attack against his country.
  • Monday, August 23

  • Ex-Marine guilty of killing fellow Marine   UPI / 10:05PM
    GOLDSBORO, N.C., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A jury in North Carolina Monday convicted a former U.S. Marine of murdering a fellow Marine.
  • Biden addresses VFW national convention   UPI / 4:44PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told a national gathering of war veterans Monday overall violence is down Iraq and things are improving in Afghanistan.
  • U.S. soldier pleads guilty to murder   UPI / 4:24PM
    TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. Army soldier pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping Monday in the killings of two fellow soldiers and abduction of their young daughter, officials said.
  • Tort lawyer subject of inquiry   UPI / 12:44PM
    CINCINNATI, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Cincinnati class-action attorney Stan Chesley is being investigated in two of Kentucky's largest legal cases in the past decade, officials say.
  • Defiant Blago hints at political comeback   UPI / 7:44AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Sunday he would be "vindicated" in a second trial and hinted at a political comeback.
  • Sunday, August 22

  • Barak names Israel's next chief of staff   UPI / 10:24PM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- After weeks of speculation, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has named Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant Israel's next chief of staff.
  • 4 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan   UPI / 9:54PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Three separate incidents Sunday left four U.S. troops dead in Afghanistan, officials said.
  • RNC down to $5 million for fall races   UPI / 6:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The Republican National Committee enters the final months of the U.S. midterm election campaign with just $5 million in its coffers, filings show.
  • Ahmadinejad: Israel too weak to attack   UPI / 5:24PM
    TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday Israel is too weak to stand up to Iran.
  • U.S. to spend $100 million on Afghan bases   UPI / 4:24PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The Pentagon says it plans to spend $100 million on air base expansions in Afghanistan with construction efforts continuing into at least 2011.
  • U.S. unlikely to resume Iraq combat role   UPI / 2:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq suggested Sunday combat operations would resume only in the unlikely event of complete failure of Iraqi security forces.
  • Vet in Hawaii slayings had PTSD signs   UPI / 10:44AM
    HONOLULU, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Court records indicate a former Hawaii National Guardsman involved in an apparent murder-suicide was wrestling with post-traumatic stress syndrome.
  • Iran launches first spy drone   UPI / 8:05AM
    TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Iran Sunday launched a domestically made long range high-altitude drone, state media reported.
  • Congressional candiate robbed in Florida   UPI / 2:24AM
    NORTH MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Marleine Bastien, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Florida's 17th District, and her sister were robbed at gunpoint Saturday outside a church, police said.
  • Saturday, August 21

  • Stolen Van Gogh painting found in Cairo   AP / 8:54PM
    A $50 million Vincent Van Gogh painting was recovered in Cairo Saturday evening, hours after it was stolen from a museum, Egypt's culture minister said.
  • Somali insurgents killed by own bombs   UPI / 8:54PM
    MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- An explosion at a house used as a bomb-making center by the Somali militant group al-Shabaab killed several people, a member of the group said Saturday.
  • Australia left with majority of none   UPI / 8:54PM
    MELBOURNE, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Neither the Labor Party nor the center-right Coalition seized a clear parliamentary majority in Saturday's Australian election.
  • Israel sounds out U.S., France on aid ship   UPI / 2:54PM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Israel is seeking international help in turning back the latest so-called aid ship ready to set sail to Gaza.
  • Thais won't halt arms dealer extradition   UPI / 2:14PM
    BANGKOK, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Thailand's prime minister says his government won't intervene in the extradition of a Russian arms dealer to the United States.
  • 2 Australians killed in Afghanistan blast   UPI / 1:05PM
    CANBERRA, Australia, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A roadside blast in the Kandahar region of central Afghanistan killed two Australian soldiers and wounded two others, military officials said Saturday.
  • Newt nixes speech at 9/11 mosque protest   UPI / 12:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he won't take part in a protest against a proposed mosque near the site of the World Trade Center next month.
  • Militant leader killed in Russia   UPI / 12:54PM
    GROZNY, Russia, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A Russian militant leader blew himself up with a grenade when he realized he would not be able to escape capture in a police operation, authorities say.
  • Gibson: For himself, $600K; for child, 6K   UPI / 12:54PM
    LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Actor Mel Gibson has told a Los Angeles court he spends about $600,000 a month, but should pay only $6,000 a month for child support, RadarOnline.com reports.
  • New plan in Tribune Co. bankruptcy   UPI / 9:44AM
    WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The Tribune Company, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, will retool its bankruptcy reorganization plan after key supporters walked away, an attorney says.
  • WW2 Helldiver pulled from reservoir   UPI / 7:54AM
    SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A World War II military plane was pulled from a San Diego reservoir Friday, 65 years after its crew was forced to ditch it and swim to shore.
  • Obama warns of 'corporate takeover'   UPI / 6:14AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Saturday warned of a "corporate takeover" of democracy and said Republicans want the public kept "in the dark" on campaign funding.
  • Friday, August 20

  • Biden attacks Tea Party Republicans   UPI / 8:54PM
    ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden denounced Republican candidates Friday for offering "draconian ideas basically on steroids."
  • Taliban kill at least 21 in Afghan attack   UPI / 8:44PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- The Taliban killed at least 21 guards in a night attack on a construction site in the Helmand River Valley in Afghanistan, survivors said Friday.
  • Hague prosecutor will 'smoke out' Mladic   UPI / 7:14PM
    BELGRADE, Serbia, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- War crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic says he will bring former Serbian military leader Ratko Mladic to justice, vowing to "smoke Mladic out of his hole."
  • Lessons learned from Fort Hood shooting   UPI / 4:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- One of the lessons from last year's Fort Hood, Texas, shooting is that commanders should learn the symptoms of potential workplace violence, a study says.
  • U.S. aid to Pakistan tops 1 million pounds   UPI / 4:04PM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. military aircraft have ferried 1.16 million pounds of relief supplies into flood-ravaged Pakistan in the past two weeks, officials said Friday.
  • Japan to search Iwo Jima for war dead   UPI / 3:34PM
    TOKYO, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Japanese researchers will spend a week on Iwo Jima searching recently discovered mass graves of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II, authorities said.
  • Japan maneuvers to send message to China   UPI / 3:14PM
    TOKYO, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- In a signal to China, the Japanese military plans to stage the recapture of an enemy-occupied island in December war games.
  • Critics say slogans are racist   UPI / 1:54PM
    VIENNA, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Political advertising used by the Freedom Party to promote candidates in an upcoming Vienna city election is racist and xenophobic, critics say.
  • Chinese firm suspected of smuggling   UPI / 1:04PM
    SEOUL, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- A Chinese company conspired with North Korea to smuggle missile-launching equipment into that country, a report alleges.
  • ACLU-Illinois sues over eavesdropping law   UPI / 12:04PM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in Illinois, seeking to end what it says are prosecutions for recording public conversations with police.
  • Iran successfully tests new missile   UPI / 11:44AM
    TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Iran has successfully tested a new surface-to-surface missile with "exceptional tactical powers," a military official says.
  • Jean not on Haiti's list of candidates   UPI / 11:05AM
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean, who sparked enthusiasm when he said he would seek the country's presidency, isn't on the list of candidates, officials said.
  • Croc predicts Australian Labor victory   UPI / 10:54AM
    DARWIN, Australia, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Officials at an Australian crocodile park said a 16-foot reptile predicted a victory for Labor leader Julia Gillard in the upcoming election.
  • Wis. gov. candidate top stein-holder   UPI / 10:54AM
    MILWAUKEE, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mark Neumann won a contest by holding a beer stein with his arm fully extended for nearly 7 minutes.
  • Bush praises troops as they leave Iraq   UPI / 10:44AM
    DALLAS, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- As the last U.S. combat troops leave Iraq, former President George W. Bush expressed thanks to the U.S. military for its service in Iraq.
  • Iraqis worry about U.S. troop pullout   UPI / 9:05AM
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- People in Iraq expressed apprehension as U.S. combat troops shipped out, voicing concern about growing violence and political turmoil in the country.
  • Thursday, August 19

  • Va. pols want to save Joint Forces Command   UPI / 10:44PM
    NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Local officials in the Norfolk, Va., area say they are considering suing the federal government to try to stop the shutdown of Joint Forces Command.
  • Sniper fire plagues troops in Afghanistan   UPI / 10:44PM
    SANGIN, Afghanistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Two soldiers were killed and other U.S. Marines and British soldiers have been hit by snipers in Sangin, Afghanistan, in recent days, Marine officials said.
  • Harry Potter at center of condom lawsuit   UPI / 10:24PM
    SCHWYZ, Switzerland, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Warner Brothers is suing a Swiss company for copyright infringement, alleging the packaging for the firm's condoms resembles Harry Potter, a lawyer says.
  • Court: Utah memorial crosses must go   UPI / 9:44PM
    DENVER, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Crosses carrying the Utah Highway Patrol logo placed on public land are unconstitutional, a federal appeals court says.
  • Colo. Republicans study Ariz. law   UPI / 8:44PM
    DENVER, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Three Republican Colorado legislators and four candidates went to Phoenix to study Arizona's new immigration law and "fortify our resolve," one lawmaker said.
  • Blackwater founder moves to Abu Dhabi   UPI / 7:54PM
    MOYOCK, N.C., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The founder of the largest U.S. State Department private security contractor moved himself and his family to the United Arab Emirates, court papers indicate.
  • Wisconsin settles prison health lawsuit   UPI / 7:54PM
    MADISON, Wis., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Wisconsin settled litigation over healthcare at its women's prison Thursday, agreeing to provide facilities equal to those already available to male inmates.
  • Crowley: Direct Mideast talks near   AP / 6:54PM
    Agreement on direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians is close, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Thursday.
  • Bill Clinton hits campaign trail hard   UPI / 5:05PM
    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Former President Bill Clinton has a busy schedule this campaign season, stumping for Democrats across the United States.
  • U.S. women getting political clout   UPI / 2:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. women are finally getting political "leverage" nine decades after they gained the right to vote, a political scientist says.
  • Pastor on trial for theft, corruption   UPI / 1:34PM
    COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- An Ohio pastor, charged with theft and other corrupt activities, was just negligent and should not be tried as a criminal, his lawyer said.
  • Poll: Most oppose U.S. invading N. Korea   UPI / 12:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Americans are opposed to authorizing a war against North Korea, an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll released Thursday indicates.
  • Israeli soldiers suspected of theft   UPI / 9:44AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Israeli military police are investigating allegations soldiers stole equipment from a Gaza-bound flotilla once the intercepted ships docked at an Israeli port.
  • 3 U.N. peacekeepers die in DRC attack   UPI / 7:54AM
    GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The United Nations condemned the rebel attack on a U.N. peacekeeping base in Democratic Republic of the Congo in which three soldiers were killed.
  • Wednesday, August 18

  • 4 dead, 1 missing in helicopter crash   UPI / 11:34PM
    OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A Japan Coast Guard helicopter crashed into the Seto Inland Sea Wednesday, killing four people aboard and leaving one missing, officials said.
  • Obama: Social Security won't be privatized   UPI / 10:05PM
    COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama pledged during a backyard discussion in Ohio Wednesday not to privatize Social Security and called for pension and 401(k) reform.
  • Court upends Stolen Valor law   UPI / 8:24PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A minor California public official who falsely claimed to have been awarded the Medal of Honor has a constitutional right to lie, an appeals court said.
  • Court rules for EPA in US Magnesium fight   UPI / 8:14PM
    DENVER, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A U.S. appeals court has ruled a law protecting some mining waste from federal regulation does not necessarily apply to a Utah magnesium processing plant.
  • U.S. combat troops leave Iraq   UPI / 8:04PM
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. combat troops have completed their withdrawal from Iraq, where 50,000 American troops will remain, primarily as trainers, U.S. military officials said.
  • Friends, foes comment on Cossiga's death   UPI / 7:14PM
    ROME, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- In death, as in life, former Italian President Francesco Cossiga drew praise from supporters and derision from detractors, observers say.
  • School settles with teacher over stripper   UPI / 7:05PM
    BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A western Pennsylvania school district has agreed to pay $10,000 in damages to a teacher suspended when her photo appeared on Facebook with a male stripper.
  • U.S., S. Korea war games set in Yellow Sea   UPI / 6:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The United States and South Korea said Wednesday they will hold more naval exercises in the Yellow Sea in early September.
  • Counties may try new Commandments appeal   UPI / 5:44PM
    LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A fight over displays in Kentucky courthouses that include the Ten Commandments could be back before the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Fight to halt advancing fish goes to court   UPI / 5:24PM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Great Lakes states will get their day in court to demand aggressive action to stop the march of the invasive Asian carp.
  • Ex-Florida lifeguard files sex suit   UPI / 4:14PM
    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A former teenage lifeguard is suing officials in Volusia County, Fla., claiming she was forced into sex with county Beach Patrol officers, documents show.
  • California Guard ready for border duty   UPI / 4:05PM
    SACRAMENTO, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The first contingent of California National Guard troops assigned to border security will be deployed Sept. 1, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Wednesday.
  • Vet says VA botched heart surgery   UPI / 3:54PM
    DENVER, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Denver is hearing the case of a U.S. military veteran seeking millions in damages after a clamp was left in his chest during heart surgery.
  • Attack on ship not piracy, court rules   UPI / 2:14PM
    NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- An old piracy law does not apply to Somalis accused of attacking a U.S. Navy ship off the Horn of Africa, a federal judge in Virginia ruled.
  • Judge orders release of Gitmo detainee   UPI / 12:34PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A federal judge ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prisoner from Yemen who was still in custody despite being recommended for release six years ago.
  • Dems say $1M donation skews media coverage   UPI / 12:04PM
    NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Democrats say media conglomerate News Corp. has inserted itself into U.S. politics with its $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association.
  • Meyers concedes to Mead in Wyoming   UPI / 7:35AM
    CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Wyoming state Auditor Rita Meyer conceded to U.S. Attorney Matt Mead Tuesday night after he edged her by just 700 votes in the Republican gubernatorial primary.
  • Murray, Rossi to face off in Washington   UPI / 1:35AM
    SEATTLE, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., finished first and Republican Dino Rossi was second in Washington's Senate primary Tuesday to advance to the November ballot.
  • U.S. threatens to sue Arizona sheriff   UPI / 12:35AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. officials say they have threatened to sue Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio if he refuses to cooperate in a discrimination investigation.
  • Tuesday, August 17

  • No 'don't ask' discharge under deal   UPI / 11:35PM
    BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- An Air Force officer won't be discharged under the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy before he gets a federal court hearing, his lawyers said.
  • Abortion groups spar on Palin 'grizzlies'   UPI / 10:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Groups on both sides of the abortion debate are sparring over the so-called Mama Grizzlies that conservative star Sarah Palin claims as her supporters.
  • Plane crowds Air Force One, F-15s scramble   UPI / 10:05PM
    SEATTLE, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Two F-15 jets were deployed into airspace over Seattle Tuesday after a plane violated flight restrictions imposed for a presidential visit, authorities said.
  • Obama praises small biz, community banks   UPI / 9:44PM
    SEATTLE, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama praised small businesses and community banks and took big banks to task at a round table discussion in Seattle Tuesday.
  • Blagojevich convicted of lying   UPI / 7:14PM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A federal jury in Chicago Tuesday convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of lying to investigators but was unable to reach agreement on 23 other counts.
  • GOP campaign removes Obama-Hitler photo   UPI / 4:05PM
    BOSTON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign said it deleted from its Web site a photo of a supporter in a T-shirt that compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler.
  • Poll: British support for Afghan war falls   UPI / 3:54PM
    LONDON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Support for the British mission in Afghanistan has dropped as fewer people believe a successful outcome is likely, a poll released Tuesday indicated.
  • Bolton: Just 3 days left to strike Bushehr   UPI / 2:24PM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Tuesday he sees no sign President Obama will OK an Israeli strike on Iran's Bushehr reactor.
  • Report: China building up military forces   UPI / 2:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- China is modernizing its military with intentions of extending its influence far into the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the U.S. Defense Department says.
  • House GOP game plan targets 40 Dem seats   UPI / 10:24AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The National Republican Congressional Committee is prepared to invest $22 million in television ads aimed at 40 U.S. House Democrats, party officials said.
  • Washington, Wyoming conduct primaries   UPI / 9:54AM
    Chalk up two "W's" in the Tuesday primaries -- Washington and Wyoming -- where voters select party nominees in several high-profile races.
  • Protester hits Levin in face with pie   UPI / 9:14AM
    BIG RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The campaign trail can be a rough road -- just ask U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who got a pie in the face during a campaign stop in Big Rapids, Mich.
  • Israeli woman poses with detainees   UPI / 8:44AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A young Israeli woman and former soldier caused a stir after she posted photos on Facebook posing with handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainees.
  • Violence along Gaza border escalates   UPI / 8:35AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Palestinians in Gaza fired two mortar shells that exploded near the south Gaza security fence slightly wounding two Israeli soldiers.
  • Palestinians support armed resistance   UPI / 8:35AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Jibril Rajoub, former West Bank security head and Fatah strongman, says he supports armed resistance against Israel as a legitimate route to statehood.
  • Bomber kills dozens of army recruits   UPI / 8:14AM
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber detonated his load among Iraqi army recruits Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and wounding 121 others, police and health officials said.
  • Election outcomes affect suicide rates   UPI / 1:44AM
    COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Suicide rates can increase among people who back losers in elections unless they live in areas where lots of others also backed the loser, U.S. researchers say.
  • Monday, August 16

  • Oklahoma woman: Churchill's granddaughter?   UPI / 8:05PM
    TULSA, Okla., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A Tulsa, Okla., woman may be the granddaughter of Winston Churchill, a records search shows.
  • Gen. McChrystal heading to Yale classroom   UPI / 5:05PM
    NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, will teach a graduate course in leadership at Yale University, the school announced Monday.
  • Karzai to disband private security firms   UPI / 3:35PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai will order all private companies providing security in the war-ravaged country to disband within four months, his spokesman said.
  • Poll: Support for Afghan war slipping   UPI / 1:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Support among Americans for the conflict in Afghanistan has reached its lowest point so far in 2010, a poll indicates.
  • Barak OKs purchase of jets from U.S.   UPI / 12:14PM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved the purchase of 20 F-35 fighter jets by the air force from the United States in an estimated $2.75 billion deal.
  • S. Korea, U.S. start war games   UPI / 12:54AM
    SEOUL, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- More than 80,000 South Korean and U.S. troops began annual war games Monday against a backdrop of ongoing threats by North Korea.
  • Sunday, August 15

  • Petraeus: Withdrawal 'conditions-based'   UPI / 5:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. forces will begin turning over security to Afghans in July 2011 in a process shaped by progress, not a timetable, Army Gen. David Petraeus said.
  • Mich. Legion post challenges smoking ban   UPI / 4:14PM
    BARAGA, Mich., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A Michigan American Legion post says its court fight to allow smoking in its post tavern is about the freedom and liberty they fought to defend.
  • Sri Lankan politician challenges ruling   UPI / 4:14PM
    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A former Sri Lankan army chief says he will appeal through a civilian court for the rank, pension and medals stripped from him by a military court martial.
  • Saturday, August 14

  • Whitman adds $13M of own money to campaign   UPI / 10:54PM
    SACRAMENTO, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee for governor of California, has contributed another $13 million to her campaign, state elections records indicate.
  • Military ranks surveyed on gay policy   UPI / 5:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- About one in four U.S. military members sent surveys on the "don't ask, don't tell" policy have filled them out and returned them, officials say.
  • Tamils: Husbands, sons abducted by army   UPI / 2:05PM
    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Six Tamils told a Sri Lankan government war commission their sons or husbands had been abducted or detained by the army.
  • Cousin of ex-Detroit mayor sued by state   UPI / 1:54PM
    DETROIT, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The state of Michigan has sued the cousin of Detroit's disgraced former mayor for allegedly embezzling $25,000 from the charity she worked for, officials said.
  • Afghans say they're caught in a crossfire   UPI / 10:54AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Western nations are getting a share of the blame from the Afghan public for a surge in civilian deaths that the United Nations attributes to the insurgency.
  • Hundreds await airline reimbursement   UPI / 9:24AM
    BRUSSELS, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Dutch airline KLM has not reimbursed hundreds of British passengers for delays caused by the volcanic ash cloud that engulfed much of Europe, observers say.
  • Friday, August 13

  • Judge bans planting of engineered beets   UPI / 11:54PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A federal judge Friday revoked U.S. approval of genetically modified sugar beets, saying the Agriculture Department did not fully assess environmental impact.
  • S. Korea announces pardons   UPI / 10:14PM
    SEOUL, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Almost 2,500 people, most convicted of election law violations, have been approved for presidential pardon on South Korean Liberation Day, officials said.
  • Hairpiece company sues Hilton for $35M   UPI / 9:14PM
    NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- California's HairTech International is suing Paris Hilton for $35 million, claiming the socialite violated her contract to wear only its hairpieces.
  • Military satellite set for Saturday launch   UPI / 6:54PM
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- An Atlas rocket was rolled to a launch pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral in preparation for the launch of a new military communications satellite, officials said.
  • Sri Lankan general convicted   UPI / 6:44PM
    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Gen. Sarath Fonseka, former head of the Sri Lankan Army and a candidate for president, was convicted Friday of engaging in politics in uniform.
  • Dem Senate candidate indicted   UPI / 5:05PM
    COLUMBIA, S.C., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Richland County, S.C., Friday indicted Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene on obscenity charges, the county clerk said.
  • Reid, Angle in tight race in Nevada   UPI / 5:05PM
    LAS VEGAS, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican opponent, Sharron Angle, are in a tight race for the Senate in Nevada, a poll released Friday indicated.
  • Khadr trial delayed after lawyer collapses   UPI / 4:14PM
    GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Canadian-born terror suspect Omar Khadr's trial will be delayed 30 days as his defense attorney seeks treatment after collapsing in court, officials said.
  • Lawsuit blames venue for concert fall   UPI / 3:44PM
    MILWAUKEE, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin woman is suing a venue and concert promoter after she was injured in a fall at a Josh Groban concert.
  • Calif. won't appeal Prop 8 ruling   UPI / 11:54AM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- California will not appeal a U.S. judge's decision to lift a stay on his injunction blocking the state's voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriage, officials said.
  • 'Dead' solider not dead after all   UPI / 11:05AM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A Chicago soldier reported to have died from injuries he sustained in Afghanistan in June is alive, family members say.
  • Dagestan may use locals to fight militants   UPI / 10:14AM
    MOSCOW, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Officials in the Russian republic of Dagestan said they plan to form military units of local residents to fight militants in mountainous areas of the region.
  • Gates wants to roll back 'brass creep'   UPI / 1:24AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates says his proposed budget cuts include getting rid of about one in 20 generals and admirals in the U.S. military.
  • Lifetime ban from airline after air rage   UPI / 12:35AM
    WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A woman who forced a WestJet airliner to land in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after trying to open the emergency door has been banned from the airline for life.
  • Thursday, August 12

  • Condo sued for banning kids   UPI / 11:44PM
    PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A Florida condominium association faces a fair housing complaint for refusing to sell to families with children.
  • Man sues over Legionnaire's infection   UPI / 10:14PM
    BALTIMORE, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A man who was infected with Legionnaire's disease at housing for the elderly in Baltimore has filed a $225 million lawsuit.
  • Terror trial of Canadian detainee opens at Guant&225;namo   AP / 8:35PM
    GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Toronto-born captive Omar Khadr allegedly bragged to interrogators, "I am a terrorist, trained by al-Qaida," a Pentagon prosecutor told a seven-officer military commission Thursday to open the first full war crimes trial of the Obama administration.
  • N.H. lawmaker resigns in Palin flap   UPI / 7:44PM
    CONCORD, N.H., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A New Hampshire legislator resigned Thursday and apologized for "thoughtless remarks" he made online when he speculated about Sarah Palin's death.
  • Judge green-lights Chinese drywall cases   UPI / 4:14PM
    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Chinese drywall cases consolidated in a Florida county may move forward without waiting for rulings in drywall cases filed in federal courts, a judge ruled.
  • Suit claims Donald Duck groping   UPI / 3:05PM
    ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania woman's lawsuit claims she was groped by an actor dressed as Donald Duck while visiting Florida's Walt Disney World.
  • Cops charged with beating terror suspect   UPI / 3:05PM
    LONDON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Four British police officers face criminal charges over an alleged attack on a Muslim terrorism suspect wanted by U.S. authorities, prosecutors said Thursday.
  • George W. Bush greets returning soldiers   UPI / 1:14PM
    DALLAS, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush took part in a Texas program welcoming service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, officials said.
  • Wall Street backs GOP candidates   UPI / 12:24PM
    NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. Senate candidates are receiving double the contributions from the financial industry as their Democratic opponents, an analysis indicates.
  • Iraq will need U.S. help defending borders   UPI / 8:05AM
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Iraq will need help with border defense for 10 years because its army won't be ready when U.S. troops leave at the end of 2011, U.S. and Iraqi commanders say.
  • Wednesday, August 11

  • Iraq disengagement on track   UPI / 11:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told President Obama Wednesday there's no reason to stop the troops drawdown, an Obama spokesman said.
  • 'Don't ask, don't tell' goes to fed court   UPI / 9:44PM
    BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. Air Force officer has filed papers in U.S. District Court in Idaho seeking to block his discharge under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
  • GOP Rep.: Palin 'dividing' Republicans   UPI / 9:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A Republican member of the U.S. House said Wednesday former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is "dividing the Republican Party" by endorsing primary candidates.
  • Blagojevich jury deadlocks on some counts   UPI / 6:05PM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The federal jury deciding the fate of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is deadlocked on some counts, the presiding judge said Wednesday.
  • Croatian divers find WW2 bomber   UPI / 5:54PM
    TULSA, Okla., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The Tulsamerican, a World War II bomber built in Tulsa, Okla., that crashed in the Adriatic Sea, has been rediscovered off the coast of Croatia.
  • Lawyer: Vatican statehood a 'hurdle'   UPI / 5:14PM
    LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Lawyers in Kentucky say they dropped their clerical-abuse suit against the Vatican because of rulings the Vatican is a sovereign state.
  • Primaries not doom, gloom for Democrats   UPI / 4:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The Democratic Party got a boost from U.S. voters in four states, while Republicans were left wondering about their party's fate in November, analysts said.
  • Ben Quayle wrote for DirtyScottsdale   UPI / 2:35PM
    PHOENIX, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Ben Quayle, son of former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle and a candidate for Congress, has acknowledged posting on the DirtyScottsdale.com Web site.
  • Petraeus wants more time in Afghanistan   UPI / 1:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. military officials are preparing a case to counter pressure from Congress to stick to President Obama's planned drawdown of troops from Afghanistan.
  • Attorney wants more Kilpatrick testimony   UPI / 11:35AM
    DETROIT, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- An attorney representing the family of a slain exotic dancer says he will seek additional deposition testimony from former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
  • Copter crashes, stranding rescuers   UPI / 10:24AM
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- An Army National Guard helicopter crashed on Alaska's Knik Glacier during a rescue attempt to pick up five people stranded after a plane crash, officials said.
  • NATO reaches Afghan troop goal   UPI / 10:24AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- NATO says it has reached its goal of expanding the size of Afghanistan's army and police to 240,000 three months ahead of schedule.
  • Int'l pressure headed off Israeli attack   UPI / 10:05AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- French and U.S. pressure reportedly helped thwart an Israeli military offensive in Lebanon after an Israeli officer was killed in a border skirmish last week.
  • Israel eases up restrictions for Ramadan   UPI / 7:44AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Israeli soldiers in the West Bank have been instructed to refrain from eating, drinking and smoking in public during the holy month of Ramadan, the army said.
  • Campbell: 'Nothing to gain' by lying   UPI / 2:14AM
    THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Supermodel Naomi Campbell said she has testified truthfully at the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor and had "nothing to gain" by lying.
  • MIT frat settles suit over explosion   UPI / 1:35AM
    BOSTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternity has settled a lawsuit over a prank that caused an explosion in which two people were injured.
  • State Dept.: Can't pay for new Iraq role   UPI / 12:24AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The State Department says it's struggling to cover the costs of its mushrooming role in Iraq as the last U.S. combat troops prepare to leave the country.
  • Votes being counted in Minn., Colo., Conn.   UPI / 12:05AM
    Longtime pro wrestling industry executive Linda McMahon trounced her opposition Tuesday, winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Connecticut.
  • Tuesday, August 10

  • Gov. race up in air in Minn. Dem primary   UPI / 11:44PM
    ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Margaret Anderson Kelliher held a less than 10,000-vote lead over Mark Dayton Tuesday in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor in Minnesota.
  • McMahon wins GOP nod for Senate in Conn.   UPI / 11:14PM
    HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Businesswoman Linda McMahon breezed by former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons Tuesday to win the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Connecticut, returns indicated.
  • Deal edges ahead of Handel in Ga. runoff   UPI / 10:35PM
    ATLANTA, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Nathan Deal took a narrow lead over Karen Handel Tuesday in the Republican gubernatorial runoff in Georgia, early results showed.
  • Rand Paul a member of 'lewd, crude' group?   UPI / 8:44PM
    LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The campaign of Rand Paul, running for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky, has denied he was involved in a fake kidnapping of a female student at Baylor University.
  • Imperial County appeals Prop 8 ruling   UPI / 8:24PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Imperial County, Calif., Tuesday appealed the U.S. District Court ruling overturning Proposition 8, the state referendum banning same-sex marriage.
  • Judge: Traffic cameras were illegal   UPI / 7:35PM
    ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Orlando, Fla., could have to repay $4 million in fines after a judge's ruling that its ordinance allowing cameras to catch runners of red lights was invalid.
  • U.S. Army eyeing 'nanomissile' launcher   UPI / 6:05PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army says it has been developing what would be the smallest U.S. launch vehicle, a "nanomissile" to deploy swarms of tiny satellites.
  • Glendale attempts to block new casino   UPI / 5:05PM
    GLENDALE, Ariz., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- City officials in Glendale, Ariz., have rebuffed offers from the Tohono O'odham Nation Indian tribe to discuss a proposed casino project near the city.
  • Battle over Geronimo relics continues   UPI / 4:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Descendants of Geronimo say they aren't giving up their legal effort to find out once and for all if the venerable Apache chief's remains are ensconced at Yale.
  • Judge: Lesbian couple must get divorced   UPI / 3:05PM
    SANTA FE, N.M., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A judge in New Mexico has ruled a marriage license a lesbian couple obtained six years ago is valid, and they must now obtain a divorce to void it.
  • Kilpatrick deposed in stripper death suit   UPI / 2:44PM
    DETROIT, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Detroit's former mayor was questioned in a lawsuit filed in the shooting of a woman allegedly involved in a wild party at the mayoral residence, officials say.
  • Police employee attacked in N. Ireland   UPI / 2:14PM
    COOKSTOWN, Northern Ireland, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A civilian police employee in Northern Ireland survived without injury Tuesday when a booby-trap bomb went off on his car as he drove to work.
  • U.N. report: Afghan civilian deaths rise   UPI / 2:05PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Afghan civilian casualties rose in the first half of 2010, caused more frequently by insurgents fighting Afghan and coalition forces, the United Nations said.
  • U.S. engineer guilty in China spy case   UPI / 1:44PM
    HONOLULU, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A federal jury in Hawaii convicted a former high-level aerospace engineer of espionage for providing classified U.S. military data to China.
  • Trial against youngest Gitmo detainee set   UPI / 11:44AM
    GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A military judge ruled the most serious evidence against Canadian-born Omar Khadr is admissible in his terror trial and not the product of torture.
  • Wall Street backs GOP candidates   UPI / 11:35AM
    NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. Senate candidates are receiving double the contributions from the financial industry as their Democratic opponents, an analysis indicates.
  • Bin Laden's ex-cook, feds reach plea deal   UPI / 7:54AM
    GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- U.S officials and an ex-cook for Osama bin Laden struck a deal allowing him to serve time at a minimum security prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, lawyers said.
  • Monday, August 9

  • Gates cutting, reorganizing defense   UPI / 9:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates Monday announced he is making major spending cuts and reorganizing his department to save money.
  • Judge: Guantanamo detainee's confessions may be used against him at trial   AP / 8:54PM
    GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- All of Canadian captive Omar Khadr's confessions to U.S. military interrogators can be used at the accused teen terrorist's trial, including one that followed a tawdry tale of rape, a war court judge ruled Monday to set the stage for the first full war crimes tribunal of the Obama administration.
  • Bill Clinton: 'Big Dawg' on campaign trail   UPI / 7:05PM
    PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Despite having past scandals, Democratic former President Bill Clinton, in demand on the campaign trail, is more popular than Barack Obama, a poll indicates.
  • Pakistani flooding victims say government is no help   AP / 6:54PM
    SUKKUR, Pakistan -- Hungry, bewildered and bedraggled villagers are arriving by the thousands in Sukkur, a town in Pakistan's southern Sindh province that so far has escaped the country's devastating flooding, only to find that little or no help is available, victims of the disaster said.
  • Study: Foam meant to protect can harm   UPI / 5:35PM
    NEW YORK, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Soft foam used in helmets and body armor can cause just as much injury to the wearer under impact or explosion loads as harder materials, U.S. researchers say.
  • Florida suit challenges bong sale limits   UPI / 5:35PM
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A group of Florida smoke-shop owners has filed a lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of a new state law limiting sales of bongs and other pipes.
  • BP pays first $3 billion to victims' fund   UPI / 3:54PM
    NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- BP said Monday it had made an initial deposit of $3 billion to its $20 billion fund for victims of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Gov. candidates reject 'Michiganian'   UPI / 3:05PM
    LANSING, Mich., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Michigan's gubernatorial nominees from both parties said they will end the reign of the "Michiganian" in the state in favor of the "Michigander."
  • Tea Party has funding woes   UPI / 2:35PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Money problems could hamper Tea Party candidates starting with the 2010 elections, officials say.
  • Arkansas doctor guilty in 2009 bombing   UPI / 2:24PM
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- An Arkansas jury Monday convicted a doctor of plotting last year's bomb attack on the chairman of the state's medical board.
  • Community rallies after troops' loss   UPI / 1:44PM
    CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- North Carolina residents are aiding U.S. service members in Afghanistan who had all their personal property stolen during deployment there, officials say.
  • Two Marines killed in Afghan escape try   UPI / 12:05PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Two U.S. Marines were killed this weekend in an apparent escape attempt by a prisoner at a base in southern Afghanistan, military officials said Monday.
  • Death toll reaches 337 in China mudslides   UPI / 11:44AM
    GANSU, China, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The death toll from mudslides in China's Gansu province climbed past the 300 mark Monday with more than a thousand people missing, authorities said.
  • Candidate stumps away from Obama's visit   UPI / 11:35AM
    AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The effect of Texas Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Bill White's bypassing President Obama's visit to Austin Monday won't be known until November, pundits say.
  • Inmate urged not to boycott military trial   UPI / 10:54AM
    GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- As Omar Khadr's terrorism trial drew near in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Canadian's attorney urged him to attend and said "the world needs to hear his story."
  • No. Korea fires artillery rounds into sea   UPI / 10:14AM
    SEOUL, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- North Korean soldiers fired about 110 artillery rounds into a disputed Yellow Sea border area between North and South Korea, officials said.
  • Rwandans go to polls   UPI / 8:54AM
    RWANDA, South Africa, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- About 5 million Rwandans were eligible to vote in Monday's presidential election, officials said.
  • Sunday, August 8

  • 145 dead, 500 missing in India floods   UPI / 9:54PM
    LEH, India, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Rescuers raced Sunday to find about 500 people still missing after flash floods killed 145 people in India's Kashmir region, authorities said.
  • Prop. 8 opponents' lawyer 'hopeful'   UPI / 7:35PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Ted Olson, a lawyer for opponents of California's same-sex marriage ban, said he's "hopeful and reasonably confident" they would prevail in the Supreme Court.
  • Judge stops seismic research   UPI / 6:44PM
    OTTAWA, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A judge in Canada Sunday told researchers they can't bombard the arctic waters of Lancaster Sound with sound waves to try to learn what's under the seabed.
  • General: Iraq ready to take over security   UPI / 4:35PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Iraqi forces are ready to take over security operations as the U.S. military prepares to end its combat mission, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said.
  • 'American Idol' winner in lawsuit   UPI / 3:35PM
    CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A lawsuit filed in North Carolina accuses "American Idol" winner Fantasia of breaking up a marriage and making a sex tape with the husband, court records show.
  • Report: Loan for Okinawa base move shaky   UPI / 1:14PM
    TOKYO, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Plans to relocate U.S. Marines from Okinawa have hit a snag over the financing of new infrastructure on the island of Guam, sources told a Japanese newspaper.
  • South Korea practices anti-sub warfare   UPI / 11:54AM
    SEOUL, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The South Korean navy honed its anti-submarine techniques in the Yellow Sea Sunday as five days of exercises wound down, military officials said.
  • Bob Barker sued by ex 'Price' model   UPI / 11:35AM
    LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A former model on the "Price is Right" has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles accusing host Bob Barker of running her out of a job after she became pregnant.
  • Iran welcomes four new subs   UPI / 11:24AM
    TEHRAN, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Iran's top defense officials attended a ceremony welcoming four new submarines fitted out with state of the art technology, officials said.
  • Internet makes a mark in Egypt   UPI / 9:14AM
    CAIRO, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Egyptians are turning to Facebook and Twitter to have their say in campaigns launched by the country's presidential candidates.
  • Colorado: Gap shrinks in Dem Senate race   UPI / 7:14AM
    The air between the Democratic candidates vying to represent Colorado in the U.S. Senate has grown a little thinner over the last few weeks.
  • Saturday, August 7

  • Iraqi forces officially take over from U.S.   UPI / 7:54PM
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Iraqi security forces officially took over control of combat operations from U.S. military forces Saturday, with the top U.S. commander promising ongoing help.
  • Warrants over alleged coup plot dropped   UPI / 5:54PM
    ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- More than 100 arrest warrants issued over an alleged 2003 coup plot in Turkey have been annulled, officials say.
  • U.N. investigates Israel's flotilla raid   UPI / 5:44PM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The leader of a probe clearing Israel's prime minister in a 1997 assassination will join a U.N. inquiry of Israel's May raid of a flotilla, officials say.
  • U.S. moves forward with Kyrgyzstan base   UPI / 3:44PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The United States plans a $10 million military training base in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, where more than 300 people died in ethnic violence in June, documents show.
  • Thomas' muffin expert barred from new job   UPI / 2:44PM
    HORSHAM, Pa., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A former executive with the U.S. company that owns the Thomas' English Muffins brand has been barred from working for rival Hostess Brands.
  • Aide: Rand Paul never said he had B.A.   UPI / 3:44AM
    LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A consultant to Rand Paul, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, said the campaign was not aware of reports describing Paul as a college graduate.
  • Former POW survived atomic bomb   UPI / 1:54AM
    DUNDEE, Scotland, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A Scottish soldier who was only 11 miles away from the center of Nagasaki when an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city says the bomb saved his life.
  • Friday, August 6

  • Blagojevich jury breaks for weekend   UPI / 7:35PM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Jurors in the case of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich broke early Friday, suggesting a verdict would not come before next week, legal analysts said.
  • Calif. politicos avoid Prop. 8 discourse   UPI / 7:35PM
    LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Nominees for governor and U.S. Senate in California are saying little publicly about this week's court ruling on same-sex marriage, electoral analysts say.
  • Mom arrested with wet T-shirt suing city   UPI / 5:35PM
    TAVARES, Fla., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A Florida woman who was arrested after she was asked to leave a water park due to her wet T-shirt says she is suing the city of Tavares.
  • Mac's wife files wrongful death suit   UPI / 5:14PM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Rhonda McCullough, Bernie Mac's wife, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the late comedian's dermatologist, court records show.
  • 'Birther' Army officer arraigned   UPI / 3:05PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A U.S. Army officer who refused to go to Afghanistan because he believes Barack Obama is ineligible to be president was arraigned Friday.
  • Nazi-named belong in state custody   UPI / 3:05PM
    MILFORD, N.J., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A New Jersey appellate court panel ruled child welfare officials were right to remove children with Nazi-inspired names from their parents' custody.
  • Rangel birthday bash guest list down   UPI / 11:14AM
    NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel's ethical woes have tempered his birthday celebration, with high-profile guests sending regrets for not attending the bash, aides said.
  • Hospital-suing vendor hospitalized   UPI / 10:24AM
    NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A New York hot dog and coffee vendor engaged in a legal battle with a hospital about the location of his cart woke up in the same hospital after collapsing.
  • Thousands sign on for $10B BP lawsuit   UPI / 8:24AM
    GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Thousands of people fearing they were exposed to toxic benzene from a leak at a BP facility in Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit against the oil company.
  • Pilots safe after Russian jet crash   UPI / 8:05AM
    MOSCOW, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The pilots of a Russian fighter jet ejected safely before it crashed about 130 miles from a military base in Siberia, a military official said Friday.
  • Kenyan voters support new constitution   UPI / 2:14AM
    NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The new Kenyan constitution, which includes a bill of rights, has been adopted with approval from 67 percent of the voters, officials say.
  • Thursday, August 5

  • Obama: America 'moving forward again'   UPI / 11:14PM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama told a Democratic Party audience in Chicago Thursday "America is moving" but it will take years to repair damage from the recession.
  • Haslam wins Tenn. GOP primary   UPI / 10:24PM
    NASHVILLE, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Republican voters in Tennessee Thursday chose Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam as their nominee for governor, election returns show.
  • Turkish government, military in agreement   UPI / 9:44PM
    ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The Turkish military agreed this week that 11 senior officers allegedly involved in an anti-government plot will not be promoted.
  • Former defense lobbyist arrested, charged   UPI / 8:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The founder of a lobbying firm has been charged with making illegal campaign contributions and making false statements to a federal agency, U.S. officials said.
  • Notice of appeal filed on gay marriage   UPI / 5:24PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Supporters of the proposition banning same-sex marriages in California Thursday filed an appeal of a judge's ruling reversing it.
  • Canadian chopper down in Afghanistan   UPI / 4:54PM
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A Canadian military helicopter with 20 people aboard caught fire Thursday after a "hard landing" near Kandahar City, Afghanistan, officials said.
  • Obama: 'We don't give up'   UPI / 2:44PM
    CHICAGO, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama touted the federal bailout of parts of the U.S. auto industry at a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant in Chicago Thursday.
  • Lawsuit threatens flights to Cuba   UPI / 1:35PM
    MIAMI, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A lawsuit by a Florida woman against the Cuban government could shut down charter flights between the United States and the island nation, observers say.
  • Petraeus issues new battlefield directive   UPI / 12:54PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The new U.S. commander of troops in Afghanistan has issued a directive that they should defend themselves, but also should safeguard Afghan civilian lives.
  • Poll: Canadians want to exit Afghanistan   UPI / 12:35PM
    OTTAWA, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Four of five Canadians say the country's troops should leave Afghanistan next year, a new poll indicates.
  • South Korea conducts anti-sub drills   UPI / 12:24PM
    SEOUL, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- South Korea began antisubmarine drills near its western sea border with North Korea where a South Korean warship was sunk in an attack blamed on Pyongyang.
  • Russian wildfires blamed for 50 deaths   UPI / 10:24AM
    MOSCOW, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Wildfires sweeping across 17 Russian regions, blamed for at least 50 deaths, are encroaching on an animal shelter about 60 miles from Moscow, officials said.
  • IED's killing more Afghan civilians   UPI / 10:05AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Insurgent-planted bombs have killed 75 percent more Afghan civilians so far this year than for the same period a year ago, a report said.
  • Kenyans usher in new constitution   UPI / 8:14AM
    NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Kenyans approved a new constitution leaders said they hope will alleviate problems that undermined good governance, preliminary results indicate.
  • Report: Churchill feared UFO panic   UPI / 1:44AM
    LONDON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A descendent of one of Winston Churchill's wartime aides says the British prime minister ordered the classification of a UFO sighting by a British bomber crew.
  • Wednesday, August 4

  • McChrystal aides could face discipline   UPI / 10:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Department officials say the investigation is winding up into comments made by aides to Gen. Stanley McChrystal published in Rolling Stone.
  • Rep. Young says U.S. won't charge him   UPI / 10:05PM
    WASHINGTON, Alaska, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, said Wednesday he had learned federal authorities will not charge him in their long-running corruption investigation.
  • K.C. bar sued over alleged discrimination   UPI / 9:05PM
    KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Four black men have filed a lawsuit, saying they were kept out of a Kansas City bar because of their baggy clothes when whites in similar outfits were admitted.
  • 'Alleged soldiers' in Internet scams   UPI / 7:54PM
    CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Impostors posing as U.S. soldiers on Internet dating sites are using the emotions and patriotism of unsuspecting women to get money, authorities say.
  • 100,000 service members due stop-loss pay   UPI / 5:24PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. senator says he wants to know why more than 100,000 service members never got money owed them after being forced to extend their war zone tours of duty.
  • Kashmir's minister asks for special troops   UPI / 5:14PM
    NEW DELHI, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Thousands of people in predominantly Muslim Kashmir defied curfew, torching police cars in the streets and shouting anti-Indian slogans, observers say.
  • Dead general recommended for promotion   UPI / 5:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The late Maj. Gen. John Lavelle, demoted for sending U.S. bombers into North Vietnam, has been nominated for promotion, military officials said Wednesday.
  • 5 death row appeals filed under N.C. law   UPI / 5:05PM
    RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Lawyers for five death row inmates asked Wednesday that challenges under North Carolina's new Racial Justice Act be heard by one judge.
  • At least 1,500 die in Pakistan floods   UPI / 9:54AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- More evacuations were ordered in Pakistan Wednesday as bloated rivers threatened to surge into the southern part of the country, officials said.
  • Kenyans vote on new constitution   UPI / 8:54AM
    NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Security was tight Wednesday as Kenyans went to the polls to vote on a proposed constitution, observers noted.
  • UN official: Israel did not enter Lebanon   UPI / 8:14AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A day after the deadly clash between Israeli and Lebanese soldiers, a U.N. official said Israeli soldiers did not encroach into Lebanese territory.
  • Nasrallah: Hezbollah won't remain idle   UPI / 8:14AM
    BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The Lebanese Army protects Hezbollah, and Hezbollah protects the army, a winning formula against Israel's aggression, Hezbollah's Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said.
  • Army orders changes for Arlington   UPI / 8:04AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Widespread changes have been ordered for Washington's Arlington National Cemetery following a report that detailed multiple abuses, the U.S. Army says.
  • Moran, Johnston win Kansas primaries   UPI / 1:24AM
    TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran was headed for a win in the GOP primary and Lisa Johnston won the Democratic nomination in Kansas' Senate primary, election returns show.
  • Blunt, Carnahan win Mo. primary races   UPI / 12:34AM
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt won the GOP Senate primary and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan won the Democratic primary Tuesday, election returns show.
  • Mich., Mo., Kan. cast primary votes   UPI / 12:05AM
    Primary voters in Michigan appeared to be booting a veteran congresswoman Tuesday and primary races also were being decided in Missouri and Kansas.
  • Tuesday, August 3

  • Cheeks Kilpatrick on verge of House loss   UPI / 11:44PM
    DETROIT, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Democratic Michigan primary voters Tuesday appeared to be rejecting U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick's bid for an eighth term.
  • Ruling due on Calif. Prop 8   UPI / 10:05PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The judge hearing the legal challenge to California's ban on same-sex marriage said Tuesday he is ready to issue a ruling.
  • Israel blames Lebanon for deadly firefight   UPI / 7:24PM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Photographs show Israeli soldiers were on their own side of the border when Lebanese troops fired at them Tuesday, Israeli officials said.
  • Poll: Action needed on global warming   UPI / 6:05PM
    PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Large majorities in three U.S. states say global warming is a threat and they support government efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions, a poll indicates.
  • Judge ends oversight of Orlando schools   UPI / 5:54PM
    ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The school system in Florida's Orange County has wiped out most traces of past discrimination, a judge has ruled, ending federal oversight.
  • Lawyers challenge U.S. terrorrist hit plan   UPI / 4:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A group of civil liberties attorneys filed suit Tuesday against a federal regulation that limits their role in providing legal help to some terror suspects.
  • Lawyers: Transgendered marriage was legal   UPI / 4:54PM
    WHARTON, Texas, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Lawyers for a transgendered Texas woman say they have proof her late husband knew she was born a man when they married.
  • Brazilian group sues over shark killings   UPI / 4:44PM
    BRASILIA, Brazil, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Asia's insatiable demand for shark fin soup has led to the illegal killing of nearly 300,000 sharks off Brazil, an environmental group alleges.
  • U.S. demonstrates translation devices   UPI / 1:14PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they're working on smartphone-based translation programs that could aid American soldiers dealing with civilians in Afghanistan.
  • Countrywide settles some investor lawsuits   UPI / 11:44AM
    LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. and its accounting firm have agreed to pay $624 million for allegedly deceiving investors, court papers show.
  • Minister: France must stay in Afghanistan   UPI / 9:34AM
    PARIS, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The French army must remain in Afghanistan because "there is no other solution," Defense Minister Herve Morin said Tuesday.
  • North Korea issues threat over drills   AP / 8:34AM
    North Korea promised "powerful physical retaliation" Tuesday if South Korea goes ahead with naval exercises planned for later this week.
  • S. Korean soldiers search for landmines   UPI / 8:34AM
    SEOUL, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- More than 1,000 South Korean soldiers searched Tuesday for North Korean landmines apparently swept south by heavy rains, military officials said.
  • North Korea issues threat over drills   UPI / 8:14AM
    SEOUL, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- North Korea promised "powerful physical retaliation" Tuesday if South Korea goes ahead with naval exercises planned for later this week.
  • Nepal fails to choose new prime minister   UPI / 7:54AM
    KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Nepal's parliament failed to choose a new prime minister Tuesday after neither of the main candidates managed to secure the necessary 301 votes, officials said.
  • Monday, August 2

  • National Guard deploys to Mexican border   UPI / 10:54PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. National Guard troops being deployed along the border with Mexico will play mostly unseen support roles, the Border Patrol says.
  • Pakistan flood death toll climbs to 1,500   UPI / 10:04PM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops were trying to rescue thousands of people trapped by flooding and landslides that killed at least 1,500 people, authorities said.
  • Anti-affirmative action law upheld   UPI / 9:35PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The California Supreme Court Monday ruled a state anti-affirmative action law passed in a voter referendum does not violate the U.S. Constitution.
  • Obama: Republicans have no fresh ideas   UPI / 8:44PM
    ATLANTA, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama Monday told powerful Democrats in Atlanta Republicans have yet to offer up "a single, solitary, new idea" to help the American people.
  • Malaysian sodomy trial postponed   UPI / 4:04PM
    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The sodomy trial of a Malaysian politician was delayed after allegations of an affair between a female prosecutor and the politician's accuser, officials said.
  • Obama to vets: We'll 'take care' of you   UPI / 1:54PM
    ATLANTA, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Monday promised the nation's military veterans "your country is going to take care of you."
  • Judge: Healthcare challenge can proceed   UPI / 12:34PM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A U.S. District Court judge says a Virginia lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal healthcare law passed in March can go forward.
  • Obama: Don't 'demagogue' immigration issue   UPI / 11:34AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama, acknowledging state officials are frustrated, said immigration reform is the responsibility of the federal government.
  • Suicide bomber kills six Afghan children   UPI / 11:34AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber in Afghanistan's Kandahar province killed six children Monday but did not injure the intended target, a government official, police said.
  • Sunday, August 1

  • World cluster bomb ban goes into effect   UPI / 1:24PM
    LONDON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A worldwide ban on cluster bombs took effect Sunday and was called a major step in ridding the world of a "cruel and unjust weapon" by its advocates.
  • Home raided in vet's association probe   UPI / 12:54PM
    TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Investigators have confirmed they served search warrants on a Florida home as part their investigation into the U.S. Navy Veterans Association.
  • Peres, Mubarak call for direct peace talks   UPI / 12:44PM
    CAIRO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Egypt and Israel's presidents Sunday called to engage in direct peace talks with the Palestinians as soon as possible at the outset of a meeting in Cairo.
  • MIT grad denies role in Afghan war leaks   UPI / 11:44AM
    BOSTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A former MIT student confirmed he was in contact with the soldier charged with funneling classified U.S. records from Afghanistan to the WikiLeaks Web site.
  • Weather improves in Pakistan flood region   UPI / 10:44AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Devastating rains in Pakistan slackened this weekend and the floods that killed some 1,100 people began to recede, government officials reported Sunday.
  • Targeted Afghan killings show some success   UPI / 10:44AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- One aspect of U.S. policy in Afghanistan is succeeding -- targeted killings of Taliban insurgents, military sources tell The New York Times.
  • U.S. near key step in Euro missile defense   UPI / 10:44AM
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. military says it is close to striking a deal that would make a partial missile-defense shield in southern Europe operational.
  • Netherlands begins Afghan troop withdrawal   UPI / 10:04AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The Netherlands Sunday said it was formally beginning its withdrawal from Afghanistan and would have all of its soldiers home by September.
  • Assad warns chances of war increasing   UPI / 8:05AM
    DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad warned the chances of war are "increasing," in an interview marking the 65th anniversary of the creation of the country's army.
  • Israel targets terror sites in Gaza   UPI / 7:54AM
    JERUSALEM, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The Israeli Air Force hit a number of targets in Gaza in response to missile and rocket attacks on southern Israel, the Israeli army said Sunday.
  • Saturday, July 31

  • Russian bombers approach Canada   UPI / 11:05PM
    OTTAWA, July 31 (UPI) -- A Russian diplomat says two Russian bombers that came close to Canadian air space near Labrador were on a training exercise.
  • S. Korea finds N. Korea mines on 3 islands   UPI / 9:14PM
    SEOUL, July 31 (UPI) -- Eight land mines manufactured in North Korea have been detonated on small South Korean islands near the Yellow Sea border, officials said Saturday.
  • Death threats follow Ariz. ruling   UPI / 3:24PM
    PHOENIX, July 31 (UPI) -- U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has received hundreds of threats since blocking parts of Arizona's immigration law, a U.S. marshal says in Phoenix.
  • FBI involved in WikiLeaks probe   UPI / 2:34PM
    WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- The FBI is investigating whether civilians conspired with a U.S. soldier to give classified information to WikiLeaks, an official at the agency says.
  • UPI NewsTrack TopNews   AP / 12:34PM
    Death toll rising in Pakistan floods PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 31 (UPI) -- The United Nations says at least 1 million people have been affected by serious, deadly flooding taking place in northwestern Pakistan.
  • Casey Affleck target in 2nd lawsuit   UPI / 12:24PM
    LOS ANGELES, D.C., July 31 (UPI) -- A second woman has sued U.S. filmmaker/actor Casey Affleck for sexual harassment, The Hollywood Reporter said.
  • Pakistan spy chief scrubs U.K. trip   UPI / 11:54AM
    LONDON, July 31 (UPI) -- The head of Pakistan's military intelligence canceled his trip to Great Britain over remarks made by the British prime minister, a Pakistani official said.
  • Friday, July 30

  • General: Screening for suicides won't work   UPI / 7:54PM
    WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army cannot reduce its suicide rate by screening out recruits who might become suicide risks, Gen. Peter Chiarelli said Friday.
  • White House: Not given access to documents   UPI / 7:54PM
    WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- A claim that U.S. officials were offered a chance to review stolen military documents before they were posted on the WikiLeaks site is untrue, officials say.
  • Ill. cop show pajamas lawsuit settled   UPI / 5:14PM
    NAPERVILLE, Ill., July 30 (UPI) -- A pair of Illinois sisters settled their lawsuit against the police reality show "Female Forces" for depicting them in their pajamas.
  • Suit claims rough citizen's arrest   UPI / 4:54PM
    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 30 (UPI) -- A Florida man serving a prison sentence for stealing a bicycle from a car is suing three men he accuses of perpetrating a rough citizen's arrest.
  • Fort Hood defendant loses bank account   UPI / 3:44PM
    FORT HOOD, Texas, July 30 (UPI) -- The lawyer representing the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings says Texas banks are refusing to accept his client's paychecks.
  • Mexico announces death of cartel leader   UPI / 10:24AM
    MEXICO CITY, July 30 (UPI) -- Mexico announced a victory in its war on drug trafficking by confirming the death of "Nacho" Coronel, a leader of the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel.
  • BRIEF: US Consulate closed for security check   AP / 3:34AM
    July 30--The U.S. Consulate in Juarez will be closed today and until a security review is completed, officials said Thursday evening.
  • Senate panel holds Arlington hearing   UPI / 12:05AM
    WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. Senate panel heard testimony Thursday on what its chairwoman called "catastrophic incompetence" at Arlington National Cemetery.
  • Thursday, July 29

  • Protesters greet Arizona immigration law   UPI / 10:34PM
    PHOENIX, July 29 (UPI) -- Hundreds of people protested the new Arizona immigration law as parts of it took effect Thursday, with demonstrations throughout the day in Phoenix.
  • Report: U.S. Army showing stress   UPI / 9:44PM
    WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army appears to be under increased stress from repeated deployments of soldiers and inadequate support when they return home, an Army report concluded.
  • Calif. man sues govt. for family's deaths   UPI / 7:05PM
    UNIVERSITY CITY, Calif., July 29 (UPI) -- A California man who lost his family when a Marine Corps jet crashed into their home is suing Boeing Co. and the government for negligence, his lawyers said.
  • Kilpatrick gives deposition in civil suit   UPI / 6:24PM
    DETROIT, July 29 (UPI) -- Lawyers refused to give any information on what former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said in a deposition Thursday.
  • Skelton questions defense review   UPI / 6:04PM
    WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton questioned a finding in a report on U.S. defenses that current Army and Marine strength is adequate.
  • Suicdde's family sues Catholic church   UPI / 5:54PM
    PITTSBURGH, July 29 (UPI) -- The family of an alleged victim of priestly sexual abuse who killed himself filed a wrongful death suit Thursday against the Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh.
  • House panel charges Rangel with 13 counts   UPI / 5:44PM
    WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- A House ethics subcommittee charged U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., Thursday with 13 counts of violating House rules and U.S. laws.
  • Building tenants don't want charter school   UPI / 5:34PM
    AUSTIN, Texas, July 29 (UPI) -- The operators of an office building near the Texas Capitol in Austin have gone to court to evict a charter school because tenants do not want children around.
  • Terrorism suspect may face death penalty   UPI / 3:44PM
    NASHVILLE, July 29 (UPI) -- The botched house attack and a subsequent slaying and rampage allegedly by a Nashville man was kept quiet pending an FBI investigation, a local rabbi said.
  • 32 killed in Somalia; al-Shabab gains ally   UPI / 3:44PM
    BOSASO, Somalia, July 29 (UPI) -- At least 13 combatants were killed in an intense insurgent-government battle in the normally stable Puntland region of northern Somalia, authorities said.
  • Suit over burning of student settled   UPI / 3:34PM
    COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 29 (UPI) -- An Ohio family claiming a teacher burned a cross on their son's arm and taught Christian doctrine in class says they've settled a suit against the teacher.
  • 'Boehner for Speaker' campaign launched   UPI / 2:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- Ohio Congressman John Boehner has launched a "Boehner for Speaker" campaign to raise money for the Republican election effort.
  • Obama to discuss education reform   UPI / 1:44PM
    WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday called for more stringent educational standards in touting his Race to the Top education program.
  • $34 million award in carbon monoxide trial   UPI / 1:34PM
    BALTIMORE, July 29 (UPI) -- A jury in Baltimore awarded $34 million to employees of a restaurant who claimed carbon monoxide poisoning left them with brain damage, court records show.
  • Report: Delay transfer of Okinawa troops   UPI / 1:34PM
    WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- The United States may delay moving 8,000 Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa to reduce the environmental impact on Guam, officials say.
  • Remains of second missing sailor found   UPI / 10:44AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 29 (UPI) -- The second U.S. sailor missing in Afghanistan since last weekend is dead, a Pentagon official said Thursday.
  • Air Force cargo plane crashes in Alaska   UPI / 7:44AM
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 29 (UPI) -- An Air Force C-17 cargo plane with a four-member crew practicing for an air show crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, military officials said.
  • Wednesday, July 28

  • 11 Somali pirate suspects plead not guilty   UPI / 10:54PM
    NORFOLK, Va., July 28 (UPI) -- Eleven Somalis accused of piracy and related federal charges for their alleged attacks on two U.S. Navy ships pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Norfolk, Va.
  • Spied-on student files law suit   UPI / 7:34PM
    PHILADELPHIA, July 28 (UPI) -- A student says he is suing a Montgomery County, Pa., school district for privacy invasion arising from images captured by software in school-issued computers.
  • Obama, small-business owners meet   UPI / 7:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- President Obama met with small-business owners in New Jersey Wednesday and then called for tax cuts and loans legislation he called "as American as apple pie."
  • U.S. indictment in Kuwait fatal crash   UPI / 7:14PM
    NEWPORT NEWS, Va., July 28 (UPI) -- A grand jury in Virginia has indicted a former Army contractor on charges of involuntary manslaughter and assault in a fatal crash in Kuwait, documents show.
  • Candidate taped pulling up opposing signs   UPI / 6:44PM
    MILTON, Fla., July 28 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said they were investigating whether a crime was committed when a political candidate was videotaped pulling up his opponent's signs.
  • Irish boy gets $9,700 in defamation suit   UPI / 5:34PM
    BALBRIGGAN, Ireland, July 28 (UPI) -- An Irish 5-year-old was awarded $9,700 from a grocery store in an out-of-court settlement concerning false accusations of stealing a bag of chips.
  • Biden marks impending end of Iraq combat   UPI / 3:54PM
    FORT DRUM, N.Y., July 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told troops returning from Iraq Wednesday, "America's combat mission in Iraq will end" in a month.
  • Analyst predicts nasty election cycle   UPI / 3:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- A political analyst predicts the 2010 U.S. election cycle will set a new record for the volume of negative political ads.
  • Mass. adopts Electoral College bill   UPI / 2:44PM
    BOSTON, July 28 (UPI) -- The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a law aimed at ensuring the winner of the popular vote becomes U.S. president.
  • Firms face deluge of oil spill lawsuits   UPI / 2:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- Even though BP agreed to create a $20 billion escrow account for oil spill claims, companies associated with the spill face a deluge of class-action lawsuits.
  • Judge open to Blackwater hearing in Kabul   UPI / 2:14PM
    NORFOLK, Va., July 28 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Virginia says he'll consider sending two former Blackwater employees accused of murder to Afghanistan to confront a key prosecution witness.
  • 2 cadets hit by lightning at Fort Knox   UPI / 1:44PM
    LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 28 (UPI) -- A female cadet was injured by a lightning strike at Fort Knox in Kentucky, and another woman was injured without taking a direct hit, officials said.
  • Tennessee pol clarifies Muslim 'cult'   UPI / 12:34PM
    NASHVILLE, July 28 (UPI) -- A gubernatorial candidate in Tennessee said he was talking about militant Muslims when he dropped the word "cult" in remarks about religious freedom and Islam.
  • Dad compromises on soldier's grave   UPI / 11:34AM
    SKOKIE, Ill., July 28 (UPI) -- An Illinois cemetery has resolved a dispute with a father who placed two poles with the U.S. and POW/MIA flags over his son's grave.
  • Wyclef pondering presidential run   UPI / 11:24AM
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, July 28 (UPI) -- Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean, who set up the humanitarian Yele Haiti Foundation, is mulling a run for president of the island nation, his family said.
  • Town suspends illegal immigrant law   UPI / 10:05AM
    FREEMONT, Neb., July 28 (UPI) -- The Nebraska town of Fremont has put a temporary hold on a controversial ordinance that bans the housing and hiring of illegal immigrants.
  • Joint U.S.-South Korea military drills end   UPI / 9:24AM
    SEOUL, July 28 (UPI) -- The joint U.S.-South Korea military drills ended Wednesday with South Korean officials saying the exercise sent a message of deterrence to North Korea.
  • Spanish region votes to ban bullfighting   UPI / 9:05AM
    BARCELONA, Spain, July 28 (UPI) -- Lawmakers in the Spanish region of Catalonia decided Wednesday to become the first region to bring down the curtain on the controversial sport of bullfighting.
  • Helicopter crashes in sandstorm in Iraq   UPI / 8:44AM
    BAGHDAD, July 28 (UPI) -- Bad weather was blamed for the crash of an Iraqi military helicopter Wednesday in Karbala, that killed all five crew members aboard, officials said.
  • Russian helicopter's crew member goes missing in Darfur   AP / 2:34AM
    July 28--KHARTOUM -- One crew member of a Russian helicopter operating under a UN contract in Darfur region has gone missing after the helicopter suffered an emergency landing in southern Darfur, says a UN official.
  • NYC settles bridegroom killing suit   UPI / 1:05AM
    NEW YORK, July 28 (UPI) -- New York City will pay more than $7 million to settle a suit over the police shooting of a black man on the day he was to be married, a lawyer in the case said.
  • Tuesday, July 27

  • Mattis: Iran is 'destabilizing force'   UPI / 11:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, up for appointment as head of U.S. Central Command, said Tuesday Iran is the greatest destabilizing force in that region.
  • Pentagon probing war documents leak   UPI / 10:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- The Pentagon is trying to find out who leaked thousands of secret military papers to an Internet whistle-blower, a U.S. military spokesman said Tuesday.
  • Probe of Bell, Calif., officials widens   UPI / 9:54PM
    LOS ANGELES, July 27 (UPI) -- Los Angeles County prosecutors say they are looking into alleged voter fraud and conflicts of interest in Bell, Calif., embroiled in a City Hall pay scandal.
  • Daughter urges people not to vote for dad   UPI / 7:54PM
    LEXINGTON, Okla., July 27 (UPI) -- A candidate for a judgeship in Oklahoma's primary elections Tuesday got blindsided by his daughter, who took out an ad urging people not to vote for him.
  • House OKs war funding bill   UPI / 6:54PM
    WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- Legislation providing another $60 billion to finance the U.S. wars in Iraq an Afghanistan was sent to President Obama Tuesday.
  • DISCLOSE Act vote fails in Senate   UPI / 5:35PM
    WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- Democrats failed to bring to the Senate floor Tuesday legislation designed to make sure corporate and union political financing is public.
  • Kilpatrick 'wild party' battle continues   UPI / 5:35PM
    DETROIT, July 27 (UPI) -- The battle over a supposed party at the Detroit mayor's mansion continues, with legal moves by the parents of a slain exotic dancer.
  • Trial on weapons cache delayed   UPI / 2:54PM
    SEATTLE, July 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge has postponed the trial of a Canadian arrested on weapons charges to give investigators more time to check his background, officials say.
  • Texas sues EPA over air pollution rules   UPI / 1:44PM
    HOUSTON, July 27 (UPI) -- Texas filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the second time in six weeks over rules for air pollution, court records showed.
  • Info leaks could hurt war support efforts   UPI / 1:34PM
    WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. House was ready to take up a war funding bill as the leak of classified military data revealed an Afghanistan war bleaker than officials let on.
  • Prosecutor rips wounded insurgent killing   UPI / 12:44PM
    GATINEAU, Quebec, July 27 (UPI) -- A prosecutor at the Canadian court-martial of Capt. Robert Semrau said Semrau's killing of a wounded Afghan insurgent was "shockingly inappropriate."
  • Oklahoma: Lights shine on governor's race   UPI / 12:24PM
    OKLAHOMA CITY, July 27 (UPI) -- The governor's race topped the ticket for both Republicans and Democrats in Tuesday's Oklahoma primaries.
  • Percentage favoring less immigration drops   UPI / 11:05AM
    PRINCETON, N.J., July 27 (UPI) -- The percentage of U.S. residents who want decreased immigration has fallen below 50 percent, Gallup reported Tuesday.
  • U.S.-S. Korea conduct live-ammo drills   UPI / 9:14AM
    SEOUL, July 27 (UPI) -- U.S. and South Korean naval vessels conducted live-fire anti-submarine drills Tuesday, the third day of a joint military exercise, military officials said.
  • U.S. monitoring front companies   UPI / 8:44AM
    WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- The United States is monitoring front companies that North Korea is using to evade international sanctions, the U.S. State Department says.
  • Remains of U.S. serviceman recovered   UPI / 8:34AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 27 (UPI) -- The remains of one of two U.S. servicemen who disappeared in Afghanistan have been found, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Tuesday.
  • Monday, July 26

  • Israeli copter crashes in Romania, 7 die   UPI / 8:05PM
    BUCHAREST, Romania, July 26 (UPI) -- An Israeli military helicopter on a training exercise crashed in Romania Monday with no sign of survivors among the seven personnel on board, officials said.
  • Founder defends Wikileaks release   UPI / 5:54PM
    LONDON, July 26 (UPI) -- The founder of Wikileaks said in London Monday the decision to post more than 75,000 documents on the Afghan war was to give a complete picture of the war.
  • Afghans say rocket killed 52 civilians   UPI / 5:44PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 26 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai Monday condemned a NATO rocket attack that allegedly killed 52 civilians, a figure disputed by U.S. officials.
  • Marine impersonator in custody   UPI / 4:34PM
    SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 26 (UPI) -- An Arizona man convicted in absentia of fraud and forgery after his past as a U.S. Marine was revealed as a fabrication was taken into custody in California.
  • Judge: Court-martial sentence can proceed   UPI / 3:44PM
    OTTAWA, July 26 (UPI) -- A Canadian soldier convicted of killing a wounded Taliban insurgent can be sentenced, a court has ruled in dismissing a defense constitutional challenge.
  • Bush name as campaign weapon weakened   UPI / 2:44PM
    LOS ANGELES, July 26 (UPI) -- Campaigning Democrats hoping to make political capital by blaming George W. Bush for the nation's weak economy may find it harder to do, a new poll says.
  • U.S. jets join 'deter and defeat' drills   UPI / 2:14PM
    SEOUL, July 26 (UPI) -- U.S. stealth jets joined South Korean and U.S. warships Monday in military exercises aimed at warning North Korea against provocative acts, officials said.
  • Copter firm employee gets prison for fraud   UPI / 2:05PM
    FORT WORTH, Texas, July 26 (UPI) -- A Texas woman who prosecutors suspect may have been following the orders of her boss was sentenced to prison for defrauding the U.S. government.
  • Mass. judge hears student-slaying motion   UPI / 2:05PM
    SUDBURY, Mass., July 26 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts judge said Monday she would consider a request to reduce the conviction of a former high school student who stabbed a classmate to death.
  • Discharged lieutenant to fight 'don't ask'   UPI / 1:34PM
    WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- A former U.S. Army lieutenant discharged for being openly gay says he will continue to campaign for the recall of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
  • Puppy rescued from Afghanistan in U.S.   UPI / 12:34PM
    HIGHLAND VILLAGE, Texas, July 26 (UPI) -- The Texas parents of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan said a puppy their daughter rescued in the country is adjusting to life in the United States.
  • Rights group: Afghans still in harm's way   UPI / 12:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- Human rights activists say U.S. military documents that appear on the Internet don't shed much light on the impact the Afghan war has had on civilians.
  • House Dems push Rangel to resolve issues   UPI / 12:05PM
    WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- Democratic leaders are urging Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., to make a deal with the House ethics panel before charges against him are announced this week.
  • Israel hits Gaza   UPI / 2:14AM
    GAZA, July 26 (UPI) -- Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza Sunday night, hitting what the military said were an arms factory and two smuggling tunnels.
  • Sunday, July 25

  • WikiLeaks posting Afghan war reports   UPI / 11:54PM
    WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- The Obama administration Sunday lashed out at the Web site WikiLeaks for posting thousands of secret U.S. military reports on the Afghan war.
  • Taliban offer to trade missing Americans   UPI / 10:24PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 25 (UPI) -- Afghanistan provincial government officials confirm one of two abducted U.S. servicemen has been killed.
  • Colorado man to seek Nigeria presidency   UPI / 7:24PM
    GREELEY, Colo., July 25 (UPI) -- A Colorado man says he's going to run for president of his native Nigeria.
  • Anti-sub warfare part of S. Korea exercise   UPI / 12:24PM
    SEOUL, July 25 (UPI) -- Anti-submarine tactics were on the agenda Sunday as a joint U.S.-South Korean military exercise got under way, a South Korean naval officer said.
  • McChrystal wistful at retirement ceremony   UPI / 11:44AM
    WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, forced to step down after published remarks disparaged U.S. President Obama, formally retired this weekend, officials said.
  • Latest drone attack hits Pakistan house   UPI / 10:54AM
    KARACHI, Pakistan, July 25 (UPI) -- An unmanned U.S. drone made a direct hit on a house in Pakistan Sunday, killing five suspected Taliban troops, intelligence officials reported.
  • Saturday, July 24

  • Five U.S. troops die in Afghanistan   UPI / 11:54PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 24 (UPI) -- Five U.S. troops were killed by bombs Saturday in southern Afghanistan, military officials said.
  • Top 3 U.K. unions back Ed Miliband   UPI / 7:05PM
    LONDON, July 24 (UPI) -- The Unite union's political committee has endorsed Ed Miliband as leader of the U.K. Labor Party.
  • U.S. confirms two missing in Afghanistan   UPI / 3:44PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 24 (UPI) -- U.S. officials have confirmed two service personnel are missing in Afghanistan but would not comment on Taliban claims to be holding them.
  • Judge won't dismiss Vitaminwater lawsuit   UPI / 3:34PM
    WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- A New York judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Coca-Cola over health claims related to its Vitaminwater line of drinks, the plaintiffs announced.
  • U.S. works to tamp down violence in Mosul   UPI / 12:44PM
    MOSUL, Iraq, July 24 (UPI) -- U.S. military leaders in Iraq say they're focusing on Mosul so they won't leave a powder keg for Iraqi officials to handle once U.S. troops withdraw.
  • Consumers say 'smart meters' raise bills   UPI / 11:14AM
    WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- Consumers across the United States say they want installation of so-called smart meters to go slow, saying the devices are raising, not lowering, their bills.
  • Commodity trader fined for Africa dumping   UPI / 11:14AM
    AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, July 24 (UPI) -- A Dutch court has fined the oil-trading company Trafigura 1 million euros ($1.3 million) over toxic sludge dumped in the Ivory Coast four years ago.
  • Asia on edge after North Korea nuke threat   UPI / 10:54AM
    SEOUL, July 24 (UPI) -- South Korea said the border with North Korea was quiet following Pyongyang's nuclear saber-rattling over the South's naval exercises with the United States.
  • Drone attack kills at least 16 militants   UPI / 10:24AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 24 (UPI) -- Missiles fired from an unmanned aircraft killed at least 16 militants in northwest Pakistan Saturday, Pakistani officials said.
  • Friday, July 23

  • Rangel explored settling ethics case   UPI / 11:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., held talks with a House committee on settling an ethics case against him, lawyers involved in the negotiations said.
  • BP accused of 'buying' silence   UPI / 10:54PM
    LONDON, July 23 (UPI) -- An academic group says BP is trying to buy the silence of academics and scientists as part of a defense against litigation from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
  • Indiana company settles pollution suit   UPI / 9:44PM
    WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- An Indiana power company settled a pollution case and will install pollution control equipment to reduce air pollution by 24,500 tons per year, officials say.
  • More refugees sailing for Australia   UPI / 7:44PM
    MELBOURNE, July 23 (UPI) -- Australian officials are calling up reserve forces warning naval personnel to expect a surge of asylum-seeking refugees and, authorities said.
  • U.S. upgrades PLO diplomatic status   UPI / 6:34PM
    JERUSALEM, July 23 (UPI) -- The United States has upgraded the diplomatic status of the Palestinian Authority in Washington to that of general delegation, authorities say.
  • Alleged transgender widow benefits frozen   UPI / 4:24PM
    WHARTON, Texas, July 23 (UPI) -- A Texas judge ordered a firefighter's widow, who was alleged to have been born a man, not to spend or collect any death benefits from her husband.
  • Report: Child-porn users found at Pentagon   UPI / 2:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- Investigators said they found dozens of Pentagon employees, contractors and military personnel who accessed child pornography on their government computers.
  • Hugo Chavez cuts relations with Colombia   AP / 1:34PM
    Venezuela says it is cutting diplomatic ties with neighboring Colombia amid allegations the Caracas government is harboring leftist guerrillas.
  • Reid to offer scaled-back energy plan   UPI / 12:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- Despite weeks of intense negotiations, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said comprehensive energy reform couldn't be passed before the August recess.
  • Pentagon pressured to cut budget   UPI / 11:34AM
    WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department finds itself pressured to rein in its spending for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, officials said.
  • Mental illness increases for U.S. troops   UPI / 11:24AM
    WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are taking a toll on minds as well as bodies, statistics released by the U.S. Army indicate.
  • Gay critic discharged from army   UPI / 8:54AM
    WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- An Iraq war veteran who opposed the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy says he has received an honorable discharge from the Army.
  • Thursday, July 22

  • N.Y. man sues over gum's tooth claims   UPI / 6:14PM
    NEW YORK, July 22 (UPI) -- A New York man has sued the maker of Trident Xtra Care gum, saying its ads make the false claim it can restore teeth to health.
  • Judge questions Ariz. immigration law   UPI / 5:34PM
    PHOENIX, July 22 (UPI) -- A federal judge Thursday questioned whether Arizona's tough new immigration law is constitutional.
  • 96-year-old seeks Byrd's Senate seat   UPI / 4:04PM
    WHEELING, W.Va., July 22 (UPI) -- A 96-year-old veteran West Virginian politician has entered the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Sen. Robert Byrd, officials said.
  • Couple sues over falling tree at Yosemite   UPI / 4:04PM
    EUGENE, Ore., July 22 (UPI) -- An Oregon couple is suing over a tree that fell on their car along a road at Yosemite National Park.
  • Candidate's ballot statement pulled   UPI / 3:54PM
    MILWAUKEE, July 22 (UPI) -- A candidate for the Wisconsin state Assembly says she will take the row over language in her ballot statement to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Suit settled in Canadian ferry sinking   UPI / 3:54PM
    VICTORIA, British Columbia, July 22 (UPI) -- A class-action lawsuit by dozens of passengers who escaped from a sinking Canadian ferry in British Columbia has been settled, authorities said.
  • Airline hit with suit over baggage fees   UPI / 2:34PM
    NEW YORK, July 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. airline has been hit with a $5 million class-action lawsuit over lost bags and its refusal to reimburse the baggage fees it charged, legal experts say.
  • Rigger acquitted in NYC crane collapse   UPI / 1:44PM
    NEW YORK, July 22 (UPI) -- A New York judge Thursday acquitted a rigging contractor on charges connected to the 2008 collapse of a construction crane in Manhattan that killed seven people.
  • Russia gets tough in copyright case   UPI / 12:34PM
    MOSCOW, July 22 (UPI) -- The Moscow Arbitration Court awarded a publishing house $249.6 million in damages in a copyright infringement case, an unprecedented sum, an attorney said.
  • U.S. lifts ban on Indonesian commandos   AP / 10:34AM
    The U.S. Defense Department said it would lift a ban on contact with Indonesia's special forces, who have been condemned for killing civilians and other abuses.
  • U.S. lifts ban on Indonesian commandos   UPI / 10:14AM
    JAKARTA, July 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department said it would lift a ban on contact with Indonesia's special forces, who have been condemned for killing civilians and other abuses.
  • Palestinian shot infiltrating settlement   UPI / 9:34AM
    RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 22 (UPI) -- One Palestinian died when Israeli military forces fired on a group of Palestinians trying to infiltrate a West Bank settlement, officials said.
  • Election stalemate means runoff in Nepal   UPI / 9:04AM
    KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 22 (UPI) -- Nepal must hold a runoff election because no candidate secured enough parliamentary votes to select a prime minister, which observers say is a blow to Maoists.
  • Russia holds talks with NATO   UPI / 8:24AM
    MOSCOW, July 22 (UPI) -- Sea piracy and Afghanistan will be the main focus of talks in Moscow between visiting NATO delegates and Russian officials, Russia's Defense Ministry says.
  • S. Korea: Sanctions against N. Korea just   UPI / 7:54AM
    HANOI, Vietnam, July 22 (UPI) -- South Korea's foreign minister rejected North Korea's call to lift sanctions, saying North Korea must sincerely want denuclearization if talks are to resume.
  • Siegfried Sassoon's private papers public   UPI / 1:14AM
    CAMBRIDGE, England, July 22 (UPI) -- The private papers of British poet Siegfried Sassoon, including his World War I diary and his "Soldier's Declaration," are on public view for the first time.
  • Chamber of Commerce spends against Obama   UPI / 12:54AM
    WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent more than $150 million lobbying against some of President Barack Obama's major initiatives, records show.
  • Wednesday, July 21

  • More troubles for GOP committee   UPI / 9:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- The treasurer of the U.S. Republican National Committee has submitted documents he says show $2 million in debts were hidden from committee members.
  • Widow blames cigarette makers   UPI / 9:14PM
    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 21 (UPI) -- A Florida widow told a jury her relationship with her husband revolved around cigarettes from the time he asked her for one until he died of cancer.
  • Judge: Supermax inmates must have hearings   UPI / 4:34PM
    CHICAGO, July 21 (UPI) -- Inmates transferred to the only supermax prison in Illinois must be given hearings where they can challenge the move, a federal judge has ruled.
  • Odierno: Iraq drawdown on schedule   UPI / 4:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno said Wednesday U.S. forces in Iraq are on schedule to meet their 2011 drawdown target.
  • New GOP group allows anonymous donations   UPI / 3:54PM
    WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- Republican strategists Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie have launched a new group that allows U.S. Republicans to give anonymously to discredit Democrats.
  • Sudan expels Chadian opposition as Bashir prepares to make landmark visit to Ndjamena   AP / 3:34PM
    July 21--WASHINGTON -- The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir prepares to make a landmark visit to Chad starting Wednesday making it the first visit to his Eastern neighbour after years of proxy wars between the two sides.
  • Law enhances presidential popular vote   UPI / 1:54PM
    BOSTON, July 21 (UPI) -- Massachusetts is set to join other states in trying to make sure that the national presidential popular vote winner also gets an Electoral College majority.
  • Japan scrapping U.S. Marine transfer   UPI / 10:24AM
    TOKYO, July 21 (UPI) -- Government sources in Japan say a plan to move U.S. Marine Corps training exercises from Okinawa to Tokunoshima Island are expected to be abandoned.
  • U.S. imposes sanctions on N. Korea   UPI / 7:54AM
    SEOUL, July 21 (UPI) -- New sanctions against North Korea were imposed Wednesday in reaction to the sinking of a South Korean warship, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
  • Tuesday, July 20

  • Ga. GOP gubernatorial race heads to runoff   UPI / 11:24PM
    ATLANTA, July 20 (UPI) -- Former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes won the Democratic primary Tuesday but a runoff will be needed to decide the GOP nominee for governor, election returns indicate.
  • Republicans hammer at START Treaty   UPI / 6:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- The head of the U.S. Strategic Command defended the new START Treaty with Russia during a Senate hearing Tuesday.
  • School settles with lesbian over prom   UPI / 5:54PM
    FULTON, Miss., July 20 (UPI) -- A Mississippi school district admitted it should have allowed a lesbian student to bring her girlfriend to the prom, a legal group says.
  • Gov. Manchin to run for Robert Byrd's seat   UPI / 4:14PM
    CHARLESTON, W.Va., July 20 (UPI) -- West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin said Tuesday he plans to run in a special election this year for the late Robert Byrd's Senate seat.
  • Gates wants soldiers' input on gay policy   UPI / 3:54PM
    SEOUL, July 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. secretary of defense says soldiers' input is vital as the military considers changes to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military.
  • Summit commits to 2014 Afghan role   UPI / 3:34PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 20 (UPI) -- International leaders have reaffirmed their support for a complete transition of security and budgeting responsibility to the Afghan government by 2014.
  • Faulty clamp causes loss of penis head   UPI / 2:44PM
    ATLANTA, July 20 (UPI) -- A federal court in New York says a medical instrument maker must pay $10.8 million to the family of a 3-year-old Florida boy injured during circumcision.
  • Thieves take woman's cremains from car   UPI / 2:24PM
    DES MOINES, Iowa, July 20 (UPI) -- A Virginia man's car was broken into in Iowa, and thieves took his late wife's cremated remains among other items pertaining to her death, the victim said.
  • Trump attempts to trump airport expansion   UPI / 2:14PM
    PALM BEACH, Fla., July 20 (UPI) -- Billionaire Donald Trump is suing Palm Beach County in Florida to block construction of a new runway at Palm Beach International Airport, court papers show.
  • WH: GOP immigration view turns off Latinos   UPI / 10:24AM
    WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- The Obama administration said it weighed the effects of suing Arizona over its immigration law, conceding some Republican candidates may benefit in the fall.
  • Turkish rebels hit military base, kill 6   UPI / 10:24AM
    ANKARA, Turkey, July 20 (UPI) -- Kurdish rebels attacked a Turkish military unit near the Iraqi border, killing six soldiers, officials said.
  • U.S. shows strength of S. Korean alliance   AP / 9:34AM
    he U.S. heads of state and defense plan to make a joint visit to the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, officials say.
  • Anti-U.S. cleric pressures Iraqi P.M.   UPI / 9:34AM
    BAGHDAD, July 20 (UPI) -- An anti-U.S. cleric whose followers hold 12 percent of the Iraqi Parliament's seats is poised to influence formation of a government, political observers say.
  • Syria bans veil on university campuses   AP / 8:35AM
    Women on university campuses in Syria are no longer allowed to wear veils that cover their faces, Syria's Minister of Higher Education says.
  • Anti-U.S. leric pressures Iraqi P.M.   UPI / 12:24AM
    BAGHDAD, July 20 (UPI) -- An anti-U.S. cleric whose followers hold 10 percent of the Iraqi Parliament's seats is poised to influence formation of a government, political observers say.
  • Monday, July 19

  • No reality show for Palin and Johnston   UPI / 10:34PM
    LOS ANGELES, July 19 (UPI) -- Bristol Palin's publicist says the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her fiance, Levi Johnston, will not star in a reality TV series.
  • Blagojevich brother takes witness stand   UPI / 10:24PM
    CHICAGO, July 19 (UPI) -- Rod Blagojevich's brother testified Monday in the former Illinois governor's corruption trial and described his role in the politician's fundraising operation.
  • Military plane crashes in Forida forest   UPI / 8:34PM
    GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 19 (UPI) -- A U.S. military pilot who ejected before his plane crashed in Ocala National Forest in Florida was found alert and conscious by searchers, authorities said.
  • Carrier task force to South Korea   UPI / 7:54PM
    SEOUL, July 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington will dock at Busan, South Korea, ahead of a joint naval drill the U.S. military says is a warning to North Korea.
  • Dems pull ahead of GOP in '10 poll   UPI / 7:14PM
    PRINCETON, N.J., July 19 (UPI) -- Democrats gained some favor among independents to pull ahead of Republicans in a poll of U.S. voters during the past week, the Gallup organization said Monday.
  • Clinton unveils $500 million in aid projects for Pakistan   AP / 6:35PM
    ISLAMABAD -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday unveiled $500 million worth of civilian aid projects for key ally Pakistan, in an attempt to counter rampant anti-Americanism in the country by reaching out to the population with tangible help.
  • Nat'l Guard going to Arizona Aug. 1   UPI / 6:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- National Guard troops will be deployed to the U.S. Southwest border starting Aug. 1, federal officials said Monday.
  • Canadian captain acquitted in war killing   UPI / 5:24PM
    GATINEAU, Quebec, July 19 (UPI) -- A Canadian army captain was found guilty of disgraceful conduct Monday but cleared of second-degree murder for killing a wounded Afghan fighter.
  • New lawsuit filed over Asian carp threat   UPI / 5:24PM
    CHICAGO, July 19 (UPI) -- Five states filed suit Monday against Chicago's water district and the Army Corps of Engineers over the infiltration of the Great Lakes by the Asian carp.
  • Okla. judge bars state abortion law   UPI / 4:24PM
    OKLAHOMA CITY, July 19 (UPI) -- A judge in Oklahoma City Monday temporarily blocked implementation of a state law requiring ultrasounds shortly before abortions.
  • Shalit's family urges EU to push for son   UPI / 12:44PM
    JERUSALEM, July 19 (UPI) -- The parents of an Israeli soldier held by Hamas urged a European Union official to be assertive for their son in meetings with Palestinian officials.
  • Sunday, July 18

  • Tea Party expels Williams, affiliate group   UPI / 7:54PM
    WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Tea Party coalition has expelled the Tea Party Express over Mark Williams' satirical letter from "Colored People" to Abraham Lincoln, a spokesman says.
  • Dems, GOP speak out on November prospects   UPI / 5:34PM
    WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Sunday countered suggestions of heavy Democratic losses in November, saying, "We're going to shock the heck out of everybody."
  • Clinton aims to improve U.S.-Pakistan ties   UPI / 2:14PM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan Sunday, pledging to strengthen strained relations between the two countries.
  • Netanyahu, Mubarak to discuss peace talks   AP / 12:35PM
    Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu headed for Egypt Sunday to talk with President Hosni Mubarak about Palestinians, officials said.
  • FEC fines Biden more than $219,000   UPI / 10:24AM
    WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- Vice President Joe Biden's failed presidential campaign owes the U.S. Treasury more than $219,000 for violating campaign finance rules, a report revealed.
  • Suicide bombers kill 50 in Baghdad   UPI / 8:44AM
    BAGHDAD, July 18 (UPI) -- Suicide bombers targeting former Sunni militants who now back the Iraqi government killed at least 50 people in Baghdad Sunday, police said.
  • Saturday, July 17

  • U.N. report: N. Korea evades sanctions   UPI / 11:05PM
    NEW YORK, July 17 (UPI) -- North Korea has played a shell game with state-owned companies and taken other steps to evade economic sanctions, a U.N. report says.
  • 3 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan   UPI / 9:05PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 17 (UPI) -- Three NATO soldiers died in separate attacks in Afghanistan Saturday in the latest of heavy summer casualties among international troops, the military said.
  • Solar-powered plane sets endurance record   UPI / 4:54PM
    FARNBOROUGH, England, July 17 (UPI) -- An unmanned solar-powered plane has set a record by remaining aloft for seven straight days, flying day and night, its designers say.
  • UFOs in China cause flight delays   UPI / 12:54PM
    CHONGQING, China, July 17 (UPI) -- Two recent UFO sightings have caused a stir in eastern China, with "twinkling lights" causing an airport to shut down temporarily.
  • Mitchell offers optimism on Mideast talks   AP / 12:34PM
    U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell says he will be updating nations in the region on his latest round of contacts with Israel and the Palestinians.
  • Grenades, car bombs escalate Mexico strife   UPI / 12:14PM
    JUAREZ, Mexico, July 17 (UPI) -- Mexico's drug wars appear to be escalating with the use of car bombs as well as hand grenades apparently stolen from military arsenals, officials said.
  • AIG agrees to pay $725m in settlement   UPI / 10:14AM
    NEW YORK, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S.-based American International Group Inc. has reached a $725 million settlement in a securities lawsuit alleging insurance bid-rigging, records show.
  • Militants kill 18 civilians in Pakistan   UPI / 8:34AM
    PARACHINAR, Pakistan, July 17 (UPI) -- Suspected militants killed 18 civilians when they opened fire on vehicles being escorted by security forces in tribal Pakistan Saturday, witnesses said.
  • Friday, July 16

  • GOP candidate battles plagiarism charges   UPI / 11:05PM
    DENVER, July 16 (UPI) -- A Republican candidate for governor of Colorado, accused of plagiarism in an essay he was paid $300,000 to write, said Friday he will return the money.
  • Canada announces fighter jet purchase   UPI / 9:54PM
    OTTAWA, July 16 (UPI) -- Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay announced plans Friday to buy a new fleet of fighter jets from Lockheed-Martin.
  • Judge: Stolen Valor Act unconstitutional   UPI / 9:05PM
    DENVER, July 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. district judge in Denver has dismissed the case of a man who lied about being a war veteran, sayi8ng the says the Stolen Valor Act is unconstitutional.
  • Calif. Sen. Boxer ahead in campaign funds   UPI / 8:05PM
    LOS ANGELES, July 16 (UPI) -- Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has a campaign war chest almost 12 times as large as that of her Republican opponent Carly Fiorina, campaign finance reports show.
  • Ariz. immigration law has first court test   UPI / 7:44PM
    PHOENIX, July 16 (UPI) -- A court battle over Arizona's new immigration law began with opponents of the law urging a delay in enforcing it and backers urging dismissal of the lawsuit.
  • Mexico attorney general: Juarez explosion not narco-terrorism   AP / 6:35PM
    July 16--Two Mexican police officers and a paramedic died in the explosion in Juarez, Mexico's attorney general said today.
  • Iowa group starts fund for Ariz. sheriffs   UPI / 6:05PM
    DES MOINES, Iowa, July 16 (UPI) -- A non-profit in Iowa has started a Web site to raise money for a legal defense fund for two Arizona sheriffs named in a suit over that state's immigration law.
  • Rights group blasts killings in Swat   UPI / 4:24PM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 16 (UPI) -- The Pakistani Army has killed at least 50 people in summary executions in the Swat Valley, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
  • Erin Andrews suing hotel chains   UPI / 2:24PM
    CHICAGO, July 16 (UPI) -- TV personality Erin Andrews has filed a lawsuit in Chicago's Cook County Circuit Court against Marriott International and Radisson Hotels, court records show.
  • U.S.: Naval exercises target N. Korea   UPI / 2:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- U.S. officials say joint naval exercises with South Korea are aimed at North Korea, not China.
  • Marion Jones's teammates to keep medals   UPI / 12:44PM
    LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 16 (UPI) -- U.S. Olympians who teamed with Marion Jones for a relay win will be able to keep their medals, even though Jones was forced to forfeit hers.
  • Army suicides reach record   UPI / 12:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- The number of U.S. Army soldiers who committed suicide hit a record in June, statistics reveal.
  • Afghan claims he killed 3 British troops   UPI / 8:04AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 16 (UPI) -- The man claiming to be the Afghan soldier who killed three British troops in Helmand province told the BBC he was angry at the troops' conduct and acted alone.
  • Thursday, July 15

  • Panel orders new investigation of Ozawa   UPI / 11:54PM
    TOKYO, July 15 (UPI) -- A judicial committee ordered prosecutors Thursday to reopen an investigation into Ichiro Ozawa, former secretary-general of the Democratic Party of Japan.
  • Israeli soldier, officer convicted   UPI / 11:34PM
    JERUSALEM, July 15 (UPI) -- An Israeli soldier and his commanding officer were convicted Thursday in the firing of a rubber bullet at the feet of a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner.
  • Estranged wife defends Mel Gibson   UPI / 11:05PM
    LOS ANGELES, July 15 (UPI) -- Robyn Gibson has filed a declaration in a Los Angeles court swearing her estranged celebrity husband Mel never physically abused her or their seven children.
  • Professor says whistleblowing cost his job   UPI / 8:54PM
    AUSTIN, Texas, July 15 (UPI) -- A Texas A& M professor says he was demoted for blowing the whistle on financial irregularities surrounding the construction of a medical building on campus.
  • U.S., South Korea to move exercise site   UPI / 8:54PM
    SEOUL, July 15 (UPI) -- Bowing to pressure from China, South Korea and the United States say they will change the location of a joint naval exercise seen as a warning to North Korea.
  • Goldman pays $550M to settle fraud charges   UPI / 7:24PM
    NEW YORK, July 15 (UPI) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to pay a record $550 million to settle charges of securities fraud tied to mortgage investments, U.S. regulators said Thursday.
  • Boy Scouts sued for Fla. hiking heat death   UPI / 7:05PM
    MIAMI, July 15 (UPI) -- A Florida couple is suing the Boy Scouts after their 17-year-old son collapsed and died from heatstroke on a 20-mile hike in the Everglades, observers say.
  • Former Clinton moneyman gets 12 years   UPI / 5:24PM
    NEW YORK, July 15 (UPI) -- The former finance chair of Hillary Clinton's U.S. presidential campaign received a 12-year sentence Thursday for a $300 million financial fraud.
  • Blagojevich jurors may hear a dozen tapes   UPI / 4:24PM
    CHICAGO, July 15 (UPI) -- The judge hearing former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption case in Chicago rejected most of the tapes the defense seeks to admit into evidence.
  • Florida fairground settles discrim claim   UPI / 3:34PM
    WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- The Pasco County Fair Association Inc., which operates fairgrounds in Dade City, Fla., has settled a lawsuit alleging discrimination against Hispanics.
  • Lawsuit against Seagal is dismissed   UPI / 2:05PM
    NEW ORLEANS, July 15 (UPI) -- A $1 million sexual harassment lawsuit filed against actor and U.S. television personality Steven Seagal has been dismissed, court records show.
  • CBS, NBC reject anti-Ground Zero mosque ad   UPI / 11:44AM
    NEW YORK, July 15 (UPI) -- U.S. TV networks CBS and NBC rejected an ad urging Americans to oppose the building of a mosque two blocks from New York's Ground Zero, the ad's sponsor says.
  • Tea Party says pretenders want ballot spot   UPI / 11:14AM
    LANSING, Mich., July 15 (UPI) -- Tea Party leaders in Michigan say sham Tea Party candidates are being added to the state's ballot to hurt Republican candidates in November.
  • House Dems irked at White House   UPI / 10:34AM
    WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- House Democrats say months of backing risky White House initiatives deserve more support in their re-election bids than they're getting from President Obama.
  • Ethics panel seeks info on 8 lawmakers   UPI / 9:54AM
    WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- An independent ethics panel sent corporate donors and fundraisers dozens of requests for documents in its investigation of fundraising and U.S. House votes.
  • Court to hear 1st test of immigration law   UPI / 8:04AM
    PHOENIX, July 15 (UPI) -- A Phoenix police officer's lawsuit challenging Arizona's immigration law becomes the law's first legal test Thursday in federal court.
  • Suicide blast kills five in Pakistan   UPI / 7:54AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 15 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a military convoy in Pakistan Thursday, killing five people and injuring more than 40 others, an official said.
  • Wednesday, July 14

  • Talks on S. Korean warship sinking start   UPI / 11:44PM
    PYONGYANG, North Korea, July 15 (UPI) -- Military talks with North Korea about the sinking of a South Korean warship began Thursday morning, the United Nations Command said.
  • Illinois man spent 57 years in Nat'l Guard   UPI / 9:50PM
    MOWEAQUA, Ill., July 14 (UPI) -- A 75-year-old Illinois man has finally retired from the U.S. Army National Guard after serving 57 years in the citizen military force.
  • Nominee faces additional plagiarism charge   UPI / 9:50PM
    DENVER, July 14 (UPI) -- A senior Colorado Republican says Scott McInnis's gubernatorial campaign is "dead in the water" after new evidence of plagiarism against the GOP nominee.
  • Suit filed over ACORN tapes   UPI / 8:14PM
    SAN DIEGO, July 14 (UPI) -- An ACORN employee in San Diego who was secretly filmed by activists last year has filed an invasion of privacy suit in federal court, observers say.
  • Naval Academy head ordered to leave early   UPI / 6:35PM
    ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 14 (UPI) -- In an apparent rebuke by his superiors, the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy has been ordered to retire a month early.
  • Tea Party funds, covers Hitler billboard   UPI / 6:14PM
    MASON CITY, Iowa, July 14 (UPI) -- A billboard paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party comparing President Obama to Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Lenin was covered up Wednesday, observers say.
  • U.S. transfers detainees to Iraqis   UPI / 6:05PM
    BAGHDAD, July 14 (UPI) -- This week 29 officials from Saddam Hussein's former regime have been transferred by the U.S. military to the Iraqi government, authorities say.
  • Solar-powered plane in record attempt   UPI / 5:54PM
    FARNBOROUGH, England, July 14 (UPI) -- A British solar-powered aircraft will attempt a non-stop, day and night endurance record flight lasting two weeks, observers say.
  • Karzai agrees to village defense forces   UPI / 3:35PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 14 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai approved a U.S.-backed plan for village defense forces to help regenerate grassroots opposition to the Taliban, officials said.
  • Suit: Affair made sports star 'worthless'   UPI / 3:24PM
    NEW YORK, July 14 (UPI) -- A New York fitness center has sued former Giants running back Tiki Barber for a million dollars, saying a public affair made him worthless as a spokesman.
  • Student sues for lawyer's promised prize   UPI / 11:14AM
    ATLANTA, July 12 (UPI) -- A Texas law student who took a defense lawyer's $1 million challenge from a "Dateline NBC" interview is suing for the money he claims he is owed.
  • Drop seen in airstrikes against insurgents   UPI / 11:14AM
    WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- There has been a 25 percent reduction in the number of bombs and missiles warplanes are dropping on insurgents in Afghanistan, U.S. Air Force records indicate.
  • Dike blasted to release floodwaters   UPI / 9:14AM
    TONGCHENG, China, July 14 (UPI) -- An improvement in the weather allowed Chinese soldiers to blow up a leaking dike on a swollen branch of the Yangtze River Wednesday, an army official says.
  • Utah court hears sperm-donor benefits case   UPI / 1:54AM
    SALT LAKE CITY, July 14 (UPI) -- Court officials in Utah say state law will play a role in a case in which a test-tube child is seeking Social Security benefits from his late father.
  • Ignatieff tour halted by bus breakdown   UPI / 12:44AM
    OTTAWA, July 14 (UPI) -- Canadian Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff's tour of the country got off to a bit of a rough start Tuesday when his bus broke down.
  • Memorial held for Coast Guard copter crew   UPI / 12:24AM
    SITKA, Alaska, July 14 (UPI) -- The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard said the loss of three crewmen in a helicopter crash off the Pacific Northwest had shocked the entire organization.
  • Ne-Yo to stand trial for alleged no-show   UPI / 12:05AM
    TOWSON, Md., July 13 (UPI) -- R&B artist Ne-Yo and his booking agency are headed to a civil trial in Maryland this month over allegations the singer backed out of a Seattle-area concert.
  • Tuesday, July 13

  • GOP, Dems sort out candidates in Alabama   UPI / 11:05PM
    MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 13 (UPI) -- State Rep. Robert Bentley was headed for victory Tuesday in a runoff to determine the Republican nominee for Alabama governor in the November election.
  • Gibbs walks back election comment   UPI / 9:44PM
    WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who said Sunday Republicans could gain control of the U.S. House in November, said Tuesday he doubts that will happen.
  • Appeals court overturns FCC indecency rule   UPI / 8:44PM
    NEW YORK, July 13 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court in New York ruled an FCC ruling on unscripted expletives on live broadcast television and radio violates the First Amendment.
  • Suit: Groom didn't know bride was married   UPI / 7:05PM
    MONSEY, N.Y., July 13 (UPI) -- A New York appeals court threw into question the future of a $100,000 ring a man is demanding back from the woman he wed while she was still married to her ex.
  • Senator bullish on progress of Afghan army   UPI / 7:05PM
    WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- The chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Forces Committee said Tuesday progress was being made toward getting more Afghan troops into the front lines.
  • Man claims he owns 84 percent of Facebook   UPI / 6:05PM
    NEW YORK, July 13 (UPI) -- A Web site designer says he built the Facebook site and owns 84 percent of the popular online social networking venue, a claim the company calls frivolous.
  • Rocket threat ups security at Iraq bases   UPI / 3:44PM
    BAGHDAD, July 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday that security at some bases is being beefed up because of reports of terrorist infiltration from Iran.
  • Abused Hill staffers settle for $1M a year   UPI / 12:04PM
    WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- Taxpayers have footed nearly $1 million in settlements annually to congressional staffers treated shabbily over the last 14 years, a federal report said.
  • GOP Hispanic candidates go against trend   UPI / 11:44AM
    WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- Hispanic candidates in competitive races across the United States are defying conventional wisdom and running as Republicans, political observers said.
  • Boy allegedly offered drugs, sex on flight   UPI / 10:54AM
    CHICAGO, July 13 (UPI) -- A Chicago father filed a lawsuit alleging Southwest Airlines failed to protect his 14-year-old son from offers of illegal drugs and sex during a flight.
  • N. Korea nixes ship sinking at truce panel   UPI / 7:44AM
    PANMUNJOM, North Korea, July 13 (UPI) -- North Korea refused to discuss the sinking of a South Korean warship during a U.N. military commission meeting Tuesday, calling for a new investigation instead.
  • Monday, July 12

  • Canadian general charged in alleged affair   UPI / 9:44PM
    OTTAWA, July 12 (UPI) -- A Canadian general and an enlisted woman have been charged for their alleged affair, military officials said Monday.
  • Mississippi's Barbour for president?   UPI / 8:14PM
    JACKSON, Miss., July 12 (UPI) -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, being touted by some as a presidential prospect, says he's not ready to start thinking about the 2012 race.
  • Israel to investigate protest death   UPI / 6:14PM
    JERUSALEM, July 12 (UPI) -- An Israeli military judge says the army must investigate the death of Palestinian protester killed by a tear gas canister during a demonstration.
  • Israeli navy report blames bad intel/prep   UPI / 6:05PM
    JERUSALEM, July 12 (UPI) -- An Israeli military report released Monday found the navy's May 31 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla a result of failed intelligence and lack of preparation.
  • Iranian military attacks hurt civilians   UPI / 5:54PM
    NEW YORK, July 12 (UPI) -- Iran must ensure military attacks against armed Kurdish insurgents that spill over into Iraq do not harm Kurdish civilians or livestock, a rights group says.
  • Afghan funeral attack pre-empted   UPI / 4:54PM
    DEH KULI, Afghanistan, July 12 (UPI) -- An insurgent attack on a funeral procession for a slain local Afghan official was thwarted by national police and a subgovernor's bodyguards, the military says.
  • NAACP mulls Tea Party racism resolution   UPI / 3:34PM
    KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 12 (UPI) -- The NAACP said it will consider a resolution formally condemning the Tea Party for "explicitly racist behavior."
  • Iraqi security arrests terror suspects   UPI / 3:34PM
    BAGHDAD, July 12 (UPI) -- Iraqi security forces have arrested several terrorism suspects in combined operations with U.S. advisers, the U.S. military says.
  • Student sues for lawyer's promised prize   UPI / 2:44PM
    ATLANTA, July 12 (UPI) -- A Texas law student who took a defense lawyer's $1 million challenge from a "Dateline NBC" interview is suing for the money he claims he is owed.
  • Govs voice concern about immigration suit   UPI / 2:24PM
    BOSTON, July 12 (UPI) -- Several Democratic governors, citing election vulnerability, voiced concerns about the Obama administration's legal challenge of Arizona's new immigration law.
  • AI condemns exhibit organizer convictions   UPI / 12:05PM
    MOSCOW, July 12 (UPI) -- Amnesty International says it condemns Monday's conviction of the organizers of a Russian art exhibition.
  • Roadside bomb use will drop, general says   UPI / 12:05PM
    WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- The number of roadside bomb attacks against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan will likely drop by the end of the year, a Pentagon general said.
  • Sunday, July 11

  • Palin PAC raises most yet in 2nd quarter   UPI / 11:05PM
    WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- Sarah Palin's political action committee raised $866,000 in the second quarter of 2010, the most since forming in January 2009, a U.S. filing showed Sunday.
  • WH says Dems could lose House majority   UPI / 5:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs conceded Sunday Democrats could lose their majority in the House of Representatives in the November elections.
  • Polls say DPJ loses upper house majority   UPI / 10:24AM
    TOKYO, July 11 (UPI) -- Exit polls indicated the Democratic Party of Japan lost its majority in parliament's upper house in elections Sunday.
  • Saturday, July 10

  • Financial scandal hurts Sarkozy   UPI / 11:14PM
    PARIS, July 10 (UPI) -- The investigation into Liliane Bettencourt, the richest woman in France, has become more intense with police raids on her financial managers.
  • Gay rights groups bash 'don't ask' survey   UPI / 3:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Gay rights activists say a survey asking U.S. troops' views on ending the ban on homosexuals openly serving in the military is insulting and biased.
  • Rush rain-out draws class-action lawsuit   UPI / 12:44PM
    CHICAGO, July 10 (UPI) -- The vintage rock band Rush is named in a class-action lawsuit filed by a fan who had tickets to a show in Chicago that was rained out.
  • Clashes in Pakistan's South Waziristan   UPI / 11:44AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 10 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials say troops clashed with militant guerrillas in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan, killing about 50 enemy troops.
  • 2010 vote will be priciest midterms ever   UPI / 11:44AM
    WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Despite the high profile of the grassroots Tea Party movement, analysts say the November elections will be the most expensive midterms in U.S. history.
  • Wireless e-mail patent suit filed by NTP   UPI / 10:54AM
    NEW YORK, July 10 (UPI) -- NTP, Inc., has filed a federal patent infringement lawsuit against some of the leading manufacturers of smartphones.
  • Bankruptcy for BP: The big 'What if?'   UPI / 10:44AM
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 10 (UPI) -- If currents carry oil to East Coast states, Cuba and other Caribbean nations, liability lawsuits could hit levels BP could not handle, a U.S. expert said.
  • Karzai resists village defense plan   UPI / 9:24AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Gen. David Petraeus has encountered resistance from Afghan President Hamid Karzai to a plan to recruit villagers to fight the Taliban, U.S. officials say.
  • Obama announces PTSD claims reform   UPI / 6:14AM
    WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday the federal government will make it easier for military veterans to get treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • Good looking politicians get more media   UPI / 1:44AM
    HAIFA, Israel, July 10 (UPI) -- Good looking people get better dates, make more money and win more political offices but they also get more media coverage, researchers in Israel found.
  • Friday, July 9

  • 2 small planes violate Obama airspace   UPI / 11:34PM
    LAS VEGAS, July 9 (UPI) -- Two small planes violated airspace restrictions put in place Friday morning for President Barack Obama's trip to Nevada, officials said.
  • U.S. secrets smuggled on fake Lady Gaga CD   UPI / 9:54PM
    WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier smuggled classified data from military computers where he was stationed in Iraq on a disc disguised as a Lady Gaga CD, Pentagon officials said.
  • Detroit ex-first lady mulls re-filing suit   UPI / 8:04PM
    DETROIT, July 9 (UPI) -- Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's wife mulled re-filing a lawsuit to keep her assets from seizure after a Texas judge said he lacked jurisdiction in the case
  • J. Lo scraps planned N. Cyprus concert   UPI / 7:44PM
    NEW YORK, July 9 (UPI) -- Jennifer Lopez's publicist says the U.S. pop star and actress has canceled a planned performance in Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus.
  • British toll climbs past 100 in Sangin   UPI / 7:44PM
    LONDON, July 9 (UPI) -- A Royal Marine who died in an explosion has become the 100th British troop killed in the Sangin area of southern Afghanistan, the military said.
  • Crist seeks vote on Fla. drilling ban   UPI / 7:35PM
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 9 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist called for a special state legislative session to debate a constitutional amendment to ban drilling off the state's coasts.
  • Corn maze honors WWII Spitfire pilots   UPI / 7:05PM
    KENDAL, England, July 9 (UPI) -- An English farmer has created a cornfield maze that is also a tribute to the fighter pilots who helped win the Battle of Britain in 1940.
  • Tape: Blago cursed voters as ingrates   UPI / 5:24PM
    CHICAGO, July 9 (UPI) -- Ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich cursed bitterly that voters weren't grateful for all he did for the state, a tape played at his corruption trial indicated.
  • Obama campaigns for Reid in Nevada   UPI / 5:24PM
    LAS VEGAS, July 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama visited Nevada Friday to boost Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's tough battle in his campaign for a fifth term.
  • Netanyahu meets with Shalit's parents   UPI / 4:05PM
    JERUSALEM, July 9 (UPI) -- The parents of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit spent an hour Friday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife.
  • Kyrgyzstan opens 1,400 ethnic riot cases   UPI / 3:24PM
    BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, July 9 (UPI) -- Kyrgyzstan has opened nearly 1,400 criminal cases following ethnic rioting that killed 309 people and injured some 2,300, the regional commandant said Friday.
  • Suit: Ex-hubby bugged wife's car   UPI / 1:44PM
    WALSALL, England, July 9 (UPI) -- A British woman's lawsuit against her ex-husband claims he bugged her car to record her private conversations during the final months of their marriage.
  • Petraeus reviews controversial directive   UPI / 9:35AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 9 (UPI) -- Gen. David Petraeus, the new commander for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, is reviewing a directive meant to limit civilian deaths, officials said.
  • Dems fight to win back independents   UPI / 9:14AM
    WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- Democrats, facing a tough U.S election as their president drops in popularity, are working to win back the independent voters they had in 2008, analysts said.
  • Obama to discuss economy   UPI / 7:24AM
    LAS VEGAS, July 9 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama will speak about the economy Friday during an appearance at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the White House said.
  • Ban Ki-moon recalls envoy in Sri Lanka   UPI / 1:14AM
    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 9 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recalled his envoy in Sri Lanka because of protests there against a U.N. panel that is to look into war time rights abuses.
  • Christensen sues USA Network over 'Pains'   UPI / 12:14AM
    NEW YORK, July 9 (UPI) -- Canadian-born actor Hayden Christensen is suing USA Network, claiming its show "Royal Pains" is based on an idea he pitched, court records show.
  • Thursday, July 8

  • Obama stumps for Reid, Carnahan   UPI / 11:44PM
    LAS VEGAS, July 8 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama campaigned Thursday for Democratic candidates in two key U.S. Senate races, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
  • Same-sex marriage law unconstitutional   UPI / 9:34PM
    BOSTON, July 8 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Massachusetts Thursday ruled a law prohibiting federal recognition of same-sex marriage unconstitutionally "encroaches" on state powers.
  • Cambodia questioned as peace exercise host   UPI / 8:24PM
    NEW YORK, July 8 (UPI) -- A human rights group Thursday criticized the U.S. choice of a Cambodian military unit with a record of human rights abuses to host a peacekeeping exercise.
  • WWI U.S. soldier's remains found in France   UPI / 6:04PM
    WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- The remains of a New York soldier killed in action in World War I were returned to his family and will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, officials said.
  • Insurgents kill 68, wound over 400 in Iraqi pilgrimage   AP / 4:34PM
    BAGHDAD -- Undeterred by a string of attacks that left scores of fellow pilgrims dead, Shiite worshipers completed their days-long march to a Baghdad shrine on Thursday.
  • Police allegedly pressured into gun threat   UPI / 4:14PM
    DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich., July 8 (UPI) -- A Michigan lawsuit alleges pressure to write traffic tickets to raise money caused a police officer to illegally enter a home and threaten the owner with a gun.
  • 'Miscommunication' caused deadly airstrike   UPI / 4:05PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 8 (UPI) -- An airstrike that killed six Afghan soldiers last week was the result of "miscommunication" between Afghan and NATO-led forces, officials said.
  • Rush U. center, doctors named in lawsuit   UPI / 3:35PM
    CHICAGO, July 8 (UPI) -- Doctors at a Chicago teaching hospital's orthopedic unit routinely had residents perform surgeries, violating U.S. Medicare billing rules, a lawsuit alleges.
  • Forces nab Aghan terror bomb expert   UPI / 3:05PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 8 (UPI) -- Afghan and international security forces captured a bomb expert along with other insurgents in Khost province, the U.S. military said.
  • Palin releases 'Mama Grizzlies' video   UPI / 11:44AM
    WASILLA, Alaska, July 8 (UPI) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee released a Web video Thursday in which Palin speaks of a political awakening of conservative women.
  • Troops get 'don't ask, don't tell' surveys   UPI / 7:54AM
    WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- A survey seeking U.S. troops' views on the impact of ending a policy barring homosexuals from openly serving in the military is being sent, the Pentagon said.
  • Obama to speak on economy   UPI / 7:44AM
    WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama travels to Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, where he will tour a zero-emissions commercial truck manufacturer and speak on the economy.
  • Army offers program to Balochi youth   UPI / 7:44AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 8 (UPI) -- The Pakistani army is trying to win over the youth in Balochistan to deter them from joining the Taliban or the province's nationalist movement, officials say.
  • Sri Lanka, U.N. comment on protests   UPI / 2:14AM
    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 8 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka says it complied with its obligations in dealing with the protest at the U.N. office in Colombo, even as the world body monitored the situation.
  • Disney to pay Celador $269.2M in damages   UPI / 12:35AM
    LOS ANGELES, July 8 (UPI) -- A federal jury in Riverside, Calif., awarded Celador International, creator of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," nearly $269.2 million in damages.
  • U.S. eases rules on PTSD claims   UPI / 12:24AM
    WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- U.S. veterans will soon be able to seek benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder without having to document events that caused it, officials say.
  • Wednesday, July 7

  • Coast Guard helicopter crashes, 3 dead   UPI / 11:34PM
    LA PUSH, Wash., July 7 (UPI) -- Three crew members were killed and one was injured Wednesday when a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crashed off the coast of Washington state, the Coast Guard said.
  • Nixon weighed nuking North Korea   UPI / 11:34PM
    WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- U.S. President Richard Nixon mulled using nuclear weapons against North Korea after its fighters shot down a U.S. spy plane in 1969, documents indicate.
  • Army major guilty of smuggling cash   UPI / 9:05PM
    MEMPHIS, July 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Maj. Charles E. Sublett pleaded guilty in Memphis Wednesday to federal charges arising from the smuggling of cash out of Iraq, authorities said.
  • World War I doughboy's remains ID'd   UPI / 8:36PM
    WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- The remains of a U.S. Army private missing for nearly 92 years have been identified and returned to his family, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
  • Cuba says it will release 52 political prisoners   AP / 6:34PM
    MIAMI -- The Cuban government will free 52 political prisoners and allow them to leave the island, the country's Catholic church announced Wednesday in what would amount to Havana's largest release of jailed opponents in three decades.
  • McDonald's CEO defends Happy Meals   UPI / 5:44PM
    OAK BROOK, Ill., July 7 (UPI) -- McDonald's chief executive said the U.S. franchise giant would defend itself against charges that Happy Meals gifts tempt children into poor eating habits.
  • Immigrant admits lying about massacre   UPI / 5:04PM
    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 7 (UPI) -- A former Guatemalan soldier who admitted throwing a baby down a well during a 1982 massacre pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying on U.S. immigration forms.
  • Dog enters Texas governor race   UPI / 4:24PM
    AUSTIN, Texas, July 7 (UPI) -- Officials with the Texas gubernatorial campaign of Woodrow the dog said the canine's candidacy is aimed at bringing awareness to animal issues.
  • Bin Laden's former cook pleads guilty   UPI / 4:05PM
    GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 7 (UPI) -- Osama bin Laden's former cook and driver pleaded guilty Wednesday at Guantanamo to terrorism charges, the U.S. Defense Department announced.
  • Judge orders bus owner off the road   UPI / 3:44PM
    NEW YORK, July 7 (UPI) -- A judge has shut down a private New York City bus operator who ran a replacement service along express routes that were recently cut.
  • U.S. Army deserter wins in Canada appeal   UPI / 2:44PM
    OTTAWA, July 7 (UPI) -- Canada's appellate court has ruled a U.S. Army deserter's beliefs must be taken into account in deciding whether to deport him back to the United States.
  • Transgendered woman wins suit over firing   UPI / 2:05PM
    ATLANTA, July 7 (UPI) -- A federal judge has ruled a transgendered woman who was fired by the Georgia Office of Legislative Counsel was the victim of sex discrimination.
  • Rental companies hiring out recalled cars?   UPI / 1:34PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, July 7 (UPI) -- Enterprise, the biggest U.S. car-rental company, says it will no longer routinely give customers cars that are subject to safety recalls.
  • Gov. nixes civil union bill; groups to sue   UPI / 10:05AM
    HONOLULU, July 7 (UPI) -- Supporters of civil unions for homosexual couples in Hawaii say they intend to sue in state court now that the governor vetoed a civil union bill.
  • Justice's wife involved in Tea Party   UPI / 9:54AM
    WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- Donations totaling $550,000 put a group led by the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the thick of Tea Party politics, observers said.
  • Death sentences for two linked to al-Qaida   UPI / 9:54AM
    SANAA, Yemen, July 7 (UPI) -- A Yemeni court sentenced two men to death Wednesday for being affiliates of al-Qaida and forming a gang that killed soldiers and civilians, prosecutors said.
  • Mercy killing court-martial winding down   UPI / 9:34AM
    GATINEAU, Quebec, July 7 (UPI) -- Defense attorneys said they were confident a Canadian army captain would be acquitted of murder in the mercy killing of an Afghan rebel in 2008.
  • Israeli soldier charged in Gaza shootings   UPI / 8:44AM
    JERUSALEM, July 6 (UPI) -- Israeli military prosecutors announced Tuesday they have charged a soldier with manslaughter in the deaths of two civilians in Gaza last year.
  • Report: British to hand over Sangin charge   UPI / 7:54AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 7 (UPI) -- British troops in Afghanistan's Sangin region, where they've fought their toughest battles, plan to hand over the area's charge to U.S. forces, BBC reported.
  • Drone crashes becoming more frequent   UPI / 12:34AM
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, July 7 (UPI) -- At least 39 drones have crashed in Iraq and Afghanistan and nine in the United States, U.S. military officials say.
  • Tuesday, July 6

  • New leak charges against U.S. soldier   UPI / 9:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier in Iraq, charged in May with leaking a video to Wikileaks of an attack that killed 12 people, faces additional charges, officials said Tuesday.
  • Fiorina has breast reconstruction surgery   UPI / 8:44PM
    STANFORD, Calif., July 6 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. Senate nominee Carly Fiorina of California had reconstructive breast surgery Tuesday, an aide said.
  • SEC rule squeezes campaign funding   UPI / 3:54PM
    BOSTON, July 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rule change on pension funds could affect the run for the top job in Massachusetts and elsewhere, experts said.
  • Feds sue to overturn Ariz. immigration law   UPI / 3:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department Tuesday filed suit against Arizona's immigration law, saying it unconstitutionally interferes with federal authority.
  • Families of WTC dead go to Supreme Court   UPI / 2:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- Families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001, have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order New York City to remove World Trade Center debris from a landfill.
  • Church sends 25,000 letters to troops   UPI / 2:05PM
    CHICAGO, July 6 (UPI) -- A Chicago church sent 25,000 letters to U.S. service members serving overseas in honor of Independence Day and the church's 25th anniversary.
  • Men at Work to pay for borrowed flute riff   UPI / 1:24PM
    SYDNEY, July 6 (UPI) -- The pop band Men at Work has been ordered to pay a music publishing company 5 percent of the royalties it earned in Australia for its song "Down Under."
  • Poll: No August end to Iraq combat mission   UPI / 12:44PM
    WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- Just one-third of U.S. voters think the American combat mission in Iraq will actually end Aug. 31 as planned, a poll indicates.
  • Jailed consultant wants to visit his mom   UPI / 12:24PM
    DETROIT, July 6 (UPI) -- A Michigan political consultant awaiting sentencing for bribery and extortion wants permission to visit his elderly mother on her deathbed, his attorney says.
  • 16 die in Mogadishu; more troops pledged   UPI / 10:54AM
    MOGADISHU, Somalia, July 6 (UPI) -- Government forces battled Islamic insurgents, killing 16 people in Mogadishu, as Somalia's president asked for more military help.
  • Kilpatrick affecting mom's political fate   UPI / 10:14AM
    DETROIT, July 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick's re-election bid may be tainted by her son, imprisoned and indicted ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, observers say.
  • Voters may elect independent governors   UPI / 9:44AM
    WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- Voters in the United States could elect a trio of independent governors when they go to the polls in November, political experts say.
  • U.N. office targeted for protest   UPI / 7:54AM
    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 6 (UPI) -- Sri Lankans Tuesday protested the formation of a U.N. panel to look into any rights violations in the final days of the war against the Tamil Tiger rebels.
  • Monday, July 5

  • Obama talks with Eikenberry, Petraeus   UPI / 6:44PM
    WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- President Obama spent part of his holiday Monday on the phone with two key U.S. figures in Afghanistan, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and Gen. David Petraeus.
  • White House deciding terror trial site   UPI / 5:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- The White House will decide where to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Sept. 11 terror suspects but probably not before November's elections, officials say.
  • 11 die in Romanian military plane crash   UPI / 3:54PM
    TUZLA, Romania, July 5 (UPI) -- A Romanian military plane on a training mission crashed near Tuzla Monday afternoon, killing 11 people, officials said.
  • Ex-Bosnia leader faces extradition hearing   UPI / 1:04PM
    LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- British authorities expect an extradition hearing in London for the former president of Bosnia-Herzegovina to last five days.
  • Wash from chopper blows through festival   UPI / 11:34AM
    PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan., July 5 (UPI) -- Police say a U.S. Army Reserve helicopter made a blustery entrance at a Fourth of July festival in Kansas Sunday, sending tents and a least two people flying.
  • Six die in blast at Siberian firing range   UPI / 9:24AM
    MOSCOW, July 5 (UPI) -- An explosion at a military firing range in Siberia killed six military personnel, police officials said.
  • 12 abducted sailors released   UPI / 8:54AM
    BONNY, Nigeria, July 5 (UPI) -- Twelve sailors abducted in bloody confrontations last week with suspected pirates have been released, Nigerian officials said.
  • Violence hangs over Mexican polls   UPI / 12:05AM
    MEXICO CITY, July 4 (UPI) -- Violence and the threat of it hung heavily over Mexico's elections Sunday, observers said.
  • Sunday, July 4

  • Kaczynski concedes in Poland   UPI / 11:34PM
    WARSAW, Poland, July 4 (UPI) -- Conservative candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski conceded Poland's presidency to Bronislaw Komorowski in Sunday's hotly contested runoff election.
  • Obamas host service members on the 4th   UPI / 10:54PM
    WASHINGTON, July 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcomed armed service members and their families to a Fourth of July event at the White House Sunday.
  • Lebanon mourns loss of Sayyed Fadlallah: ?The father ,the leader, the guide, the marja, the human being is gone'   AP / 8:35PM
    July 05--BEIRUT -- Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, one of Shiite Islam's highest religious authorities, died in a Beirut hospital on Sunday, his family said.
  • Lawmakers wary of pullout date   UPI / 6:54PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 4 (UPI) -- Three war-experienced U.S. lawmakers cast doubt Sunday on whether Afghanistan will be stable enough a year from now for the planned start of a troop pullout.
  • Suicide bombings kill 4, injure 25 in Iraq   UPI / 6:44PM
    RAMADI, Iraq, July 4 (UPI) -- Two terrorist blasts killed at least four people and injured 25 others in Iraq Sunday as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged the formation of a new government.
  • Biden 'optimistic' about Iraqi progress   UPI / 5:24PM
    BAGHDAD, July 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday he was "optimistic" all political sides would have meaningful, relevant roles in Iraq's pending new government.
  • Navy targets sex assaults after cases jump   UPI / 4:05PM
    SAN DIEGO, July 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy wants commanders to "feel very uncomfortable" about sexual assaults, happening at a rate of more than one a day, military officials said.
  • Michelle Obama honors military families   UPI / 3:54PM
    WASHINGTON, July 4 (UPI) -- First lady Michelle Obama issued a special message from the White House Sunday urging all Americans to support the nation's military families.
  • Bob Dole rehabbing with young troops   UPI / 2:05PM
    WASHINGTON, July 4 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, is recovering from knee surgery alongside current troops in Washington.
  • Russian fighters fly non-stop to Far East   UPI / 2:05PM
    MOSCOW, July 4 (UPI) -- A force of Russian fighters recently flew from Europe to the Far East for the first time using in-flight refueling, military officials said.
  • 4 sentenced in 2007 Paris suburb riots   UPI / 1:24PM
    PONTOISE, France, July 4 (UPI) -- Four young men were sentenced Sunday to three to 15 years in prison for attempted murder of police officers during 2007 riots in an impoverished Paris suburb.
  • Petraeus: 'We are in this to win'   UPI / 12:04PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Gen. David Petraeus took command of the Afghan war Sunday, acknowledging the "tough fight" ahead for NATO forces while pledging "we are in this to win."
  • Israel expands flotilla panel's powers   UPI / 11:14AM
    JERUSALEM, July 4 (UPI) -- The Israeli government Sunday said it granted additional authority to the panel investigating the May confrontation at sea with a Gaza aid flotilla.
  • Saturday, July 3

  • 20,000 join Shalit family march   UPI / 9:34PM
    ACRE, Israel, July 3 (UPI) -- Noam Shalit, father of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, told thousands of supporters Saturday he has heard enough explanations and excuses.
  • Mom says Starbucks tea burned her baby   UPI / 8:54PM
    NEW YORK, July 3 (UPI) -- A New York woman is suing Starbucks, saying her baby son was seriously injured when she dropped a cup of overly hot tea on him.
  • Mitt Romney's strategy may shift   UPI / 5:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- Mitt Romney says he recognizes his Mormon faith, an obstacle for Evangelical Christians in 2008, will always keep some U.S. voters from supporting him.
  • Gambler seeks to settle $14.7M in debts   UPI / 5:14PM
    LAS VEGAS, July 3 (UPI) -- Prosecutors say they gave a high roller with $14.7 million in debts to Las Vegas casinos more time to work out a settlement with the casinos.
  • Detroit wants Kilpatrick text messages   UPI / 4:54PM
    DETROIT, July 3 (UPI) -- Detroit says it wants to see text messages sent between former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a former federal official paid city fees to oversee police reforms.
  • Bidens visit U.S. troops in Iraq   UPI / 3:44PM
    BAGHDAD, July 3 (UPI) -- Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill arrived in Baghdad Saturday for a three-day visit with U.S. troops and to meet with Iraqi leaders.
  • Jury awards $1.7M in LAPD May Day abuse   UPI / 2:44PM
    LOS ANGELES, July 3 (UPI) -- A jury has awarded $1.7 million to a news crew camera operator who police knocked to the ground during a melee in a Los Angles park.
  • Trial opens for Argentina junta boss   UPI / 2:44PM
    BUENOS AIRES, July 3 (UPI) -- Prosecutors say they hope the trial of the aging leader of Argentina's deposed military junta will bring some solace to the families of 30 political prisoners.
  • U.S. reconfiguring Okinawa move   UPI / 2:44PM
    WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department is taking a second look at plans to move forces from the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam, government sources say.
  • Taliban leader with LeT ties captured   UPI / 1:44PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 3 (UPI) -- A Taliban commander tied to a Pakistani insurgent group was captured overnight by security forces in Afghanistan, the international joint command said Saturday.
  • Two civilian deaths in Kandahar operation   UPI / 11:44AM
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, July 3 (UPI) -- Two civilians were killed in a military operation that ended with the arrest of a Taliban officer in Kandahar, Afghanistan, NATO reported Saturday.
  • Petraeus calls for unity in Afghanistan   UPI / 9:34AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 3 (UPI) -- Gen. David Petraeus, the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan, called for "unity of effort and common purpose" in Kabul Saturday.
  • Dogs, horses help U.S. Army fight PTSD   UPI / 2:04AM
    WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is employing not only man's best friend but horses as well to help veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, an Army officer says.
  • Obama: U.S. faces 'daunting' challenges   UPI / 1:24AM
    WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama, in a July Fourth message to the nation, said America faces "daunting" but not "insurmountable" challenges.
  • Friday, July 2

  • Petraeus arrives in Kabul to take over   UPI / 10:44PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 2 (UPI) -- Gen. David Petraeus landed in Kabul late Friday, where he is to take command of both U.S. and NATO operations in Afghanistan.
  • DoD guidelines for press contact revised   UPI / 10:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Defense has announced new policies for military officers dealing with the media, following the firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
  • Calif. court OKs state worker wage cut   UPI / 8:24PM
    SACRAMENTO, July 2 (UPI) -- A California appeals court said Friday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger can order most state workers' pay cut to U.S. minimum wage if the state budget is delayed.
  • Father to sue N.Y. over daughter's death   UPI / 6:44PM
    NEW YORK, July 2 (UPI) -- A New Jersey man whose 6-month-old baby was killed by a falling tree branch in New York's Central park says he is taking steps to sue the city.
  • Hamas rejects latest offer for Shalit   UPI / 6:04PM
    JERUSALEM, July 2 (UPI) -- Hamas rejected an Israeli offer Friday to release 1,000 prisoners for Gilad Shalit, saying top leaders must be included in the exchange.
  • Recruiting station bombed in Quebec   UPI / 5:44PM
    QUEBEC CITY, July 2 (UPI) -- A group using the name Resistance internationaliste has taken responsibility for bombing a Canadian military recruiting station Friday, police said.
  • House approves Afghanistan war funding   UPI / 9:54AM
    WASHINGTON, July 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. House of Representatives approved an additional $37 billion in funding for the war in Afghanistan as part of a supplemental appropriations bill.
  • Afghan reintegration plan offered   AP / 2:34AM
    A new effort to reintegrate Taliban soldiers is moving ahead as U.S. Gen. David Petraeus prepares to take command in Afghanistan, NATO officials said.
  • Thursday, July 1

  • Israel: Iran, Syria in radar cooperation   UPI / 11:54PM
    JERUSALEM, July 1 (UPI) -- Iran has given Syria a sophisticated radar system that could alert the Iranians to any surprise attack by Israel on Iran's nuclear facilities, officials say.
  • Russia may lease helicopters to NATO   UPI / 11:54PM
    MOSCOW, July 1 (UPI) -- Russia is willing to provide helicopters to carry NATO soldiers in Afghanistan, a defense industry representative said Thursday.
  • Woman ill after sex with vaccinated man   UPI / 10:54PM
    ATLANTA, July 1 (UPI) -- A woman who had sex with a member of the U.S. military vaccinated against smallpox subsequently contracted a related virus, health officials say.
  • British general: Taliban getting help   UPI / 10:05PM
    LONDON, July 1 (UPI) -- A senior British military officer says money and technical help for roadside bombers in Afghanistan is coming from Pakistan and Iran.
  • Gaza flotilla activists allege torture   UPI / 7:14PM
    JERUSALEM, July 1 (UPI) -- A report released Thursday by the international group that sent a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza in May accused Israeli forces of mistreating passengers.
  • Elizabeth Edwards selling Chapel Hill home   UPI / 7:14PM
    CHAPEL HILL, N.C., July 1 (UPI) -- Elizabeth Edwards, promoting the paperback release of her book, "Resilience," said leaving her husband, former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., is "terrifying."
  • ACLU files suit over no-fly list   UPI / 5:24PM
    WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- A former U.S. Air Force officer stranded in Ireland because he is on the no-fly list has joined a lawsuit against the Justice Department.
  • Gen. Petraeus briefs NATO officials   UPI / 5:24PM
    BRUSSELS, July 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Thursday briefed NATO officials in Brussels, NATO said.
  • Amputee soldier denied elevator ride   UPI / 4:34PM
    EDMONTON, Alberta, July 1 (UPI) -- The director of Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, has apologized to a wheelchair-bound Canadian soldier who was refused an elevator ride.
  • Politicians fundraise hard as quarter ends   UPI / 4:04PM
    WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- Washington lobbyists and politicians had a hectic schedule during the last week in June, with hundreds of fundraisers marking the end of the second quarter.
  • Living soldier may get Medal of Honor   UPI / 3:14PM
    WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department has recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to a living soldier for the first time since the Vietnam War, Pentagon officials say.
  • June troop deaths in Afghanistan top 100   UPI / 12:14PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 1 (UPI) -- The number of coalition forces killed in Afghanistan in June reached 102 -- the war's highest monthly toll, the U.S. military said.
  • Afghan officers training in Pakistan   UPI / 10:05AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 1 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has agreed to send some military officers to Pakistan to train, signaling a thaw between the two neighbors, officials said.
  • Report: Taliban says no to talks with NATO   UPI / 7:14AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 1 (UPI) -- The Taliban, claiming it is winning the Afghan war, said it will not enter into any negotiations until foreign forces leave, the BBC said Thursday.
  • Wednesday, June 30

  • Court says captain can sue for distress   UPI / 8:35PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 (UPI) -- A fisherman who says he was terrified when his boat almost collided with a cargo ship can sue the ship's owners for emotional distress, a federal court said.
  • Two injured in Army helicopter crash   UPI / 8:14PM
    COLORADO SPRINGS, June 30 (UPI) -- Two pilots of an Army helicopter were injured when their craft made a hard landing in foothills west of Colorado Springs, Colo., Army officials said.
  • Indiana Supreme Court upholds voter ID law   UPI / 8:05PM
    INDIANAPOLIS, June 30 (UPI) -- Indiana's voter identification law, possibly the most stringent in the country, was upheld Wednesday by the state Supreme Court.
  • FDA sued over packaging chemical   UPI / 8:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been sued over its failure to act on a petition to ban a chemical used in food packaging, observers say.
  • Seattle sued over treatment of elephants   UPI / 7:34PM
    SEATTLE, June 30 (UPI) -- The city of Seattle has been named in a civil lawsuit alleging treatment of three elephants at the city's zoo violates anti-cruelty laws.
  • Walmart sued for medical-marijuana firing   UPI / 7:14PM
    DETROIT, June 30 (UPI) -- A Michigan man who legally uses medical marijuana is suing Walmart for firing him after he tested positive in a drug test, records show.
  • Wulff wins German presidency by a hair   UPI / 6:14PM
    BERLIN, June 30 (UPI) -- Christian Wulff, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's choice for president, squeaked by with a victory after three rounds of voting Wednesday.
  • Wis. court upholds same-sex marriage ban   UPI / 4:34PM
    MADISON, Wis., June 30 (UPI) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused Wednesday to overturn a referendum that banned both same-sex marriage and civil unions.
  • Author son of Hamas leader gets asylum   UPI / 3:44PM
    SAN DIEGO, June 30 (UPI) -- A U.S. immigration judge in California Wednesday granted political asylum to the son of a Hamas founder after the federal government dropped its opposition.
  • Crist could be witness against GOP leader   UPI / 2:34PM
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 30 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, now an independent candidate for Senate, is listed as a potential witness against the former state Republican chief.
  • Senate votes 99-0 to confirm Petraeus   UPI / 2:34PM
    WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Gen. David Petraeus to head up operations in Afghanistan.
  • Israeli soldier suspected of spying   UPI / 12:14PM
    HAIFA, Israel, June 30 (UPI) -- An Israeli soldier accused of spying for Hezbollah appeared before a military court in Haifa Wednesday, authorities say.
  • Court asked to block airline merger   UPI / 12:14PM
    HOUSTON, June 30 (UPI) -- A lawsuit to block the merger of Continental and United Airlines has been filed in federal court in California, an attorney for the plaintiffs says.
  • First look at Guinea election results soon   UPI / 10:44AM
    CONAKRY, Guinea, June 30 (UPI) -- Initial results from Guinea's first democratic election were expected Wednesday as some candidates leveled allegations of voting irregularities.
  • Benigno Aquino III takes presidential oath   AP / 8:35AM
    Storm clouds didn't deter thousands of people from attending the swearing-in ceremony of Benigno Aquino III as the Philippines' 15th president Wednesday.
  • Drone strike kills al-Qaida figure   UPI / 8:04AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 30 (UPI) -- A drone strike in Pakistan's South Waziristan killed eight militants including an Egyptian al-Qaida figure, residents and Pakistani officials said.
  • Tuesday, June 29

  • 26 paramilitary troops killed in attack   UPI / 11:54PM
    NEW DELHI, June 29 (UPI) -- Maoists in India, in another deadly rampage, ambushed a reserve police unit in east-central Chhattisgarh state, killing 26 officers, authorities said.
  • U.S. sailor's remains from Korean War ID'd   UPI / 11:14PM
    WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. military said Tuesday the remains of a U.S. Navy sailor missing in action since the Korean War have been identified and returned to his family.
  • McChrystal to retire with 4-star rank   UPI / 11:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, stripped of his command in Afghanistan by President Obama, will retain his four-star rank as he retires, the White House said Tuesday.
  • Report: Flotilla Turks shot multiple times   UPI / 9:34PM
    GAZA, June 29 (UPI) -- Most of the nine Turks killed during the Israeli commando raid on a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza had multiple gunshot wounds, forensic evidence indicated.
  • Boehner: Raise Social Security age   UPI / 7:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) -- House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, says the United States should raise the Social Security retirement age to 70 and limit benefits based on need.
  • Lawsuit seeks to delay Fla. 'bong bill'   UPI / 6:54PM
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 29 (UPI) -- A group of head shop owners are suing in an attempt to reverse a new Florida law banning the sale of water pipes except by tobacconists.
  • Ex-Marine gets letter 35 years late   UPI / 5:44PM
    ASHMORE, Calif., June 29 (UPI) -- A former Marine living in Illinois said he just received a letter his sister sent to him while he was serving at a military base 35 years ago.
  • Petraeus on Hill for Afghan command post   UPI / 4:35PM
    WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus received the endorsement of a Senate committee Tuesday for his new post as commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
  • Gubernatorial candidate killed in Mexico   UPI / 11:34AM
    CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico, June 29 (UPI) -- The leading candidate for governor in the violence-torn Mexican state of Tamaulipas was ambushed and killed, officials said.
  • New Filipino government not so new   UPI / 8:24AM
    MANILA, Philippines, June 29 (UPI) -- The Philippines' new president promised to fill his cabinet with extraordinary individuals but many of his choices are retreads, political observers say.
  • S. Korea could accept G8-like statement   UPI / 8:04AM
    SEOUL, June 29 (UPI) -- A U.N. Security Council statement similar to one from Group of Eight leaders on the sinking of its ship could be acceptable to South Korea, Yonhap news said.
  • Noriega money-laundering trial under way   UPI / 12:54AM
    PARIS, June 29 (UPI) -- Former Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega went on trial in Paris Monday, accused of laundering drug money in France.
  • Monday, June 28

  • McChrystal to retire   UPI / 11:34PM
    WASHINGTON, June 28 (UPI) -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, removed as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan by President Barack Obama, will retire, an Army spokesman said Monday.
  • W.Va.: No special election until 2012   UPI / 9:24PM
    CHARLESTON, W.Va., June 28 (UPI) -- West Virginia will not hold a special election until 2012 to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Robert Byrd, a top state official said.
  • Israeli aircraft denied Turkey overflight   UPI / 8:44PM
    JERUSALEM, June 28 (UPI) -- An Israeli aircraft carrying military personnel to Poland for a tour of Holocaust memorial sites was denied permission to use Turkish airspace, officials said.
  • Assassins hit leading candidate in key Mexican border state   AP / 6:34PM
    MEXICO CITY -- A presumed drug cartel assassination squad Monday gunned down the leading candidate for governor in a state bordering Texas, putting a chill on Mexico just six days before local and regional elections.
  • High court decides in favor of gun rights   UPI / 11:54AM
    WASHINGTON, June 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that state and municipal laws banning handguns for self-protection in the home are unconstitutional.
  • Hamas says more aid ships to go to Gaza   UPI / 10:05AM
    JERUSALEM, June 28 (UPI) -- Israel should expect at least eight more humanitarian ships to be headed for Gaza after the World Cup, Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said.
  • N. Korea to strengthen nuclear arsenal   UPI / 6:14AM
    PYONGYANG, North Korea, June 28 (UPI) -- North Korea, accusing the United States of posing a military threat, said Monday it will strengthen its nuclear arsenal.
  • Sunday, June 27

  • McCain slams Obama over Afghan pullout   UPI / 6:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain Sunday sharply questioned President Barack Obama's decision to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by July 2011.
  • Lawsuit: Police stunned 86-year-old woman   UPI / 5:44PM
    EL RENO, Okla., June 27 (UPI) -- Oklahoma police "cruelly injured" an 86-year-old disabled woman by using a stun gun on her while she was in a hospital-type bed, a federal lawsuit alleges.
  • Panetta: No Taliban-Afghanistan deal seen   UPI / 5:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- CIA Director Leon Panetta expressed doubt the Taliban or other insurgent groups will give up their al-Qaida allegiance to reconcile with Afghan's government.
  • Mullen makes unscheduled Israel visit   UPI / 1:34PM
    JERUSALEM, June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen made an unannounced trip to Israel Sunday for a private meeting with Israeli military leaders.
  • Obama delivers stern warning to N. Korea   UPI / 11:44AM
    TORONTO, June 27 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama warned North Korea of possible U.S.-led military consequences for "irresponsible behavior" such as its sinking of a South Korean warship.
  • Shots spark political riot in Chiapas   UPI / 10:54AM
    NACHIG, Mexico, June 27 (UPI) -- Police say the gunmen who opened fire on a political rally in southern Mexico, killing two and causing a riot, were still at large Sunday.
  • Guinea casts ballots in historic election   UPI / 10:34AM
    CONAKRY, Guinea, June 27 (UPI) -- Voters in Guinea headed to polls to elect a president Sunday in the West African nation's first free election since it gained independence from France in 1958.
  • Saturday, June 26

  • 2 Canadian medics killed in Afghanistan   UPI / 11:24PM
    OTTAWA, June 26 (UPI) -- Two Canadian Army medics were killed in Afghanistan when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, military officials said Saturday.
  • Shalit's family plans 12-day march   UPI / 9:24PM
    JERUSALEM, June 26 (UPI) -- The family of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit plans a 12-day march to observe the fourth anniversary of his capture, his father said.
  • Sen. McCain agrees to 2 primary debates   UPI / 6:14PM
    PHOENIX, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain, facing a tough primary challenge in his bid for a fifth term, has agreed to two debates with his Republican opponents.
  • Britain honors Armed Forces   UPI / 5:24PM
    LONDON, June 26 (UPI) -- Britain celebrated Armed Forces Day with hundreds of ceremonies and parades Saturday.
  • Calif. GOP candidates shun governor's help   UPI / 3:34PM
    SACRAMENTO, June 26 (UPI) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who came to office as a political outsider, now finds himself on the outs with his own Republican Party, observers say.
  • Russian warships visit San Francisco   UPI / 3:05PM
    SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 (UPI) -- A Russian naval task force shoved off this week after a port call in the U.S. port of San Francisco, the Russian Pacific Fleet announced Saturday.
  • Rolling Stone defends McChrystal reporting   UPI / 11:34AM
    WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- Editors at Rolling Stone are dismissing allegations their reporter ignored agree-upon ground rules in the magazine's story about U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
  • MJ's dad files wrongful death suit   UPI / 1:34AM
    LOS ANGELES, June 26 (UPI) -- Joe Jackson's lawyer said he filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Friday against his late son Michael's personal physician, court records show.
  • Friday, June 25

  • 2 die in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza   UPI / 11:44PM
    GAZA, June 25 (UPI) -- Israeli military aircraft, in response to a mortar attack on Israel, struck in the Gaza Strip Friday, killing two Palestinians, medical workers said.
  • ElBaradei joins Egyptian street protest   AP / 5:34PM
    Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog and potential Egyptian presidential candidate, joined a street protest Friday in Alexandria.
  • Thai court continues detentions   UPI / 2:54PM
    BANGKOK, June 25 (UPI) -- A Bangkok court agreed to extend the detention of 11 leaders and members of the "Red Shirt" movement for 12 days.
  • Burundi opposition wants election boycott   UPI / 1:34PM
    BUJUMBURA, Burundi, June 25 (UPI) -- Opposition parties in Burundi have called for a boycott of the presidential election.
  • Dog rescued by soldier makes it to U.S.   UPI / 1:05PM
    CLINTON, Conn., June 25 (UPI) -- A dog rescued by a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan is adjusting to his new Connecticut home after the Army ordered the soldier to get rid of the mutt.
  • Military weapons ads dot D.C. landscape   UPI / 8:24AM
    WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- Ads for shoes and restaurants are bumping against ads hawking military weaponry on Washington's metro lines, news pages, airwaves and billboards.
  • Report: Marja shows what awaits Petraeus   UPI / 7:34AM
    WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- Marja, the focus of a huge offensive by Afghan NATO forces in February, may point to what awaits U.S. Gen. David Petraeus as he takes command in Afghanistan.
  • Petraeus supports withdrawal plan   UPI / 7:14AM
    WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the new commander in Afghanistan, says he supports the plan for a likely July 2011 start of U.S. troop withdrawals from the country.
  • Oil rig firms jockey for liability cover   UPI / 12:14AM
    WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- Companies involved in operating the oil rig at the center of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are trying to limit their liability for damages, court filings show.
  • Thursday, June 24

  • House OKs campaign finance bill   UPI / 11:34PM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. House Thursday approved the Disclose Act, which would impose stricter rules on disclosing corporate and labor political campaign donations.
  • Obama: Change won't alter Afghan strategy   UPI / 10:04PM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- The change in commanders won't necessarily alter the timetable for U.S. troops to begin pulling out of Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said Thursday.
  • 9/11 settlement now up to claimants   UPI / 9:34PM
    NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) -- About 10,000 people who say their health was damaged at the World Trade Center site in New York must now decide on a $712.5 million settlement, a judge said.
  • Court reverses N.Y. drunken man's lawsuit   UPI / 7:54PM
    NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) -- The lawyer for a Brooklyn man vowed to appeal after a court threw out his $2.3 million damage award for being hit by a subway while drunk.
  • 4 U.K. soldiers die in Afghan road crash   UPI / 7:44PM
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 24 (UPI) -- Four British soldiers were killed in a collision in Afghanistan that submerged their armored truck underwater, Britain's defense ministry said Thursday.
  • Lawyer: Canada battling Agent Orange suit   UPI / 6:05PM
    OTTAWA, June 24 (UPI) -- The Canadian government has spent millions of dollars fighting a class-action suit over exposure to Agent Orange at a military base, a lawyer says.
  • Court: Judge rules when agreement is made   UPI / 5:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday ruled that a trial court, rather than an arbitrator, should determine when a collective bargaining agreement is formed.
  • Candidates eagerly seek Palin endorsements   UPI / 5:44PM
    NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) -- Sarah Palin continues to be a potent force in U.S. politics even out of office as Republican candidates scramble to secure her endorsement, observers say.
  • Probe of massacre witness killing sought   UPI / 5:34PM
    MANILA, Philippines, June 24 (UPI) -- A key witness to the massacre of at least 58 people in the southern Philippines was killed while awaiting government protection, Human Rights Watch said.
  • Navy to christen Howard O. Lorenzen   UPI / 4:05PM
    PASCAGOULA, Miss., June 24 (UPI) -- The USNS Howard O. Lorenzen, a missile-range instrumentation ship, will join the naval fleet at the end of the week, military officials said Thursday.
  • High court: Enron exec jury trial fair   UPI / 3:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- Former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory Thursday overturning his conviction on a federal fraud statute.
  • Jury finds for Boy Scouts in eviction case   UPI / 2:34PM
    PHILADELPHIA, June 24 (UPI) -- A federal jury says Philadelphia violated a local Boy Scouts chapter's free speech rights by threatening eviction over the organization's stand on gay members.
  • Gates, Mullen back McChrystal resignation   UPI / 2:24PM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama was right to relieve Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his commander's post in Afghanistan, the top two leaders at the Pentagon said Thursday.
  • U.S. tests missile with 'replica' warhead   UPI / 1:34PM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- A Minute Man II missile with a "replica" nuclear warhead was successfully launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials said.
  • 3 U.S. officers spared reprimands   UPI / 1:24PM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has canceled letters of reprimand for three U.S. officers for their role in an attack on an outpost in Afghanistan in 2008, officials say.
  • Petraeus named to command Afghan war   UPI / 12:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- Gen. David Petraeus, named the new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, assumes an assignment at a time when the ground situation is worsening.
  • McChrystal seen as hero   UPI / 8:34AM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- The exit of U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top commander in Afghanistan was likened to a "Shakespearean tragedy" by one of his close associates.
  • CIA hires Xe, nee Blackwater, for security   UPI / 8:24AM
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- The CIA has hired private security firm Xe Services, the company once known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities across the globe, officials said.
  • Wednesday, June 23

  • Soldiers with migraine may sleep poorly   UPI / 11:24PM
    TACOMA, Wash., June 23 (UPI) -- The many soldiers who suffer with migraine may also be poor sleepers, U.S. researchers suggest.
  • Rudd ousted in Australia   AP / 10:35PM
    Australia's Labor Party has elected Julia Gillard as its leader, ousting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd weeks before a federal election, officials said.
  • Radio ads stolen, Mich. campaign aide says   UPI / 9:44PM
    DETROIT, June 23 (UPI) -- A campaign spokesman for Michigan gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox says he is certain four commercials posted on an anti-Cox Web site were stolen.
  • 'Chicken shack' campaign quip creates flap   UPI / 9:34PM
    CLEVELAND, June 23 (UPI) -- An aide to the Ohio GOP candidate for governor has apologized for saying in an e-mail Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, grew up in a "chicken shack."
  • Settlement offered in Chinese drywall case   UPI / 8:44PM
    MIAMI, June 23 (UPI) -- Companies hit with a class-action suit over defective Chinese drywall used in home construction in Florida say they're willing to pay $6 million to settle.
  • EBay suit claims anti-trust violations   UPI / 8:24PM
    DETROIT, June 23 (UPI) -- Ebay is fighting a default judgment entered in a class-action lawsuit brought in Detroit over its rule that payments must be made through PayPal.
  • McChrystal out, Petraeus in Afghanistan   UPI / 7:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday he accepted with regret the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as leader of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
  • Judge tosses Viacom's YouTube suit   UPI / 7:34PM
    NEW YORK, June 23 (UPI) -- Viacom Inc. said Wednesday it will appeal a ruling by a federal judge in New York dismissing its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube.
  • World Trade Center settlement approved   UPI / 7:14PM
    NEW YORK, June 23 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New York Wednesday signed off on an amended settlement for 10,000-plus plaintiffs in the World Trade Center terror attack response case.
  • Belgian lawyers charge Israeli leaders   UPI / 6:44PM
    BRUSSELS, June 23 (UPI) -- An indictment was filed Wednesday in Belgium charging several former top Israeli officials with war crimes involving the 2009 invasion of Gaza.
  • McChrystal furor sparks 'Late Show' Top 10   UPI / 4:34PM
    NEW YORK, June 23 (UPI) -- Talk-show host David Letterman used the U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal story as fodder for one of his infamous Top 10 lists.
  • Northrop Grumman to pay $12.5M settlement   UPI / 4:14PM
    WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., June 23 (UPI) -- U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman will pay $12.5 million to settle claims it submitted false claims to government agencies, the Justice Department said.
  • Transsexual wins right to woman's pension   UPI / 3:24PM
    LONDON, June 23 (UPI) -- A British court has awarded a transsexual the right to collect pension payments from age 60, the women's age, rather than the male pension age of 65.
  • Ariz. Dems urge against immigration suit   UPI / 3:14PM
    WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- Arizona Democrats, with tough re-election battles looming, have urged the Obama administration not to sue the state over its controversial immigration job.
  • Driveway row strands elderly couple   UPI / 2:34PM
    HAMILTON, Ontario, June 23 (UPI) -- An elderly Canadian couple said they have become effectively trapped in their home by a barricade blocking what used to be a shared driveway.
  • Report: Israel has new Gaza plan   UPI / 10:54AM
    JERUSALEM, June 23 (UPI) -- Israel's military has drawn up plans to evacuate entire villages and refugee camps in Gaza if a new conflict with Hamas erupts, the Jerusalem Post has learned.
  • Self-funded candidates doing well   UPI / 9:34AM
    WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- Campaign finance reports and election returns indicate self-funded candidates are doing well in congressional and gubernatorial contests.
  • Japan's PM Kan apologizes to Okinawa   UPI / 8:24AM
    OKINAWA, Japan, June 23 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan apologized to the people of Okinawa Wednesday for bearing the bulk of the United States military presence in Japan.
  • Tombstones used for erosion control   UPI / 8:14AM
    ARLINGTON, Va., June 23 (UPI) -- An Army spokesman says officials at Washington's Arlington National Cemetery knew for decades that discarded tombstones were being used for erosion control.
  • Af-Pak team to hear from McChrystal   UPI / 7:44AM
    WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama's Afghan and Pakistani advisers Wednesday will hear Gen. Stanley McChrystal's explanation of flip remarks made in a magazine profile.
  • Haley wins in S.C.; Marcy wins in Miss.   UPI / 1:24AM
    Nikki Haley's bid to become the first female governor of South Carolina moved ahead Tuesday with a Republican runoff win over U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett.
  • Tuesday, June 22

  • Mexico argues against Ariz. law   UPI / 10:44PM
    PHOENIX, June 22 (UPI) -- Mexico intervened Tuesday in a lawsuit by a group of civil liberties organizations challenging Arizona's new immigration law, officials said.
  • Obama: McChrystal showed 'poor judgment'   UPI / 10:04PM
    WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday Gen. Stanley McChrystal "showed poor judgment" in criticizing U.S. officials in a magazine article.
  • Most veterans who commit suicide use gun   UPI / 9:54PM
    ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows although military veterans have access to lethal drugs, 70 percent who commit suicide use a weapon, researchers said.
  • 1 dead, 2 wounded at Fort Bragg   UPI / 8:34PM
    FORT BRAGG, N.C., June 22 (UPI) -- A training exercise accident at Fort Bragg, N.C., Tuesday left one person dead and two wounded, the Army said.
  • McChrystal profile disappoints on the Hill   UPI / 2:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Gen. Stanley McChrystal showed "poor judgment" in flippant remarks about some administration leaders in an article.
  • Trial begins over role of Katrina barge   UPI / 2:44PM
    NEW ORLEANS, June 22 (UPI) -- A federal judge heard arguments on whether a loose barge broke a flood wall and caused deadly flooding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, observers say.
  • Four sue after water balloon arrests   UPI / 1:35PM
    NEW YORK, June 22 (UPI) -- Four young men arrested during a New York water balloon fight are suing the city for $1 million each on claims of unlawful arrest.
  • Naked Cowboy suing Naked Cowgirl   UPI / 1:14PM
    NEW YORK, June 22 (UPI) -- The Naked Cowboy, a fixture of New York's Times Square, is suing a "Naked Cowgirl" he claims is ripping off his street musician act.
  • Whistle-blower site plans release   UPI / 12:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- A whistle-blower site says it plans to release documents and combat footage of a U.S. airstrike that killed scores of Afghan civilians near Garani in 2009.
  • Poll: Generic ballot evenly split by party   UPI / 12:24PM
    PRINCETON, N.J., June 22 (UPI) -- Registered voters are evenly divided about which party's candidate would get their vote if the U.S. congressional elections were today, a Gallup poll indicated.
  • U.S. troops need enemy-locating sensors   UPI / 10:44AM
    WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- U.S. combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are still months away from getting sensors that can pinpoint the location of enemy gunmen, military records indicate.
  • No links seen in spate of base breaches   UPI / 10:34AM
    WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- Officials note an uptick in security incidents at military bases across the United States, but said a link can't be found among the incidents or to terrorism.
  • Author: No simple answers for Abu Ghraib   UPI / 10:24AM
    DETROIT, June 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. Army attorney says the abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was not merely the aberrant behavior of a few misfits.
  • Neb. city voters OK immigration ordinance   UPI / 10:14AM
    FREMONT, Neb., June 22 (UPI) -- Voters in Fremont, Neb., OK'd an immigration ordinance, despite warnings of higher taxes and reductions in city services to pay for expected legal challenges.
  • McChrystal called to WH over comments   UPI / 10:05AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 22 (UPI) -- The top U.S. officer in Afghanistan was summoned to Washington after a magazine portrayed him as dismissive toward some administration officials, aides said.
  • Monday, June 21

  • Lockdown lifted at U.S. naval base in N.J.   UPI / 10:44PM
    LAKEHURST, N.J., June 21 (UPI) -- Officials ordered a lockdown Monday at a U.S. Navy base in Lakehurst, N.J., after a report of gunfire at one of the base's gates, military authorities said.
  • Army shortens war zone deployments   UPI / 8:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army says it wants to reduce combat zone deployments from 12 to nine months and increase dwell time to three years.
  • Top court gives force to arbitration pacts   UPI / 4:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court gave broad force to binding arbitration agreements in a 5-4 decision Monday.
  • U.K. Afghan death toll reaches 300   UPI / 2:24PM
    LONDON, June 21 (UPI) -- Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain must keep asking why its troops are in Afghanistan.
  • Six NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan   UPI / 7:34AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 21 (UPI) -- A NATO helicopter crash and roadside bomb attacks Monday in Afghanistan killed six soldiers, including two Americans and three Australians, officials said.
  • Sunday, June 20

  • Runoff needed for Polish prez race   UPI / 11:05PM
    KRAKOW, Poland, June 20 (UPI) -- Acting Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski failed Sunday to win the majority of votes needed to avoid a runoff.
  • Pakistan strikes kill 13 insurgents   UPI / 5:24PM
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 20 (UPI) -- Pakistani fighter jets struck militant hideouts in the Orakzai tribal region, killing 13 suspected insurgents, officials said.
  • Kyrgyzstan probing role of army in clashes   UPI / 9:44AM
    OSH, Kyrgyzstan, June 20 (UPI) -- Kyrgyzstan said Sunday it will look into claims government troops participated in ethnic violence that has killed at least 190 people.
  • Two car bombs kill 26 in Baghdad   UPI / 9:05AM
    BAGHDAD, June 20 (UPI) -- Two car bombs exploded minutes apart in a crowded section of Baghdad Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding at least 53, the interior ministry said.
  • Utah: After three terms, Sen. Bennett out   UPI / 5:44AM
    An endorsement by soon-to-be-former Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, may help one man who blocked Bennett from renomination at the state GOP convention, observers say.
  • Mexico military copter crashes; 11 dead   UPI / 12:34AM
    SAN MIGUEL DEL ALTO, Mexico, June 20 (UPI) -- Mexico's Ministry of National Defense said Saturday 11 military personnel were killed when their helicopter crashed in bad weather.
  • Saturday, June 19

  • Former Rwandan army chief shot and wounded   UPI / 10:24PM
    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 19 (UPI) -- The former head of the Rwandan army, now living in South Africa, was shot and wounded Saturday in Johannesburg.
  • Report: U.S. fleet allowed through Suez   UPI / 7:54PM
    CAIRO, June 19 (UPI) -- Egypt allowed a fleet of U.S. Navy vessels and at least one Israeli ship to pass through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea, news media reported Saturday.
  • BP escrow chief seeks trust of claimants   UPI / 12:14PM
    JACKSON, Miss., June 19 (UPI) -- The Washington lawyer in charge of the $20 billion BP oil-spill escrow fund says he'll have to earn the trust of blue-collar Gulf Coast residents.
  • UN reports says Afghan violence on rise   UPI / 11:54AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19 (UPI) -- The United Nations says in a new report that the level of insurgent violence in Afghanistan has jumped in the past three months.
  • Pakistan, Afghan eye Taliban talks   UPI / 10:24AM
    WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- A senior U.S. official says Washington expects a major role in any future peace negotiations Afghanistan and Pakistan undertake with the Taliban.
  • Vehicle offers soldiers more protection   UPI / 1:44AM
    OSHKOSH, Wis., June 19 (UPI) -- Oshkosh Corp., based in Wisconsin, says its compact military-patrol vehicle offers U.S. troops more shielding from roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • Friday, June 18

  • Reid: Things could be worse in Nevada   UPI / 11:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Friday unemployment in Nevada, now the highest in the country, would be worse without federal spending.
  • 2 Gambian military leaders charged in coup   UPI / 10:14PM
    BANJUL, Gambia, June 18 (UPI) -- The former leader of Gambia's armed forces and a former head of the African nation's navy have been charged in a failed coup, authorities say.
  • Massive bomb found in van in N. Ireland   AP / 5:34PM
    Army explosives experts detonated a 300-pound bomb Friday afternoon after it was found in a van outside a border police post in Northern Ireland.
  • Feds announce mortgage fraud sweep   UPI / 4:14PM
    WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department has charged more than 1,200 people with mortgage fraud in a national effort dubbed Operation Stolen Dreams, officials say.
  • Fishermen spot periscope off So. Florida   UPI / 2:44PM
    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 18 (UPI) -- A boater says he spotted a submarine periscope during a fishing trip off Hollywood, Fla.
  • Israeli Shalit envoy given another year   UPI / 2:24PM
    JERUSALEM, June 18 (UPI) -- The special Israeli envoy negotiating for the release of Sgt. Gilad Shalit, who was abducted four years ago, has had his contract extended for another year.
  • Army shooting death investigated in Ga.   UPI / 1:44PM
    FORT GILLEM, Ga., June 18 (UPI) -- An Army reservist at Fort Gillem in Georgia allegedly shot and killed another reserve soldier, military officials said.
  • S.C. Dems won't challenge Greene's win   UPI / 1:24PM
    COLUMBIA, S.C., June 18 (UPI) -- The South Carolina Democratic Party won't challenge the controversial primary results in the state's U.S. senate race, party executives said.
  • Kyrgyzstan violence concerns U.S.   UPI / 1:54AM
    BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, June 18 (UPI) -- The United States is closely watching the crisis in Kyrgyzstan as it has an important military base in the Central Asian nation, The New York Times reported.
  • Thursday, June 17

  • U.N.: Kyrgyz refugee count at 400,000   UPI / 11:44PM
    BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, June 17 (UPI) -- A U.N. agency says the Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan have driven some 400,000 people from their homes, far more than earlier estimates.
  • Dating service settles suit with clients   UPI / 9:54PM
    BELLEVUE, Wash., June 17 (UPI) -- The Seattle affiliate of a computer dating service signed a settlement agreement after unhappy clients filed a lawsuit, Washington's attorney general said.
  • BP's Hayward: 'I am not stonewalling'   UPI / 9:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- BP President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward apologized Thursday for the gulf oil spill but denied "stonewalling" in testimony to a U.S. House panel.
  • Oil removed from 1950s Alaska shipwreck   UPI / 7:14PM
    JUNEAU, Alaska, June 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard says it emptied about 110,000 gallons of bunker oil from the wreck of a one-time cruise ship that sank along the coast of Alaska in 1952.
  • Tea Party PACs raise little money   UPI / 6:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- A dozen Tea Party political action committees and 24 Tea Party fundraising committees have raised little money, U.S. election and tax records indicate.
  • Chess champ Fischer's body to be exhumed   UPI / 5:44PM
    REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 17 (UPI) -- An Icelandic court has ruled the body of chess champion Bobby Fischer can be exhumed to settle disputes over his estate, amid claims he fathered a love child.
  • Court lets Fla. keep replenished beaches   UPI / 5:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- The state of Florida has the right to claim beaches created by sand replenishment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
  • Pakistan seaches for captured troops   UPI / 4:54PM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 17 (UPI) -- The Pakistani Army says it is still searching for troops missing since Taliban forces attacked their Afghan border checkpoint Monday.
  • Stripping sailor turned over to captain   UPI / 4:04PM
    VICTORIA, British Columbia, June 17 (UPI) -- Canadian police said a rowdy French sailor who drunkenly shed his clothes in public twice was turned over to his commanding officer.
  • Call for broad Canada air-safety changes   UPI / 3:35PM
    OTTAWA, June 17 (UPI) -- Canada's air security systems need sweeping changes to be prepared for terrorist attacks, a report by a retired Supreme Court justice said Thursday.
  • Headstones found in Arlington creek   UPI / 2:34PM
    ARLINGTON, Va., June 17 (UPI) -- Several weathered headstones have been found on the muddy banks of a creek at Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington, officials say.
  • Guilty plea in Mass. black church arson   UPI / 1:24PM
    SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 17 (UPI) -- A 23-year-old white man pleaded guilty to torching a predominantly black church in Massachusetts hours after Barack Obama was elected the U.S. president.
  • Turkey to freeze relations with Israel   UPI / 9:05AM
    ANKARA, Turkey, June 17 (UPI) -- Turkey will freeze relations and halt billions of dollars in defense deals with Israel after Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship, Turkey said.
  • Voters want attractive, mature candidates   UPI / 8:14AM
    PRINCETON, N.J., June 17 (UPI) -- It may not be what the U.S. founding fathers had in mind but U.S. and British researchers found voters are heavily influenced by a politician's appearance.
  • Wednesday, June 16

  • Ethics office eyes House fundraisers   UPI / 9:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) -- Lawmakers given donations by business people at fundraisers within 48 hours of a House vote on a Wall Street reform bill are being investigated, officials say.
  • Woman to sue police, A&E over home raid   UPI / 9:04PM
    DETROIT, June 16 (UPI) -- An Illinois woman says she plans to sue the Detroit police department and the A&E television network for a raid on her home in which a flash grenade was used.
  • ABC News wins Murrow Award   UPI / 8:34PM
    NEW YORK, June 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Radio Television Digital News Association plans to honor ABC News with an Edward R. Murrow Award, the netwrork announced Wednesday.
  • Phillipine kidnap victim rescued   UPI / 8:34PM
    MANILA, Philippines, June 16 (UPI) -- Philippine security forces have freed a Filipino-Swiss businessman kidnapped and held for more than two months, authorities said.
  • Israel considers loosening blockade   UPI / 8:24PM
    JERUSALEM, June 16 (UPI) -- Israel's security cabinet met Wednesday to discuss easing Israel's Gaza blockade but adjourned without reaching any decision, officials said.
  • Canadian court martial moves to Kandahar   UPI / 8:14PM
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 16 (UPI) -- The court martial of Canadian Capt. Robert Semrau, charged with the battlefield shooting death of an Afghan insurgent, reconvened at Kandahar Airfield.
  • Taliban capture Pakistani troops in raid   UPI / 7:54PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 16 (UPI) -- The Afghan Taliban say they captured dozens of Pakistani soldiers at their checkpoint in a cross-border raid, a claim confirmed by Pakistan.
  • State sued for not acting on abuse   UPI / 5:24PM
    SEATTLE, June 16 (UPI) -- Two victims of child abuse are suing the state of Washington, alleging officials failed to intervene even though they were aware of the abuse, documents show.
  • Fire department aids in parachute rescues   UPI / 4:35PM
    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., June 16 (UPI) -- Military and civilian personnel took part in rescuing five Navy parachutists trapped in trees at a remote Virginia training site, authorities said.
  • Gen. Petreaus confident about Afghanistan   UPI / 3:14PM
    WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petreaus carried water with him Wednesday as he returned to Capitol Hill to resume his assessment of Afghanistan for a Senate committee.
  • Fla. attorney general trails in gov race   UPI / 1:24PM
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 16 (UPI) -- Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is now trailing his rival in the governor's race in both spending and the polls, frustrating his supporters.
  • Candidate 'pranked' by urinal cakes   UPI / 12:34PM
    FORT MYERS, Fla., June 16 (UPI) -- A Florida man running for local fire district commissioner said he thinks a firefighters union is behind urinal cakes bearing his image.
  • Armed suspect arrested at military base   UPI / 11:24AM
    AUGUSTA, Ga., June 16 (UPI) -- The FBI confirms it is holding an unidentified civilian who was found with hand grenades inside the security perimeter at Fort Gordon in Georgia.
  • 'Michigan first' ad made in Illinois   UPI / 11:05AM
    LANSING, Mich., June 16 (UPI) -- A Michigan gubernatorial candidate's TV ad promoting his "hire Michigan workers first" plan was produced by an Illinois firm, a Detroit newspaper says.
  • Israeli soldier may face charges   UPI / 8:54AM
    JERUSALEM, June 16 (UPI) -- An Israeli soldier has been asked to answer charges he killed two Palestinian women during an operation in Gaza in January 2009, a military advocate says.
  • Too many rules help the enemy   UPI / 8:14AM
    WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) -- A top U.S. Army official says we are missing chances to weaken the enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan due to fear of violating military rules and international law.
  • Tuesday, June 15

  • U.N. to oversee aid distribution in Gaza   UPI / 11:54PM
    NEW YORK, June 15 (UPI) -- The United Nations said it would ensure humanitarian aid Israel seized during its raid of Turkish ships gets to its intended recipients in the Gaza Strip.
  • Bangladesh landslides kill 53   UPI / 10:05PM
    COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, June 15 (UPI) -- Bangladesh landslides killed 53 people, including visitors buried alive at a sea resort, refugees in an encampment and army men in barracks, officials said.
  • Adviser allegedly robbed mayor's coffers   UPI / 9:44PM
    NEW YORK, June 15 (UPI) -- A Republican consultant has been charged with stealing $1.1 million from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign last year, court records show.
  • Israel expects trouble from Gaza aid ships   UPI / 9:24PM
    JERUSALEM, June 15 (UPI) -- A top Israeli naval officer says the military will assume ships trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza have troublemakers on board.
  • Will Ariz. law overwhelm court system?   UPI / 9:24PM
    PHOENIX, June 15 (UPI) -- Enforcement of Arizona's tough new law targeting illegal immigrants could overwhelm the state's court system, immigration attorneys say.
  • 9/11 plaintiffs: Judge too slow   UPI / 9:14PM
    NEW YORK, June 15 (UPI) -- Families of 2001 terror attack victims asked a New York court to replace a judge handling lawsuits targeting financial backers of terrorism, court records show.
  • Compromise would exempt NRA from rules   UPI / 8:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- A compromise on U.S. campaign finance reform would allow a few large national groups to avoid disclosing big donors, critics of the proposed legislation said.
  • Mail-in ballots too late to be counted   UPI / 8:34PM
    SACRAMENTO, June 15 (UPI) -- Thousands of mail-in ballots in California's primary election won't be counted because they arrived after the polls closed at 8 p.m., election officials said.
  • Soldier loses home while in Iraq   UPI / 6:14PM
    FRISCO, Texas, June 15 (UPI) -- Texas National Guard Capt. Michael Clauer says he was in Iraq when he learned in a phone call from his wife their home had been sold out from underneath them.
  • Stalin bust at memorial draws protests   UPI / 5:14PM
    ROANOKE, Va., June 15 (UPI) -- Veterans and volunteers at a D-Day memorial in Virginia picketed the site to protest the inclusion of a bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, observers said.
  • Guilty plea in 'Gatling gun' purchase   UPI / 5:05PM
    NORFOLK, Va., June 15 (UPI) -- A former museum director has pleaded guilty to conspiring to buy a "Gatling-gun" type of rotary machine gun used on U.S. F-14 fighter jets, authorities say.
  • Okinawa governor unhappy about U.S. base   UPI / 5:05PM
    TOKYO, June 15 (UPI) -- A plan to move a U.S. military air station from one part of Okinawa to another is hard to accept, the governor of the Japanese island said Tuesday.
  • Report: Bloody Sunday 'unjustifiable'   UPI / 4:54PM
    LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland, June 15 (UPI) -- British soldiers involved in "Bloody Sunday" in Northern Ireland 38 years ago could be prosecuted, officials said Tuesday as a report was released.
  • Alleged sex abusers get non-felony charges   UPI / 4:44PM
    CARMEL, Ind., June 15 (UPI) -- The lawyer for an Indiana boy who allegedly was sexually assaulted said influence was exerted in charging the suspects with misdemeanors rather than felonies.
  • Soldiers prefer buttons to Velcro   UPI / 3:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- Velcro may be the most up-to-date fastening, but U.S. soldiers say it does not work as well as the old-fashioned button in the dust of Afghanistan.
  • Obama thanks troops for service home, away   UPI / 3:05PM
    PENSACOLA, Fla., June 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama thanked military personnel for their service, whether in cleanup operations along the Gulf Coast or overseas in a theater of war.
  • U.S. Marine in Iraqi killing case released   UPI / 1:54PM
    SAN DIEGO, June 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. Marine convicted of killing an Iraqi civilian was released from prison following a military court ruling his trial was unfair, officials said.
  • Panel seeks solution to Krgyzstan violence   UPI / 12:54PM
    BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, June 14 (UPI) -- A Red Cross official said Monday the death toll from Kyrgyzstan's ethnic violence may be several hundred, not the 125 the government has counted.
  • Pakistan accused of supporting Taliban   UPI / 12:24PM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 15 (UPI) -- A report alleges Pakistan's intelligence agency finances, trains and partially controls the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan to combat Indian influence.
  • Petraeus faints during Afghanistan hearing   UPI / 11:44AM
    WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, collapsed during a Senate committee hearing Tuesday and had to be escorted from the room.
  • Bombing near school kills Thai soldier   UPI / 11:05AM
    BACHO, Thailand, June 15 (UPI) -- A bomb detonated near a school in Bacho, Thailand, killing one soldier and wounding three others Tuesday while they were on patrol, officials said.
  • Bombings kill 3 in Mosul   UPI / 9:05AM
    MOSUL, Iraq, June 15 (UPI) -- Separate attacks in and around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul left three civilians dead and four policemen injured, officials said Tuesday.
  • Lawmakers call for Afghan progress report   UPI / 8:44AM
    WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- U.S. lawmakers in both the Senate and the House are to hear progress reports this week on the counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, staffer members say.
  • Couple held after trying to enter MacDill   UPI / 7:54AM
    MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., June 15 (UPI) -- A man and a woman were in custody after they tried to gain access to MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., and weapons were found in their vehicle, officials said.
  • Moment arrives for North Korea and its star   AP / 12:34AM
    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- From behind closed doors, tight
  • Monday, June 14

  • S.C. Dem files primary protest   UPI / 9:24PM
    COLUMBIA, S.C., June 14 (UPI) -- The candidate who ran second in South Carolina's Democratic U.S. Senate primary election filed a protest Monday, saying there was "a cloud" over the election.
  • Israeli flotilla inquiry inadequate, Turkey and others say   AP / 6:34PM
    JERUSALEM -- Israel on Monday announced a limited internal inquiry into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a move the Obama administration welcomed but one that Turkey, the Palestinian Authority and other countries denounced as falling far short of the independent international probe they're seeking.
  • 9 top Dems bring in $50 million for DCCC   UPI / 6:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- Nine top U.S. House Democrats have raised $50 million for a key campaign committee to try to preserve a majority in this election cycle, documents show.
  • Colombian soldiers rescued from rebels   UPI / 5:34PM
    BOGOTA, June 14 (UPI) -- Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said soldiers have rescued three members of the nation's security forces -- two of them held by rebels for more than a decade.
  • Military not following 'brain test' order   UPI / 2:34PM
    WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- The Pentagon isn't following a congressional directive to test U.S. troops before and after combat service to uncover possible brain injuries, records show.
  • U.S. hazardous waste being left in Iraq   UPI / 1:34PM
    BAGHDAD, June 14 (UPI) -- Hazardous materials at U.S. bases in Iraq are being dumped locally rather than being returned to America for disposal as required, observers say.
  • Michelle Obama thanks troops, families   UPI / 1:14PM
    CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., June 14 (UPI) -- First lady Michelle Obama thanked the U.S. Marines and their families for their service and sacrifice and vowed to ensure their voices are heard in Washington.
  • Israeli police officer killed in attack   UPI / 8:04AM
    HEBRON, West Bank, June 14 (UPI) -- Palestinians fired on an Israeli police vehicle near Hebron in the West Bank Monday, killing one officer and wounding three others, Israeli officials said.
  • Sunday, June 13

  • Terrorists besieged in Iraq bank, 24 dead   UPI / 8:14PM
    BAGHDAD, June 13 (UPI) -- An insurgent attack on Iraq's Central Bank in Baghdad Sunday by suicide bombers and uniformed gunmen left at least 24 people dead, authorities said.
  • Senate hopeful hit on military record   UPI / 7:14PM
    CHICAGO, June 13 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk of Illinois is under fire again over his characterization of his Navy service record, observers say.
  • Bill Clinton still showing election muscle   UPI / 7:05PM
    NEW YORK, June 13 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton shows he still has political muscle as he aids Democrats in rough campaign battles, observers say.
  • Theft of M-16 rifle brings jail term   UPI / 3:34PM
    JERUSALEM, June 13 (UPI) -- An Israeli soldier who stole an M-16 rifle from a military post and then sold it to a civilian for $1,800 will spend 40 months in prison, a court ruled.
  • Arab League chief visits Gaza   UPI / 3:14PM
    GAZA, June 13 (UPI) -- The leader of the Arab League visited Gaza Sunday, the first senior Arab official to do so since Hamas took control in 2007, officials said.
  • Ooh-rah! USMC Mud Run draws 4,500   UPI / 2:04PM
    CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., June 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Marines say more than 4,500 hapless civilians showed up at Camp Pendleton, Calif., to slog across hill, dale and puddle in the annual World Famous Mud Run.
  • U.S. ambassador denies Afghan rift   UPI / 12:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Washington remained confident that Afghan President Hamid Karzi was committed to defeating the Taliban.
  • U.S. intel focuses on Afghan corruption   UPI / 11:54AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 13 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence in Afghanistan in part is concentrating on uncovering rampant corruption, military sources told The New York Times.
  • Netanyahu: Gaza blockade may be eased   UPI / 11:05AM
    JERUSALEM, June 13 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday he supports easing the three-year blockade on Gaza, but will not lift it on Hamas-controlled territory.
  • Saturday, June 12

  • Chocolate conspiracy case may be settled   UPI / 10:54PM
    VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 12 (UPI) -- Canadians could get a sweet deal worth $6 million to end a chocolate pricing conspiracy case against Cadbury Adams Canada Inc. after a judge allowed the offer.
  • Report: Israel can cross Saudi air space   UPI / 5:54PM
    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, June 12 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia has given the go-ahead to Israel to send bombers through a strip of its air space to bomb nuclear facilities in Iran, defense sources say.
  • Florida judge says singer McKnight a dad   UPI / 5:05PM
    ORLANDO, Fla., June 12 (UPI) -- A Florida judge ruled singer Brian McKnight is the father of a 14-year-old boy and owes his mom child support.
  • Suit filed over 'Idol' ring tone royalties   UPI / 3:05PM
    LOS ANGELES, June 12 (UPI) -- The musicians union is suing the popular U.S. television series "American Idol" over royalties for ring tones and downloads, according to court documents.
  • Karzai reportedly doubts U.S.   UPI / 2:14PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 12 (UPI) -- A former head of the Afghan intelligence service told The New York Times he believes President Hamid Karzai is trying to make a deal with the Taliban.
  • N. Korea threatens South's loudspeakers   UPI / 1:54PM
    SEOUL, June 12 (UPI) -- North Korea has threatened to destroy South Korea's loudspeakers along the border because of the South's plan for anti-Pyongyang broadcasts, officials say.
  • Russian troops may head to Kyrgyzstan   UPI / 7:54AM
    BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, June 12 (UPI) -- Kyrgyzstan's interim leader said Saturday Russian peacekeepers are needed to halt ethnic violence which could lead to civil war in the Central Asian nation.
  • Ballot anomalies found in S.C. primary   UPI / 12:44AM
    COLUMBIA, S.C., June 11 (UPI) -- Election data analysts have found curious voting patterns in Tuesday's U.S. Senate primary in South Carolina, the campaign manager for a losing candidate said.
  • Friday, June 11

  • Panel calls for $1 trillion defense cuts   UPI / 10:24PM
    WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- The United States must cut military spending dramatically to allow the government to fund other necessary programs, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said Friday.
  • British WWI cemetery in France vandalized   UPI / 9:24PM
    PARIS, June 11 (UPI) -- The resting place of British soldiers killed in the Battle of Loos in 1915 has been desecrated with Nazi graffiti and paint, French officials said Friday.
  • Gary Coleman cremation put on hold   UPI / 9:05PM
    LOS ANGELES, June 11 (UPI) -- A Utah judge Friday ordered the postponement of Gary Coleman's cremation while details regarding the actor's estate are worked out, officials said.
  • Impersonators claim hotel kidnapping   UPI / 5:05PM
    LAS VEGAS, June 11 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of a man who claims a Las Vegas hotel kidnapped him and his brother while he was dressed as Zorro.
  • Empire State Building policy lights up ire   UPI / 1:14PM
    NEW YORK, June 11 (UPI) -- The late Mother Teresa isn't alone in being rejected for special Empire State Building lighting in New York; the U.S. Marine Corps says it was snubbed, too.
  • Soccer chief punished for So. Africa trip   UPI / 11:34AM
    KIGALI, Rwanda, June 11 (UPI) -- Rwanda has arrested the head of the country's football federation for traveling to the World Cup in South Africa without permission, observers say.
  • Seals at center of California beach tussle   UPI / 10:54AM
    SAN DIEGO, June 11 (UPI) -- Seals on a Southern California beach are at the center of a legal spat between conservationists and beach-goers and picnickers, observers say.
  • Call center opens for Arlington questions   UPI / 9:44AM
    ARLINGTON, Va., June 11 (UPI) -- A call center for people concerned about burials at Arlington National Cemetery opened Friday, a day after a report alleged misconduct at the cemetery.
  • Bad 'hair' day for Fiorina?   UPI / 8:34AM
    SACRAMENTO, June 11 (UPI) -- Carly Fiorina, who won the GOP primary for the U.S. Senate in California, spent much of her first day as nominee talking about hair after an on-camera gaffe.
  • Ex-Taiwan president's sentence reduced   UPI / 7:44AM
    TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 11 (UPI) -- A Taiwanese high court Friday reduced the life sentences of former President Chen Shui-bian and his wife -- both convicted of corruption -- to 20 years.
  • Attacks kill 11 Afghans, 2 soldiers   AP / 7:34AM
    Militants struck across southern Afghanistan Friday, killing
  • S.C. GOP calls on Knotts to resign   UPI / 2:24AM
    COLUMBIA, S.C., June 11 (UPI) -- A South Carolina state senator says he "could care less" that Republicans urged him to resign for using a racial slur to describe a GOP candidate for governor.
  • Political party choice steeped in biology   UPI / 1:34AM
    TORONTO, June 11 (UPI) -- Political preferences do not emerge from a simple rational consideration of issues, they are steeped in biology, University of Toronto researchers say.
  • Pakistan dismisses AI report   UPI / 12:34AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials, claiming much success by the army, dismissed a rights group report millions of Pakistanis live under virtual Taliban rule in tribal areas.
  • Thursday, June 10

  • McChrystal: Kandahar op has slower pace   AP / 9:34PM
    A NATO-led operation to drive the Taliban from Afghanistan's Kandahar province will take longer than planned, the top NATO commander in the country said.
  • Jets allegedly 'buzz' California homes   UPI / 9:14PM
    SAN JOSE, Calif., June 10 (UPI) -- Two jets described as U.S. Navy F-18s flew dangerously low over San Jose, Calif., houses, making deafening noise and scaring residents, witnesses say.
  • McChrystal: Kandahar op has slower pace   UPI / 9:14PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 10 (UPI) -- A NATO-led operation to drive the Taliban from Afghanistan's Kandahar province will take longer than planned, the top NATO commander in the country said.
  • Ex-friend paints Blagojevich as corrupt   UPI / 8:54PM
    CHICAGO, June 10 (UPI) -- A former aide to Rod Blagojevich, testifying at the former Illinois governor's corruption trial, said campaign donors were rewarded with political appointments.
  • Petraeus praises U.K. Iraq contribution   UPI / 8:54PM
    LONDON, June 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus praised the United Kingdom's role in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Iraq, observers said.
  • 'Poor' management at Arlington probed   UPI / 8:14PM
    WASHINGTON, June 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Defense said Thursday a commission will look into charges of faulty management at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
  • Mullen: U.S. must use 'precision' of power   UPI / 7:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 10 (UPI) -- America's top military officer told National Defense University graduates U.S. ability to project military power with precision will be needed in the future.
  • British police abused counterterror powers   UPI / 5:04PM
    LONDON, June 10 (UPI) -- British and Welsh police abused counterterrorism powers to illegally stop and search thousands of people for eight years, Britain's Home Office said Thursday.
  • Judge calls WTC settlement good deal   UPI / 3:34PM
    NEW YORK, June 10 (UPI) -- A judge in New York gave preliminary approval Thursday to a settlement that would pay as much as $712.5 million for injuries at the World Trade Center site.
  • $450,000 melee payout to journalists   UPI / 2:44PM
    LOS ANGELES, June 10 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles City Council OK'd $450,000 in legal payouts to five journalists injured in a melee calling for U.S. citizenship for illegal immigrants.
  • Russia to go ahead with Iran missile sale   UPI / 1:34PM
    MOSCOW, June 10 (UPI) -- A sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Iran is not affected by the new sanctions package approved by the U.N. Security Council, Russian officials said Thursday.
  • Woman in Citi suit was on surgery show   UPI / 1:04PM
    NEW YORK, June 10 (UPI) -- The New York woman suing Citigroup for allegedly firing her because her body distracted male colleagues appeared on a 2003 TV series about plastic surgery.
  • AI: Pakistan abandoned tribal area people   UPI / 11:44AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10 (UPI) -- About 4 million Pakistanis in the tribal regions live under Taliban threat, having been "effectively" abandoned by their government, Amnesty International said.
  • Britain's Cameron reviews Afghan strategy   UPI / 7:44AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 10 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday he doesn't want British troops to stay in Afghanistan any longer than absolutely necessary.
  • Wednesday, June 9

  • Democrats: Outsourcing is 'our' issue   UPI / 10:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) -- The flow of American jobs overseas is growing as a campaign issue, and Democrats say they want to capitalize on it and use it against Republicans.
  • Group says Social Security to be 'gutted'   UPI / 10:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) -- Political activists are accusing President Obama's new deficit-reduction commission of secretly planning to gut Social Security.
  • Dems ask upset S.C. primary victor to go   UPI / 9:44PM
    COLUMBIA, S.C., June 9 (UPI) -- South Carolina's Democratic Party has asked the winner of the state's U.S. Senate primary to drop out because of a reported felony charge, party officials said.
  • Ex-Blagojevich aide testifies at trial   UPI / 8:54PM
    CHICAGO, June 9 (UPI) -- Rod Blagojevich's chief of staff from 2003 to 2005 said in court he agreed to testify against his former boss in exchange for a lenient sentence.
  • Brown, Whitman spar on spending   UPI / 8:24PM
    LOS ANGELES, June 9 (UPI) -- The two major party candidates for governor of California opened the general election campaign Wednesday with sharp words on spending and education.
  • Chinese court officials attacked with acid   UPI / 4:24PM
    WUZHOU, China, June 9 (UPI) -- A Chinese couple poured sulfuric acid on court officers who came to their home to enforce verdicts ordering them to pay their creditors, police said.
  • Suit: Teacher canned for premarital sex   UPI / 4:14PM
    ST. CLOUD, Fla., June 9 (UPI) -- A Florida teacher's lawsuit against her old school says she was fired because administrators found out her baby was conceived before her wedding.
  • Texas goes after alleged 'past due' scam   UPI / 2:54PM
    AUSTIN, Texas, June 9 (UPI) -- Texas is accusing Bally Total Fitness Corp. of "false, misleading and deceptive acts and practices" for allegedly mailing false "past due" notices to customers.
  • France closes Senegal bases   UPI / 12:34PM
    DAKAR, Senegal, June 9 (UPI) -- France is withdrawing 900 of its 1,200 soldiers from bases in Senegal, authorities said.
  • Israel may accept plan to ease blockade   UPI / 11:54AM
    JERUSALEM, June 9 (UPI) -- Israel could accept a plan to ease its blockade of Gaza in exchange for a less vigorous investigation into the deadly raid on an aid flotilla, officials said.
  • Few Tea Party victories in primaries   UPI / 11:44AM
    U.S. voters may be dissatisfied with incumbent politicians but that anger failed to galvanize wide support for Tea Party candidates in Tuesday's primaries.
  • Militants attack Pakistan convoy   UPI / 11:14AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 9 (UPI) -- Militants attacked a security convoy in Pakistan sparking a battle in which six soldiers and 40 militants died, a government official said Wednesday.
  • Russia has no plans for more bases   UPI / 11:14AM
    MOSCOW, June 9 (UPI) -- A senior Russian lawmaker said Wednesday his country has no plans to set up any new military bases abroad.
  • Five NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan   UPI / 11:14AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 9 (UPI) -- Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash and a British soldier died in an explosion, NATO forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday.
  • Fonseka denies accusations   UPI / 8:24AM
    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 9 (UPI) -- Former Sri Lankan Gen. Sarath Fonseka, now in military detention, denied accusations by the defense secretary that he is a liar and a traitor, the BBC reported.
  • NATO allies may cut military budgets   UPI / 8:14AM
    BRUSSELS, June 9 (UPI) -- European NATO members are preparing for deep cuts in military spending, prompting U.S. officials to express concern that the gap in military power will grow.
  • Many killed in attack on NATO convoy   UPI / 6:34AM
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 9 (UPI) -- Gunmen attacked a convoy of trucks near Islamabad, Pakistan, killing several people and torching supplies destined for NATO forces in Afghanistan, police said.
  • One-tenth of U.S. Iraq vets may have PTSD   UPI / 1:54AM
    SILVER SPRING, Md., June 9 (UPI) -- Between 8.5 percent and 14 percent of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq report either post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, researchers found.
  • South Carolinians get GOP runoff for gov.   UPI / 1:24AM
    COLUMBIA, S.C., June 9 (UPI) -- Democratic nominee Vincent Sheheen will have to wait awhile to find out who his Republican opponent will be in the run for South Carolina's governor.
  • Reid, Angle win Nev. Senate primaries   UPI / 1:24AM
    LAS VEGAS, June 9 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid won the Nevada Democratic primary Tuesday and GOP voters chose Sharron Angles to challenge Reid in November, returns showed.
  • It's Berg vs. Pomeroy for N.D. House seat   UPI / 1:05AM
    BISMARCK, N.D., June 9 (UPI) -- Rick Berg easily won North Dakota's Republican congressional primary election Tuesday and will face Democratic incumbent Earl Pomeroy this fall, results showed.
  • 2 experienced pols win Maine gov. primary   UPI / 12:44AM
    AUGUSTA, Maine, June 9 (UPI) -- Two experienced politicians seemed likely to face off in Maine's gubernatorial election after Tuesday's primary, election returns indicated Tuesday.
  • Iowa's Conlin wins bid for senate run   UPI / 12:44AM
    DES MOINES, Iowa, June 9 (UPI) -- Roxanne Conlin easily won the Iowa Democratic primary, giving her the chance to become the first Iowan woman in the U.S. Senate, election returns indicated.
  • Daugaard wins S.D. GOP governor's primary   UPI / 12:34AM
    PIERRE, S.D., June 9 (UPI) -- Lt. Gov. Dennis Daugaard won South Dakota's Republican primary election for governor Tuesday night, election returns indicated.
  • Lincoln wins Arkansas Dem. Senate runoff   UPI / 12:05AM
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 8 (UPI) -- Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, bucking a national anti-incumbent trend, claimed victory Tuesday in a runoff election she said was "not about special interests."
  • Tuesday, June 8

  • Tea Party having little impact in N.J.   UPI / 11:54PM
    TRENTON, N.J., June 8 (UPI) -- Celebrity and incumbency appeared to be trumping Tea Party enthusiasm Tuesday in New Jersey's Republican congressional primaries, election returns suggested.
  • Establishment GOP candidates win in Va.   UPI / 10:44PM
    RICHMOND, Va., June 8 (UPI) -- The Tea Party and conservatives didn't make serious inroads in Virginia's Republican primary election Tuesday with more-moderate candidates winning.
  • 4 charged with stealing from plane wreck   UPI / 8:34PM
    MOSCOW, June 8 (UPI) -- Four Russian military draftees have been charged with stealing credit cards from the wreckage of the Polish president's plane, officials said Tuesday.
  • Poll: Voters prefer neophyte to experience   UPI / 6:54PM
    PRINCETON, N.J., June 8 (UPI) -- Registered voters are more likely to say they'd vote for a political newbie than one who previously served in U.S. Congress, a poll released Tuesday indicated.
  • Canada set on jet deal with Lockheed?   UPI / 4:34PM
    OTTAWA, June 8 (UPI) -- Finalizing a fighter jet contract with Lockheed Martin without competitive bidding will "lock up the price," the Canadian government says.
  • Marine suicide attempts up, data show   UPI / 4:05PM
    WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Marines are trying to commit suicide at a record pace this year, despite a program begun last year aimed at preventing such attempts, Corps data indicate.
  • Court blocks Arizona election subsidies   UPI / 3:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday temporarily blocked subsidy payments to Arizona candidates running for state offices with public financing.
  • Group threatens to out brothel clients   UPI / 2:54PM
    TOOWOOMBA, Australia, June 8 (UPI) -- The owner of a legal brothel in Australia said a Facebook group threatening to expose the identities of clients is not credible.
  • Iran's navy would escort ships to Gaza   UPI / 1:14PM
    TEHRAN, June 8 (UPI) -- The leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Iran's naval forces are ready to escort ships trying to breach the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
  • U.S. leaves Gaza tunnel work early   UPI / 12:24PM
    GAZA, June 8 (UPI) -- U.S. military experts who had essentially completed a tunnel-detection system in Israel left the area early, Egyptian officials said.
  • Yemen pardons 33 journalists   UPI / 12:14PM
    SANAA, Yemen, June 8 (UPI) -- Yemen Tuesday dropped charges against 33 journalists accused of disseminating false information and harming the national unity, authorities said.
  • Primaries: Incumbency versus Tea Party   UPI / 11:14AM
    If the May 18 primaries were considered super for political pundits and analysts, then Tuesday's primaries in 10 states may be the mother lode.
  • Rajapaksa promises solution for Tamils   UPI / 11:05AM
    NEW DELHI, June 8 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, prior to starting an India trip Tuesday, told Tamil leaders at home he'd resolve the problems of the minority people.
  • New abortion fight brewing   UPI / 10:34AM
    WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- A new fight is brewing over the issue of abortion, this time involving the U.S. military, lawmakers on both sides of the issue say.
  • Final tally shows Aquino won presidency   UPI / 9:54AM
    MANILA, Philippines, June 8 (UPI) -- Liberal Party candidate Benigno Aquino III has won the presidency of the Philippines, the final tally by the National Board of Canvassers indicates.
  • 154 U.S. soldiers killed so far this year   UPI / 1:44AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 8 (UPI) -- The deaths of seven Americans Monday in Afghanistan raised to 154 the number of U.S. troops killed there so far this year, icasualties.org said.
  • Monday, June 7

  • 10 NATO troops die in Afghanistan   UPI / 10:44PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 7 (UPI) -- Afghan insurgents killed at least 10 NATO troops, including seven Americans, Monday in the deadliest day for the international forces in months, officials said.
  • U.S. accused of Iran 'seige'   UPI / 9:14PM
    TEHRAN, June 7 (UPI) -- An Azerbaijan politician claims the United States plans to deploy forces in Armenia near the Iranian border under cover of U.N. peacekeeping forces.
  • U.S. Army analyst detained in leak probe   UPI / 4:24PM
    KUWAIT CITY, June 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. Army specialist is being detained in Kuwait on suspicion of leaking classified information to Wikileaks.org, officials say.
  • Iran offers aid escorts to Gaza   UPI / 4:04PM
    GAZA, June 7 (UPI) -- Pictures of pro-Palestinian activists overpowering Israeli troops as they stormed a Gaza-bound aid ship surfaced as Iran offered to escort other relief ships.
  • Fatah may seek Palestinian election delay   UPI / 4:04PM
    GAZA, June 7 (UPI) -- The Palestinian Fatah movement is considering asking for a postponement of local elections next month because of internal rifts within the group, observers say.
  • Anti-Muslim candidate may get gov't job   UPI / 3:24PM
    AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 7 (UPI) -- A right-wing anti-Muslim politician in the Netherlands may gain a position in its next government, a leader of the country's biggest political party says.
  • Man sues over wrong-country deportation   UPI / 2:44PM
    STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 7 (UPI) -- A Ugandan man deported to Ghana from Sweden in 1995 is suing the Swedish government for sending him to the country, where he said he was tortured.
  • 100 pagans in British armed forces   UPI / 1:54PM
    LONDON, June 7 (UPI) -- Documents released by the British Ministry of Defense revealed about 100 service members classify themselves as pagan and 30 practice Wicca or druidism.
  • Military report to be basis of raid probe   AP / 1:35PM
    An inquiry into last week's deadly raid by Israeli commandos on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla would be based on an Israeli army investigation, a panel ruled Monday.
  • Military report to be basis of raid probe   UPI / 1:14PM
    JERUSALEM, June 7 (UPI) -- An inquiry into last week's deadly raid by Israeli commandos on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla would be based on an Israeli army investigation, a panel ruled Monday.
  • Israeli naval commandos confront militants   UPI / 11:24AM
    JERUSALEM, June 7 (UPI) -- Israeli military forces fired on a boat carrying armed Palestinian militants, killing four, and fired a missile at Gaza, killing one, officials said Monday.
  • Pentagon policy battle shifts to Senate   UPI / 10:54AM
    WASHINGTON, June 7 (UPI) -- The battle over defense issues moves to the U.S. Senate, where observers say they expect a struggle over the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
  • Report: Guantanamo spending near $2B   UPI / 10:44AM
    GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, June 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has spent at least $500 million in recent years on renovations to Guantanamo Bay, including $296,000 for a go-kart track, records show.
  • Sunday, June 6

  • Virginia: Republicans set sights on Dems   UPI / 6:44PM
    Virginia Republicans have several Democratic congressmen in their sights in November, but party squabbles could dash their hopes Tuesday, observers suggest.
  • 2 Afghan officials with strong U.S. ties resign over rocket attack   AP / 5:34PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's top intelligence chief and interior minister abruptly resigned Sunday after President Hamid Karzai criticized the pair for failing to stop last week's attack on a nationwide peace conference as the president was addressing the gathering.
  • Dubai middlemen aid Iran nuke effort   UPI / 1:54PM
    LONDON, June 6 (UPI) -- Some Western officials say it appears Iran has resumed work on its controversial nuclear program using equipment obtained through the United Arab Emirates.
  • Bullock jokes life became an IED   UPI / 1:34PM
    LOS ANGELES, June 6 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Sandra Bullock poked fun at her personal life Saturday at an awards show in Los Angeles in her first public appearance since filed for divorce.
  • Lincoln expecting win over Halter   UPI / 12:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Sunday she expects to win her Democratic primary runoff with Lt. Gov. Bill Halter this week despite his outside-Arkansas support.
  • Saturday, June 5

  • Steele: Probe job offers to Sen. hopefuls   UPI / 12:04PM
    WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- GOP Chairman Michael Steele called for a U.S. Justice Department investigation of job offers the White House made to try to get Senate candidates to drop out.
  • Israeli soldiers board 2nd Gaza-bound ship   UPI / 9:24AM
    GAZA, June 5 (UPI) -- Israel said its soldiers boarded another humanitarian aid ship bound for Gaza but used no force and no one was injured.
  • Friday, June 4

  • Simmons denies makeup artist's claims   UPI / 9:24PM
    LOS ANGELES, June 4 (UPI) -- Rock star and TV personality Gene Simmons is denying claims by a makeup artist who said he assaulted her while visiting ESPN studios in Los Angeles.
  • Obama to name Clapper intelligence chief   UPI / 7:34PM
    WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. director of national intelligence, a senior government official said.
  • Group calls for probe into Jamaican raid   UPI / 6:44PM
    KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 4 (UPI) -- Jamaica must hold an independent investigation of killings by police and soldiers during a drug operation in Kingston, a rights group said Friday.
  • Afghan delegates support peace talks with Taliban   AP / 5:34PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai got a modest political boost Friday when a national peace conference backed his efforts to launch substantive talks with the Taliban and other Afghan insurgent forces.
  • S.C. senator sorry for 'raghead' remark   UPI / 4:54PM
    COLUMBIA, S.C., June 4 (UPI) -- A Republican state senator in South Carolina says he was joking when he called Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley a "raghead."
  • City mows prairie grass, bills owner $140   UPI / 3:14PM
    MINNEAPOLIS, June 4 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis man says the city mowed down the prairie grass he spent three years cultivating and stuck him with the $140 bill for the job.
  • No bail for Texan accused of al-Qaida aid   UPI / 3:06PM
    HOUSTON, June 4 (UPI) -- A Texas man accused of trying to help al-Qaida by providing it with technology and sensitive information has been ordered held without bond, authorities say.
  • Court orders paper to ID commenters   UPI / 2:34PM
    OTTAWA, Ill., June 4 (UPI) -- An Illinois court has ordered a newspaper to disclose the names of two Web site commentators accused of defaming an Ottawa couple.
  • Iran threatens opposition groups   UPI / 1:54PM
    TEHRAN, June 4 (UPI) -- At a rally in Tehran, Iranian leaders have issued warnings against those in opposition to the government and working against the regime, observers say.
  • Virginia: Conservative and conservativer   UPI / 11:36AM
    RICHMOND, Va., June 4 (UPI) -- Virginia Republicans have several sitting Democratic congressmen in their sights in November, but party squabbles may dash those hopes Tuesday, observers say.
  • U.S. castoffs are bargains in Iraq   UPI / 11:24AM
    FALLUJAH, Iraq, June 4 (UPI) -- As the United States draws down its troop numbers in Iraq, castoff evidence of its presence is showing up in yard sales across the country, observers say.
  • Carradine's wife sues film company   UPI / 11:14AM
    LOS ANGELES, June 4 (UPI) -- David Carradine's widow has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the production company that was making a film with her husband when he died in Bangkok.
  • U.S. expanding Special Ops capabilities   UPI / 10:34AM
    WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- The Obama administration allows "things the previous administration did not" in an expanding war against terror groups, a U.S. military official said.
  • Thursday, June 3

  • NYC to pay ex-inmate record $9.9 million   UPI / 11:14PM
    NEW YORK, June 3 (UPI) -- A man who spent 19 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned will get a $9.9 million check from the city of New York, officials said Thursday.
  • 'Hot fuel' suits become class actions   UPI / 8:54PM
    KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 3 (UPI) -- U.S. drivers are cheated by gas stations selling "hot fuel" that has expanded when temperatures rise, lawsuits against several companies allege.
  • White House: 'We've been transparent'   UPI / 8:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- The White House said Thursday President Barack Obama "wasn't aware" of an attempt to persuade Andrew Romanoff to drop out of a Colorado U.S. Senate primary.
  • Kirk apologizes for military embellishment   UPI / 8:05PM
    CHICAGO, June 3 (UPI) -- Mark Kirk, the Republican congressman running for U.S. Senate in Illinois, apologized Thursday for misstatements about his military record.
  • Israel's strained relations with Turkey could prove costly   AP / 7:34PM
    JERUSALEM -- Israel's botched commando raid on the pro-Palestinian aid flotilla this week has caused enormous strains in the Jewish state's relations around the world, but nowhere has the damage been more critical than in ties with Turkey, once its closest friend in the region.
  • Ex-Marine could be off hook in cow killing   UPI / 7:24PM
    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 3 (UPI) -- Michigan prosecutors have offered a young ex-Marine a deal -- admit killing a pregnant cow and say his mother put him up to it and the charges will be dropped.
  • U.S. adults expect new Korean war   UPI / 6:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- More than half of U.S. adults believe a war between North and South Korea is likely soon, a poll released Thursday indicated.
  • Witness sues over Adam Walsh files   UPI / 4:24PM
    HOLLYWOOD, Fla., June 3 (UPI) -- A lawsuit filed in South Florida demands copies of the investigative reports used to close the Adam Walsh kidnapping and slaying case.
  • Sarkozy asked to be honest about arms deal   UPI / 4:14PM
    PARIS, June 3 (UPI) -- Opposition lawmakers called on French President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday to be honest about suspicions kickbacks from arms deals funded political activities.
  • Tobacco firms sue NYC for graphic posters   UPI / 2:44PM
    NEW YORK, June 3 (UPI) -- Three tobacco corporations sued New York Thursday, claiming the city's anti-smoking posters are unconstitutional, court records indicate.
  • Anti-incumbent mood means more candidates   UPI / 2:34PM
    WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- Anti-incumbent fervor this year has inspired more U.S. voters to seek political office, USA Today says.
  • S. Korea party head quitting after losses   UPI / 2:34PM
    SEOUL, June 3 (UPI) -- Chung Mong-joon, chairman of South Korea's ruling Grand National Party, said Thursday he is resigning following the party's defeat in local elections.
  • Obama ratings drop hurts other black pols   UPI / 1:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- The drop in U.S. President Barack Obama's approval ratings is hurting many other black U.S. politicians, an analysis by a political editor indicates.
  • Lawsuit: Woman fired for being too pretty   UPI / 1:44PM
    NEW YORK, June 3 (UPI) -- A New York woman's lawsuit against Citigroup says she was fired because bosses deemed her feminine beauty to be a distraction for male colleagues.
  • DR Congo rights activist found dead in car   AP / 12:34PM
    A prominent rights activist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was found dead on the back seat of his car in the capital of Kinshasa, authorities said.
  • Lawmakers: Recognize humanity's oneness   UPI / 10:24AM
    ALBANY, N.Y., June 3 (UPI) -- The United States and other nations must recognize humanity's underlying oneness for the sake of world peace, the New York State Assembly said in a resolution.
  • Studies: Deaths boost Afghan war support   UPI / 9:54AM
    MONTREAL, June 3 (UPI) -- Canadian war deaths in Afghanistan could increase support for the 9-year-old military operation and support hawkish politicians, two academic studies suggest.
  • China snubs Gates on Asian visit   UPI / 9:34AM
    BEIJING, June 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates traveled to Asia and was spurned by China, which declined to extend him an invitation to visit, officials said.
  • Wednesday, June 2

  • Vietnam-era MIA pilot ID'd   UPI / 9:44PM
    WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- The remains of a U.S. fighter jet pilot shot down over North Vietnam 43 years ago have been returned to his family, military officials said Wednesday.
  • Netanyahu says flotilla no 'love boat'   UPI / 5:34PM
    JERUSALEM, June 2 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu exhibited stiff resolve in the deadly Gaza flotilla episode Wednesday, saying Israel faces "international hypocrisy."
  • Judge's ruling in N.J. helps defendants   UPI / 5:24PM
    NEWARK, N.J., June 2 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled candidates for office cannot be charged with influence-peddling.
  • Burton: No repeat of flotilla violence   UPI / 5:14PM
    ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, June 2 (UPI) -- The White House said Wednesday President Barack Obama does not want to see a repeat of the violence stemming from an effort to break Israel's Gaza blockade.
  • Civil rights leadership tussle in court   UPI / 5:04PM
    ATLANTA, June 2 (UPI) -- A battle for the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference civil rights group moved into an Atlanta courtroom Wednesday, observers said.
  • Navy gave Kirk heads-up on mistake   UPI / 4:54PM
    WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- A Republican U.S. Senate candidate got a warning from the Navy that reporters were asking about a mistake in his campaign biography, military officials say.
  • New Navy crane technology passes testing   UPI / 4:24PM
    WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Navy officials say they have completed multiphase testing of new crane technology designed for at-sea, ship-to-ship cargo transfers.
  • Teen sues to wear rosary to class   UPI / 3:54PM
    SCHENECTADY, N.Y., June 2 (UPI) -- A Christian not-for-profit organization is suing a New York school district, demanding it allow a teenager to openly wear rosary beads to school.
  • Lawsuit backlash hits wrong person   UPI / 3:44PM
    SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 2 (UPI) -- A California woman who shares a name with the woman suing Google for giving bad directions says she is receiving angry messages meant for the other woman.
  • Hooters: Weight-loss suits have no merit   UPI / 3:34PM
    ROSEVILLE, Mich., June 2 (UPI) -- Lawsuits by two women who charge they were victims of weight discrimination at a Detroit-area Hooters have no merit, a spokesman for the chain said Wednesday.
  • Democrats stay away from Obama Pa. speech   UPI / 3:34PM
    PITTSBURGH, June 2 (UPI) -- Few Democratic elected officials joined President Obama for a speech on the economy Wednesday in Pittsburgh.
  • Kilpatrick's new lawyer to ask for bail   UPI / 2:44PM
    DETROIT, June 2 (UPI) -- Kwame Kilpatrick's new lawyer says he will ask a judge to release the former Detroit mayor from prison while he appeals his sentence for probation violation.
  • Taliban attack Afghan 'peace jirga'   UPI / 2:14PM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, June 2 (UPI) -- Suspected Afghan militants attacked a peace meeting of tribal elders in Kabul Wednesday, with rockets landing nearby and three people dying, police said.
  • Wounded soldier billed by military   UPI / 11:54AM
    LEBANON, Ore., June 2 (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier wounded in Iraq says he has been billed more than $3,000 for equipment he left behind when he was airlifted off the battlefield.
  • Tucson joins immigration lawsuit   UPI / 10:54AM
    TUCSON, June 2 (UPI) -- The city of Tucson is siding with a policeman who filed suit to prevent implementation of Arizona's new immigration law, a court filing indicates.
  • Nunnelee wins GOP nod in Mississippi   UPI / 1:34AM
    JACKSON, Miss., June 2 (UPI) -- State Sen. Alan Nunnelee, a favorite among the Republican establishment, won Mississippi's 1st Congressional District Republican primary Tuesday, results show.
  • Prosecutor wins GOP gov's race in N.M.   UPI / 12:54AM
    ALBUQUERQUE, June 2 (UPI) -- Prosecutor Susana Martinez won the GOP nomination in the New Mexico governor's race, results showed, meaning the state will get its first female governor.
  • Davis defeated in Ala. gov primary   UPI / 12:14AM
    MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Arthur Davis failed Tuesday in his bid to become Alabama's first black nominee for governor, results showed.
  • Ex-Canadian bishop denies sex abuse charge   UPI / 12:14AM
    OTTAWA, June 1 (UPI) -- Former Roman Catholic bishop Raymond Lahey, who resigned amid child pornography charges in Canada, denies he molested an orphan in the 1980s.
  • Tuesday, June 1

  • Israel releasing flotilla detainees   AP / 11:34PM
    Israeli said it would release detainees taken during its deadly raid on a flotilla of humanitarian aid bound for Gaza amid mounting international criticism.
  • Israel releasing flotilla detainees   UPI / 11:14PM
    GAZA, June 1 (UPI) -- Israeli said it would release detainees taken during its deadly raid on a flotilla of humanitarian aid bound for Gaza amid mounting international criticism.
  • First lady stumps for Reid, healthy living   UPI / 10:54PM
    RENO, Nev., June 1 (UPI) -- Michelle Obama stumped for healthy living and for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid during a trip Tuesday to Nevada.
  • U.S. cruiser takes dhow back from pirates   UPI / 10:05PM
    RAS FARTAK, Yemen, June 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. Navy cruiser on an anti-narcotics patrol off Yemen boarded and freed a Yemeni dhow that had been seized by pirates, the Navy has announced.
  • Mossad chief: Israel becomes U.S. 'burden'   UPI / 5:54PM
    JERUSALEM, June 1 (UPI) -- Israel has gradually been turning into a "burden" on the United States since the end of the Cold War, the head of the Israeli secret service said Tuesday.
  • Netanyahu arrives home to deal with crisis   UPI / 5:34PM
    JERUSALEM, June 1 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu returned home Tuesday, giving up a meeting with President Obama, after the deadly clash off Gaza.
  • Disunited NY Republicans meet   UPI / 4:34PM
    NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- New York Republican Chairman Edward F. Cox opened the state convention Tuesday by attacking Democrats for a "culture of corruption."
  • Hearing delayed in Fort Hood massacre   UPI / 2:44PM
    FORT HOOD, Texas, June 1 (UPI) -- A military judge in Texas Tuesday granted a four-month delay in an evidentiary hearing for Maj. Nidal Hasan, the accused Fort Hood gunman.
  • City worker may be axed for Facebook post   UPI / 2:34PM
    WEST ALLIS, Wis., June 1 (UPI) -- West Allis, Wis., officials said an arbitrator's decision allowing a police dispatcher to keep her job after a drug-related Facebook posting will be contested.
  • Amanda Knox facing slander charge   AP / 12:34PM
    American Amanda Knox, 22, went on trial again in Italy Tuesday, this time on charges of slandering Italian police officers, her lawyer said.
  • Kilpatrick hires new lawyer for appeal   UPI / 10:54AM
    DETROIT, June 1 (UPI) -- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has hired a new lawyer to handle his prison appeal, authorities said.
  • HIV women sue over forced sterilization   UPI / 8:05AM
    WINDHOEK, Namibia, June 1 (UPI) -- Three Namibian women are suing their country's health ministry for sterilizing them without their informed consent, their lawyers say.
  • Iran preparing for anniversary protests   UPI / 7:54AM
    TEHRAN, June 1 (UPI) -- Iran is sending paramilitary forces into Tehran in preparation for the anniversary of last year's disputed presidential election, authorities said.
  • Monday, May 31

  • Mullen: Industry should take lead on spill   UPI / 8:14PM
    WASHINGTON, May 31 (UPI) -- The oil industry, not the U.S. military, should lead the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said Monday.
  • Report criticizes U.S. efforts in Africa   UPI / 5:14PM
    NORFOLK, Va., May 31 (UPI) -- The value and effectiveness of a U.S. Navy-led task force fighting extremism and terrorism in Africa has come under fire in a government report, officials say.
  • 'Web' lawsuits: Old legal strategy reborn   UPI / 4:24PM
    NEW YORK, May 31 (UPI) -- People taking to the Internet to air grievances and complaints about businesses may find themselves targeted by defamation lawsuits, U.S. legal experts say.
  • Arlington saves items left on graves   UPI / 12:44PM
    ARLINGTON, Va., May 31 (UPI) -- Arlington National Cemetery is collecting many personal items left on military graves and storing them for posterity, officials in Virginia said.
  • German president quits over remarks   UPI / 10:44AM
    BERLIN, May 31 (UPI) -- German President Horst Kohler resigned from office Monday citing the critical firestorm he sparked with remarks about his nation's military deployments.
  • Weekend Turkish-PKK fighting kills eight   UPI / 10:34AM
    ANKARA, Turkey, May 31 (UPI) -- Weekend fighting with the Kurdistan Workers Party in southeastern Turkey killed eight people, including Turkish soldiers and village guards, officials said.
  • Ex-defense head leads in Colombia election   AP / 8:34AM
    Former Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manual Santos took nearly twice as many votes as his nearest rival but not enough avoid a runoff, officials said.
  • Sunday, May 30

  • 'Professional' litigant plans another suit   UPI / 7:14PM
    NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) -- A homeless man in New York, infamous for filing lawsuits when businesses or institutions eject him for his body odor, has a new target, observers say.
  • U.S. troop reduction in Iraq on track   UPI / 6:05PM
    WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) -- The U.S military expects to reach its goal of reducing troops in Iraq to 50,000 by the end of August, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said.
  • Mullen stresses 'don't ask' review   UPI / 4:05PM
    WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Adm. Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, says it's important to conduct a detailed review of the effects of repealing "don't ask, don't tell."
  • Chavez is key issue in Colombian election   UPI / 12:24PM
    BOGOTA, May 30 (UPI) -- Colombians began casting ballots for president Sunday in a tight race to choose outgoing President Alvaro Uribe's successor.
  • Czechs elect center-right candidates   UPI / 11:34AM
    PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 30 (UPI) -- Social Democrats leader Jiri Paroubek conceded defeat as Czech voters gave a solid majority to small center-right parties.
  • Canada sacks top general   UPI / 10:24AM
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 30 (UPI) -- The commander of Canadian forces in Afghanistan has been fired amid allegations of conduct unbecoming an officer, military authorities said.
  • Senate candidate backtracks on award   UPI / 9:44AM
    WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) -- An Illinois candidate seeking President Obama's seat in the U.S. Senate has backed off his claim he received a prestigious military award, observers said.
  • Saturday, May 29

  • Vote on Disclosure Act delayed   UPI / 6:54PM
    WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- A vote on a new U.S. campaign-finance law has been delayed until after the Memorial Day break, giving business groups more time to lobby against it.
  • Huge march in Phoenix protests Ariz. law   UPI / 6:54PM
    PHOENIX, May 29 (UPI) -- Thousands of people protested Arizona's immigration law Saturday as the state attorney general denied the governor's charge that he seeks to overturn it.
  • Strike might follow Pakistan-based terror   UPI / 6:24PM
    WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- Officials are mulling a U.S. strike in Pakistan if a successful attack on U.S. soil is traced to the country's tribal areas, sources tell The Washington Post.
  • Humanitarian convoy heads to Gaza   UPI / 5:34PM
    JERUSALEM, May 29 (UPI) -- A convoy of eight ships carrying peace activists and humanitarian aid was headed toward Gaza Saturday as the Israeli Navy prepared to intercept it.
  • Cuomo got $79G from suspected fraudster   UPI / 2:54PM
    NEW YORK, May 29 (UPI) -- A New York accountant charged with swindling celebrities in a $30 million fraud donated $79,000 to gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo, investigators say.
  • Airstrike probe: More training needed   UPI / 11:24AM
    KABUL, Afghanistan, May 29 (UPI) -- More training is needed after a February NATO drone airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Afghanistan, the U.S. military says.
  • Obama calls on Americans to honor fallen   UPI / 10:04AM
    WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama urged Americans Saturday to take time out this Memorial Day to remember those who have served and died for their country.
  • Friday, May 28

  • Obama threatens to veto F-35 funds   UPI / 10:24PM
    WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday he would veto funding for a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
  • 'Don't ask' amendment wins House OK   UPI / 9:14PM
    WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. House approved a measure Friday that includes a provision to allow the Defense Department to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
  • Families of abused autistic kids get $5M   UPI / 8:44PM
    SCRANTON, Pa., May 28 (UPI) -- A federal judge has approved a $5 million settlement for the families of seven autistic children allegedly abused by their teacher in northeastern Pennsylvania.
  • UPI NewsTrack TopNews   AP / 8:34PM
    China's Wen assures S. Korean president SEOUL, May 28 (UPI)
  • Israel highway reopens with restrictions   UPI / 7:24PM
    JERUSALEM, May 28 (UPI) -- A major highway in Israel, running through the West Bank and closed to Palestinian traffic since 2002, has been partly reopened, authorities say.
  • Chinese drywall gets class-action lawsuit   UPI / 6:44PM
    MIAMI, May 28 (UPI) -- A Florida judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit against homebuilders over tainted Chinese drywall used in home construction, documents show.
  • Senate passes military spending bill   UPI / 4:54PM
    WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate approved $60 billion for Afghanistan and Iraq after rejecting a Republican plan to send the National Guard to the Mexican border.
  • Woman left sleeping on plane sues   UPI / 3:54PM
    FERNDALE, Mich., May 28 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman who said she was left sleeping on a plane for 4 hours after it landed in Philadelphia is suing United Airlines, her attorney said.
  • WH asked Sestak to quit Pa. Senate race   UPI / 3:05PM
    WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- The White House said it sent Bill Clinton to ask Rep. Joe Sestak to back out of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary in exchange for an unpaid job as an adviser.
  • Czech voters go to polls   UPI / 3:05PM
    PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 28 (UPI) -- The Czech Republic began a parliamentary election Friday after months of interim government.
  • U.N. official: Stop CIA drone strikes   UPI / 1:24PM
    WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- Drone strikes like those carried out by the United States in Afghanistan and Pakistan should only be done by the military, a top U.N. official says.
  • Reid gains ground on GOP challengers   UPI / 12:54PM
    WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., trailing Republican challengers to his re-election most of the year, has made up major ground, a new poll indicates.
  • Vets remember Dunkirk rescue 70 years ago   UPI / 12:14PM
    DUNKIRK, France, May 28 (UPI) -- About a dozen British war veterans returned to the French beaches at Dunkirk, where they were picked up 70 years ago in a huge rescue dubbed Operation Dynamo.
  • E-mail: Palin's neighbor approached author   UPI / 11:24AM
    WASILLA, Alaska, May 28 (UPI) -- A neighbor in Wasilla, Alaska, approached author Joe McGinniss about his renting a house next door to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the author's son said.
  • U.S. casualties in Afghan war reach 1,000   UPI / 10:24AM
    WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- A grim milestone was reached in the Afghanistan conflict with the toll of U.S. military deaths in and around the country hitting 1,000, the Pentagon says.
  • Japan, U.S. agree on Okinawa plan   UPI / 7:24AM
    TOKYO, May 28 (UPI) -- Japan and the United States, welcoming an accord on relocating the U.S. base in Okinawa, agreed Friday to deepen their post World War II alliance.
  • U.S. House approves 'DADT' repeal   UPI / 12:05AM
    WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) -- The House of Representatives voted Thursday to allow the repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military, soon after a Senate panel did the same.
  • Thursday, May 27

  • Hmong Americans say they were framed   UPI / 7:14PM
    SACRAMENTO, May 27 (UPI) -- Hmong Americans accused of plotting to overthrow the Laotian government seek dismissal of the case in California, court records indicate.
  • Bill collector allegedly threatens man   UPI / 6:24PM
    LAS CRUCES, N.M., May 27 (UPI) -- A couple who formerly lived in New Mexico said they moved to another state after a Verizon Wireless bill collector threatened to blow up their house.
  • Poll shows Crist leading Rubio in Florida   UPI / 5:34PM
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 27 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist leads state House Speaker Marco Rubio in the race for the state's U.S. Senate seat, a poll released Thursday indicates.
  • Son sues over nursing-home killing   UPI / 4:44PM
    DARTMOUTH, Mass., May 27 (UPI) -- The son of a 100-year-old woman allegedly beaten to death by her 98-year-old roommate has sued the suspect and the Massachusetts nursing home where they lived.
  • Biden: Forces will leave Iraq on time   UPI / 3:24PM
    WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. combat troops will pull out of Iraq on time, Vice President Joe Biden said.
  • Wednesday, May 26

  • R.I. man sues Facebook over privacy   UPI / 11:05PM
    PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 26 (UPI) -- A Rhode Island man has sued Facebook claiming his privacy was violated by giving information to advertisers and other third parties.
  • BP arranging claims mediator   UPI / 9:54PM
    HOUSTON, May 26 (UPI) -- British oil producer BP said Wednesday it will name an independent mediator to review claims arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster.
  • Mexican politician arrested   UPI / 7:14PM
    MEXICO CITY, May 26 (UPI) -- A former Cancun mayor running for higher office has been arrested on money-laundering charges and linked to drug runners, authorities say.
  • Poland hails arrival of U.S. missiles   UPI / 6:44PM
    MORAG, Poland, May 26 (UPI) -- Stationing U.S. missiles on Polish soil will strengthen Poland's security, the country's defense minister says.
  • Trump faces protests over Scotland plans   AP / 6:34PM
    Protesters greeted Donald Trump as he arrived in Aberdeen, Scotland, for discussions on his plan to build a $1.4 billion golf resort, observers said.
  • USAF top kick could face court-martial   UPI / 6:34PM
    DAYTON, Ohio, May 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force says it has begun hearings in the case of a top enlisted man facing allegations of sexual harassment, adultery and other offenses.
  • Nebraska's Nelson to support DADT repeal   UPI / 5:54PM
    WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- The push to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the U.S. military gained the backing of Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., Wednesday.
  • Cuomo picks upstate mayor as running mate   UPI / 5:44PM
    NEW YORK, May 26 (UPI) -- Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for governor of New York, announced Wednesday he has picked an upstate mayor as his running mate.
  • Dino Rossi enters Wash. senate race   UPI / 4:44PM
    OLYMPIA, Wash., May 26 (UPI) -- Dino Rossi of Washington, a Republican who lost the closest gubernatorial race in U.S. history in 2004, announced Wednesday he is running for U.S. Senate.
  • Ricardo unveils UAV engine   UPI / 2:34PM
    DETROIT, May 26 (UPI) -- U.S. automobile engine supplier Ricardo Inc. said it has developed a new engine for unmanned aerial vehicles.
  • Airstrikes hit Hamas training site   UPI / 12:44PM
    GAZA, May 26 (UPI) -- Fifteen people were injured Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas training base in northern Gaza, Palestinian medical officials said.
  • Owner whose chimp attacked a friend, dies   UPI / 8:34AM
    STAMFORD, Conn., May 26 (UPI) -- The Connecticut woman whose pet chimpanzee went berserk and nearly killed her friend in 2009 has died unexpectedly, her attorney says.
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