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Thursday, September 9
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.
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Top news from around the worldThursday, September 9NEWARK, 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. |
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| Wednesday, September 8WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday likened drug cartel operations in Mexico and Central America to an insurgency. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, September 7WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, September 6SAVANNAH, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. |
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| Sunday, September 5CHARLESTON, 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Democratic leaders say they are scrutinizing the upcoming November elections to see where their resources will be best spent. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, September 4WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A former Republican Party financial official and consultant pleaded guilty Friday in Washington to embezzling $850,000 from party committees. 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. 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. A plane crash on the west coast of New Zealand has killed nine people, including tourists from Australia, England, Ireland and Germany, officials say. |
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| Friday, September 3WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, September 2HEBRON, 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. 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, September 1MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis law firm specializing in food safety cases says lawsuits about salmonella-tainted eggs are coming in "like crazy." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A federal judge temporarily blocked New York state Wednesday from collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian tribes. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, August 31ANCHORAGE, 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. 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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? DETROIT, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A Michigan probate attorney says the economic downturn had increased the number of court battles over large inheritances. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, August 30COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A Columbus, Ohio, man "voted" in the 2006 general election even though he died in 2005, elections officials said. 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. BALTIMORE, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A Baltimore area hospital is turning its back on patients who had coronary stents wrongly implanted, patients' attorneys said. 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. |
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| Sunday, August 29BEIJING, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- China said Sunday it will conduct live-ammunition naval exercises in the Yellow Sea this week. 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. Hurricane Earl was about 150 miles east of Barbuda in the eastern Caribbean Sunday evening, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., said Sunday the Republican Party was leaning toward extremist politics. JERUSALEM, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Washington is funding an ad campaign in Israel featuring billboards of Palestinian officials asking: "We are partners -- what about you?" 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. TOKYO, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Japan's only working radar satellite has malfunctioned and officials say they may not be able to save it. 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. OMAHA, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Sixteen protesters at a military funeral in Omaha were doused with pepper spray from passing motorists, police said. 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. |
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| Saturday, August 28Voters in Louisiana and West Virginia Saturday picked candidates for their U.S. Senate general election races. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. MADISON, Wis., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Wisconsin's bid for leeway on sending absentee ballots overseas has been rebuffed by the Pentagon. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. |
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| Friday, August 27WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. MOSCOW, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Russians must cross the Georgian border to enter Abkhazia or South Ossetia or risk fine or jail, Georgian officials say. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A torpedo discovered Friday at a Philadelphia construction site turned out to be a harmless replica, police said. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Some Democrats are getting cold feet about raising taxes for the wealthy as the economy deteriorates, observers say. 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. |
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| Thursday, August 26TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Iranian media are being prohibited from reporting about government opposition leaders under a purported media directive, opposition Web sites said. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The Obama administration is responsible for exacerbating a pay gap between public and private workers, a Republican leader says. 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. 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. 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 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. |
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| Wednesday, August 25WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. OTTAWA, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Two Russian bombers came within 40 miles of Canadian territory this week, officials say. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. Defense Department task force announced new steps Wednesday to prevent service member suicides. 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. 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. SEATTLE, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Five U.S. soldiers from a Stryker infantry brigade have been charged with killing Afghan civilians, military officials say. 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. 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. 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. 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. Voters in Arizona, Vermont, Alaska, Florida and Oklahoma Tuesday selected who they think should be on the Election Day ballot in November. |
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| Tuesday, August 24PHOENIX, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain held off a Republican primary challenge by conservative firebrand J.D. Hayworth in Arizona Tuesday, returns indicated. OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Republicans James Lankford and Charles Thompson appeared headed to victories in congressional primary runoffs in Oklahoma Tuesday, returns showed. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, August 23GOLDSBORO, N.C., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A jury in North Carolina Monday convicted a former U.S. Marine of murdering a fellow Marine. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Sunday, August 22JERUSALEM, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- After weeks of speculation, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has named Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant Israel's next chief of staff. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Three separate incidents Sunday left four U.S. troops dead in Afghanistan, officials said. 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. TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday Israel is too weak to stand up to Iran. 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. 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. 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. TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Iran Sunday launched a domestically made long range high-altitude drone, state media reported. 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. |
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| Saturday, August 21A $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. 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. MELBOURNE, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Neither the Labor Party nor the center-right Coalition seized a clear parliamentary majority in Saturday's Australian election. JERUSALEM, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Israel is seeking international help in turning back the latest so-called aid ship ready to set sail to Gaza. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, August 20ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden denounced Republican candidates Friday for offering "draconian ideas basically on steroids." 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. 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. SEOUL, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- A Chinese company conspired with North Korea to smuggle missile-launching equipment into that country, a report alleges. 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. TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Iran has successfully tested a new surface-to-surface missile with "exceptional tactical powers," a military official says. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, August 19NORFOLK, 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. 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. 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. DENVER, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Crosses carrying the Utah Highway Patrol logo placed on public land are unconstitutional, a federal appeals court says. 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. 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. 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. Agreement on direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians is close, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Thursday. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Americans are opposed to authorizing a war against North Korea, an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll released Thursday indicates. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, August 18OSAKA, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. ROME, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- In death, as in life, former Italian President Francesco Cossiga drew praise from supporters and derision from detractors, observers say. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, August 17BOISE, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Chalk up two "W's" in the Tuesday primaries -- Washington and Wyoming -- where voters select party nominees in several high-profile races. 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. 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. JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Palestinians in Gaza fired two mortar shells that exploded near the south Gaza security fence slightly wounding two Israeli soldiers. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, August 16TULSA, Okla., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A Tulsa, Okla., woman may be the granddaughter of Winston Churchill, a records search shows. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Support among Americans for the conflict in Afghanistan has reached its lowest point so far in 2010, a poll indicates. 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. 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. |
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| Sunday, August 15WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, August 14SACRAMENTO, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee for governor of California, has contributed another $13 million to her campaign, state elections records indicate. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, August 13SAN 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A Chicago soldier reported to have died from injuries he sustained in Afghanistan in June is alive, family members say. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, August 12PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A Florida condominium association faces a fair housing complaint for refusing to sell to families with children. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, August 11WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Longtime pro wrestling industry executive Linda McMahon trounced her opposition Tuesday, winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Connecticut. |
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| Tuesday, August 10ST. 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. 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. ATLANTA, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Nathan Deal took a narrow lead over Karen Handel Tuesday in the Republican gubernatorial runoff in Georgia, early results showed. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, August 9WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates Monday announced he is making major spending cuts and reorganizing his department to save money. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Money problems could hamper Tea Party candidates starting with the 2010 elections, officials say. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. RWANDA, South Africa, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- About 5 million Rwandans were eligible to vote in Monday's presidential election, officials said. |
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| Sunday, August 8LEH, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. CAIRO, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Egyptians are turning to Facebook and Twitter to have their say in campaigns launched by the country's presidential candidates. 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. |
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| Saturday, August 7BAGHDAD, 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. ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- More than 100 arrest warrants issued over an alleged 2003 coup plot in Turkey have been annulled, officials say. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, August 6CHICAGO, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, August 5CHICAGO, 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. NASHVILLE, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Republican voters in Tennessee Thursday chose Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam as their nominee for governor, election returns show. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. OTTAWA, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Four of five Canadians say the country's troops should leave Afghanistan next year, a new poll indicates. 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. 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. 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. NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Kenyans approved a new constitution leaders said they hope will alleviate problems that undermined good governance, preliminary results indicate. 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. |
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| Wednesday, August 4WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Security was tight Wednesday as Kenyans went to the polls to vote on a proposed constitution, observers noted. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Primary voters in Michigan appeared to be booting a veteran congresswoman Tuesday and primary races also were being decided in Missouri and Kansas. |
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| Tuesday, August 3DETROIT, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Democratic Michigan primary voters Tuesday appeared to be rejecting U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick's bid for an eighth term. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 promised "powerful physical retaliation" Tuesday if South Korea goes ahead with naval exercises planned for later this week. 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. SEOUL, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- North Korea promised "powerful physical retaliation" Tuesday if South Korea goes ahead with naval exercises planned for later this week. 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. |
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| Monday, August 2WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama, acknowledging state officials are frustrated, said immigration reform is the responsibility of the federal government. 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. |
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| Sunday, August 1LONDON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, July 31OTTAWA, July 31 (UPI) -- A Russian diplomat says two Russian bombers that came close to Canadian air space near Labrador were on a training exercise. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, July 30WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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, 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 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. July 30--The U.S. Consulate in Juarez will be closed today and until a security review is completed, officials said Thursday evening. WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. Senate panel heard testimony Thursday on what its chairwoman called "catastrophic incompetence" at Arlington National Cemetery. |
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| Thursday, July 29PHOENIX, 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. 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. 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. DETROIT, July 29 (UPI) -- Lawyers refused to give any information on what former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said in a deposition Thursday. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- Ohio Congressman John Boehner has launched a "Boehner for Speaker" campaign to raise money for the Republican election effort. 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. 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. 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. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 29 (UPI) -- The second U.S. sailor missing in Afghanistan since last weekend is dead, a Pentagon official said Thursday. 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. |
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| Wednesday, July 28NORFOLK, 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. BOSTON, July 28 (UPI) -- The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a law aimed at ensuring the winner of the popular vote becomes U.S. president. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, July 27WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 CITY, July 27 (UPI) -- The governor's race topped the ticket for both Republicans and Democrats in Tuesday's Oklahoma primaries. PRINCETON, N.J., July 27 (UPI) -- The percentage of U.S. residents who want decreased immigration has fallen below 50 percent, Gallup reported Tuesday. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, July 26BUCHAREST, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. GAZA, July 26 (UPI) -- Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza Sunday night, hitting what the military said were an arms factory and two smuggling tunnels. |
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| Sunday, July 25WASHINGTON, 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. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 25 (UPI) -- Afghanistan provincial government officials confirm one of two abducted U.S. servicemen has been killed. GREELEY, Colo., July 25 (UPI) -- A Colorado man says he's going to run for president of his native Nigeria. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, July 24KABUL, Afghanistan, July 24 (UPI) -- Five U.S. troops were killed by bombs Saturday in southern Afghanistan, military officials said. LONDON, July 24 (UPI) -- The Unite union's political committee has endorsed Ed Miliband as leader of the U.K. Labor Party. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 24 (UPI) -- Missiles fired from an unmanned aircraft killed at least 16 militants in northwest Pakistan Saturday, Pakistani officials said. |
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| Friday, July 23WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- Investigators said they found dozens of Pentagon employees, contractors and military personnel who accessed child pornography on their government computers. Venezuela says it is cutting diplomatic ties with neighboring Colombia amid allegations the Caracas government is harboring leftist guerrillas. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, July 22NEW 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. PHOENIX, July 22 (UPI) -- A federal judge Thursday questioned whether Arizona's tough new immigration law is constitutional. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, July 21WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, July 20ATLANTA, 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. WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- The head of the U.S. Strategic Command defended the new START Treaty with Russia during a Senate hearing Tuesday. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. ANKARA, Turkey, July 20 (UPI) -- Kurdish rebels attacked a Turkish military unit near the Iraqi border, killing six soldiers, officials said. 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. 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. Women on university campuses in Syria are no longer allowed to wear veils that cover their faces, Syria's Minister of Higher Education says. 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. |
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| Monday, July 19LOS 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- National Guard troops will be deployed to the U.S. Southwest border starting Aug. 1, federal officials said Monday. 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. 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. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 19 (UPI) -- A judge in Oklahoma City Monday temporarily blocked implementation of a state law requiring ultrasounds shortly before abortions. 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. |
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| Sunday, July 18WASHINGTON, 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. 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." 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. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu headed for Egypt Sunday to talk with President Hosni Mubarak about Palestinians, officials said. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, July 17NEW 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, July 16DENVER, 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. OTTAWA, July 16 (UPI) -- Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay announced plans Friday to buy a new fleet of fighter jets from Lockheed-Martin. 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. 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. 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. July 16--Two Mexican police officers and a paramedic died in the explosion in Juarez, Mexico's attorney general said today. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- U.S. officials say joint naval exercises with South Korea are aimed at North Korea, not China. 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. WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- The number of U.S. Army soldiers who committed suicide hit a record in June, statistics reveal. 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. |
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| Thursday, July 15TOKYO, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, July 14PYONGYANG, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, July 13MONTGOMERY, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- Hispanic candidates in competitive races across the United States are defying conventional wisdom and running as Republicans, political observers said. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, July 12OTTAWA, July 12 (UPI) -- A Canadian general and an enlisted woman have been charged for their alleged affair, military officials said Monday. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 12 (UPI) -- The NAACP said it will consider a resolution formally condemning the Tea Party for "explicitly racist behavior." BAGHDAD, July 12 (UPI) -- Iraqi security forces have arrested several terrorism suspects in combined operations with U.S. advisers, the U.S. military says. 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. 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. MOSCOW, July 12 (UPI) -- Amnesty International says it condemns Monday's conviction of the organizers of a Russian art exhibition. 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. |
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| Sunday, July 11WASHINGTON, 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. 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. TOKYO, July 11 (UPI) -- Exit polls indicated the Democratic Party of Japan lost its majority in parliament's upper house in elections Sunday. |
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| Saturday, July 10PARIS, July 10 (UPI) -- The investigation into Liliane Bettencourt, the richest woman in France, has become more intense with police raids on her financial managers. 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. 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. 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. 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. NEW YORK, July 10 (UPI) -- NTP, Inc., has filed a federal patent infringement lawsuit against some of the leading manufacturers of smartphones. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, July 9LAS 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. 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, 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. JERUSALEM, July 9 (UPI) -- The parents of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit spent an hour Friday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, July 8LAS 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, July 7LA 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, July 6WASHINGTON, 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. STANFORD, Calif., July 6 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. Senate nominee Carly Fiorina of California had reconstructive breast surgery Tuesday, an aide said. 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. WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department Tuesday filed suit against Arizona's immigration law, saying it unconstitutionally interferes with federal authority. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. MOGADISHU, Somalia, July 6 (UPI) -- Government forces battled Islamic insurgents, killing 16 people in Mogadishu, as Somalia's president asked for more military help. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, July 5WASHINGTON, 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. 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. TUZLA, Romania, July 5 (UPI) -- A Romanian military plane on a training mission crashed near Tuzla Monday afternoon, killing 11 people, officials said. LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- British authorities expect an extradition hearing in London for the former president of Bosnia-Herzegovina to last five days. 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. MOSCOW, July 5 (UPI) -- An explosion at a military firing range in Siberia killed six military personnel, police officials said. BONNY, Nigeria, July 5 (UPI) -- Twelve sailors abducted in bloody confrontations last week with suspected pirates have been released, Nigerian officials said. MEXICO CITY, July 4 (UPI) -- Violence and the threat of it hung heavily over Mexico's elections Sunday, observers said. |
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| Sunday, July 4WARSAW, Poland, July 4 (UPI) -- Conservative candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski conceded Poland's presidency to Bronislaw Komorowski in Sunday's hotly contested runoff election. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. |
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| Saturday, July 3ACRE, 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. 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama, in a July Fourth message to the nation, said America faces "daunting" but not "insurmountable" challenges. |
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| Friday, July 2KABUL, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, July 1JERUSALEM, 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. MOSCOW, July 1 (UPI) -- Russia is willing to provide helicopters to carry NATO soldiers in Afghanistan, a defense industry representative said Thursday. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, June 30SAN 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. 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. INDIANAPOLIS, June 30 (UPI) -- Indiana's voter identification law, possibly the most stringent in the country, was upheld Wednesday by the state Supreme Court. 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, 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. 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. 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. MADISON, Wis., June 30 (UPI) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused Wednesday to overturn a referendum that banned both same-sex marriage and civil unions. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Gen. David Petraeus to head up operations in Afghanistan. HAIFA, Israel, June 30 (UPI) -- An Israeli soldier accused of spying for Hezbollah appeared before a military court in Haifa Wednesday, authorities say. 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. CONAKRY, Guinea, June 30 (UPI) -- Initial results from Guinea's first democratic election were expected Wednesday as some candidates leveled allegations of voting irregularities. Storm clouds didn't deter thousands of people from attending the swearing-in ceremony of Benigno Aquino III as the Philippines' 15th president Wednesday. 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. |
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| Tuesday, June 29NEW 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. PARIS, June 29 (UPI) -- Former Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega went on trial in Paris Monday, accused of laundering drug money in France. |
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| Monday, June 28WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Sunday, June 27WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, June 26OTTAWA, June 26 (UPI) -- Two Canadian Army medics were killed in Afghanistan when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, military officials said Saturday. 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. 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. LONDON, June 26 (UPI) -- Britain celebrated Armed Forces Day with hundreds of ceremonies and parades Saturday. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, June 25GAZA, 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. Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog and potential Egyptian presidential candidate, joined a street protest Friday in Alexandria. 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. BUJUMBURA, Burundi, June 25 (UPI) -- Opposition parties in Burundi have called for a boycott of the presidential election. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, June 24WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, June 23TACOMA, Wash., June 23 (UPI) -- The many soldiers who suffer with migraine may also be poor sleepers, U.S. researchers suggest. Australia's Labor Party has elected Julia Gillard as its leader, ousting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd weeks before a federal election, officials said. 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. 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- Campaign finance reports and election returns indicate self-funded candidates are doing well in congressional and gubernatorial contests. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, June 22PHOENIX, June 22 (UPI) -- Mexico intervened Tuesday in a lawsuit by a group of civil liberties organizations challenging Arizona's new immigration law, officials said. WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday Gen. Stanley McChrystal "showed poor judgment" in criticizing U.S. officials in a magazine article. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, June 21LAKEHURST, 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. 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. WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court gave broad force to binding arbitration agreements in a 5-4 decision Monday. LONDON, June 21 (UPI) -- Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain must keep asking why its troops are in Afghanistan. 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. |
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| Sunday, June 20KRAKOW, Poland, June 20 (UPI) -- Acting Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski failed Sunday to win the majority of votes needed to avoid a runoff. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 20 (UPI) -- Pakistani fighter jets struck militant hideouts in the Orakzai tribal region, killing 13 suspected insurgents, officials said. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, June 19JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 19 (UPI) -- The former head of the Rwandan army, now living in South Africa, was shot and wounded Saturday in Johannesburg. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, June 18WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 18 (UPI) -- A boater says he spotted a submarine periscope during a fishing trip off Hollywood, Fla. 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. FORT GILLEM, Ga., June 18 (UPI) -- An Army reservist at Fort Gillem in Georgia allegedly shot and killed another reserve soldier, military officials said. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, June 17BISHKEK, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, June 16WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. MANILA, Philippines, June 16 (UPI) -- Philippine security forces have freed a Filipino-Swiss businessman kidnapped and held for more than two months, authorities said. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, June 15NEW 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. 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. 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. 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. PHOENIX, June 15 (UPI) -- Enforcement of Arizona's tough new law targeting illegal immigrants could overwhelm the state's court system, immigration attorneys say. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- From behind closed doors, tight |
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| Monday, June 14COLUMBIA, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Sunday, June 13BAGHDAD, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, June 12VANCOUVER, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, June 11WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Militants struck across southern Afghanistan Friday, killing 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, June 10A 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, June 9WASHINGTON, 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. WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) -- Political activists are accusing President Obama's new deficit-reduction commission of secretly planning to gut Social Security. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. DAKAR, Senegal, June 9 (UPI) -- France is withdrawing 900 of its 1,200 soldiers from bases in Senegal, authorities said. 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. 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. 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. MOSCOW, June 9 (UPI) -- A senior Russian lawmaker said Wednesday his country has no plans to set up any new military bases abroad. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. PIERRE, S.D., June 9 (UPI) -- Lt. Gov. Dennis Daugaard won South Dakota's Republican primary election for governor Tuesday night, election returns indicated. 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." |
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| Tuesday, June 8TRENTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. OTTAWA, June 8 (UPI) -- Finalizing a fighter jet contract with Lockheed Martin without competitive bidding will "lock up the price," the Canadian government says. 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. WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday temporarily blocked subsidy payments to Arizona candidates running for state offices with public financing. 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. 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. 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. SANAA, Yemen, June 8 (UPI) -- Yemen Tuesday dropped charges against 33 journalists accused of disseminating false information and harming the national unity, authorities said. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, June 7KABUL, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Sunday, June 6Virginia Republicans have several Democratic congressmen in their sights in November, but party squabbles could dash their hopes Tuesday, observers suggest. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, June 5WASHINGTON, 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. 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. |
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| Friday, June 4LOS 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, June 3NEW 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. 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. 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. CHICAGO, June 3 (UPI) -- Mark Kirk, the Republican congressman running for U.S. Senate in Illinois, apologized Thursday for misstatements about his military record. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. NEW YORK, June 3 (UPI) -- Three tobacco corporations sued New York Thursday, claiming the city's anti-smoking posters are unconstitutional, court records indicate. WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- Anti-incumbent fervor this year has inspired more U.S. voters to seek political office, USA Today says. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Wednesday, June 2WASHINGTON, 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. JERUSALEM, June 2 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu exhibited stiff resolve in the deadly Gaza flotilla episode Wednesday, saying Israel faces "international hypocrisy." NEWARK, N.J., June 2 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled candidates for office cannot be charged with influence-peddling. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. PITTSBURGH, June 2 (UPI) -- Few Democratic elected officials joined President Obama for a speech on the economy Wednesday in Pittsburgh. 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Tuesday, June 1Israeli said it would release detainees taken during its deadly raid on a flotilla of humanitarian aid bound for Gaza amid mounting international criticism. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. American Amanda Knox, 22, went on trial again in Italy Tuesday, this time on charges of slandering Italian police officers, her lawyer said. DETROIT, June 1 (UPI) -- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has hired a new lawyer to handle his prison appeal, authorities said. 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. 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. |
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| Monday, May 31WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Sunday, May 30NEW 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. 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. 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." BOGOTA, May 30 (UPI) -- Colombians began casting ballots for president Sunday in a tight race to choose outgoing President Alvaro Uribe's successor. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Saturday, May 29WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Friday, May 28WASHINGTON, 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. 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. 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. China's Wen assures S. Korean president SEOUL, May 28 (UPI) 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 28 (UPI) -- The Czech Republic began a parliamentary election Friday after months of interim government. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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| Thursday, May 27SACRAMENTO, May 27 (UPI) -- Hmong Americans accused of plotting to overthrow the Laotian government seek dismissal of the case in California, court records indicate. 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. 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. 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. WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. combat troops will pull out of Iraq on time, Vice President Joe Biden said. |
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| Wednesday, May 26PROVIDENCE, 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. 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. 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. MORAG, Poland, May 26 (UPI) -- Stationing U.S. missiles on Polish soil will strengthen Poland's security, the country's defense minister says. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. DETROIT, May 26 (UPI) -- U.S. automobile engine supplier Ricardo Inc. said it has developed a new engine for unmanned aerial vehicles. 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. 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.< |