LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The dog days of August proved to be relatively mild this summer, giving the United States an opportunity to bolster its supply of natural gas before the first c
DALLAS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Dallas is joining other major U.S. cities in attacking the homeless problem with a new strategy designed to better meet their needs and eventually get them off the streets.
This week Mayor Laura Miller named Tom Dunning, a prominent Dallas businessman,
U.S. stocks down in pre-holiday session ... Pre-holiday trading quiet on NYMEX ... U.S. gas averages 12 cents over last year ... Outlook predicts modest hiring through '05 ... News from United Press International.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes closed lower in light trading heading into the Labor Day holiday weekend Friday despite an upbeat August payrolls report.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will next Thursday talk to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the violence in Darfur, Sudan, and is likely to discuss the nature of the attacks by the Arab government and its militia against black populations
NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Were the Bush campaign to have resurrected the banner that flew behind Bush during his speech from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, it would have been very appropriate.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Contrasting the Republican and Democratic conventions -- two gatherings that were anchored in events that shaped the country. The Republicans recalled President Bush's actions immediate after Sept. 11, 2001; while the Democrats used Sen. John Kerry's Viet
MIAMI, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Hurricane Frances weakened to 115 mph Friday as it teased Floridians worried about when and where it would hit on the state's east coast.
CHICAGO, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Voters in swing states can get used to virtual non-stop campaigning by President George W. Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry now that both parties have held their quadrennial political conventions.
Bush went straight to Scranton, Penn., from New York
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Almost before the balloons hit the floor at Madison Square Garden Thursday, John Kerry launched a string of increasingly pointed attacks on Bush's political record, backed by a flurry of targeted television ads.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush's speech to the Republican National Convention will probably convince none of his many ardent critics, but it did not have to. He fired
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Over 100 foreign diplomats attending the Republican Convention in New York this week were given background briefings by former President George H.W. Bush and fo
NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Napster To Go, giving the music fan on the move a way to listen to rented tunes on a portable device, is expected this fall.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The government of the Philippines had asked local oil companies to halt further price increases in petroleum products at the pump. Press Secretary and President
CALCUTTA, India, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- In a bid to catch up with China for a larger share of the global trade, India's new government unveiled its new government's first foreign trade policy earlier
BRUSSELS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- On Aug. 31, 1944, as Allied troops were streaming north through France, the Nazis' chief commander in Belgium issued a tragic-comic proclamation stating: "The d
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Northwest Airlines has pulled the plug on a controversial ticket-booking fee for travel agents, but held onto two new consumer charges.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. gasoline prices are a little lower this holiday weekend than last weekend, but pump prices Friday were well above last Labor Day.
SADR CITY, Iraq, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- This poor slum of 2 million people just northwest of Baghdad might be tipping point in an election expected to be held in January.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Credit rater Standard & Poor's said Friday it will stop corporate credit and senior secured debt ratings on Troy, Mich.-based Oxford Automotive.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Amid delegate hoopla and scripted rhetoric at the Republican National Convention some events stood out from the mundane. Here are a few:
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- South Korean officials are concerned that their admission of uranium production may upset U.S.-led international efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weap
