NASHVILLE, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. conservative evangelical Christian vote is still the Republican Party's to lose, but the poor economy may be peeling some of them off, analysts say.
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie said she frequently thought about her late mother while playing a woman whose son disappears in "Changeling."
TEHRAN, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. Falcon jet was forced to land in Iran Tuesday after it violated the country's airspace, government officials in Tehran said.
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes turned up Tuesday morning after the Federal Reserve said it would begin to purchase asset-backed and unsecured short-term debt.
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. study using fruit flies has become the first to show in animals that losing just the end of a chromosome can lead to abnormalities, including cancer.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Retail sales in the United States rose slightly in the week ending Oct. 4, the International Council of Shopping Centers-USB reported Tuesday.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A convicted child sex offender in Alberta was arrested for the weekend abduction of a 7-year-old girl in Edmonton, police said.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Discreet negotiations between Israel and the Netherlands allowed a former chief of Israel's security agency to avoid arrest on torture charges, sources say.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Anne Hathaway has agreed to play the White Queen in Tim Burton's new big-screen version of "Alice in Wonderland."
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- David Duchovny's lawyer said the U.S. film and television actor has left the rehabilitation facility where he spent two months being treated for sex addiction.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Two companies pursuing North Carolina's struggling Wachovia Corp. agreed to try to settle the deal out of court, the companies said.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A murder suspect who escaped a Manitoba prison apparently had an accomplice on the outside, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Swedish authorities say they have filed blackmail charges against an engineer who allegedly tried to coerce $2.3 million from Saab Microwave Systems.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. beach volleyball Olympic champion Misty May-Treanor said she needs surgery after injuring herself while rehearsing for "Dancing with the Stars."
NASHVILLE, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Healthcare reform advocates say they're hoping the major-party U.S. presidential nominees will start talking more about insurance and cost issues.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The author of a best-selling book critical of Barack Obama was detained Tuesday by immigration officials in Kenya while on a publicity tour for his book.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve said it is considering a plan to buy unsecured short-term debt to keep a crawling flow of credit moving.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Racial backlash against Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama could make a difference if the election is close in November, analysts say.
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices gained early Tuesday to more than $91 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange as an apparent safer investment than tumbling stocks.