WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush plans changes next year in immigration policy to allow more foreign workers to enter the country legally and easily.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The Humane Society of the United States Wednesday is demanding Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman ban the processing of "downed farm animals" for food.
MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The severed heads of two men have been found in separate incidents in east Moscow, one in a bag saying "Happy New Year," the Moscow Times said Wednesday.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad called Wednesday for a Middle East region free of weapons of mass destruction.
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Operators of theme parks, hotels and restaurants in central Florida, one of the nation's most popular winter tourist destinations, are expecting a big year. The Orlando area's tourist economy, which includes Walt Disney World and Universal Studios, took
MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Armed agents and an international team of nuclear specialists have swooped into a shuttered Bulgarian reactor and recovered highly enriched uranium.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Foreign airline crews have emerged as a focus of U.S. intelligence agencies worried about terrorist attacks, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Suspect information that Iraq tried to get uranium from Africa was used by the White House to gain new support for using force against Iraq. The administration was so keen to garner new support it disregarded intelligence community warnings the informatio
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- President Bush will launch his re-election year by proposing the most sweeping changes in U.S. immigration policy in 18 years.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Santa Paula Memorial Hospital in southern California has closed and filed for bankruptcy, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The mistaken identification of a dead Oklahoma prison inmate led to the wrong family being notified. The family of Kevin B. Wyckoff, 23, was told he was dead but within hours of his funeral Monday he called home from the prison.
BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The former police officer charged with killing Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has refused to speak at his Belgrade trial, the BBC reported Wednesday.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- California's legislative analyst says the governor erred in ordering cities and counties be repaid for funds lost when he cut the vehicle license fee. Upon taking office last month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger revoked a $4 billion annual hike in the so-ca
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A former U.S. surgeon general has called for firing the head of a California medical school, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Charles Berlitz of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a well-known linguist and author of the book "The Bermuda Triangle, has died.
SURREY, England, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Holiday season traffic has resulted in a fatal car and bus crash in England that killed one person and injured 51 others, the Guardian reported Wednesday.
CLEARWATER, Fla., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A Clearwater, Fla., judge has delayed judgment on an appeal of a law passed by the Florida Legislature to save the life of Terri Schiavo.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The Bush administration has exempted Alaska's Tongass National Forest from a hard-fought rule that environmentalists hoped would block development.
NORFOLK, England, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Britain's royal family has been shaken by the violent killing of the queen's favorite corgi, Pharos, by Princess Anne's bull terrier, the London Sun said Wednes
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Recently gathered intelligence indicates al-Qaida is focusing outside U.S. cities on rural targets like power plants, dams and oil facilities in Alaska.
NAGOYA, Japan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Japanese police have detained a former banker who wanted to share a stock windfall by throwing cash from a Nagoya skyscraper, Mainichi reported Wednesday.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The Palestinian Authority canceled a meeting Wednesday with the Israelis to protest Israel's recent fatal raid into Gaza, Ha'aretz said.
Fans react and hold up signs as floats carrying the New York Giants rides down the Canyon of Heroes for the Giants victory ticker tape parade 2 days after the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI in New York City on February 7, 2012 . UPI /John Angelillo
