KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- When Viktor Yanukovych was elected president a lot of Ukrainians hoped that he had become more democratically minded. They were completely wrong.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Russia's ploy to defuse the Syrian crisis will likely end in an embarrassment for U.S. President Barack Obama and diminish already declining U.S. prestige.
Have all nonviolent alternatives been exhausted in accomplishing the president’s goal of responding to the brutal crimes of the Assad regime while averting a new regional (potentially global) war?
DUSSELDORF, Germany, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The Group of 20 summit should have secured three achievements, which had been thoroughly discussed in advance and which had nothing to do with Syria.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- More U.S. job creation require trimming back on tax increases and spending cuts and more realistic and less-ideological trade, energy and regulatory policies.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Time is running out for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would be the world's biggest trade deal, to be clinched on time.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- What has been described as a "trade war" between Ukraine and Russia has overshadowed two more important factors that have more important long-term strategic implications for the U.S.-Russian-Ukrainian strategic triangle.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department to report the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate remained steady at 7.4 percent.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's vacillation on Syria -- delaying military action and booting the decision to Congress -- poses grave threats to U.S. prosperity.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" offers a relevant insight into how to respond -- or not -- to chemical weapons attacks in Syria that claimed 1,500 lives.
PARIS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Prime Minister David Cameron refuses to show personal humiliation and political castration after his defeat in Parliament regarding military action in Syria.
HERNDON, Va., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A 5-year-old Saudi girl may prove to wield more influence over her people than the country's religious leaders touting twisted "virtues" of Islam.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The predictable consequence of the West's failure to take action in Syria manifested itself Saturday night in the brutal massacre of unarmed civilians in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. gross domestic product growth was revised up for the second quarter to 2.5 percent from 1.7 percent because the trade deficit was much smaller than originally estimated and investments in inventory were revised upward.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Insanity has been described as constantly repeating the same mistake and expecting a different outcome. That characterization sadly applies to U.S. attitudes and policies toward much of what is happening in Egypt and the Arab and Islamic worlds.
PARIS, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Not since Mikhail Gorbachev began speaking of 'Glasnost' and 'Perestroika' has there been such a ferment among policy intellectuals.
HERNDON, Va., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- If more Richard Kinkaids and fewer Al Gores were involved, the United States' national security interests might prevail.
PARIS, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- This is eerie. Everything has suddenly gone upside down in the global economy. Europe is growing and China is slowing. Emergent markets are faltering and mature ones are suddenly looking perky. The United States is about to become the world's top oil and gas producer.
United States Team member Tiger Woods (L) kisses girlfriend Lindsey Vonn on the 18th green after he and teammate Matt Kuchar defeated International Team members Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and Adam Scott of Australia 1-up during the third round four-ball competition at the 2013 Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio on October 5, 2013. UPI/Brian Kersey
