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WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- The dark side of the financial moon is the U.S. Treasury that says financial institutions file more than 15 million “suspicious activity reports” every year.
WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- If federal agencies would place a greater emphasis on promoting compliance we would see enormous improvements to a regulatory system and the nation’s economy.
Media portrayal of black woman the real 'Scandal'
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Lawyer Angeli Rasbury pleads her case for why viewers should question the love choices of the TV show's lead character, Olivia Pope, and the negative messages they reinforce about relationships and sexuality when it comes to race.
Ryan's untenable Medicare, Medicaid solutions torpedo GOP
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 14 (UPI) -- Republicans are losing U.S. elections they could win by slavishly clinging to untenable solutions for skyrocketing federal healthcare costs that voters reject.
LONDON, March 14 (UPI) -- The international community should act to prevent a catastrophe and ensure that the story of the residents of Camp Liberty in Iraq does not go down as tragedy.
WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- As U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration begin a second term, they face powerfully transformed political landscapes at home and abroad.
Activists connect choice to reproductive justice
{WOMENSENEWS}-- As the battle to preserve reproductive freedom heats up, abortion-rights advocates are increasingly embracing the quest for "reproductive justice." Younger activists predict 2013 will be the year "choice" fades out.
HERNDON, Va., March 12 (UPI) -- The next leader of Venezuela will have to deal with the issues created by the presidency of Hugo Chavez.
Mayhem rules for Filipina mom in shanty baby boom
QUEZON CITY, Philippines {WOMENSENEWS}-- Catholic opposition has kept a Philippines birth-control law passed in 2012 from reaching the women in shanties, where the birth rate is booming. Our reporter visits a woman who wanted three children and wound up with eight, aged 2 to 21.
BRUSSELS, March 11 (UPI) -- Maybe the British aren't quite as isolated when to comes to the European Union as the conventional wisdom in Brussels likes to think.
Time to honor heroism of South African women
SOWETO, South Africa {WOMENSENEWS}-- Charlotte Maxeke, Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph are some of the leaders extolled in a small exhibit at the Apartheid Museum that pays rare tribute to those who fought pass cards. Current-day leaders, meanwhile, are battling HIV, violence and fear.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 8 (UPI) -- Economists expect U.S. gross domestic product growth to rebound and moderate jobs creation to continue.
UNITED NATIONS {WOMENSENEWS}-- Traditional leaders adjudicate household violence and land inheritance for the majority of rural women in the developing world. Increasingly, human rights activists want them to give women a better shake.
WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- The author says the International Court of Justice should be move from The Hague since Dutch authorities refuse to follow rule of law regarding Joris Demmink
WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- It is time for the United States to fight back in the Iranian information wars against Tehran's dissidents.
Stronger growth needed to sustain a bull market
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 6 (UPI) -- Stocks may have a long way yet to run but much stronger U.S. economic growth is needed to drive profits higher and sustain a bull market.
The Y2K Sequester?
WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- On the sequester it is likely both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue will continue to play chicken. The nation will suffer. If that happens, it will be a calamity.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- The men who gather in Boston on March 7 are doing the right thing. But we can't stop the violence against women unless we get all those male bystanders to start jumping in.
HERNDON, Va., March 5 (UPI) -- P5+1 negotiators seem giddy over claims by Iran that the parties may have reached a "turning point" in the effort to resolve Tehran's nuclear issue.
Calls for help show Northern Ireland getting safer
DUBLIN, Ireland {WOMENSENEWS}-- As the Anglo-Irish troubles recede in Northern Ireland, some safety advocates say police have more time for doing something about domestic violence. Police calls spiked in the first half of 2102, according to a recent report.
WASHINGTON, March 4 (UPI) -- Unless Kenyan has an authentic electoral process, discontent will threatens stability and undermines economic progress with implications far beyond Africa.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 4 (UPI) -- Democrats and Republicans embrace demagoguery and refuse to address facts and acknowledge lessons of history to address the U.S. economic problems.
ZURICH, Switzerland, March 4 (UPI) -- Two overwhelming facts about women today are that the world is facing a remarkable shortage of females and that they are becoming the better-educated gender.
Military equality, in her view, includes the draft
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Now that women are allowed to serve in combat roles, Kristen Tsetsi thinks it's logical that women also be required to register for Selective Service just like men; and face the same consequences if they don't.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Sequestration, or confiscating something of value, gave pause to reassess a U.S. defense budget that is now 46 percent of the entire world’s defense spending.
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Sarah Jessica Parker arrives on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Benefit for the "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 6, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo