COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 5 (UPI) -- The Internal Revenue Service is dangerous to civil liberties, irrevocably broken and corrupting national politicians.
WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- July Fourth, marks the United States' Independence Day. The central celebrated document, the Declaration of Independence, that rejected British rule, was the masterpiece of democratic expression written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (WOMENSENEWS)-- Women have often been the face of anti-government protests taking place in Turkey over the past month. Clues to gender tensions come from headlines about a rape case involving police, government condemnation of abortion and more women in the work force.
NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)-- New York lawmakers just blocked Gov. Cuomo's efforts to make the state a beacon of women's equality. But they did agree to recognize the historic importance of the suffrage wagon, which started rolling 100 years ago today.
LONDON, July 1 (UPI) -- Something very remarkable is taking place in Britain, a policy revolution in which three years of austerity are now to be balanced by the government's new announcement of a dramatic $150 billion surge in infrastructure spending.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (WOMENSENEWS)-- A 14-year-old in Gaza Strip does not like the new rules that segregate her schooling from that of boys. She has plenty of company. But Hamas, which wants to impose Sharia, shows no sign of slowing down its drive to impose socially conservative regulations.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 28 (UPI) -- U.S. gross domestic product growth was revised downward for the first quarter from 2.4 to 1.8 percent because consumer spending, business investment and exports grew less than previously estimated.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's Climate Action Plan won't do much to curb global warming but it will please liberals who delight in extending government control over large segments of the economy.
(WOMENSENEWS)-- If a public school is trying to sell you--the parent--on curricula based on sex differences between boys and girls, watch out. The main criteria for choosing a school should be its overall quality measured by teaching, resources and class size.
(WOMENSENEWS)-- A 21-year-old magazine editor in Australia joins a movement against women's magazines that publish digitally altered images of super-thin models. Critics say these publications are literally sickening for young women vulnerable to eating disorders.
PARIS, June 24 (UPI) -- It is starting to look as though France might be the country to watch this fall as the next phase of the European crisis unfolds.
(WOMENSENEWS)-- That's because he didn't face any. In this interview, Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi explains how Iranian women keep registering as presidential candidates to protest the Guardian Council's decision to disqualify women for not meeting its definition of "rejal."
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- Using a baseball metaphor, in the field of national security, when the United States comes to bat, it often starts with 2 1/2 strikes against it.
BRUSSELS, June 19 (UPI) -- The most recent terrorist attack on June 15, which left two dead and more than 70 people wounded, proved once more that the most urgent question now is the security and safety of the 3,100 people of the Iranian opposition People's Mujahedin of Iran trapped in Camp Liberty.
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (WOMENSENEWS)-- An offensive comment by the mayor of Osaka has brought the issue of comfort women back to the surface. A survivors' group in the Philippines keeps the women's stories alive and is planning a rally to coincide with President Aquino's State of the Nation address.
HERNDON, Va., June 18 (UPI) -- The author argues that advanced weaponry should be used to convince Iran to stop develop of its nuclear weapons program.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 18 (UPI) -- Americans can expect mortgage rates to climb, selling homes to get tougher and interest rates to increase on credit cards, auto purchases and home equity loans.
PARIS, June 17 (UPI) -- Diplomacy has a language all its own but one of the most useful words is 'fudge' and it means that some creative language was used to keep the show on the road.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 17 (UPI) -- Wall Street is cooking up another crisis -- making shoddy loans and selling worthless securities to investors hungry for higher yields than certificates of deposit and government bonds offer.
(WOMENSENEWS)-- "Father knows best" is long gone. But in an era of shifting gender roles, the maternalization of child care doesn't make sense either. For Father's Day, let's celebrate the complementary role that both parents play, with separate but equally fine styles.
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney arrive on the red carpet at the New York Premiere of Gravity at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City on October 1, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo
