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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Inspector Sopko is slowly but surely unraveling the biggest scandal of the decade -- U.S. aid to Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- In the post-Soviet area, policy independence and genuine sovereignty usually require reduced Russian influence. The way to achieve that is to beat Russia at its own game.
Let's inaugurate a term of energy realism
HOUSTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- In his second inaugural address, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that he's putting climate change at the top of his policy agenda. And with the State of the Union just days away, it's likely that the same lofty rhetoric will feature prominently.
The trials of Chuck Hagel
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- What former Sen. Chuck Hagel needs to do before the Senate Armed Services Committee votes on his nomination as secretary of defense.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department is accusing Standard and Poor's of defrauding investors with optimistic ratings of mortgage backed securities and derivatives prior to the financial crisis.
HERNDON, Va., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Recent revelations of statements made years ago by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi leave him between a rock and a hard place.
PARIS, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Currency markets overreact, which explains some of the wide swings in relative currency values in recent years.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. economy added 157,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate rose to 7.9 percent as the economy slowed in the fourth quarter.
Commentary: Global snafu
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Former Secretary of State and Labor Secretary George Shultz shares his view of the current world situation.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Commerce Department reported gross domestic product fell 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter 2012.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. politics are in a dangerous downwards spiral. And no one is at the controls.
Outside View" Not understanding 'What's Going On' in Iran, Obama croons 'War Is Not the Answer'
HERNDON, Va., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama used the words "peace in our time" at his inauguration. Will those words ring as hollow as when Neville Chamberlain used them?
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Wall Street anxiously anticipates the return of the individual investors to equity markets. It may be a long wait because the little guy may have concluded stocks are a sucker's bet.
PARIS, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The pledge by Prime Minister David Cameron of a referendum on Britain's continued membership of the European Union has brought a wide range of reactions.
Commentary: Hobbesian (not Hobson's) trap
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The Middle East’s kaleidoscope was shaken vigorously over the year-end festivities but the new shapes and colors were eerily reminiscent of last year. But more alarming.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Somalia has had perhaps the most turbulent statehood in modern history but perhaps that is turning into an era of peaceful leadership.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- The author says America's Energy Advantage's call for restrict in free trade for liquefied natural gas would hamper U.S. economic growth.
Sensible policies to address climate change
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Putting the U.S. economy in a straightjacket -- as many of President Obama's supporters in the environmental community advocate -- would hasten the pace of climate change.
UK budget puts women in a squeeze
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Critics say the U.K. budget will plunge thousands more women and children into poverty by limiting benefit increases and tax breaks. A nurse with two children and no co-earner would lose the equivalent of a month’s rent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Can NATO RIP be made to mean "Rejuvenation, Insurance and Protection"?
Online games get players out of Steubenville
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Some background voices in the otherwise notoriously cruel Steubenville, Ohio, rape video sound disturbed but also powerless. A new simulation computer game lets students practice active response to sex abuse and avoid being a passive bystander.
What Obama can learn from Saddam Hussein
HERNDON, Va., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Having met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to work out the mission for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama could learn a lesson from Saddam Hussein.
ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- British Premier David Cameron set himself an almost impossible task when he sought to explain his policy on the European Union.
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Orb wins the 139th Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky
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Kentucky Derby winning jockey Joel Rosario, and his mount Orb, both enjoy a quick bath after winning the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, May 4, 2013. UPI/Mark Abraham