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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. universities charge too much, deliver too little and channel too many students into a lifetime of debt. Genuine reform must be brought to bear to curb those abuses.
BRICK, N.J., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The word from Libyan journalists in Benghazi is that the attack on the U.S. consulate was carried out, not by terrorists, but by remaining elements of Moammar Gadhafi supporters. Libyan Deputy Interior Minister Wanis al-Sharif has publically claimed that the attack was carried out by pro-Gadhafi elements.
HERNDON, Va., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Has political correctness encroached on the trial of U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings?
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- What does it mean when Bashar Assad's regime bombs the Yarmouk -- Syria's largest Palestinian refugee neighborhood? Driving dozens of formerly pro-government Palestinian fighters to defect and join the rebels. All of this begs a closer look at the Palestinians in Syria.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department on Friday to report the economy added 155,000 jobs in December -- substantially less than is needed to pull unemployment down to acceptable levels.
HERNDON, Va., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Usually tight-lipped about targeted assassinations, Israel recently has gone public. Why the sudden openness? The answer may -- or may not -- lie buried in a tomb in the West Bank.
A trader wears a DOW 15,000 hat on the floor of the NYSE before the closing bell on Wall Street In New York City on May 7, 2013. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15,000 for the first time in history. UPI/John Angelillo
