COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 11 (UPI) -- With the U.S. Senate will likely to vote on a bill to toughen gun controls, Americans should remember the effectiveness of government regulations has limits.
NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- The April 4 agitations of the breast-baring iconoclasts serve few Muslim feminists. Many of us are pro-women and pro-Islam and we insist on that fusion.
WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) -- Given the antics of Kim Jung Un, it is hard to know how serious or desperate the current situation on the Korean Peninsula is.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- On April 9 we mark Equal Pay Day, a time for spurring the modernization of the Equal Pay Act. But let's not stop there. Let's also attack the problems of low-paid work and volatile scheduling that hold back millions of female workers.
HERNDON, Va., April 9 (UPI) -- During his unannounced trip to Baghdad last month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to seek greater assistance in monitoring flights from Iran to Syria flying through Iraqi airspace.
WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. has lost the media war in Pakistan. Popular talk show hosts have already made up their minds that America is preparing a war against their country.
PARIS, April 8 (UPI) -- We live in the age of central bankers, and hope they know what they are doing.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- As the college test-prep industry buzzes with anticipation over the new exam, some tutors and college admissions counselors say there's a chance the decades' long trend in higher male math scores could intensify.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Labor Department announced the U.S. economy only created 88,000 jobs in March as many more adults quit looking for work than found jobs -- for many Americans, good job remain tough to find.
WASHINGTON, April 5 (UPI) -- If Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma then Ukraine must be even more so.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Tensions are rising between secular Tunisian women and political Islam. "There is no room for the opposition and women to participate in building the country we want," says one critic.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 4 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department to report Friday that the U.S. economy added 193,000 jobs in March. This is in line with the pace of recent months but hardly enough to lower unemployment down to acceptable levels.
LINCOLN, Calif., April 4 (UPI) -- Governors of Oregon and Washington asked for unprecedented "life-cycle impact" analysis of five export terminals and the cargo being transported through them.
NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- The 2003 Iranian Nobel Laureate said that the main obstacle for post-revolutionary Arab women is a "patriarchal culture" that imposes a false interpretation on Islam.
WASHINGTON, April 3 (UPI) -- Secret diplomacy is called for for the United States and Iran to reach a satisfactory point in diplomacy.