WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The White House said Friday the government shutdown is harming the Treasury Department's ability to administrate sanctions against Iran.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Witnesses said a man doused himself with fuel and set himself on fire Friday at the National Mall in Washington.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is taking an active role behind the scenes in resolving the federal government shutdown, Roll Call reported.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterparts from Australia and Japan expressed "concern" over Iran's nuclear program, the State Department said.
YORK, Pa., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Three Pennsylvania corrections officers who have been accused of organizing inmate fights have been suspended pending an investigation.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett predicts Congress won't resort to "extreme idiocy" and will vote to extend the federal debt ceiling.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Ohio can now use compounding pharmacies as a source of execution drugs, corrections officials said Friday.
CHICAGO, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A body found in a wooded area near Chicago is believed to be that of a man who disappeared last month on his way home from work, authorities said Friday.
ANAHEIM, Calif., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A California high school has apologized for forcing a 16-year-old student to remove a National Rifle Association T-shirt.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said Friday he was not trying to be offensive when he compared gay marriage to marriage between a brother and sister.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- President Obama, during a walk from the White House to a Washington sandwich shop, said a House budget vote is the "only way" to end the government shutdown.
MINEOLA, N.Y., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A New York state woman who admitted drowning her three children in a bathtub has asked a judge for a portion of her dead children's $350,000 estate.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Two top Senate Republicans openly discussed their party's government shutdown strategy in a conversation at the U.S. Capitol, picked up by a live microphone.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Herman Wallace, who spent four decades in solitary in a Louisiana prison for a crime he denied committing, died two days after his release, friends said Friday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Miriam Carey, the woman shot dead after a high-speed chase through Washington, had anti-psychotic medications in her home, investigators said Friday.
