BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 4 (UPI) --
At least 10 high-ranking officers in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps are reported to have died recently, apparently in violent circumstances.
But only two of the deaths have been made public, raising suspicions the officers may have been assassinated by Iran's enemies.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- There was disappointment, but no real surprise, that the annual meeting in Washington of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank failed to produce a comprehensive solution to the euro crisis.
Last month, the EEOC gave legal experts an opportunity to tell stories about archaic forms of work discrimination suffered by today's pregnant women and caregivers. Such complaints are jumping, and employers are well advised to learn the laws.
Olympia Snowe is bailing from her lonely GOP outpost and Republicans are trying to limit reproductive rights every which way they can. But Rita Henley Jensen is still mighty optimistic about women's prospects in November.
After the academic shelter of Title IX, sports women face a tough time in the pro world, where teams struggle for fans, revenue and coverage. Former WNBA star Kym Hampton wants more women and girls in the bleachers and stadiums.
Om Zied made her fame as a fierce, visionary critic of the now-deposed Ben Ali. Now she has shifted focus and is keeping tabs on the ruling Islamist party. Second of three profiles of women playing active roles in post-revolutionary Tunisia.
Practical advice on hiring women to the high-paying jobs in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) is offered in a 50-page study released today by the Anita Borg Institute. Women are 24 percent of the STEM work force.
Young women facing cancer treatments have fertility-preservation options to consider. Egg freezing is a newer technique, and expensive, but some programs are free of charge. Embryo freezing is more advanced but requires legal safeguards.
Abortion providers in Virginia are under orders to make onerous architectural changes to their facilities under a politicized regulation process. Katherine Greenier says there's still time to save these facilities and act in the interests of women's health.
Justice for survivors of campus rape is often weakened by administrators leery of attracting negative press. The Campus Accountability Project confronts this with an online, free, searchable database compiled by students that shows how well a school responds.
Women who suffer drug addictions often experience other disorders, such as mental illness or childhood trauma. Few treatment programs address all their needs, but a holistic drug-court program in California shows how it can be done.
A new, not-for-Valentine's Day book offers another tired warning about the anti-erotic effects of ambitious women. Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett describe how it follows a long line of related titles and discredited ideas that just won't go away.
Live Iowa caucus results featuring Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann.
SOPA is now no more, at least in its current form. Sponsoring Rep. Lamar Smith has pulled the bill from consideration, effectively killing the legislation.
"I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic such as this," Newt Gingrich said to CNN moderator John King in the opening of the final South Carolina debate, and the crowd went wild. King's question on Gingrich's "open marriage" ended up opening a can of worms.
After conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called a Georgetown law student a "slut" for testifying in favor of birth control at a Congressional panel, the public outcry was immediate. With Sleep Train Mattress pulling their advertisements from his show, pressure is mounting on others to follow.
As the results trickle in from the primaries and caucuses, pundits, journalists and Americans took to their social networks of choice to join the chatter about the races in their home states and beyond on the pivotal Super Tuesday with over 400 delegates up for grabs.
BERLIN, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Steep drops in GDP in Europe could follow a possible breakup of the eurozone and that could set off economic problems around the world.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A major diplomatic storm is forecast over the next two weeks on the Palestinians demand for world recognition of an independent state.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- The essence of the economic crisis is becoming clear. It is less an event than a transition and we won't be getting back to "normal," not ever.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- A prominent former Saudi spy chief says it’s time to declare victory in Afghanistan – and get out.
PARIS, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- The tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 has overshadowed that other anniversary on September 3, the outbreak of World War Two, when Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Are the anti-Gadhafi forces under NATO’s umbrella infiltrated by al-Qaida terrorists unknown to NATO intelligence? Preposterous, you say? Look again.
LONDON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Conspicuous by its absence is U.S. leadership in a new world disorder.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Budgetary profligacy and political dysfunction plague both sides of the Atlantic as Black Swans swarm the Middle East.
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