WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Treasury Department says it will hold to its practice of confidentiality regarding the names of banks rejected for a government bailout program.

LONDON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- The British pound has fallen to its lowest level relative to the U.S. dollar since 1985 in the wake of statistics showing a shrinking economy, observers said.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists studying Henry David Thoreau's journals have found plant families near Walden Pond have reacted in markedly different ways to global warning.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- GOP leaders say they are searching for ways to stop the bleeding after three losses in special elections for U.S. House of Representatives seats.

BOSTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The family of some of the world's largest and oddest flowers -- the carrion-smelling, blood red rafflesias -- may have been found, U.S. scientists said.

FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas, factory is gearing up for the inaugural flight of its first all-new plane produced in more than three decades.

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ALBUQUERQUE, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- An Albuquerque Bush supporter resorted to lights, video cameras, chicken wire and a chain-link fence to protect his 8-foot-tall Bush-Cheney '04 lawn sign.

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