Bush meets with Republican leaders at White House

Vice President Dick Cheney listens as U.S. President George W. Bush speaks to the media after meeting with Bicameral Republican Leadership in the Oval Office of the White House on February 15, 2008. Bush chided the Democratic House leadership for not passing a bill dealing with aspects of wire tapping. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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Sentence appealed in official secrets case

NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A lawyer for a former senior police officer in the Philippines asked a U.S. appeals court in New Jersey Friday to reduce his six-year sentence.

U.S. intel panel warns of coming national decline

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Now it's official -- sort of. The United States is in decline.

Lawyers seek to quash Cheney indictments

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Attorneys for U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney were in Texas Friday trying to quash indictments against Cheney alleging abuse in a federal detention center.

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Prosecutor in Cheney trial a no-show

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A prosecutor in Willacy County, Texas, failed to show up for a hearing regarding the indictments against U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, a judge says.

Cheney indicted in Texas case

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has been indicted in Texas, accused of aiding in the neglect of federal immigration inmates by contracting for-profit prisons.

National council vital to Obama's energy plan

A National Energy Council could be a key ingredient in the next administration's plan to wean the nation off Middle Eastern oil and mitigate climate change, experts say.

Cheneys give Bidens tour of new home

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, got a tour Thursday afternoon of their future home in Washington from its current occupants.

Civil war without SOFA, Barzani says

ERBIL, Iraq, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Iraq may descend into civil war if Baghdad and Washington cannot agree to the provisions of a bilateral Status of Forces Agreement, the Kurdish president said.

Obama will sign SOFA, pull U.S. troops from Iraq

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- When President Barack Obama takes the oath of office, he will seek to fulfill his campaign pledge to pull U.S. combat forces out of Iraq. The irony is, this will be an evolution rather than a revolution or U-turn in U.S. policy.