SENATOR JOSEPH LIEBERMAN

THE DALLES, Ore., March 3 (UPI) -- A global agency recently awarded the United States high marks for its energy policy but warned stronger action is needed to mitigate climate change and decrease foreign oil imports.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The Alfalfa Club, an exclusive group of about 200 rich and influential people, is to be headed by U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn.

WATCH HILL, R.I., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- H. Bradford Westerfield, a Yale political scientist whose courses attracted U.S. President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, has died. He was 79.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman said he had been assured by Pakistani officials that the country's nuclear weapons were safe from falling into extremists' hands.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has assured a European election observer team the Feb. 18 parliamentary elections would be free and fair, it was reported.

The success of post-Kyoto Protocol talks this December hinge on determining which countries must commit to limit greenhouse gas emissions and what the nature of those commitments should be, experts say.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. government report said the Federal Emergency Management Agency wasted about $30 million in 2006 maintaining disaster-relief trailers.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Lawmakers want the U.S. government to explain why a man infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis was allowed to repeatedly enter the country.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The Democratic-led U.S. Senate passed a non-binding resolution for U.S. President George Bush to declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Michael Jackson, the top deputy to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, announced Monday he would quit the department next month; an unexpected departure that has stoked congressional concerns about the turnover of senior officials at the department.