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WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush's decision to lift the ban on offshore oil drilling around the United States has a lot more merit than environmental groups and his Democratic opponents claim, but it is unlikely to last long beyond January, whoever wins the U.S. presidential election.
LONDON, March 28 (UPI) -- "If You Want Closure, Start with Your Legs" has garnered the Bookseller's Diagram award for the most peculiar book title of 2007, a British newspaper said.
WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- Indonesia was hit harder than any other country by December's deadly tsunami, and deserves sympathy and praise for its response to the crisis. But investors, li
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The White House announced Tuesday that the federal budget deficit for 2005 was projected to rise to $427 billion. That is $96 billion more than the confident pr
QUERETARO, Mexico, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- And so the United States comes to the midterm elections and President George W. Bush stands on trial, accused of presiding over a deteriorating economy. "Guilty!" scream the Democrats. He is, isn't he? Well, yes and no.
Al Gore, the Democrat presidential candidate defeated by George W. Bush in 2000, gave a speech on the U.S. economy Wednesday in Washington, D.C. in which he cannot be accused of sniping at Bush. The attack was more that of a primitive shotgun dispersing p
WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- King Canute of England a thousand years ago placed his throne on the seashore and told the incoming sea tide to turn back. It didn't listen to him.