VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 16 (UPI) -- A Canadian study finds people with a family history of genetic disease are at risk of discrimination from insurance companies and even relatives and friends.

WASHINGTON, April 20 (UPI) -- U.S. interrogators used waterboarding 183 times in a month on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has said he planned the 2001 terror attack, federal records indicate.

WASHINGTON, April 19 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has compromised the nation's security by releasing four terror memos from the Bush administration, a former CIA chief said Sunday.

WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- The CIA destroyed 92 videotapes showing interrogation of terror suspects using water-boarding and other "enhanced techniques" that critics say amount to torture -- a far greater number than previously known -- according to court documents.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama signed executive orders Thursday to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison and to effectively ban the use of torture.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Officials said airstrikes against terrorist suspects in Pakistan's tribal region have become more precise, reducing strained U.S.-Pakistan relations.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Departing CIA Director Michael Hayden defended harsh interrogation techniques some groups call torture, saying the methods produced results.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Intelligence outsiders like Leon Panetta, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to be director of central intelligence, have a mixed record at heading the agency, serving and former officials say.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has picked another vastly experienced Washington insider to run the $60 billion a year U.S. intelligence community, but in choosing former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, he has uncharacteristically gambled big on an outsider with no direct experience of working in intelligence. This could prove disastrous.