TOKYO, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Japan in 1965 reportedly urged the United States to retaliate with its nuclear weapons in the event it suffered a nuclear attack.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A mysterious burning smell prompted a JetBlue airliner into an emergency landing Thursday in West Palm Beach, Fla., officials say.

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, April 8, 2008.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The personal freedom issue concerning motorcycle helmets should be balanced against the cost to society for catastrophic head injury, a U.S. doctor said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Underlying the $4 billion U.S. reconnaissance satellite fiasco lie deeper, uncomfortable truths almost never alluded to, let alone understood, by politicians of either major American political party: U.S. leaders and policymakers do not understand the science and technology available to them and have blind, childish, even magical faith in what it can do without beginning to understand how it really does work.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The regular forces of the U.S. Army are the Cinderella service of the U.S. armed forces. They are, as they have been so many times and so often before, the Rodney Dangerfield of Capitol Hill and the Department of Defense: They don't get enough respect.

MADISON, Wis., June 27 (UPI) -- A libertarian law firm is challenging a Depression-era Wisconsin law that bars gas stations from offering discounts.

UPI almanac for Sunday, April 8, 2007.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is on his way to surpassing Robert McNamara as the longest-serving U.S. secretary of Defense.