WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- Faced with growing pressure to decrease gas prices, U.S. senators voted to stop stockpiling oil in the national reserve yesterday, but they rejected a plan to increase domestic production.

WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- The rocketing price for a barrel of crude oil underscores the need for the United States to become less dependent on foreign oil, the White House said Monday.

WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI will visit with U.S. President George Bush in Washington next week, but won't be attending the dinner given in his honor.

WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- Presidential candidates may say they'd boycott the Beijing Summer Olympics, but U.S. President Bush hasn't changed his plans, the White House said Friday.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The United States Friday urged Turkey to limit the breadth of its ground incursion into northern Iraq and to to end its cross-border raids quickly.

As oil prices skyrocket, some policymakers want to halt efforts to increase the nation's emergency oil reserve, but the administration says energy security depends on the stockpile's size.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush plans to veto a defense authorization bill passed by Congress because it would freeze Iraqi assets while victims of Saddam Hussein sue.

WACO, Texas, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday signed the omnibus spending bill, but chastised Congress for including $10 billion in earmarks in the measure.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- President George Bush took time Saturday to call Sen. Larry Craig after the Idaho Republican's resignation over airport men's room sexual advance allegations.