WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Bush administration says it is legally free to give taxpayer funds to religious groups that discriminate against non-believers in their hiring.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Bush administration and local officials are locked in an ideological struggle over how best to relieve airport congestion in New York, observers say.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Heading into its final months, the U.S. Bush administration is moving to institutionalize controversial aspects of its "war on terror," political observers say.

BAGHDAD, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Iraqi government denied local media reports that three men working for the Interior Ministry arrested as insurgents were Iranian citizens.

JERUSALEM, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered that new settlement construction on contested land must be cleared by him personally.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet is proposing a massive pardon for prisoners not considered a risk to national security.

WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Bush administration is supporting a bill to cap the portfolios of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the big mortgage lenders.

CARACAS, Venezuela, May 18 (UPI) -- Venezuela and Russia formalized their arms deals by signing a contract for Venezuela to purchase 100,000 Russian assault rifles.

WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- To the dismay of the U.S. Bush administration, Pakistan and China have agreed to co-produce a new JF-17 fighter aircraft