WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- The United States has agreed to resettle 1,350 Palestinians living in camps in the border region between Syria and Iraq, a State Department spokesman says.

U.S. retailers were scrambling Friday to process news U.S regulators deemed CIT Group too wobbly to help.

LOS ANGELES, July 17 (UPI) -- Vitamin D and turmeric spice might help stimulate the immune system to clear the brain of plaques linked to Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said.

VIENNA, July 13 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say having post-traumatic stress disorder nearly doubled the risk of dementia in veterans.

SAN DIEGO, July 13 (UPI) -- Risky sex by male clients of sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico, heightens human immunodeficiency virus transmission, U.S. and Mexican researchers say.

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department's crackdown on animal rights protesters is facing a court challenge over its constitutionality, observers say.

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 16 (UPI) -- California Sea Grant researchers say they've determined Northern California septic tanks are leaking nitrogen and phosphate into Pacific coastal waters.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Gifts to U.S. colleges and universities reached a record $31.6 billion, with a handful of well-heeled institutions benefiting most, an education report said.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine lists Purdue University as the top choice of recruiters from U.S. aerospace and defense industries.