As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these law...
Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City just after midnight on Thursday, marking a historic moment with a low-key swearing-in ceremony held deep beneath Manhattan. The Democrat, who at 34 is the ...
$15 minimum wage signs outside the Capitol Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Minimum wage increased in 19 states on January 1, affecting over 8 million workers. Washington, D.C., leads wit...
US administration has other ways to hit trading partners with duties...
There have been angry protests across the country against economic hardships....
The death toll for Venezuelan security officials comes after Cuba’s government on Sunday announced that 32 Cuban military and police officers working in Venezuela had also been killed....
The South Korean Supreme Court confirmed that Bitcoin stored on crypto exchanges can be seized under criminal law, rejecting an appeal....
Above certain altitudes, it is a legal requirement to go up the volcano with a qualified guide....
A recent Israeli decision to bar Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups means international staff and aid can no longer enter Gaza or the West Bank. Local staff must rely on dwindling supplies a...
Despite record spending on military, the frontline country has invested little in civilian protection...
Chief executive Darren Woods pushes back against president’s call to rush back into troubled country...
US president attacks oil major’s chief executive over his scepticism about investing in South American country...
US capture of strongman Nicolás Maduro lifts hopes that country will make good on some debt...
US president has been pressuring the country for almost a decade with sanctions and military manoeuvres...
Rallies over collapse in living standards rattle authorities in country with history of cracking down on demonstrators...
Beijing has condemned Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te’s New Year’s Day speech, in which he vowed to boost the island’s defences, as full of “lies, falsehoods, hostility and malice” and an attemp...
Polls have opened for parliamentary elections in the West African country, despite allegations of repression for opposition parties....
Maduro's lawyers are expected to contest the legality of his arrest, arguing that he is immune from prosecution as a sovereign head of state....
Israel has become the world's first country to recognize Somaliland, which proclaimed independence from Somalia in 1991, as a sovereign nation....
Yemen's Saudi-backed presidential council canceled a defense pact with the UAE and asked its forces to leave the country within 24 hours....