Search Results for: 2016-01-06

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday called for nine new amendments to the US Constitution in an effort to shrink the size of the federal government. Speaking at a political event in Austin, Texas,...

US President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would have repealed his signature health care law. The president explained that the proposed bill "would not only repeal parts of the Affordable Care...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Chinese authorities to release 38 lawyers and activists associated with the Beijing Fengrui Law Firm who have been held in "designated residential surveillance" since July. Designated Residential...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced executive actions on gun control . The plan would require those in the business of selling firearms, including those selling firearms at gun shows, to be licensed...

Three book authors and their advocacy organization, the Authors Guild , challenged Google's massive book-copying and search project before the US Supreme Court . The petition alleges that Google, in cooperation with various university libraries, took essentially...

US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law. The new measures hand much of the power over education success monitoring back to the states and allow them to make the...

Members of the US House of Representatives approved a bill to give much responsibility of improving public schools back to the states. The Student Success Act would revise the controversial 2001 No Child...

The Dutch Council of State on Wednesday ordered more cuts in gas production. The court came to this decision after stronger and more frequent earthquakes occurred in the Netherlands...

The US Senate on Tuesday approved the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (NDAA ), which is expected to be signed by President Barack Obama despite further delaying the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Section...

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Friday that voter-approved initiative 1240 , which allowed 40 charter schools across the state, is unconstitutional. The court determined that the schools cannot receive public funding because the state superintendent has...