Hate self-checkouts? Good news if you live in a deep blue state, where lawmakers are voting on rules to rein in the machines.

Parliament on Tuesday (12 August) passed the Income Tax Bill 2025, replacing the six-decade-old Income Tax Act, 1961, with effect from 1 April 2026. The new bill addresses confusion over the taxation ...

Beer, wine and liquor are getting mixed into a dispute at the California State Capitol between grocers and labor groups over self-checkout stations.

Rep. Josh Riley is taking aim at what he calls “self-dealing in Congress” with a new bipartisan bill that would ban lawmakers ...

Sen. Lee is pressing for a vote on his bill that would place the district completely under federal control — and has even suggested returning some of D.C.’s land back to Maryland.

An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of ...

Piles of untouched Happy Meals littered sidewalks outside McDonald’s restaurants in Japan over the weekend, as frenzied ...

Go to any city council meeting. Any school board. Any statehouse. Watch as public officials hesitate before answering a ...

On August 1, 2025, the state of Bihar rolled out one of its most ambitious welfare measures in recent years: 125 units of ...

Some people enter politics to do good, others to do well. The difference is more than semantic. The do-gooders care about ...

A pending bill would direct the State Police to develop a policy for employees involved in incidents causing the serious physical injury or death of others.

Over the week my mother was dying, I listened to Boy George’s second solo album, Tense Nervous Headache, every night after coming home from the hospital. Locked in my bathroom, sitting on the floor, ...