House approves bill to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving to stem a vaping epidemic among young people, the House has approved a bill to ban the sale of ...
House makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legis...
Dems thwart Senate Republicans on 2 abortion-related bills
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a pair of Republican bills that would ban most late-term abortions...
Girl, 11, brings AR-15 to Idaho hearing on gun legislation
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An 11-year-old girl toting a loaded AR-15 assault weapon appeared Monday at a legislative hearing wi...
GOP lawmakers walk out after Oregon climate bill advances
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Republican senators slipped out of the Oregon State Capitol on Monday, preventing the state Senate fr...
Virginia a key state in Bloomberg’s Super Tuesday strategy
RICHMOND, Va. — If there is a state where Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg could expect a return on investment, it is Virginia.
NCAA’s Emmert presses Senate for ‘guardrails’ on athlete pay
WASHINGTON — NCAA President Mark Emmert urged Congress to step in and put restrictions on college athletes' ability to earn money from endorsements, t...
Many winter residential evictions banned in pricey Seattle
SEATTLE — Many residential evictions in pricey Seattle have been banned for the city's coldest and wettest months of December, January and February bu...
House passes Puerto Rico aid in face of Trump veto threat
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House on Friday passed a $20 billion-plus aid package for Puerto Rico, where a swarm of earthquakes last month ...
Sports betting bill stumbles from starting gate in Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. — In a state where betting on the Kentucky Derby is seen as a rite of passage, efforts to legalize wagering on other sports have barely...
Brazil indigenous protest new gov’t moves on their lands
SAO PAULO — Brazil's far-right government drew protests from indigenous groups Wednesday, first by naming a former evangelical missionary to head a de...
Companies offer rebuke of Tennessee’s anti-LGBT adoption law
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Almost three dozen big companies and more than 100 small businesses in Tennessee on Wednesday predicted economic backlash from a ne...
Trump signs order creating post focused on human trafficking
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump marked the 20th anniversary Friday of federal legislation to help combat human trafficking by dedicating a new Whi...
Legal confusion deepens in Poland in new challenge for EU
WARSAW, Poland — Legal confusion has deepened dramatically in Poland, with the government and the country’s high court judges on a collision course ov...
New York City Council votes to ban cashless businesses
NEW YORK — New York City lawmakers voted Thursday to require stores and restaurants to accept cash for payment, saying businesses that accept only cre...
Polish parliament OKs law allowing gov’t to punish judges
WARSAW, Poland — Poland's lawmakers gave their final approval Thursday to legislation that will allow politicians to fire judges who criticize their d...
UK lawmakers remove child-migrants promise from Brexit bill
LONDON — British lawmakers have overturned changes to the government’s flagship Brexit bill made by Parliament’s House of Lords, removing a promise to...
Spain declares climate emergency, gets climate plan ready
MADRID — Spain’s new government declared a national climate emergency on Tuesday, taking a formal first step toward enacting ambitious measures to fig...
Pro-gun rally by thousands in Virginia ends peacefully
RICHMOND, Va. — Tens of thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday to protest plan...
Top Democrat pushing $3.4B emergency measure for Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON — A top House Democrat is introducing a $3.4 billion emergency spending bill to help Puerto Rico deal with a recent spate of earthquakes ro...
Protests take toll on Hong Kong tourism
HONG KONG — Visitor numbers to Hong Kong fell by nearly 40% in the second half of last year amid clashes between police and anti-government protesters...
California lawmakers eye back-up power for cellphone towers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When the nation's largest electric utility preemptively shut off power last fall to prevent wildfires in California, customers lo...
Trump signs law to reduce robocalls, though they won’t end
NEW YORK — An anti-robocalls measure signed into law Monday by President Donald Trump should help reduce the torrent of unwanted calls promising lower...
California takes lead on laws affecting gig economy, privacy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s long tradition of advancing nation-leading legislation continues into the new year, with laws reining in the gig eco...
Montenegro: Pro-Serb lawmakers released from detention
PODGORICA, Montenegro — A Montenegrin court early Saturday released from detention three pro-Serb opposition lawmakers who were jailed following turmo...
Age limit now 21 across US for cigarettes, tobacco products
Anyone under 21 can no longer legally buy cigarettes, cigars or any other tobacco products in the U.S.
Congress goes on recess without Route 66 preservation funds
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Congress has recessed for the holidays, and it has went another year without passing legislation that would boost funding for Rout...
India’s main opposition party stages protest against new law
NEW DELHI — India’s main opposition party staged a silent protest in the capital on Monday against a contentious new citizenship law, a day after Prim...
After impeachment, House bestows big trade victory on Trump
WASHINGTON — One day after its historic impeachment votes, the Democratic-led House gave President Donald Trump an overwhelming bipartisan victory Thu...
House approves bill suspending cap on some tax deductions
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House approved legislation Thursday to suspend for two years the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions ...