The Mississippi Legislature voted 116-1 to pass House Bill 177 on Monday, which would ban use of foreign law.
Supporters of the move say it´s the best way to guarantee so-called net neutrality. Opponents believe meddlesome regulators will impose intrusive new rules on Internet service.
A move that comes more than a year after the president called for intelligence agencies to reform surveillance procedures.
U.S. appeals court refused a request by the state´s attorney general to delay gay marriages until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether states can forbid them.
The defendants were convicted of murdering 11 police and two civilians in August 2013.
With its case against Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services nearing the finish, the Justice Department has turned its attention to another credit-rating firm under fire for issuing rosy grades on mortgage deals in the buildup to the financial crisis.
Thousands of immigrants seeking legalization through the U.S. court system have had their hearings canceled and are being told by the government that it may be 2019 or later before their futures are resolved.
Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn goes on trial Monday accused of "pimping" as part of a prostitution ring, four years after a sex scandal cost him his job and a shot at the French presidency.
Government buildings and federal highways planned in the future will be constructed safe distances away from flood areas that are expected to worsen due to climate change, the White House announced on Friday.
The decaying pine coffin in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried 51 years ago rightfully belongs to the brother of President John F. Kennedy´s presumed assassin.
New York City has settled with the family of an unarmed black teen fatally shot by police in 2012, agreeing to pay $3.9 million, officials said on Friday.
he family of the woman who died in a Washington D.C. subway train after smoke filled a tunnel and two rail cars filed a $50 million lawsuit against the city´s subway system on Friday.
President Barack Obama´s fiscal 2016 budget proposes $7.4 billion to fund clean energy technologies and a $4 billion fund to encourage U.S. states to make faster and deeper cuts to emissions from power plants.
The last time U.S. oil workers went on strike in support of a nationwide pact, Jimmy Carter was president and KC and the Sunshine Band flew high in the Billboard chart with "Please Don´t Go."
At least 40 major U.S. companies have substantial exposure to Venezuela’s deepening economic crisis.
The basic contours of the Yahoo/Alibaba situation are well known. Yahoo owns Alibaba shares worth $40 billion. Those shares are in a glass box. They look so good, sitting there, in their box.
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