China's capital announced a year's extension for traffic restrictions aimed at reducing congestion and improving air quality — a lighter version of rules launched to clean up Beijing for the Olympics.
North Dakota's Senate has rejected legislation to bestow human rights on fertilized human eggs, whether they be in the womb or in a laboratory.
A measure approved by the North Dakota House gives a fertilized human egg the legal rights of a human being, a step that would essentially ban abortion in the state.
Vietnam has approved new regulations banning bloggers from discussing subjects the government deems sensitive or inappropriate and requiring them to limit their writings to personal issues.
Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution, a state news report said Friday.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency strengthened regulations Thursday on five common pesticides and for the first time required farmers to set up sizable buffer zones around fields treated with the chemicals.
Two conservation groups have asked the federal government to impose new restrictions on oil and gas development in the West to protect the greater sage grouse, a popular game bird on the decline.
Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday imposed new restrictions on national referendums, ignoring vehement opposition from Communists.
Since becoming president on Feb. 24, Raul Castro's government has dropped some restrictions on daily life. Cubans can now:
A look at some of the restrictions and suspended rights in the state of emergency declared by Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf:
Countries with interests in Antarctica have endorsed U.S.-proposed mandatory limits on Antarctic tourism that aim to protect the continent's fragile environment, officials said.
A first-in-the-nation law in New Jersey will require new drivers ages 21 and younger to display identifying decals on their vehicles.� Gov. Jon Corzine signed the law Wednesday.
The Obama administration on Monday will lift travel and gift restrictions for Cuban Americans, allowing them to travel more freely to the island and send additional financial help to family members.
Summary: Fox & Friends' Gretchen Carlson falsely claimed that the Obama administration advocates regulating "executive pay at any financial institution." In fact, restrictions on employee compensation would be placed only on "financial institutions that are receiving government a …
On Wednesday, President Obama signed a law that bans federal funding of any research that leads to the destruction of human embryos just two days after lifting Bush-era restraints on it.
I joined this forum about two months ago and found it to be a refreshing place to be on the web for news and for feedback from people around the globe.
The legislature is considering a bill that would require a standard report for police agencies that would include how often SWAT teams are deployed, for what purpose and the results of those raids.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the labeling requirement unfairly forces video games to carry "the state's controversial opinion" about which games are violent....
Already we are seeing the neo-Marxist cogs in the change wheel manipulating away our freedoms and treasure.
Now you have stepped over the line, you wanna be politicians! This is war now. I already knew this stimulus package had nothing to do with stimulating anything but was a bunch of porky pig entitlements and dreamed about programs that the Democrats wanted for ages, but now this!
I hate Government control and am most concerned about starting with common sense sounding controls with top executive salaries (that makes total sense in a national emergency), but what will be the other controls, regulations and demands of business?
Nick Bollea (photos) can drive again thanks to a business-purposes-only driving permit.
This shows what is wrong with democrats. They fight for the "right" for a woman to end the life a human in her womb but they take the right of a business owner away to pay a person what he decides.
The Anthonys' lawyer ended a meeting with prosecutors in downtown Orlando Wednesday. (01/07/09)
In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and allow record companies to set a range of prices for them.
Prosecutors are withholding three discs showing Caylee Anthony's remains from the defense team, WESH 2 News confirmed.
A few days ago my TAs mentioned that many students have to be "taught" how to read a textbook because they have never read one before. At first I thought this might be the result of a more progressive teaching strategy spreading through our high schools.
Several media outlets have praised or uncritically reported praise of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Gun owners in Central Maine seem to be responding in much the same way that others are across the United States: with fear, under the assumption that acquiring a gun, especially a semi-automatic, is about to become much more difficult under the democrats. Why?
An Army trainee will face nonjudicial punishment rather than criminal charges for beating a Jewish soldier so badly he was treated by a hospital, the military said Friday.
An Army trainee will face nonjudicial punishment rather than criminal charges for beating a Jewish soldier so badly he was treated by a hospital, the military said Friday.
EA claimed that it was rare for gamers to install the game on multiple machines, or almost unheard of for gamers to want to put the game on more than two systems.
You've heard, of course, of digital rights management - used to control how you play, copy or otherwise use media files like music.
A British jury on Monday found three men guilty of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign that could have killed hundreds with liquid explosives.
" A Waterbury flag dealer has been barred from selling vintage American flags on eBay because of restrictions on who can buy the flags.' "Albino says eBay has a problem because he won't sell the American flags to people in France, the Middle East or California, unless they are i …