Facebook has published its biennial transparency report detailing government agencies’ intervention to individual’s information on Thursday. At the same time, the social media site predicts for an end of such practice since promulgation of new Email Privacy Act. The act has been passed on the previous day by the House of Representatives.
The Bison is one step closer to becoming the U.S. national mammal. The House have approved the National Bison Legacy Act on Tuesday. If the Senate approves the slight changes from the original script, the bill will be sent to the president for final approval.
The Vermont House of Representatives is set to take up a bill the state Senate passed in February, which would legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older.
Libya's Presidential Council is still continuing the process of forming the country's unity government. They are urging everyone to deal directly with the country's newly formed government and not with rival groups.
Senate democrats, especially under Obama's administration, have successfully voided the bill aimed to create stricter screening process to Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Meanwhile talks on considering Trump's proposed Muslim ban bill has taken the limelight in the House.
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to tighten restrictions on travel to the United States by citizens of 38 nations who are allowed to enter the country without obtaining a visa.
The Confederate flag, a symbol of racism for many in the United States and of Southern heritage for others, is set to be removed from South Carolina's state Capitol grounds on Thursday after lawmakers sealed its fate in a late-night session.
The House of Representatives expects to vote Wednesday on legislation retooling a series of financial regulations, an early sign that Republican leaders will attack President Barack Obama's Wall Street reforms this year.
A draft U.S. bill is circulating in Washington D.C. that would curb the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's regulatory oversight over electronic medical records and some clinical support software, according to a copy of the legislation seen by Reuters.
President Barack Obama plans to announce as early as next week a plan to overhaul U.S. immigration policy through executive action, including suspending deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants, Fox News reported on Wednesday.
A Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate has brightened prospects for an effort to fight frivolous patent litigation, although the path to success is far from clear, sources close to the lobbying effort said on Wednesday.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a stop-gap spending measure that averts an Oct. 1 government shutdown and extends the U.S. Export-Import Bank's ability to operate for another nine months.
The bill proposed by House and Senate Democrats last night might result in the further tightening of rules on disbursing financial aid refunds and revenue-sharing agreements of companies like Higher One with colleges, Buzzfeed wrote.
A legislation that would provide continued support of charter schools in the US has received bipartisan support in the House of Representatives, the Times-Picayune said.
President Barack Obama blamed House Speaker John Boehner for the government shutdown, which did not show any let up in its third day, The Associated Press reported. In addition to the House Speaker, Obama also blamed a small group of conservative Republicans who want "to extract concessions in exchange for passing a short term spending bill that would restart the partially stuttered government."
