A county ordinance making it harder for tenants in unincorporated areas to be evicted took effect on Thursday, requiring that renters be at least two months behind in fair market rent before landlords ...

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Young, eligible men will be automatically registered for the military draft pool starting in December as part of a measure tucked into the annual defense policy bill Congress signed into law late last ...

SEOUL/CAIRO, March 13 (Reuters) - Governments from Asia to Europe are scrambling to shield consumers from surging fuel and food costs triggered by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, rolling out measures ...

SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a fundamentally stripped-down version of a bill modifying Measure 114, the controversial gun control law which has been held up in court ...

Employers should be prepared to comply with a new law that overhauls workplace rights in the United Kingdom. The first provisions took effect when the act received Royal Assent in December, and ...

Placebo effects are real, powerful, and deeply human, as I've discussed in my previous article. But a thorny question remains: How can we tell whether a depression treatment is producing genuine ...

Arkansas state laws that create an income tax credit for businesses that relocate their corporate headquarters in Arkansas and require coverage of treatment and conditions caused by severe obesity are ...