LEGISLATION & LOBBYING

Talks on how to approach U.S. corporate tax reform are stirring to life again as Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor backed of push to give multinational companies a break on money imported to the U.S. from their subsidiaries owned in other countries.

Citing moral and and cultural issues, India will oppose sites with the .XXX domain, an official said.

Google says the DUI checkpoint evasion apps in question do not appear to violate its app policies.

In a weird twist in the tale, the Egyptian government has approved a law criminalizing strikes and protest marches in the country, raising questions from various quarters whether this was the outcome expected by millions of Egyptians who passionately fought for the ouster of Hosni Mubarak's oppressive regime.

Senators say the DUI checkpoint evasion app is harmful to public safety, implores Apple to take it down.

Governor Pat Quinn’s Statement on Abolishing Death Penalty.

The governor of Illinois has signed a law that will ban the death penalty in the state, making it the sixteenth U.S. state to prohibit the ultimate punishment.

Congress should pass legislation overhauling the U.S. housing finance system within two years, though it should not act in haste, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said.

The Wisconsin Senate still can't do business due to missing members but the other half of the state's legislature, the Assembly, on Friday passed a bill that will partially take away collective bargaining power for state employees, part of a broader bill with various measures which Gov. Scott Walker says are meant to repair the state's budget.

Emboldened by the pending repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell law, President Barack Obama, and his top legal official, have concluded that in two pending cases, the Administration will not defend a federal law that defines marriage as being the union between one man and one woman.

President Barack Obama and his administration have called unconstitutional a part of the 1996 federal law that calls the government to define marriage to be a legal union between one man and one woman. The administration will not defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in two pending legal cases, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, said on Wednesday.

House Republicans, hoping to avoid a government shutdown, will pass a short-term budget extension that will make some cuts, a move which contrasts with a House Democrat proposal to keep the budget at its same levels for the short-run.

The Recovery Act, which was introduced by the US government in response to the Great Recession of the last decade, created or saved 3-4 million jobs and up to 5 million full-time equivalent jobs by the end of 2010, according to report.

Starting Wednesday, drivers in New York face one of the stiffest bans imposed by the nation on usage of handheld cell phones while driving.

Visa and banks will press lawmakers on Thursday for relief from a proposed slashing of debit card processing fees, an issue that has attracted bipartisan support for softening the impact of part of the Dodd-Frank financial law.

A group of Republican lawmakers opened another front in a battle against the Federal Communications Commission's Internet traffic rules, filing a resolution of disapproval on Wednesday.

Sen. Mitch McConnell R-KY on Thursday urged conservatives to stick to their principles and realize that battles over issues such as reform for health care or campaign finance required a long-term, lifetime commitment effort to get right.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other top U.S. regulators will appear before the Senate Banking Committee next week to discuss the implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, the committee announced on Thursday.

A bipartisan group of 101 lawmakers in the House of Representatives launched a new bid on Thursday to pass legislation aimed at pressuring China to let its yuan currency rise in value.

A married New York congressman accused of sending a shirtless photo of him and flirty messages to a woman has abruptly resigned from his seat on Wednesday.

A bill to extend the life of three provisions of the Patriot Act was defeated at the US House of Representatives on Tuesday. The bill was short of 284 votes to pass although it required only two-third majority.