Jan 09, 2021 12:04 pm UTC| Politics Law
A day after President Donald Trump incited supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office, saying This...
The legitimacy of the US Supreme Court put to the test of its conservatism
Jan 06, 2021 04:18 am UTC| Law
The outcome of the 2020 US presidential election is no longer in doubt: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won, taking 306 Electoral College votes, well above the 270-vote threshold ironically, the same number that Donald Trump...
Why Facebook antitrust case relies so heavily on Mark Zuckerberg's emails
Dec 19, 2020 09:45 am UTC| Law Technology
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergs own words play a starring role in the governments case to break up his social network. It is better to buy than compete, he allegedly wrote in an email in 2008, according to the lawsuit....
10 US states sue Google for allegedly abusing market power
Dec 16, 2020 23:51 pm UTC| Business Law
Texas and nine other states have sued Google for breaking antitrust laws in running its online advertising business. The lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, is the fourth in a series of federal and state...
S. Korea requires Google to submit service error report
Dec 15, 2020 23:41 pm UTC| Business Law Technology
South Korea is requiring US internet giant Google to submit a report under its revised Telecommunication Business Act. by Dec. 30 on its service errors that inconvenienced Korean users. Google becomes the first to come...
UK Agriculture Bill: how farming and forestry could co-exist happily
Dec 06, 2020 09:58 am UTC| Law
Trees for storing carbon, grazing for livestock, improved animal welfare and sustainable rural economies how can we satisfy all these aspirations for the British countryside? As the UK prepares to leave the EUs Common...
Dec 06, 2020 09:38 am UTC| Law
In August, the communications minister announced a series of changes to copyright laws to better support the needs of Australians and public institutions to access material in an increasingly digital environment. These...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects