The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader. It banned all tax-exempt organizations like churches and charities from “directly or indirectly” participating in politics, specifically in endorsement or opposition of candidates.

As Missouri voters prepare to decide whether to once again ban abortions, the ballot measure faces sharp criticism for tying abortion rights to transgender health care.

Michigan voters in 2022 put abortion rights in the state constitution. But a ban on most taxpayer-funded abortions has been in place for decades.

A Senate Committee has approved the agriculture spending bill, which would ban intoxicating hemp products, but implementation would be delayed for one year.

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto notably omitting a call for repatriation of some immigrants that helped fuel their February election success.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued June 27 after the Supreme Court backed President Trump’s request to scale back nationwide injunctions from lower courts.

A Turkish court has banned Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok from operating in Turkey. The decision on Wednesday followed allegations that the chatbot posted offensive content about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,

Finland has notified the United Nations it is leaving the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of anti-personnel landmines, its foreign ministry said late on Thursday.

North Carolina lawmakers kept a ban on shrimp trawling from advancing in the General Assembly. What's happening? The House of Representatives on June 25 declined to hear Bill 442, which would have prohibited the practice within a half-mile of the coast,

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and a senior official in Japan’s ruling party discussed speeding up the process to lift a ban on Japan’s beef exports to China, according to the public broadcaster NHK.

A Pakistani court on Friday suspended an order seeking to ban the YouTube channels of more than two dozen critics of the government including former Prime Minister Imran Khan, a defence lawyer said. Alphabet-owned YouTube this week told 27 content creators that it could block their channels - including those of journalists and Khan and his opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf - if they failed to comply with a judicial magistrate court order seeking to ban them.