TOKYO, Japan - Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules. Chief cabinet ...

On Thursday, Donald Trump’s nominee for budget director, Russell Vought, passed through his Senate committee hearing 11-0, a unanimous vote. Vought's nomination will now go to the full Senate.

Senate has passed Letters of Administration and Succession Certificates Bill 2020, to facilitate the speedy transfer of movable and immovable property of the deceased, to the legal heirs. Letters of ...

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday in favor of President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi. The vote was divided along party lines, with 12 Republicans ...

The Vermont Senate Finance and Education committees got their first look on Thursday at the details of a plan set to transform the state’s education landscape. Agency of Education Secretary Zoie ...

The Japanese government has responded to a United Nations committee's recommendation to revise a law that limits imperial succession to male offspring in the male line. The Committee on the ...

In October, the committee, comprised of experts on women's issues from around the world, concluded in a report that the succession rule stipulated in the 1947 Imperial House Law is considered ...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's Senate will use a drawing to choose the candidates to compete for judge and magistrate positions in June elections, resulting in members of an evaluation committee resigning ...

Freshman Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah has secured a key subcommittee leadership role in the Environment and Public Works Committee. Curtis will chair the Chemical Safety, Waste Management ...

One more of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks will face a Senate committee this week on their road to confirmation while two others wait for their next step. Jamieson Greer, Trump’s pick ...

Kashyap "Kash" Patel has been nominated to be the FBI’s next director and will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, while Director of National Intelligence (DNI) pick Tulsi Gabbard has ...