INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - After nearly six hours of testimony, an Indiana Senate committee on Friday voted to advance to the full Senate a controversial right-to-work bill, which opponents view as an assault on unions. But in the state House of Representatives, Democrats denied a quorum for a third straight day to block the Republican-backed legislation. Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma failed ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina state senators voted on Wednesday to override a veto by the state's governor of a measure that would repeal a law allowing death row inmates to challenge their sentences on the basis of racial discrimination. The Senate's 31-19 vote shifted the political debate about racial disparity in the legal system to the House of Representatives. ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina state senators voted on Wednesday to override the governor's veto of a measure that would repeal a law allowing death row inmates to challenge their sentences on the basis of racial discrimination. The Senate's 31-19 vote shifted the political debate about racial disparity in the legal system to the House of Representatives, which was due to ...

MANILA, Philippines - Prosecutors of the House of Representatives in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona asked the Senate yesterday to junk his motion to dismiss the case against him.

The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, on Tuesday formally asked the prosecution team of the House of Representatives to reply to the statements contained in Chief Justice Renato Corona's Answer to the Articles of Impeachment.