The Madras high court quashed sexual harassment charges against a 20-year-old man, stating that hugging and kissing between lovers is natural and not a crime. The court acknowledged the three-year relationship and deemed the woman’s allegations, made after the man refused marriage, insufficient to constitute sexual harassment under Section 354-A(1)(i) of the IPC.
In about six weeks, there could be another scramble to avert a government shutdown. One of the biggest untold stories in Washington right now is that bipartisan, bicameral Congressional leaders, plus top appropriators, have yet to forge an agreement on a “topline” spending number for the rest of fiscal year 2025 – which runs until…
Wandering about downtown Durham, North Carolina, the last couple of days, I kept trying to figure out what it reminded me of. Eventually it came to me, in many ways, this city is a mini-San Francisco of the South, and Vice President Kamala Harris’s best chance to win the swing state. Outside the City by the…
Alabama will execute a death row inmate Thursday with nitrogen gas, a controversial and highly secretive procedure that has only been done one other time.
Borrowers may find relief if the Fed formally cuts interest rates in September. Here’s how much they could save.
A New Jersey woman who was arrested and spent two weeks behind bars over a mistaken identity cannot sue the U.S. marshals who arrested her because they are protected by qualified immunity, a court ruled. Judith Maureen Henry was booked into the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark in 2019 after the marshals detained her,…