The British administration is weighing potential curbs on smart glasses following anxieties that the wearable devices could facilitate covert recording of women.
Safeguarding Minister Satvir Kaur addressed the House of Commons regarding the issue, suggesting the state might restrict commercial access to the hardware for specific buyers.
Additional information is expected to emerge as this developing story progresses.
Results are still outstanding House and Senate races but political scientists say one of the big winners in the mid-terms is American democracy itself.
Gina Hinojosa, state representative from the Rio Grande Valley whose legislative priority has been boosting the public education system, will become the first Latina governor of Texas.
Democrats' resounding victory in the midterms can be boiled down to frustrations over the high cost of living and gas prices. But in divided government -- how much can Democrats do?
From the first Native American woman elected to the U.S. Senate and the first Muslim who will join the upper chamber to the Senate's first Paralympian, voters elected historic candidates on Tuesday.
The razor-thin margin between GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom is shining a light on an election process in Mississippi that is among the slowest and most decentralized in the U.S.
Prime minister says ‘root and branch review of childhood’ is needed and he does not rule out some benefit cuts The government is aiming for “quite radical change” in the way young people are supported, Andy Burnham has said, indicating this could include tougher rules for benefits as well as notably more help with everything from finding work to mental health. In media interviews before the release of the second report by the former minister Alan Milburn on reducing the numbers of young people not in work, education or training, Burnham said his mission was “rethinking childhood” from the early years onwards. Continue reading...