House votes to ban slaughter of horses for human consumption
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The US House of Representatives voted to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption, which could bring an end to a 40-billion dollar industry exporting horse meat to Europe and Japan.
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In the latest ripple of an ethics spat gripping Congress, the House yesterday passed a bipartisan bill that bans lawmakers from paying their spouses for campaign work.
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The House yesterday lifted a nine-year-old ban on using D.C. tax dollars to provide clean needles to drug addicts, handing city leaders what they consider a crucial new weapon against a severe AIDS epidemic.
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WASHINGTON - The House passed legislation Thursday that would prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on whether the words "under God" should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance.    In a politically and emotionally charged debate six weeks before Election Day, Democrats said majority Republicans were debasing the Constitution to force a vote that could hurt Democrats at the ballot box...
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The Senate has joined the House in voting to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods.
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Spanish parents will be banned from smacking their children, congress voted on Thursday.
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A ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales is expected to be backed by MPs on Wednesday.
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With cockfighting now banned in Oklahoma, one legislator is proposing a blood-free alternative: fitting roosters with little boxing gloves and letting them slug it out.
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The House voted Wednesday to end a 28-year ban on handgun ownership in the nation's capital, brushing aside pleas from city officials concerned about a surge in violence and more heavily armed criminals.
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The House voted unanimously yesterday to allow states, localities and private investors to cut their investment ties with Sudan, the latest sanction designed to pressure the Khartoum government into ending the violence in the country's Darfur region.
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Congressional Democrats are moving to repeal a law passed by Republicans last year that would have allowed trophy hunts opposed by the National Park Service to continue on a Southern California public island.
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Peers are set to vote on the Hunting Bill for England and Wales when it returns to the Lords on Tuesday. Should hunting with dogs be banned?
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MPs are to vote on banning hunting with dogs within days - but any ban will be deferred by two years.
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The US House of Representatives votes to overturn a ban on aid to overseas groups practising abortion.
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The European Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a ban on trade in products containing cat or dog fur following calls to outlaw a practice many consider unethical and animal rights advocates call barbaric.
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Australia's House of Representatives voted Wednesday to lift a ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research, the bill's last hurdle before becoming law.
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The US House of Representatives backs a bill which would ban the use of harsh interrogation techniques by the CIA.