LOS ANGELES – California authorities slapped a Web site Tuesday with a series of child-labor law violations for videotaping two octuplets without safeguards required to protect their health and safety. State Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet said RadarOnline endangered Nadya Suleman’s newborns, Noah and Isaiah Suleman, by failing to get required …

General Motors Corp. said Monday it is ending its joint venture with Toyota Motor Corp. at a Fremont, Calif., manufacturing plant, bringing to a close the first partnership of its kind between a U.S. and foreign automaker as GM continues to downsize under bankruptcy. The Detroit automaker said it was …

BAGHDAD – A stepped-up campaign by Iraq’s prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections. In its latest anti-Baathist attack, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government put three men on state television Sunday to …

Update: In classic left-wing fashion, the Obama administration is holding a jobs summit in December in “an attempt to signal his concern about the growing ranks of the unemployed,” according to The Washington Post. The summit seems to entail a bunch of people who have jobs bemoaning the fact that …

No doubt that Karl Rove is a very smart guy and has added greatly to “The Factor” with his political analysis. Back in September, I told Mr. Rove that the public option component in Obamacare would eventually die because the president didn’t really care about it. Mr. Rove disagreed. (BEGIN …

A top Republican strategist for a PAC supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcedhe is resigning from the organization just weeks before the Iowa caucus. “I am resigning my position effective immediately,” veteran GOP strategist Jeff Roe said in a statement posted to X late Saturday. “Governor DeSantis has …

Eligible citizens of Harris County, Texas, will receive the first payment of a new “guaranteed basic income program” starting in 2024. The program is funded with $20.5 million from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act which was passed in 2021 for COVID-19 relief. Originally approved in June, the “Uplift Harris” …

A Texas man who was part of a romance scam that bilked a Missouri woman out of $1.2 million was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in federal prison and ordered to repay the money. Rotimi Oladimeji, 38, of Richardson, Texas, was sentenced one year after he pleaded guilty to …

When Donald Trump told an Iowa audience last week about Arizona Sen. John McCain that “I like people who weren’t captured,” while saying McCain was “not a war hero,” he created long-term trouble for his brand. Reactions to his imprudent statements, made in an interview with Frank Luntz at the …

TOKYO – Volkswagen overtook Toyota in global vehicle sales for January-June, the first time the German automaker has come out at the top in the intensely competitive tallies. Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it sold 5.02 million vehicles in the first six months of this year. Volkswagen said …