By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Temples and synagogues affiliated with the nation's largest Jewish movement could adopt gender-neutral bathrooms and their rabbis would be encouraged to give sermons on transgender topics, under a groundbreaking resolution expected to pass at a conference of Reform Jews on Thursday. It also has generated little discord within […]

Two new books by Italian journalists depict a Vatican plagued by mismanagement, greed, cronyism and corruption and where Pope Francis still faces stiff resistance from the old guard to his reform agenda.

China’s market-based reform of its currency regime that took place in August was a normal government conduct rather than large-scale intervention, an official at the country’s foreign exchange regulator …

In a letter to leading members of Congress, the billionaire investor says he’s pledging his own money to push for corporate tax reform.

By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Shortly after legislation surfaced in the U.S. Senate to lower prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders, Fraternal Order of Police Executive Director Jim Pasco heard Vice President Joe Biden say what Pasco had suspected of the legislation all along. Law enforcement will never see any money from the sentencing […]

By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will propose a tax on high-frequency trading, her campaign said late Wednesday. The tax would target securities transactions with excessive levels of order cancellations, which destabilize the markets, a campaign aide said. "The growth of high-frequency trading has unnecessarily burdened our markets and […]

Court rulings there have created pension guarantees that range from nearly bankruptcy-proof at the low end all the way up to Ark of the Covenant levels of untouchability. But in Texas, if Murphy's 293 words became law, Houston's public employees would …

VATICAN CITY (AP) — An adviser to the Vatican's high court has warned that Pope Francis' new reform of the church's marriage annulment process raises serious legal questions and could lead to "crises of conscience" for even happily-married Catholics.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — An adviser to the Vatican's high court has warned that Pope Francis' new reform of the church's marriage annulment process raises serious legal questions and could lead to "crises of conscience" for even happily-married Catholics.