A bus crashed into a tunnel wall on an expressway in northern China killing 14 people, state media said Wednesday. Thirty-seven other people were injured in the Tuesday afternoon crash, state broadcaster CCTV said. The bus was carrying 51 passengers when it hit the wall on the Hohhot-Beihai Expressway in the city of Linfen in Shanxi province. HONG KONG LAWMAKERS …

Karl Marx could have been forecasting the future ofCalifornia when he said that history repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as farce. The tragedyisa state budget of $225.9 billion this year, with a budget deficit equivalent to nearly one-third of that figure – $73 billion, according to the latest estimate from the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. The farceisCalifornia state …

Supreme Court justices heard arguments Wednesday in the case of a former Texas councilwoman who was jailed after criticizing a city manager and will now consider whether she can sue city leaders for politically motivated retaliation. “Hopefully, by taking this case all the way to the Supreme Court, we showed to petty tyrants all across the country that they shouldn’t …