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Thirty-four pieces of legislation have been introduced this year in Sacramento to modify AB 5, California’s new law limiting the use of independent contractors.

North Korea says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe overreacted to what it described as a test-firing of rocket artillery last month.

The nationalistic mood that keeps Abe in power is based on nostalgia, not about the wartime past, but the postwar era of the Japanese economic miracle.

Few California politicians have written more far-reaching laws in recent years, from workplace rights to election rules, than Lorena Gonzalez. Now the San Diego Democrat faces what could be her toughest fight of all.

California employers may dislike the new law on independent contractors, but they’re devising a host of strategies to comply.

To learn more about AB5’s effect on California’s arts community, The Times asked readers to write in. More than 100 of you did.

Freelance journalists unleashed a flood of criticism of the new gig-work law.

Responding to a new California labor law, Uber making concessions drivers have long sought. But it may change the service in ways that displease drivers and riders alike.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe landed Wednesday in Tehran on a mission to ease tensions between the U.S. and Iran, just hours after Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen launched an attack on an airport in Saudi Arabia, wounding 26 people.

Tell us how you’ve been impacted by AB5, California’s new gig economy law intended to reduce worker misclassification.