Japan adopts bill to revise Imperial House Law
The government aims to enact the bill during the ongoing Diet session, currently scheduled to end on July 17.
Legislation News, Live and Structured
Real-time legislation news, structured for developers. NewsMesh surfaces legislation coverage from outlets across 35 countries and serves it as clean JSON, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body. Pull it with full-text search (GET /v1/search?q=) and layer category, country, or date filters on top, no scraping required.
Will Takaichi invoke 60-day rule to pass controversial bills?
The ruling coalition aims to pass bills to trim Lower House seats and establish the concept of a secondary capital in the current session of parliament, which ends in three weeks.
LDP’s flag desecration bill clears Lower House
Under the bill, desecrating the flag is punishable by up to two years of imprisonment or a fine of up to ¥200,000.
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Battleground House members introduce prediction market ban for politicians, federal candidates
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Key panel advances Johnson’s plan to merge SAVE America Act with NDAA
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Kids online safety package clears House, drawing warnings from digital rights and tech groups
The KIDS Act received broad bipartisan support. But the legislation is expected to face challenges in the Senate.
Mike Johnson finds his spine to threaten Trump — on one surprising issue: report
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Johnson announces gambit to attach SAVE America Act to must-pass defense bill
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Trump needs to finish the job and cancel California’s green carveouts
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House passes bill to protect kids online, but Senate wants tougher rules
Lawmakers in the House now have to navigate big differences with the Senate's efforts.
Kids’ safety package wins House approval
The legislation cleared the House despite opposition from some kids’ safety advocates and resistance from senators backing a competing proposal.
House vote sets up Senate clash over kids' online safety
The House passed the KIDS Act, but key senators say the legislation has little chance of advancing in its current form.
House passes kids online safety package, setting up battle with Senate
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Dems sue to kill Medicaid work requirements regulation
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Trump calls housing bill ‘a yawn,’ concedes SAVE America Act unlikely to pass
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Raskin files petition to kill Trump’s $1.8 billion lawfare fund
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Johnson: Blocking House agenda over SAVE America Act is ‘self-defeating’
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Happy birthday, America! Now, the fight over the bill
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'Which staffer misled you?' Irked GOP senator calls out Trump as key MAGA priority stalls
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Legislation News coverage
NewsMesh surfaces legislation coverage from sources across 35 countries, normalised into one structured feed you can query by keyword, category, country, and date.
Pull Legislation News into your app
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?q=legislation). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?apiKey=nm_xxx&q=legislation&limit=20"Endpoints
GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.
Guides
Frequently asked questions about Legislation News
How do I pull legislation news from the API?
Call GET /v1/search?q=legislation with your apiKey to return recent legislation stories as structured JSON. Add &category= or &country= to narrow the results.
What does NewsMesh tag on each legislation story?
Every legislation article carries its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can route and filter without your own NLP layer.
Can I combine legislation with category or country filters?
Yes. Add &category=technology (or business, politics, and more) and &country=us (or any ISO country code) to the search query to focus the feed.
Is legislation news available in real time?
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: legislation stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
How do I access the legislation news feed?
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Need more legislation articles?
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.