The Michigan attorney general, when bringing lawsuits that contain one or more torts, must litigate them in the county where the alleged wrongdoing took place, the state Supreme Court said Monday.

Missouri voters will get a chance to weigh in on a proposal to eliminate the state income tax after a state appeals court held that the ballot measure is constitutional.

The ongoing fight over ICE’s budget crashed into Democrats’ months-long protests and push to demand access to immigration detention centers.

The US map of pass-through entity tax regimes has changed a lot over the last year, with two states launching programs for the first time and six others extending their statutory sunset dates.

Extreme drought and rising temperatures in the US are poised to overwhelm the Trump administration’s plans to control wildfire by logging federal forests, scientists say.

Governor JB Pritzker issued an order pausing state tax incentives for data centers in Illinois after the state legislature stalled his plan to keep data-center energy costs from affecting local residents’ bills.

The US Air Force reasonably found that ties to Iran required denying a space launch software contract to Kayhan Space Corp., an autonomous space flight services company, the US Court of Federal Claims said in an opinion released Monday.

Iran’s economy was already under strain before the US and Israel launched their war on the Islamic Republic. Those problems have been compounded by strikes on the country’s civilian and industrial infrastructure and the US naval blockade of Iranian ports.

The Pentagon boosted to $60 billion the maximum value of a multi-vendor procurement vehicle for rapid sourcing of drones and other tactical equipment as the next iteration of the contract heads toward competitive bidding.

The Trump administration is quietly pursuing the biggest expansion in decades of the federal electronic system used to verify workers’ employment eligibility via a proposal to overhaul its grant process.

Federal agencies would have to pause payments and take other corrective actions if they determine there’s an elevated risk of an improper or fraudulent payment under H.R. 8464.

US government agencies would be required to further verify details of payments they make and of the entities receiving funds under a modified version of H.R. 8463.

Iran and Israel agreed to ease strikes against each other after a flare-up in violence threatened to derail peace negotiations and led President Donald Trump to appeal for de-escalation.

Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the US Navy is capable of prying open the Strait of Hormuz but that an extended military operation to free up the vital oil and gas waterway would be costly and require allies.

The House is scheduled to clear Republicans’ party-line bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and and Customs and Border Protection Tuesday afternoon, according to two House Republican aides.

Top Republican members on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce are probing the Seafarers International Union over allegations that leadership mishandled funds from its political action committees.

Free-speech advocates are trying to overturn a new Hawaii law intended to stop corporations from having an outsize influence on elections and undo the effects of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission in the state.

Democratic incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Democratic City Councilmember Nithya Raman will advance to the runoff in November for Los Angeles mayor, Decision Desk HQ projects.