A top California lawmaker wants to bring Utah’s new data rules for social media consumers to his state, Andrew Oxford reports.

Walt Disney Co. will pay $2.75 million in penalties to California, marking the largest settlement under the state’s privacy law.

Immigration detainees at a Minnesota federal building are sleeping on the floor with shackled ankles in freezing cells as trash piles up, two immigration lawyers said in declarations detailing their court-ordered visit to the facility. They have little ability to contact lawyers, according to the documents.

Wall Street bonuses and an aggressive savings plan have helped shrink New York City’s expected two-year budget gap by roughly $5 billion, according to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

A top California lawmaker wants to bring Utah’s new data rules for social media consumers to the biggest state in the US.

The political battle around the Los Angeles “mansion tax” is coming to a head, as California groups watch whether an aggressive tax-limiting initiative qualifies for the November ballot.

Medical technology company Olympus Corp. of the Americas no longer has to defend against a suit alleging it fired an executive in retaliation for calling attention to federal contracts mismanagement, a Pennsylvania federal court said.

A House committee is escalating its investigation into a troubled Coast Guard shipbuilding program after accusing a major contractor of failing to turn over records related to years of delays and cost overruns, according to a letter from the panel’s chairman obtained by Bloomberg News.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned that Democrats would oppose a measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security without more changes to President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, raising the risk of a partial government shutdown starting on Saturday.

President Donald Trump is privately musing about exiting the North American trade pact, people familiar with the matter said, injecting further uncertainty about the deal’s future into pivotal renegotiations involving the US, Canada and Mexico.

A whistleblower can continue to allege ADCS Clinics LLC violated the False Claims Act by defrauding health-care programs because whistleblower suits don’t violate Article II of the US Constitution, a Pennsylvania federal district court said.

President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain US coal-fired power plants as he seeks to drive domestic reliance on the fossil fuel.

Democratic lawmakers accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of using the US Justice Department to target enemies of President Donald Trump and bungling the release of files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein during a fiery hearing Wednesday.

Moderna Inc.’s shares fell after US regulators refused to review its novel mRNA flu vaccine, creating regulatory chaos for the pharmaceutical industry and offering another example of the Trump administration’s hard line on immunizations.

The US Federal Aviation Administration reopened airspace around El Paso, Texas, in a sudden reversal after announcing a 10-day closure that grounded flights in the city on the US-Mexico border.

States would be prevented from mandating certain renewable energy standards related to the electric grid under a Republican bill introduced Wednesday in the Senate.

A House committee is escalating its investigation into a troubled Coast Guard shipbuilding program after accusing a major contractor of failing to turn over records related to years of delays and cost overruns, according to a letter from the panel’s chairman obtained by Bloomberg News.

Artificial intelligence can reduce health and safety hazards at warehouses and construction sites so long as the technology is deployed in a transparent and responsible manner that supports workers, labor advocates and trades industry officials testified Wednesday.