Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) is seeking to temporarily halt incentives for data centers in a bid to contain soaring power bills, Miranda Davis reports.

The Republican-controlled Florida House passed legislation that would propose an amendment to the state constitution to eliminate non-school property taxes for homesteaded properties in the state, though the path to passage remains unclear in the state Senate.

Democrats could win up to three more House seats in Colorado in the 2028 election under a proposed congressional map that a party-backed group is seeking to implement through a statewide ballot initiative.

The Justice Department and city of Cleveland on Thursday both asked a federal judge to end a consent decree to reform its police force, before a court-appointed monitor said the city completed everything required of it.

New York’s former interim police commissioner failed to advance a suit alleging ex-Mayor Eric Adams and other officials misused the NYPD to consolidate political power, obstruct justice, and stifle dissent.

The data center boom sits at the intersection of two major client bases—Big Tech and the world’s largest private asset managers—and presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for firms built to cross-sell their services. Lawyers hired to help foster the proliferation of facilities say they are as busy as any point during their careers.

While the future of North America’s USMCA trade deal remains uncertain, with Donald Trump even weighing whether to withdraw the US from the treaty, Canada insists on strengthening its trade relationship with Mexico as part of its diversification strategy — at the risk of further inflaming its tense relations with Washington.

A judge agreed with Palantir Technologies Inc. that a trio of former employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding their artificial intelligence startup but stopped short of halting their work at the new company, Percepta.

Spatial Front Inc. can move forward with a $39 million task order to provide IT services at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services’ technical operations center in Stennis, Miss., the GAO said in a decision released Wednesday.

The National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will become the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a year of chaotic leadership changes in the public health agency.

TRAX International Corp. can move forward with a $780 million contract for support services at three US Army test centers despite a claim the military branch improperly disregarded a rival bid’s cost savings, the US Government Accountability Office said.

For the third time in President Donald Trump’s second term, at least part of the US government has entered a funding lapse after lawmakers failed to approve support for the Department of Homeland Security before a Feb. 13 deadline.

President Donald Trump has been given a deadline of next week to respond to claims that his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service poses a glaring conflict of interest, setting up an early flash point in the historic case.

Republican Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Laura Swett gave a nod to the EPA’s move to rescind the endangerment finding during the commission’s monthly meeting Thursday, while praising the energy regulator’s own efforts to deregulate.

Corporate practices that encourage employment decisions based on race or sex—including demographic tracking—are drawing close attention from the Justice Department as it continues its crackdown on corporate DEI, an official said Thursday.

President Donald Trump said his Board of Peace received roughly $17 billion in pledges toward humanitarian and reconstruction efforts in Gaza, and that more than half a dozen countries promised personnel to a stabilization force in the war-torn territory.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger will deliver Democrats’ response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week, congressional leaders announced Thursday.

The Republican-controlled Florida House passed legislation that would propose an amendment to the state constitution to eliminate non-school property taxes for homesteaded properties in the state, though the path to passage remains unclear in the state Senate.