The state of New Mexico asked a judge on Thursday to order Meta Platforms to pay between $35 billion ​and $40 billion in penalties after a jury found the company had misled consumers about the privacy...

U.S. Central Command will hold a daylong conference at its Tampa headquarters after seven months of war in Iran.

Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the state attorney general to investigate a former Cornell University student’s allegation of rape. The woman has sued seven men in connection with the alleged assault.

Many NBA players will promote anything for a price, but when it comes to promoting gambling, Victor Wembanyama won’t do that.

New York’s governor has appointed a special prosecutor to oversee an investigation into a woman’s allegations that she was gang raped at a Cornell University fraternity house, saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney’s ability to handle the case.

At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.

When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.

Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding.

Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy

The fatal shooting of Ms. Good set off protests during the Trump administration’s immigration operation early this year in Minnesota.

The sportsbook said customer loyalty rewards and programs are not meant to encourage additional gambling.

ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach

“LSU does really protect their athletes, especially their football players,” says the woman, whose claims are being investigated by the local district attorney.

Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.

The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

Two recent moderation decisions—while later reversed—have raised concerns about the company's policies and practices, writes Laís Martins.

In California, lawmakers passed at least two dozen bills this year seeking to fortify immigrants' rights, restrict cooperation with federal immigration agents and tighten regulations on immigrant dete...

DHS has tapped $20 million to pay for campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump.

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

Data centers will not make Appalachian Ohio a “benefit zone,” but a sacrificial zone. Appalachian Ohio doesn’t exist to be recklessly exploited by politicians and industry, and after so many decades…

The global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the capital being deployed to build data centers around the world, Bain & Co. said.

Paramount is marketing a $44.4 billion debt offering to fund its Warner acquisition as a judge weighs a proposed legal settlement, the deal's last hurdle.

Abdul El-Sayed backed defunding police in 2020 and urged reducing incarceration. As a current Michigan Senate candidate, he’s supported funding for some police services and prison safety.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. had faced pressure to recuse himself from the climate case because he owns stock in oil companies.

Monday marks seven months since the U.S.-Iran war began, which has restricted oil and gas exports from the Middle East, raising prices ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

The White House maintains that the pro-Trump ads paid for by the government are merely “public service announcements.”…

At this point, it’s all but certain Trump will claim a premature victory on election night if the GOP is ever ahead, or claim foreign government interference if it’s not, writes Ed Kilgore.

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

With its warehouse plan stalled, ICE is building on land it already owns, and one of the companies it hired is tied to a developer who worked on its earlier property deals.

A complaint filed by Jane Doe alleges she was subjected to an hours-long assault by seven Cornell University student

Can the energy giants be held responsible for extreme weather?

Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted.

Rep. Mike Collins (R), the GOP candidate for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat, said he was “fine” with sending federal troops to the polls, though this is illegal.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

The heads of artificial intelligence firms OpenAI and Anthropic PBC have been called on to appear before an Australian Senate inquiry to answer questions after the recent revelation of a hack of a government website.

Like much of the Southwest, the home of the “perfect peach” is facing the greatest Colorado River crisis in recent memory.

Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

FBI leadership removed two counterterrorism leaders due to dissatisfaction with their investigation of allegedly threatening phone calls made to senior White House aide Stephen Miller’s wife, said thr...

“I think the allegations are extremely serious."

The president is skeptical that Tehran will meet his demands.

TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ​ByteDance, have reached ‌a settlement with Alabama over allegations they designed ​the platform ​to addict children and misled ⁠consumers about its ​safety, mar...