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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has instructed federal agencies to draw up plans for potential layoffs in case Congress fails to pass a spending bill by Tuesday, raising the stakes in the latest government funding standoff. The memo from the Office of Management and Budget, first reported by Politico , points […]

Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accusing the company of misleading customers into enrolling in Prime and making the cancellation process overly burdensome. Under the settlement, announced Thursday, the company will pay $1 billion in civil penalties — the largest fine ever imposed by the FTC — […]

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration and fficials from the Department of Justice may have breached both a criminal procedure rule and an existing court order by issuing public statements that could unfairly prejudice the case against Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old charged in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson […]

Two detainees are dead, and a third is in critical condition after a sniper opened fire on the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on Wednesday morning.  Dallas police said in a news conference that no ICE officers were hurt in the shooting, and the victims’ identities will not be released at this time. […]