Meta Platforms Inc. paid WilmerHale, a prominent law firm with ties to the company’s lead independent board director, less than 4% of the firm’s total revenue last year as Meta fended off a major antitrust suit and took a loss in a youth addiction and social media safety case.

Demand letters Polsinelli PC sent to a medical device company violated Tennessee and Mississippi state laws against asserting patents in bad faith, the health company alleged in a pair of lawsuits.

Cara Wulf joined Nixon Peabody as a partner in its construction & real estate litigation practice in Washington, DC, the firm announced Thursday.

Sebastian Leidel joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in its tax practice in Munich, the firm announced Thursday.

Vincent Avallone joined Dentons US as a partner in its employment and labor practice in New Jersey and New York, the firm announced Thursday.

Henry Smokler joined McDermott Will & Schulte as a partner in New York, strengthening its capabilities at the intersection of sports, media, governance, and high-stakes deals, the firm announced Wednesday.

The acting head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement will leave the agency at the end of May after a tumultuous year managing President Donald Trump’s mass arrest and deportation campaign.

A divided National Labor Relations Board cleared the way for a rerun election at a Hormel Foods Corp. subsidiary in Kansas after the union’s previous victory was thrown out.

Mercor is promising to replicate most professional work. It was also co-founded by twentysomethings who previously never held a real job.

New York’s highest court on Thursday seemed dubious of a company’s claim that allowing an injured employee to challenge a Workers’ Compensation Board decision would be an incorrect retroactive application of the Justice for Injured Workers Act.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged that vaccination may have saved the 6-year-old Texas child who died from measles last year, even as he defended the Trump administration’s controversial policies at a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday.

Ernst & Young LLP illegally fired a George Washington University graduate soon after her commencement speech for remarks about what she called the “ongoing genocide” in Gaza, a lawsuit asserts.

An Australian government plan to impose a retrospective tax on some foreign-owned asset sales would deter overseas investment and damage the nation’s reputation, opposition conservatives warned Thursday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged to deepen relations with Rome in a meeting with his Italian counterpart, as a split worsens between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

President Donald Trump assailed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, warning that his push to ramp up taxes on the wealthy would be destructive to the nation’s largest city.

US Beef Corp. will keep its $1.27 million corporate income tax refund after the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled in a split decision Thursday that disposing of its Arby’s and Taco Bueno franchises wasn’t a part of its regular business.

The IRS is working on guidance to clarify how a new anti-abuse rule included in Republicans’ 2025 tax law will apply across the part of the US tax code that deals with income from US-owned foreign subsidiaries.

A recent Indian court order offers new support for multinational companies that say providing cross-border services remotely doesn’t make them liable for India corporate tax.

Malaysia plans to restrict social media access for those under 16 as early as June, aligning with a global push by governments to protect minors online.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged to deepen relations with Rome in a meeting with his Italian counterpart, as a split worsens between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Meta Platforms Inc. paid WilmerHale, a prominent law firm with ties to the company’s lead independent board director, less than 4% of the firm’s total revenue last year as Meta fended off a major antitrust suit and took a loss in a youth addiction and social media safety case.

The Department of Energy will likely work with Congress to revise federal statute stipulating where nuclear waste should be stored in the long run, Secretary Chris Wright told lawmakers Thursday.

Ken Griffin’s market-making giant Citadel Securities is monitoring the fast-moving prediction-markets industry as it evaluates when to enter one of the hottest new derivatives spaces.

The Trump administration rejected a request from CenterPoint Energy to allow a 60-year-old coal plant in Indiana to close, forcing the utility to keep operating a unit it says is costly and unreliable.