A hate-filled pressure campaign, including death threats, led the author of a bill seeking to lower California’s age of vaccine consent to abandon his effort Wednesday.

Federal prosecutors are likely to wait until after the November election to announce any charges against Donald Trump, if they determine he broke laws, according to people familiar.

Meta Platforms Inc. agreed that federal lawsuits alleging that Facebook and Instagram, as well as other companies’ social media platforms, cause addiction and self-destructive behavior should be combined into one proceeding, it told the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

US accounting rulemakers took a significant step Wednesday toward crafting long-awaited rules for how companies report holdings of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, a move that would bring clarity to big crypto investors like Tesla Inc. and MicroStrategy Inc.

An appeals court ruling that the federal government can’t force Christian health-care professionals to perform transgender-related care may give conservatives an opening to challenge abortion access in states where the procedure is still legal.

More conservative proposals were filed this proxy season by activists looking to bend the ears of CEOs on social issues, aligning with a political crusade to skewer “woke capitalism.”