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Google Employees Call on Company to End ICE, CBP Contracts

More than 900 employees at Alphabet Inc.’s Google have signed a petition demanding that the company sever ties with the US Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.

By Alicia Tang

Perimeter Solutions Keeps $1.3 Billion Fire Retardant Contract

Perimeter Solutions LP is cleared to perform a $1.3 billion sole-source contract to supply aerial long-term fire retardant products to the US Forest Service because a rival company is unable to provide a qualified product, the GAO said in a decision released Friday.

Hostility Toward Minorities Buttresses Black Worker’s Bias Case

A Black man’s evidence his workplace, a Florida truck selling business, was rife with hostility against him and “all minorities” could support a harassment verdict in his favor, a divided Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday.

Amentum Moves to Protect Diego Garcia Contract From KBR Protest

Amentum Mitie Pacific LLC is seeking to join a federal court protest of its US Navy contract for base operating support services at Navy Support Facility, Diego Garcia, located in the British-controlled Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.

NY-NJ Hudson Tunnel to Be Halted After Trump Blocked Funding

Construction of a $16 billion rail tunnel that would connect northern New Jersey with Midtown Manhattan is set to be put on hold if federal funding tied to the project isn’t resumed.

Border Wall Contractor Unable to Challenge Biden-Era Termination

Strong Structural Steel Ltd. is barred from seeking over $11 million in damages from the Biden administration’s termination of a US-Mexico border wall project, because the company failed to adequately allege an unlawful government taking.

Gemini Shows Army Deviated From Court Order in Logistics Protest

Gemini Tech Services LLC demonstrated that the US Army failed to comply with a May 2025 court order requiring reconsideration of initial offers in a procurement for logistics support services at the Redstone Arsenal, the US Court of Federal Claims said.

Labor Department Sets $13.65 Minimum Wage for Contractors

The Labor Department set the minimum wage for some federal contractors to $13.65 per hour, after President Donald Trump canceled a Biden-era executive order that had set it at $15 per hour.

Trump Holds Broad Power Over Which Federal Jobs Lose Protections

President Donald Trump has assumed essentially unlimited discretion to choose how many government employees lose their job security, under a rule that critics say threatens to upend the nonpartisan professional nature of the federal civilian workforce that has existed since the 1880s.

New York Pension Funds Scrutinize Palantir Over ICE Contract

New York’s pension funds, which have exposure to $900 million of Palantir Technologies Inc. stock, are questioning the software company over its business dealings with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security.