The Trump administration spent more than $35 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries they had no connection to, doling out millions of dollars in lump-sum transfers to foreign governments without a system to track how the money was used, according to a report released Friday.

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a $38.3 billion plan to remake the US immigration detention system, in a sweeping expansion that officials say will streamline operations and speed deportations.

California is increasing pressure on companies’ handling of consumers requests to stop selling personal data as its record fine against Walt Disney Co. signals closer scrutiny of how privacy opt-outs are honored.

The Homeland Security Department and the IRS must provide an exact accounting of which taxpayers’ information was recently disclosed and whether it led to improper detentions or deportations, a letter from Senate Democrats said.

A landmark Third Circuit ruling has increased tech companies’ chances of getting First Amendment protections for their computer code. But the power to assert that shield against the state will depend on how “expressive” judges consider the coding.

Arkansas-based ARCare Inc. failed can’t escape liability for a 2022 data breach by claiming immunity under the Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act.

A federal judge prohibited OpenAI Inc. from using the name “cameo” for features in its Sora video generator while a trademark infringement lawsuit from personalized video service Cameo proceeds.

It was supposed to be a relatively relaxing work week in the South Florida sun for the hundreds of bankers, brokers, advisers, portfolio managers, analysts and investors attending a series of financial industry conferences from Miami to Boca Raton. Then AI crashed the party.

Liminatus Pharma Inc. has settled claims it blocked a brokerage’s exercise of warrants after going public, satisfying a default judgment against the biotech company, according to a court filing Friday.

The Federal Circuit said an administrative tribunal wrongly rejected Netflix Inc.‘s challenge to a DivX LLC streaming patent based on a misinterpretation of a key term relating to data encryption—and that under the correct reading the patent would be invalid.

The HR management software firm Rippling will advance its corporate espionage lawsuit against competitor Deel Inc., a San Francisco federal judge said at a hearing Friday.

SpaceX is considering a dual-class share structure in its planned IPO this year, according to people familiar with the matter, mirroring a strategy its billionaire founder Elon Musk floated for Tesla Inc.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the bank famously good at managing risk in financial markets, had massively misjudged one facing its own reputation.

Jeremy Duffy and Lisa Seifman joined Cahill Gordon & Reindel as partners in London, the firm announced Feb. 9. Duffy will serve as chair of the European leveraged finance practice group, while Seifman will serve as chair of the real estate finance practice group, and both will serve as co-chairs of the digital infrastructure finance practice group.

Jeffrey Lehtman joined Barnes & Thornburg as a partner in its White Collar, Compliance and Investigations practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Feb. 3.

Myles Culhane joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in its energy transition and carbon capture practices in Sacramento, the firm announced Feb. 10.

Ben Marks joined Seddons GSC as a partner in its residential real estate team, the firm announced Feb. 9.

Brandon Brown joined labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips as a partner in its New Orleans office, the firm announced Feb. 11.

The Department of Homeland Security shut down early Saturday amid a congressional funding impasse that shows no sign of ending soon, touched off by backlash over the Trump administration’s widespread and aggressive immigration enforcement raids.

A federal judge pressed a US Department of Justice lawyer to explain how or whether the Trump administration would continue its widespread mandatory detention of noncitizens if she formally vacates the Board of Immigration Appeals decision that she has already declared “no longer good law.”

Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase tipped bettors to his rigged pitches in text messages with coded language like “rooster” and “chicken,” prosecutors said in a revised indictment.

The White House ordered the Department of Homeland Security to begin shutdown procedures as its funding from Congress expires at midnight — the third time parts of the US government will have shut down in the last six months.

Senator Mark Kelly doesn’t expect President Donald Trump administration’s failure to convince a grand jury to indict him and other Democratic lawmakers for a video that told federal troops they can refuse “illegal orders” to at all lower tensions or prevent further actions.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can maintain its 6-month age minimum for imported puppies, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in confirming the policy falls within the agency’s authority to protect public health.