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A new lawsuit accuses Funko, the Everett, Washington-based pop culture collectibles brand, of collecting and selling users’ data without permission.

Funko sells officially licensed collectibles, apparel, accessories and...Read more

NEW YORK — Council member Vickie Paladino has agreed to drop her lawsuit against the New York City Council, which will now end disciplinary proceedings against her — the latest step in an ongoing saga over a series of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Incumbent U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman enlisted the help of Gov. Kathy Hochul Monday as the volatile New York 10th District race between him and challenger Brad Lander — who has the backing of Mayor Zohran Mamdani ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The chair of the House Oversight Committee has sent a letter to OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman requesting information about potential conflicts of interest between Altman’s personal investments and his...Read more

While one school district in Johnson County, Kansas, recently agreed to change its rules around sports participation and bathroom usage in order to conclude a U.S. Department of Education investigation into its policies ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A fire broke out on an inactive oil platform along Southern California’s coast early Monday, briefly endangering more than two dozen workers aboard the offshore rig.

Emergency crews were able to safely ...Read more

Digital entertainment company BuzzFeed Inc. is selling its majority stake to Los Angeles entertainment mogul Byron Allen for $120 million.

BuzzFeed announced the sale late Monday, saying Allen Family Digital had agreed to...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration has approved Boeing’s proposed solution to bring its MD-11 planes back to the sky.

The FAA grounded the MD-11 and its predecessor the DC-10 after a deadly UPS crash in November, which...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a lower court ruling that found Alabama’s congressional map illegally and unconstitutionally discriminated against Black voters, potentially paving the way for the ...Read more

Starbucks will shrink its tech presence in Seattle with the layoffs of 61 corporate workers, according to a state filing.

The layoffs are a result of a reorganization in the technology department at the Starbucks Support ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn has signaled his intent to plead guilty this week to a federal charge of attempted enticement of a minor following his arrest last year in an underage ...Read more

DENVER — A bill that would regulate AI-powered chatbots cleared the Colorado Senate on Monday, while the legislation faces renewed calls for a veto from a mother whose daughter died by suicide following sexual grooming ...Read more

President Donald Trump has mounted a new push to tackle affordability, taking aim at beef and gasoline amid surging consumer prices that may threaten his party’s hold on Congress.

Trump was poised to sign executive ...Read more

The number of new foreign undergraduate students at U.S. colleges dropped by an average of 20% this spring from a year earlier, according to a study by a coalition of education groups, the latest sign that President Donald...Read more

The White House is inviting Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk, Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook, Boeing Co.’s Kelly Ortberg and executives from other large companies to accompany President Donald Trump on his trip to China this week, ...Read more

A federal judge has ordered officials at the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to drop a campaign aimed at getting Meta and Apple to shut down a Chicago-based ICE monitoring page and app, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate moved a step closer to confirming Kevin Warsh, the nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, with a procedural vote Monday.

The Senate voted 49-44 to invoke cloture on Warsh’s ...Read more

ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer encouraged the Michigan Legislature to pass funding for Selfridge Air National Guard Base as the Harrison Township base prepares for a new fighter mission during an event ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Senate on Monday approved a legislative package to create new restrictions on federal immigration agents, including a ban on face coverings and new options for residents to sue federal agents ...Read more

Santa Clara County sued Meta on Monday, accusing the tech giant of turning scam advertisements on Facebook and Instagram into a multibillion-dollar revenue stream while Californians lost billions to online fraud.

The ...Read more