Two Trump judicial picks are struggling to reach a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance their nominations to federal court seats in Mississippi, the panel’s chair said.

Harvey, a startup building artificial intelligence tools for law firms, has closed its third major funding round of 2025 — bringing its valuation to $8 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Edelman & Edelman PC’s former controller says the New York personal injury law firm illegally terminated him after he suffered a stroke and falsely accused him of embezzling money.

Elon Musk’s lawyer pledged to continue the billionaire’s legal crusade against OpenAI as he slammed the attorneys general of California and Delaware for not blocking the artificial intelligence startup’s restructuring as a for-profit company.

A Kirkland & Ellis partner and a former chief counsel to Sen. Ted Cruz (R) are among recommended judicial nominees Texas’ two Republican senators have sent to the White House, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

Lena Serhan joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a partner in its Houston office, the firm announced Wednesday.

US stock futures held steady after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping ended their trade meeting with a range of expected concessions, keeping markets near record highs.

Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI is preparing to file for an initial public offering as soon as next year that could give the company a market capitalization of $1 trillion, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing unidentified sources.

Mark Zuckerberg pledged that Meta Platforms Inc. will spend even more aggressively on artificial intelligence in the year ahead, raising fresh concerns from investors who drove the stock down on worries the company may not have an obvious return on the massive investment.

Unionized workers at a Volkswagen Group of America plant in Tennessee voted to authorize a strike, weeks after the automaker walked away from bargaining.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav hosted a town hall meeting for employees on Wednesday and said the board would need a higher bid to justify a sale of the company, according to people who heard his comments.

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Ryan Baasch, a staffer at the National Economic Council, for a slot on the US Federal Trade Commission, according to people familiar with the matter.

The devastation from Hurricane Melissa came into focus after the record-setting storm moved past Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba with at least 33 deaths and almost $8 billion of damage in its wake.

A nearly $667 million jury verdict against Greenpeace tied to an energy company’s lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline protests has been reduced by a North Dakota judge by nearly half.

Ukraine and its allies have called on Donald Trump to pressure Xi Jinping over China’s support for Russia. Trump’s meeting with Xi later Thursday will be a major test of just how ready the US president is to get tough with Vladimir Putin.

A Biden administration leasing plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska would be repealed using the Congressional Review Act under S. J. Res. 80.

Argentine provinces and companies are lining up to tap global markets in the next few weeks as President Javier Milei’s win in midterm elections fuels optimism about the country, opening a window for debt sales that could bring much needed dollars into the nation’s foreign-exchange market.

A Biden-era US Fish and Wildlife Service rule to cull more than 450,000 barred owls in the Pacific Northwest and California would be overturned using the Congressional Review Act under S. J. Res. 69, which the Senate rejected in an Oct. 28 procedural vote.

A former assistant manager at a Courtyard by Marriott is suing a North Carolina hotel management company, alleging it discriminated against her after she requested leave to undergo gender-affirming surgery.

Edelman & Edelman PC’s former controller says the New York personal injury law firm illegally terminated him after he suffered a stroke and falsely accused him of embezzling money.

President Donald Trump’s effort to send troops to Democratic-led cities is facing its biggest legal test yet with a trial over his power to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, to counter protests.

The State Department must face a Black EEO specialist’s claim that discrimination drove her forced resignation from a leadership role in a race-focused employee affinity group, a DC federal judge ruled.

A former federal inmate suing the government after the US Probation Office failed to correct a presentence investigation report that mistakenly identified him as a double murderer won an appeal to revive one of his claims Wednesday.

A federal judge said Wednesday the Justice Department has “a real problem on the merits” defending its hollowing out of its “peacemakers” unit, meaning it could eventually be found to be an illegal closure of the civil rights-era agency without congressional approval.