A whistleblower failed to show that California-based Hawthorne Machinery Co. and others violated the False Claims Act by misrepresenting how many employees the company had in order to receive a Paycheck Protection Program loan, a federal district court ruled.

The entities transforming New York’s Penn Station are slated to learn how much federal money will be directed to the project in about six months, according to Peter Cipriano, chief executive officer of the Halmar-Skanska consortium, the renovation’s master developer.

A new Colorado law requiring frequent health and safety inspections at the state’s only ICE detention facility is preempted by federal law, the government contractor operating the facility argues.

BlackRock Inc.’s Global Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. are among private equity firms shortlisted to buy a stake in a Kuwaiti pipeline network, indicating sustained interest for marquee Gulf assets despite a monthslong war that’s impacted regional production and roiled energy markets globally.

Turkey and Canada will launch exploratory talks toward a free trade agreement, according to a joint statement from the trade ministries of both nations.

A new government-wide inspector general office for fraud that would assume functions of a Covid-era oversight council would be established under H.R. 8312.