A U.S. appeals court on Thursday cleared the way for Ohio to implement a law that requires social media companies, including Meta Platforms’ Instagram, to obtain parental consent before allowing children under 16 to use their platforms.
New Mexico legislators probing Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday subpoenaed U.S. Attorneys’ offices in three states and the U.S. Virgin Islands for information on whether they chose not to prosecute the late sex offender after investigating his activities.
Four former U.S. presidents led a crowd of thousands on Thursday in a music-filled dedication of the Obama Presidential Center, a sprawling Chicago campus of granite, nature and art designed as a hub of civic life and culture honoring the 44th president of the United States.
We have a deal. Or do we? The U.S. and Iran have signed ceasefire documents launching 60-day negotiations to resolve the countries’ differences. Whether it holds — or collapses — is the question now hanging over markets, diplomacy and Donald Trump’s presidency.
Meta Platforms has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s interim deal to end the Iran war met scorching public criticism from some of his fellow Republicans as copies of the signed agreement circulated on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
A Swedish transport authority is recommending a vote against the Europe-wide rollout of Tesla’s supervised self-driving software, unless the U.S. EV maker disables its ability to exceed legal speed limits, a regulatory letter shows.
Pakistani mediators spent weeks juggling late-night calls and competing drafts before a Qatari push helped secure this week’s preliminary U.S.-Iran deal, but turning it into a permanent agreement will prove harder, sources said.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange sued the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and its chairman, Michael Selig, on Thursday, challenging a recent decision to let the prediction markets platform Kalshi and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase list perpetual futures.
Shares of Elon Musk’s rockets-to-AI firm SpaceX dropped nearly 9% on Thursday, as the post-IPO frenzy that briefly placed it among the top five most valuable companies of the world appeared to fizzle out.