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  DOL Benefits Chief Pressed On Labor Secretary's Conduct

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The head of the U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm faced tough questions from House Democrats at a...(read more)

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  QVC Hits Ch. 11 With Prepackaged Plan To Slash $6.6B Debt

  By Hilary Russ

  QVC Group Inc., the owner of pioneering home shopping television networks, filed for Chapter 11 protection in Te...(read more)

• Minn. Charges ICE Agent With Assault Over Traffic Gun Threat

  By Lauren Berg

  A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing felony assault charges in Minnesota after local prosecutors say he tried to illegally bypass a highway traffic jam and then pointed his duty weapon at two people in another vehicle, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

• 9th Circ. Judge Rips 'Sophistry' By Online Prediction Markets

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Ninth Circuit judge appeared skeptical Thursday of requests by KalshiEX LLC, Crypto.com and Robinhood to block Nevada from enforcing state gambling laws against sports and election-related contracts, telling Robinhood's counsel "I don't buy" the companies' regulatory interpretation and slamming a Crypto.com argument as "sophistry to the nth degree."

• Ex-ByteDance Exec Fights Perjury Sanction At 9th Circ.

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A former ByteDance executive urged the Ninth Circuit Thursday to revive a suit he filed against the TikTok owner after he was fired, saying the case should've been heard in state court and a federal judge had no jurisdiction to order terminating sanctions after finding he perjured himself.

• Trump Taps Ret. Coast Guard Rear Admiral As New CDC Chief

  By Rae Ann Varona

  President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, a retired U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral who holds medical and law degrees and served as deputy surgeon general in the first Trump administration, to be the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's next director.

• CFTC's Selig Pushes Back On Lawmakers' Staffing Concerns

  By Aislinn Keely

  U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig on Thursday dismissed lawmakers' concerns that his agency may be understaffed for a widening mandate that includes policing prediction markets, and insisted he won't delay rulemaking while he waits for the president to appoint other commissioners.

• White House Again Ordered To Stop Ballroom Construction

  By Hailey Konnath

  A D.C. federal judge on Thursday clarified his injunction blocking construction on the White House ballroom project, amending his order to specifically stop construction on all aboveground construction but allowing for construction of national security facilities beneath it.

• AGs' Win Over Live Nation Leaves DOJ Watching From The Side

  By Bryan Koenig

  Live Nation Entertainment Inc.'s across-the-board trial rout by 34 state attorneys general underscores the ascendancy of state antitrust enforcers looking to fill perceived enforcement gaps left by the U.S. Department of Justice during President Donald Trump's second term.

• Brita Filter Labels Don't Dupe Consumers, 9th Circ. Affirms

  By Rae Ann Varona

  A reasonable consumer would not expect a low-cost Brita filter to remove or reduce all common tap water contaminants to below lab detectable limits, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday, affirming the dismissal of a consumer's proposed false advertising class action against the manufacturer.

• Fed. Circ. Says Judge Wrongly Axed Teva's $177M Eli Lilly Win

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit ruled Thursday that a Massachusetts federal judge was wrong to overturn a $177 million jury verdict that Teva won against Eli Lilly & Co. on headache drug patents, finding that contrary to the judge's finding, the patents are not invalid.

• 7th Circ. Wary Of Burford Entities' Late Opt-Out Of $32M Deal

  By Celeste Bott

  A Seventh Circuit panel appeared skeptical Thursday of two Burford Capital entities' argument that a lower court wrongly denied their day-late request to opt out of a $32 million price-fixing settlement between Cargill Inc. and a class of direct turkey purchasers, with one judge probing how hard a court needs to work "to save a sophisticated party from its own mistakes."

• Bondi's Contempt Defenses Are Strong, But Not Without Risk

  By Phillip Bantz

  Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi currently has some potentially powerful defenses against Congress' relatively limited abilities to force her to comply with a subpoena to be deposed under oath about the Epstein files, but her exposure to being held in criminal contempt could shift with the political winds, experts said.

• Kirkland-Led Madison Air Prices Largest IPO Of 2026 At $2.2B

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Air ventilation and filtration company Madison Air Solutions made its public trading debut Thursday after pricing a blockbuster $2.2 billion initial public offering, marking the largest IPO of 2026 so far.