Online review giant Yelp makes it a practice to fight legal demands from businesses, law enforcement and government agencies seeking users' information.

Lawmakers are proposing a new bill to crack down on telemarketers by forcing could them to disclose certain information within 30 seconds of the call.

Sen. Joni Ernst is calling for an investigation into allegations that federal employees fraudulently claimed COVID-19 relief unemployment while still receiving taxpayer-funded paychecks.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told lawmakers in a letter dated Friday that it made several changes to in order to prevent another system-wide computer outage.

Customs and Border Protection is scrutinizing imports from China's Xinjiang region under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Solar panels are the most commonly flagged product.

Family members of passengers who died in two Boeing 737 Max jet crashes met with company representatives in court on Thursday, where Boeing pleaded not guilty.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued an alert to consumers to be wary of job scams amid recent layoffs in tech and other sectors.

Olga Hostyeva was working at a New York Courtyard by Marriott in October when she says a guest "brandished his gun and pointed its muzzle at her from a distance of merely a few feet."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued marketing denial orders for two menthol Vuse vape products made by R.J. Reynolds Vapor. The company says it will fight the ban.

Balancing the federal budget would require significant spending cuts without tax increases and even additional tax revenue may not close the deficit, based on a CRFB report.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen dismissed the idea of minting a $1 trillion platinum coin to raise the debt limit without Congress as a "gimmick" that the Fed may not agree with.

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday ordered Credit Karma and HomeAdvisor to pay millions of dollars for allegedly using deceptive tactics against consumers. Both firms pushed back.

Lawmakers are set to consider a bipartisan bill to overhaul the FAA's Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system after an outage caused thousands of flight cancellations and delays.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office found that Social Security's main trust funds could be exhausted by 2033, which could result in reduced payments to beneficiaries.

A Swiss hacker discovered a Transportation Security Administration "No Fly" list dating back to 2019 while browsing the internet and leaked its contents.

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking for a court to hold in contempt Martin Shkreli, accusing him of not cooperating with a probe related to his lifetime pharmaceutical industry ban.

The debt ceiling is the legal limit on the total amount of debt that the federal government can borrow on behalf of the public. Congress last voted in 2021 to lift the debt ceiling.

The U.S. officially hit its debt ceiling of $31.38 trillion Thursday, which prompted the Treasury Department to use "extraordinary measures" to avoid defaulting on the national debt.

Republican lawmakers are offering proposals to add a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as the U.S. is poised to hit its debt ceiling Thursday.

The FAA and NTSB are investigating the runway incursion at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport that led to a near collision between two airliners.