Government
SEC Moves to Scrap Biden-Era Rule on Climate Risk Disclosures
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to formally kill rules it's now calling a "dramatic overreach" of its own authority that would have required public companies to report greenhouse ...
NY Lawmakers Agree to Governor’s Auto Insurance Reforms in New Budget
After bypassing the April 1 deadline and engaging in weeks of debate and compromise, New York lawmakers have agreed on a $268.5 billion budget that includes auto insurance reforms championed by Gov. ...
Can Trump’s New FEMA Pick Save the Beleaguered Disaster Agency?
President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote a memo last spring laying out how to kill the disaster agency. At the time, Cameron Hamilton was FEMA's interim ...
FEMA Council Backs Overhaul of Disaster Response
President Donald Trump's task force for reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday recommended sweeping changes to how the federal government responds to natural disasters. The ...
FEMA Tells Court It’s Offering Jobs Back to Employees Let Go in January
An attorney representing the Trump administration informed a U.S. District Court Friday evening that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun offering new appointments to disaster workers ...
NY to Lose $74M of Federal $ Over 33,000 Immigrant Trucker CDLs
New York will lose more than $73.5 million in federal money because the Transportation Department said last week that state has refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver's ...
Wall Street Law Firm Apologizes for AI ‘Hallucinations’ in Court Filing
Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence. ...
Lawmakers Gather to Talk About AI; Angst and Fears of ‘Destruction’ Follow
A congressional subcommittee on April 16 held a roundtable discussion on the potential of artificial intelligence, which took a turn toward the existential as each lawmaker aired their anxieties ...