The Trump administration is offering unaccompanied migrant children $2,500 to leave the U.S. voluntarily, according to a letter seen by Reuters that was sent to migrant shelters.

A federal workers' union filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration's alteration of furloughed U.S. Department of Education employees' out-of-office email messages to include language blaming Democrats in the U.S. Senate for the government shutdown.

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The judge cited statements administration officials as evidence the indictment may have been pursued in retaliation for a lawsuit he brought in Maryland challenging his wrongful deportation.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Friday it stopped distributing funds for emergency preparedness to states until they provide updated population counts that account for migrants deported since President Donald Trump took office.

US District Judge James Cain ruled former President Biden exceeded his authority by withdrawing all federal waters off the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of the northern Bering Sea in Alaska from oil and gas drilling reut.rs/3ITOGF5

SCOTUS agreed to hear ExxonMobil's appeal of a lower court ruling that undercut its efforts to win compensation from Cuban state-owned firms for oil and gas assets seized in 1960 under the 1996 Helms-Burton Act reut.rs/3VOIYaC

Former President Biden exceeded his authority by withdrawing large areas along US coastlines from future offshore oil and gas development, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled. For more top news, subscribe to The Afternoon Docket: reut.rs/4aVlZjE

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he reversed his administration's plan to cut $187 million from New York's security funding, which the state's governor described would have been "devastating."

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JUST IN: US judge sentences woman who planned to assassinate SCOTUS Justice Brett Kavanaugh to eight years in prison reut.rs/3VQOuJJ

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it has launched a new pilot program to speed up the review process for generic drugs that are tested and manufactured entirely in the United States.

A UnitedHealth shareholder proposed on Friday that the healthcare group should adopt a policy to require an independent board chair, a role now held by CEO Stephen Hemsley.

The U.S. Supreme Court again cleared the way on Friday for Donald Trump's administration to revoke a temporary legal protection for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants in the United States, backing a key priority of the Republican president as he pursues a policy of mass deportations.

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India's SEBI says no plans to regulate family offices at present

A coalition of unions and employers filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump's bid to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for high-skilled foreign workers.

SCOTUS will review a Hawaii law restricting handgun carrying on private property open to the public. The justices took up an appeal by three Hawaii residents with concealed carry licenses and a Honolulu-based gun rights advocacy group reut.rs/3Wl8TGV

Nearly eight in 10 Americans want Congress to renew enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits set to expire at year-end, even as lawmakers clash over federal spending, a new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll said on Friday.

A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit by dozens of Israelis who accused the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees of funneling more than $1 billion that aided Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said that $2.1 billion for Chicago subway projects has been has been put on hold ‘to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting,’ taking a jab at the Democratic-led city during the government shutdown reut.rs/3KyLrn1

U.S. President Donald Trump has directed his team to review federal aid to Portland, Oregon, that can be cut as his anger with the city's anti-government and anti-fascism protesters mounts, the White House said on Friday.

SCOTUS will examine presidential powers in its term starting October 6, addressing cases on the legality of Trump-era tariffs and his firing of officials from the Federal Reserve and a Congress-created agency designed to resist political influence. Subscribe to The Afternoon Docket: reut.rs/4aVlZjE

A court in Sweden has found that online fast-fashion retailer Shein infringed on the copyright of smaller rival Nelly by using the Swedish company's photographs.

A Democratic bill to fund the U.S. government and end a shutdown was falling short of the votes needed for passage in the Senate on Friday, as voting continued.

SCOTUS will scrutinize President Trump’s presidential powers on his move to fire officials from the Fed and another agency with safeguards against political interference and examine the legality of his tariffs as the court starts its nine-month term on October 6 reut.rs/3KqAZ11

Several arrests were made on Friday as hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in suburban Chicago that has been the focus of protests since a federal immigration enforcement surge began last month.

Judge Andy Porter sentenced Elizabeth Wolf, 43, to five years in prison for attempting to drown a 3-year-old Palestinian-American Muslim girl in May 2024, after she pleaded guilty. Local police said that the incident was motivated by racial bias reut.rs/3KTmMtm

Spirit Airlines plans to shrink its fleet by nearly 100 aircraft and exit more than a dozen U.S. markets as part of a sweeping bankruptcy restructuring process, CFO Fred Cromer said on Friday during a virtual meeting with creditors.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Friday that unpredictable change is inevitable and central banks need to be aware of that and have strategies to operate in those environments.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Evita Solution's generic version of the abortion drug, mifepristone, the regulator said.

Apple removed ICE-tracking app ICEBlock from its App Store after it was contacted by the Trump administration. The app alerts users to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area, which the DOJ said could increase risk of assault on US agents reut.rs/4nUfLGY

The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a series of cases to be decided during its new nine-month term that begins on Monday, involving issues such as presidential powers, tariffs, transgender athletes, guns, race, campaign finance law, gay "conversion therapy," religious rights and capital punishment.

A group of Tesla shareholders including SOC Investment Group and several state officials urged investors to vote against Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package at the company's November meeting, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday.

Former U.S. President Joe Biden exceeded his authority by withdrawing large areas along U.S. coastlines from future offshore oil and gas development, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled on Thursday.

A Delaware judge said former Activision Blizzard officials including Chief Executive Bobby Kotick must face most of a lawsuit alleging they shortchanged shareholders when Microsoft bought the "Call of Duty" game maker for $75.4 billion.

Twenty Democratic AGs and a governor lost their bid to block portions of an HHS rule they say could cause 2 million people to lose health insurance. US District Judge Nathaniel Gorton said the states' concerns that the changes would push more healthcare costs onto them were overblown reut.rs/46wy3Zg

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration froze $2.1 billion in Chicago transit funding on Friday, starving another strongly Democratic city of funds as the government shutdown entered its third day.

A group of Democratic state AGs lost their bid to halt portions of a HHS rule that they said could lead to nearly 2 million people losing their health insurance after a federal judge said the rule’s alleged harms were overblown. Subscribe: reut.rs/4aBvwvO

A drug wholesaler has sued Alkermes for allegedly maintaining an illegal monopoly over the opioid and alcohol dependence drug Vivitrol, causing buyers to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in overcharges.

The 9th Circuit is weighing whether law firm size should factor into attorney fee awards, after a judge refused to grant Big Law-caliber rates to lawyers at a small firm for fear of setting a precedent reut.rs/48uSnf5

US District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan will sentence Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs after the music mogul was convicted on charges of transporting prostitutes to engage in drug-fuelled sexual performances. Subscribe: reut.rs/4aBvwvO

US Supreme Court to hear Exxon bid for compensation from Cuban entities

Property management company Greystar agreed to a $50 million settlement to resolve claims it conspired with rivals to inflate rental prices. The deal is part of $141 million in preliminary settlements requiring court approval reut.rs/4mPMfl0

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a challenge to a Hawaii law restricting the carrying of handguns on private property that is open to the public such as most businesses, giving the justices a chance to further expand gun rights.

JUST IN: US Supreme Court to hear challenge to Hawaii handgun limits reut.rs/3Wl8TGV

Anglo American has initiated arbitration proceedings against Peabody Energy in response to the termination of a purchase agreement for the British mining giant's steelmaking coal assets, the U.S.-based company said on Friday.

The U.S. federal government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democrat-led city during the U.S. government shutdown.

US District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, will hear arguments in a lawsuit by Oregon’s attorney general Subscribe: reut.rs/4aBvwvO

Sean "Diddy" Combs is due to be sentenced on Friday for prostitution-related charges, with prosecutors pushing for the hip-hop mogul to spend more than a decade in prison and the defense urging his swift release.