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Former and current AT&T customers are eligible to receive up to $7,500 as part of a settlement involving class-action lawsuits over two major data breaches. The telecommunications giant said earlier ...

A federal judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to stop providing access to Medicaid enrollees' personal data, including their home addresses, to immigration officials. District ...

About 70 homeless encampments in the nation’s capital have been taken down in recent months, but those efforts intensified this week after President Donald Trump deployed members of the National Guard ...

The firing of the BLS head by President Donald Trump has spooked some macro investors. Trump's nomination of a partisan economist may push investors to rely more heavily on other data. Sources like ...

If you have been closely following the ongoing Bureau of Labor Statistics story—in which Donald Trump fired then-Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after being displeased by the bureau’s July jobs report ...

We will learn how Indiana third graders are doing on the state's major reading assessment Wednesday morning. The Indiana Department of Education is set to release the 2025 data on IREAD at the State ...

Data brokers are required by California law to provide ways for consumers to request their data be deleted. But good luck finding them. More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers’ ...

The decision cited a Supreme Court order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the Social Security Administration. By Zach Montague Reporting from Washington A federal ...

AT&T's $177 million settlement is for data breaches in 2019 and 2024. Claim up to $5,000 (first breach) and $2,500 (Snowflake hack), or both. File claim by Nov. 18, 2025, either online or by mail. If ...