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A district judge on Wednesday ordered that Meta pay a $25 billion civil penalty to New Mexico for violating the state's consumer protection law.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a recall of 1.58 million pounds of ready-to-eat hot dogs, bacon, sausages and other precooked or cured meat that may not have been cooled properly before shipping to grocery stores.

Cryptocurrency companies can continue to pay interest-like rewards to customers, federal regulators said Wednesday, despite warnings from banks that such programs could drain trillions of dollars in deposits from the banking system.

California state workers began a one-day strike Wednesday, urging Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration to agree to a new contract that increases workers' pay, ensures affordable healthcare access and allows more flexibility for remote work.

The U.S. stock market is drifting Wednesday as strong profit reports from SpaceX, Capital One Financial and other big companies work against updates from Netflix and AT&T that investors found disappointing.

Losing more ground in the fight against climate change, humanity is heading for a hotter world than experts projected last year - and the United States is a big reason for that, a new United Nations report says.

The U.K. government approved a natural gas project off Scotland's coast over the objections of environmental groups on Wednesday, saying it would improve energy security even as the country transitions to renewables.

A federal judge threw a wrench in the Department of Homeland Security's plans to scour the nation's truck drivers for illegal immigrants, ruling Tuesday that DHS' subpoena seeking information from states' driver's license databases was improper.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will dole out $8 billion to farmers to offset rising diesel fuel prices.

President Bill Clinton famously said he could feel voters' pain over the economy. But these days, when it comes to questions about high prices, President Donald Trump insists that the pain is his.