Alibaba won a preliminary injunction against a Pentagon-contract restriction reaching firms connected through shared lobbyists. The blacklist remains; one particularly elaborate chain of consequences is on hold.
Cintas wants to acquire UniFirst for $5.5 billion. The FTC reportedly intends to challenge the deal, although commissioners have not voted. The workwear may match; the companies do not necessarily need to.
More than 80 percent of Stacy Garrity's recent fundraising came from money linked to skill games. Pennsylvania's regulatory fight has a campaign-finance department, and it is unusually well stocked.
Reuters traces $176 million in midterm spending to an industry building political power beyond Trump. The voters get the immigration argument; the donors get the regulatory strategy.
A new investigation finds that officials shaping Britain's AI datacentre policy met 137 businesses and no environmental groups. The power and water were apparently expected to attend through a representative.