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The mother of a 15-year-old boy from California has filed a lawsuit against online gaming platforms Roblox and Discord, alleging that her son was groomed and coerced into sending explicit images on the apps before tragically taking his own life.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook a temporary victory against President Trump. Here’s why the Supreme Court will likely reverse this.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have come out against a Republican stopgap spending bill as Congress edges towards a shutdown.

The rapid pace of AI development and the impacts the technology are already having on employment, education, and mental health have underscored the fact that the future of artificial intelligence is not a black and white issue for conservatives. Many people within the MAGA coalition have nuanced views including concerns about safety, especially AI’s impact on children. To better understand conservative thinking on AI, Politico turned to Breitbart News’ Wynton Hall to address what he calls the “trillion-dollar question” of artificial intelligence.

Spending rose 0.6 percent for third straight month, much stronger than expected.

The California legislature has passed SB 79, which would override local zoning laws to build dense housing near transportation hubs. But residents of fire zones worry it will be used to densify their neighborhoods.

A divided federal appeals court on Monday refused to let President Donald J. Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook, but a forceful dissent warned that the decision misapplied both constitutional law and common sense.

The Senate on Monday confirmed Stephen Miran, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, giving President Donald Trump an influential voice inside the central bank at a critical moment for monetary policy.

The Trump administration’s immigration restrictions are set to deliver roughly $700 in additional annual income to the typical American household by 2028.

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) believes it’s time American companies exploiting H-1B visas to import cheap foreign labor put American workers first. Banks introduced the American Tech Workforce Act Monday, Breitbart News learned exclusively.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel might have to become more “autarchic,” building productive capacity domestically due to the threat of future trade sanctions, especially by Europe.

The U.S. economy is projected to grow at a faster pace over the next three years thanks to recent tax cuts and spending measures by the Republican majorities on Capitol Hill and signed into law by President Donald Trump, the

Elon Musk’s has been accused in a lawsuit of favoring visa holders over American workers with the goal of paying lower wages.

For Beijing, the decisive moment came when Trump’s threat proved real. “If there hadn’t been a deal,” Bessent said, “then TikTok would’ve gone dark in 48 hours.”

President Donald Trump hinted that a deal has been reached regarding TikTok, the app called “a modern-day Trojan Horse” by the Chinese government, amid ongoing trade negotiations between the United States and China.

Sony’s Sucker Punch Productions, the developer of popular video games including Ghost of Tsushima, has fired seniors character artist Drew Harrison after she made social media posts celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. 

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed complaints by Korean companies about their workers getting caught at jobs in the United States without work permits.

Popular online gaming platform Roblox, currently battling a grooming scandal, has taken swift action to remove more than 100 custom game modes based on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The custom game modes, known as “experiences” in Roblox, were designed by users to glorify Kirk’s assassination to the children who flock to the platform every day.

Welcome to the inaugural Friday Wrap, our weekly survey of the economy, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the bureaucrats who pretend they can read the future by staring at spreadsheets.

Marco Rubio’s State Department will push the United Nations to rewrite the open-ended asylum rules that U.S. and European business groups are now using to extract millions of  young people from developing countries, according to a report from Reuters. 

Saudi Arabian state media reported on Thursday that the Saudi government will provide 1.65 million barrels of crude oil to the government in Damascus to assist with the postwar reconstruction of Syria.

The FTC is investigating seven AI companies, including Google, Meta, and OpenAI, to determine how they protect children and teenagers who use their AI chatbots as companions.

A book titled The Shooting of Charlie Kirk was posted for sale on Amazon with an apparent publish date of September 9, 2025 — one day before the Turning Point USA founder was assassinated — which the e-commerce giant blamed on “a technical issue” causing the wrong date of publication. The Company later removed the book for not adhering to “content guidelines.

Consumer confidence dropped sharply in September to its lowest level in four months, according to preliminary data released Friday, as Americans expressed growing anxiety about job security and the persistence of high prices.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reignited controversy surrounding the mysterious death of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, claiming that the 26-year-old software engineer was murdered. The Tech tycoon was responding to a recent interview of OpenAI chief Sam Altman by Tucker Carlson that touched on the death of Balaji.

Neil Vogel, CEO of People Inc, has criticized Google for being the “worst” offender when it comes to stealing content to train its AI tools, reigniting a long-standing feud between the tech giant and the media industry.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is completing a flip-flop on oil drilling, which he tried to stop but is now planning to expand in Kern County, thanks to the impending threat of skyrocketing gas prices in the state.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass withdrew a legislative proposal this week to repeal Measure ULA, a so-called “mansion tax” that has undermined the housing market and slowed rebuilding in fire-ravaged areas.

California has the nation’s highest poverty rate, despite boasts by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that the state is also the fourth-richest economy in the world.

Once again, the consumer price index has failed to deliver the tariff-inflation spiral that economists and the media have promised.

Several leading national Democrats have endorsed Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s bid to become the next mayor of New York City.

An electric school bus carrying five children caught fire in Montreal on Tuesday morning, thankfully everyone on board escaped unharmed. The EV buses are also used in some American school districts.

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has cautioned against granting rights to artificial intelligence, stating that it would be a perilous and ill-advised move.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner told Breitbart News on Wednesday that high-tech construction methods, if permitted by local regulations, could lower housing costs nationwide.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released an “Inside the Majority” video Tuesday featuring Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) discussing his roots in northeastern Pennsylvania, his background in business and contracting, and his priorities in Congress, while the committee pointed to three bills he has already passed in the House as examples of his early legislative record.