Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The Department of Justice is planning to ask for Google’s antitrust trial judge to force the company to sell off its Chrome browser after the judge ruled the company has maintained an illegal search monopoly, reports Bloomberg. Chrome is the world’s most widely used browser, and the government’s lawyers have argued that its use in cross-promoting Google’s products is one of the things limiting available channels and incentives for competition to grow. Requirements that officials are preparing to propose include that Google separate Android from Search and Google Play, but without trying to force Google to sell off Android. Another requirement would say it has to share more information with advertisers and that it “give them more control... Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A group of state attorneys general are pushing Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which has stalled in the House of Representatives thanks to concerns over online censorship. An open letter published today is signed by 32 attorneys general, including those of 31 states and the District of Columbia. It urges leaders of both parties in the House and Senate to vote on the bill before the current congressional session ends early next year. “While an increasingly online world has improved many aspects of our material well-being, prolific internet usage negatively impacts our children,” reads the letter, whose signatories include the attorneys general of Florida, New Mexico, and New York. “KOSA will establish better safeguards... Continue reading…

The White House sent Congress on Monday a $100 billion emergency funding request to rebuild areas devastated by hurricanes Helene and Milton, along with a number of other disasters nationwide, Politico has reported.

Consumer confidence among Republicans was buoyed by Donald Trump's victory on Election Day, and although sentiment among Democrats dipped, it still remains above water.

Two undersea fiber-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors, countries and companies involved said on Monday.The episode recalled other incidents in the same waterway...

One Russian official said he was considering evacuating residents from a region bordering Ukraine after President Joe Biden agreed to let Kyiv strike targets inside Moscow with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles, reports Newsweek.

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari to just five cases so far this term, nine fewer than the 2023 term and eight fewer than the 2022 term up to this point, reports Newsweek.

The Democratic National Committee Staff Union on Monday hit out at party leadership over the decision to terminate permanent staff "with one day's notice and no severance," according to a press release.In a statement on social media platform X, the DNC Staff Union saysthat...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says President-elect Donald Trump's plan to use the U.S. military to assist in mass deportations of illegal immigrants "seems uncalled for and may, in fact, be unconstitutional and illegal."

The transition team for President-elect Donald Trump is pushing back on a report of a "massive blowup" between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and longtime Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn over Cabinet selections.