Washington — Federal banking regulators on Monday, July 13, 2026, issued joint guidance that significantly tightens credit standards for borrowers who are not legally authorized to work in the United States, a move that could reshape parts of the U.S. housing and banking markets. The Office of the Comptroller of...
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation on July 13 creating state rebates of $3,500 for first-time buyers of new electric vehicles and $1,750 for eligible used EV purchases, establishing a $270 million program funded by the state budget and automakers and targeting vehicles below specified price caps. The move follows reporting...
Madison, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Revenue issued updated Streamlined Sales Tax materials — the Taxability Matrix, Certificate of Compliance, and Library of Definitions — finalizing version v2026.0 dated July 12, 2026, and setting the changes to take effect Aug. 1, 2026. Bloomberg Tax Automation published summaries and Bloomberg Tax...
Atmore Community Hospital in Atmore, Alabama, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as financial pressures on rural healthcare providers intensify. The voluntary petition, submitted to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Alabama on Friday, July 10, 2026, lists estimated assets between $10 million and $50 million,...
Dallas — Texas Capital Bancshares announced on 13th July 2026 that Mo Jamous has joined the firm as Managing Director, Chief Digital and Information Officer. Jamous will lead the bank’s technology strategy, including infrastructure, enterprise architecture, application development, data platforms, AI enablement and information security, and report directly to CEO...
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Meta is dramatically expanding its Hyperion data center project in rural Richland Parish, lifting the planned investment to more than $50 billion and increasing the facility’s capacity to 5GW, the company said in a blog post on Monday. The site, which began construction in December 2024,...
Cebolleta, New Mexico — Premier American Uranium Inc. completed a 6,030-foot PQ-core drilling program at its wholly owned Cebolleta Uranium Project and delivered recovered underground resource samples to Hazen Research in Golden, Colorado, to begin advanced metallurgical testing as part of the company’s 2026 work program. Core was drilled at...
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix fell about 15 percent on its main Seoul listing on Monday, one trading day after a $26.5 billion American Depositary Receipt debut on Nasdaq under the ticker SKHY. The company’s ADRs had surged roughly 13 percent on Friday, drawing strong Wall Street interest in...
The estate of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has reached a definitive agreement to sell the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks to investor Vinod Khosla for approximately $9.6 billion, the highest valuation ever for a professional sports franchise. Khosla, already a minority stakeholder in the San Francisco 49ers, would assume control of...
United States-based Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is facing mounting internal and public backlash after announcing workforce reductions that cut about 20% of Xbox staff and shut down five internal studios across its portfolio. The layoffs affect hundreds of employees, including 96 at Id Software, 40 remote workers at Bethesda Game...
