Justin Jouvenal

The Supreme Court ruled that an $8 billion fund that provides telephone and internet service in rural and low-income communities is constitutional, a break from a string of major rulings by the high court that have sharply curtailed the power of federal agencies.

The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Meta’s Facebook, allowing to go forward a lawsuit brought by investors who claim they were misled by the social media giant about risks from a massive data breach. The justices wrote in a unanimous, one-line opinion that the case was “improvidently granted,” meaning the court should not have taken it in the first place.