Amazon is coming for Waymo’s robotaxi dominance—but first it must clear regulatory hurdles.

The company’s self-driving vehicle unit Zoox is expanding its fleets in San Francisco and Las Vegas, and is now testing in Austin and Miami. Zoox’s toaster-shaped vehicles have carriage-style seating, sliding doors and no steering wheel, accelerator or brake pedal, but the company needs a waiver to operate its unique vehicles.

“Amazon wouldn’t be spending billions of dollars on Zoox if this weren't the plan,” Jesse Levinson, the company’s cofounder and CTO, told Forbes. “Otherwise, it would just be an expensive science project.”

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Delta Air Lines suspended security line-skipping privileges for members of Congress, a major travel perk for lawmakers, as the partial government shutdown continues and wait times reached four hours at some airports. President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday he won’t be happy with any deal Republican lawmakers make to end the shutdown and restore pay to TSA officers, who have been calling out of work in record numbers.

MORE: While TSA officers have been without pay for more than a month, ICE officers—who were controversially deployed to airports across the U.S.—are still collecting a paycheck. Though the shutdown impacts the Department of Homeland Security, ICE agents continue to be paid thanks to a $75 billion sum allocated in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which made ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency.

Meta must pay $375 million as a New Mexico jury ruled Tuesday that it enabled child exploitation on its platforms and........

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