Prosecutors will now have up to 10 years to investigate sanctions violations, and banks will be required to flag suspicious transactions that could be tied to fentanyl trafficking.
The French leader said Europe’s decadeslong project of peaceful cooperation might perish the continent doesn’t shore up critical gaps in its architecture.
Henry’s resignation opens the way for a new caretaker government that would welcome a foreign, U.S.-backed security force to combat gangs that have laid siege against the state.
In a bid to fast track grid-infrastructure construction, the department is set to become the lead federal agency coordinating environmental approval of major transmission projects.
The protests that began at Columbia University have spread to other states from Texas to California, where students have set up encampments on campuses.
Top business groups and a national tax-services firm filed lawsuits challenging a new FTC ban on noncompete agreements, cases that will test the agency’s power to broadly prohibit practices it says are anticompetitive.
The U.S. fertility rate fell to 1.62 births per woman in 2023, a 2% decline from a year earlier and the lowest rate since the government began tracking it in the 1930s.
Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows were indicted, along with 16 others, in Arizona for their alleged efforts to overturn Trump’s November 2020 election defeat in the state.
Pro-Palestinian students at Columbia agreed to start breaking down their encampment after the university extended a deadline for them to leave and wind down the protests.
The Supreme Court struggled with the consequences of its 2022 decision ending the nationwide right to abortion in a case pitting the health of women suffering medical emergencies against a state law that bans the procedure.
Ukraine used longer-range ATACMS missiles secretly provided by the U.S. against Russian forces east of Berdyansk shortly before Biden signed a law that includes money for more of those weapons.
The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into McKinsey related to its past role in advising some of the largest U.S. opioid manufacturers on how to boost sales.