Lawmakers worked to stuff in as many priorities as they could into the sprawling package, likely the last major bill of the current Congress. They are racing to complete passage before a midnight Friday deadline or face the prospect of a partial government shutdown going into the Christmas holiday.
It’s the largest fine to date against any bank by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the largest fine against Wells, which has spent years trying to rehabilitate itself after a series of scandals tied to its sales practices.
The Associated Press has found that authorities around the world have used technologies and data used in the fight against COVID-19 to halt travel for activists and ordinary people, harass marginalized communities and link people’s health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools.
Sam Bankman-Fried may be ready to come to the U.S. to face criminal charges related to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX following a chaotic court appearance in the Bahamas.
The panel has recommended that the former president be charged with four crimes: inciting or assisting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to make a false statement.
More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a poll that asked whether billionaire Elon Musk should step down as head of Twitter voted yes when the poll closed on Monday.
The bankruptcy of FTX and the arrest of its former CEO are raising new questions about the role celebrity athletes such as Tom Brady and Steph Curry played in lending legitimacy to crypto.
Small retailers say this year is still far from “normal” because decades-high inflation is forcing them to raise prices and making shoppers rein in the uninhibited spending seen in 2021 when they were flush with pandemic aid or gains from the stock market.
The International Energy Agency said “robust demand” for coal in emerging Asian economies is offsetting declining use in mature markets.
Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night to accuse journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts that he described as “basically assassination coordinates.”
An AARP report released last month showed more than a third of people 65 and older described their financial situation at midyear as worse than it was 12 months before.
More than four dozen current and incoming lawmakers received millions of dollars of campaign contributions from Samuel Bankman-Fried—a group that included members of both political parties and chambers of Congress, but predominantly House Democrats.
Charlie Baker, the next leader of the largest college sports governing body in the country, is stepping into a hornet’s nest of a job that will likely tap every political skill in his bag.
Americans cut back on retail spending last month as the holiday shopping season began, with high prices and rising interest rates forcing families to make harder decisions about what they buy.
Current president Mark Emmert announced he would step down earlier this year after 12 years of leading the NCAA through a tumultuous time.
The Trump Organization was found to have been “willfully disobeying” four grand jury subpoenas and three court orders by repeatedly failing to turn over evidence in a timely fashion.
Consistent with a sharp slowdown, Fed officials projected that the economy will barely grow next year, expanding just 0.5%, less than half the forecast it had made in September.
More than 57% of companies are planning in-person holiday celebrations this year, according to a survey conducted by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a hiring firm. That’s a big leap from the past two years.
The six rate hikes the Fed has already imposed this year have raised its key short-term rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, its highest level in 15 years.
The massive order—United called it the biggest ever by a U.S. airline for twin-aisle or “widebody” planes—is a bold move for an airline that lost money throughout the pandemic until the middle of this year.
