WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is disbanding a team of prosecutors who targeted cryptocurrency crimes and is shifting its focus away from complex crypto-related cases involving banking and securities law, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press. “The Department of Justice is not a digital assets regulator,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche [...]
Ohio’s roadways rank 10th in the nation, according to a new report from a national think tank, up seven spots from the previous report. The rankings in the Reason Foundation’s 28th Annual Highway Report are based on 13 categories, including road pavement and bridge conditions, the number of traffic fatalities, congestion delays, spending per mile [...]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The $2.8 billion settlement that will reach into every corner of college athletics in the months ahead had its final hearing earlier this week, including athletes who criticized the sprawling plan as confusing and one that undervalued them, and attorneys who said they were concerned about the impacts on campuses across [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law pre-empts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. Bayer’s new request to the nation’s highest court comes as it is simultaneously pursing legislation in several [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world. The Bureau of International Labor Affairs helped reduce the number of child laborers worldwide by 78 million over the last two decades, including [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge to gun laws in New York that ban firearms from certain “sensitive” locations and require that handgun owners be of “good moral character.” The high court did not give an explanation on why it chose not to hear the case. The [...]
Budget carrier Avelo Airlines signed an agreement to fly federal deportation flights from Arizona starting in May, according to the company, the founder of which acknowledged the decision may be controversial. Andrew Levy, also CEO of the Houston-based airline, said Avelo is flying for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration Control and Enforcement agency [...]
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s comptroller authority said an audit found irregularities in the renewal of a 25-year port concession in the interoceanic canal and it would request an investigation into the authorization of the contract to a Hong Kong company. Comptroller-General Anel Flores said the audit found some payment defaults, accounting miscalculations and some [...]