The Federal Trade Commission is issuing orders to nine social media and video streaming companies, requiring them to provide data on how they collect, use, and present personal information, their advertising and user engagement practices, and how their practices affect…

Constitution Requires State to Justify Why Exemptions for Trade and Technical Instruction and College Sports Cannot Be Extended to Religious Instruction The Justice Department filed a statement of interest in federal district court in Kalamazoo, Michigan, arguing that the Free…

The Department of Justice began its sixth distribution of the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) of approximately $488 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme, bringing the…

Agency challenges Facebook’s multi-year course of unlawful conduct The Federal Trade Commission has sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anti-competitive conduct. Following a lengthy investigation in cooperation…

Senior law enforcement officials from the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have criminally charged more than 700 members of transnational criminal organizations in Central America, primarily MS-13 and 18th Street gangs, which resulted from a one-week coordinated law…

Orlando Cordia Hall was executed this evening at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute in accordance with the capital sentence unanimously recommended by a federal jury and imposed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in 1996. Hall…

Under the Trump Administration, Operation Warp Speed's goal is to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing,…

The Unemployment Rate Fell To 6.9% In October, Nearly A Full Point Lower Than Economists Expected, Even As More Than 700,000 Americans Flooded Off The Sidelines And Back Into The Labor Market THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE “FELL SHARPLY” FOR ALL THE…

A federal grand jury in Portland returned a five count indictment against Portland resident Hawazen Sameer Mothafar, 31, charging two counts of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization and one count of providing and attempting to…

A former contractor with the U.S. Department of Justice pleaded guilty today for unlawfully using her government computer to access government records and providing sensitive, non-public information to another individual. Danielle Taff, 37, of Ankeny, Iowa, who was employed as…

Action Follows Last Month’s Seizure of 92 IRGC Domains The United States has seized 27 domain names that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unlawfully used to further a global covert influence campaign. As described in the seizure documents, all…

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Goldman Sachs or the Company), a global financial institution headquartered in New York, New York, and Goldman Sachs (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (GS Malaysia), its Malaysian subsidiary, have admitted to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt…