Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, the US and its allies froze an estimated $300 billion in Russian central bank assets that were being held in non-Russian financial institutions. Sanctions imposed on prominent Russian individuals have frozen an additional estimated $58 billion in assets, including homes, yachts and private aircraft.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached in an extraordinary vote by the state’s Republican-dominated House of Representatives, which charged him Saturday with bribery, obstruction of justice and 18 other offenses.

The Republican-dominated Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to consider articles of impeachment against Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday, in what will be an historic vote that could result in his suspension from office.

Donald Trump claims a jury finding that he wasn’t liable for raping E. Jean Carrollderails her other pending lawsuit against him.

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s decision that a LegalForce trademark attorney violated the agency’s rules of professional conduct was upheld by a Virgina federal judge who denied the attorneys’ attempt to fight the decision.

An insurer for Bill Hwang and his Archegos Capital Management is suing to avoid paying any costs incurred by Archegos, Hwang and other senior executives of the investment firm from a separate suit by a former employee who claims the implosion of the family office cost him as much as $50 million.

A newly enacted Texas law bans employers from discriminating against workers for hairstyles and textures commonly associated with race, giving CROWN Act supporters a major win in the nation’s most populous red state.

The US is becoming increasingly split between high-priced cities where the rich and powerful congregate and more affordable locales that offer jobs that can be done from anywhere, according to a new study.

A petition seeking to oust the union at a Starbucks Corp. cafe in Buffalo, N.Y., was dismissed Friday after a National Labor Relations Board official determined that labor charges against the company were sufficient to halt the decertification process.

Workers who build and repair water mains and sewers asked a federal judge for final approval of their $1.5 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing their employer of stiffing them on pay.

Lacey’s Place LLC Series Midlothian, which does business as Lacey’s Place, has agreed to pay $92,964 and furnish additional relief to settle a pay discrimination and retaliation lawsuit in Illinois, the EEOC said Friday.

Tyson Foods Inc. again failed with a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by a Tennessee pork processing plant employee who says her religious objection to its Covid-19 vaccination mandate wasn’t properly accommodated, resulting in her discharge.

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin slipped into the debt-limit deal a measure meant to accelerate a multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline that’s been repeatedly stalled on environmental concerns, according to people familiar with the matter.

The US Forest Service violated the Clean Water Act when the agency’s aircraft sprayed fire-retardant chemicals without a permit, a Montana federal court ruled.

Although Supreme Court justices were unanimous in backing landowners in a big EPA case, their reasoning in the latest check on administrative authority shows there is still deep division.

ConocoPhillips exercised its right to acquire TotalEnergies SE’s 50% stake in the Surmont oil-sands field for as much as $3.33 billion, giving it full control of the Canadian operation and thwarting efforts by Suncor Energy Inc. to buy into the site.

The California state Senate approved a bill that would force the country’s two largest pensions to divest an estimated $15 billion from oil and gas companies, a measure opposed by the funds’ managers.

An offshore wind energy project near Nantucket, Mass., was handed a win Thursday against fishing groups that have been trying to stop the project’s construction.

A shakeup is brewing in the $1.6 trillion universe of emerging-market sovereign debt — whether Wall Street likes it or not.

A newly enacted Texas law bans employers from discriminating against workers for hairstyles and textures commonly associated with race, giving CROWN Act supporters a major win in the nation’s most populous red state.

The US is becoming increasingly split between high-priced cities where the rich and powerful congregate and more affordable locales that offer jobs that can be done from anywhere, according to a new study.

MGA Entertainment Inc.'s line of L.O.L. Suprise! OMG Dolls didn’t rip off former teen pop group OMG Girlz’s names and likenesses, a Los Angeles jury concluded in a case that’s involved a mistrial, allegations of racism, and calls to sanction attorneys.

South Carolina’s latest restrictions on abortion were blocked Friday, just one day after taking effect.

Balch & Bingham’s Steven Burns writes that the Supreme Court has significantly narrowed the kinds of wetlands subject to federal regulation, but the new “continuous surface connection” test leaves a lot of blanks for subject matter experts and courts to fill in for years to come.