The Justice Department is shaking up the team probing former CIA Director John Brennan as part of a broad investigation into an alleged years-long conspiracy against President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

When it comes to winning the legal industry talent wars, the best defense is a good offense, according to K&L Gates’ global managing partner, Stacy Ackermann. She spoke to Bloomberg Law editor Chris Opfer on our podcast, On The Merits, about how competitive the market for legal talent has gotten, even in secondary markets like her hometown of Charlotte, N.C.

The Supreme Court could soon resolve a circuit split on a question that goes to the foundation of the SEC’s remedial authority: Must the SEC show that a target’s conduct caused pecuniary harm to investors for a disgorgement remedy?

The US Supreme Court sided with Chevron Corp. in a protracted fight over the proper venue for a lawsuit seeking to hold the oil and gas giant liable for the rapid erosion of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands.

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Reforming state CPA licensure requirements would give accounting firms more ways to recruit talent in the age of artificial intelligence.

American Airlines Group Inc. said it’s not engaged with or interested in any discussions regarding a merger with rival United Airlines Holdings Inc., dampening the prospect of a tie-up that could reshape the industry.

Meta Platforms Inc. plans to cut 10% of its global workforce — about 8,000 employees — in late May, according to a Reuters report.

New York City doormen and building owners reached a potential agreement on wage and benefit increases, avoiding a possible strike as soon as April 21 that would have upended day-to-day operations at 3,500 co-ops, condos and apartment properties.

The National Labor Relations Board was wrong to rule that Starbucks Corp. violated federal labor law with overly broad subpoenas that went to workers in a separate unfair labor practice case that it later won, a federal appeals court ruled.

A New York court dismissed an employee’s state labor law claims against the Port Authority and multiple companies after a glass panel shattered during removal, where they didn’t have supervisory control nor was there an elevation-related risk requiring safety devices. Alibasic v. Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J., 2026 BL 133108, N.Y. Sup. Ct., INDEX NO. 156991/2021, 4/7/26

OpenAI Inc. is abandoning its Ninth Circuit bid to reverse an order barring the use of “Cameo” for features in its Sora video generator while its trademark fight with the personalized video platform Cameo proceeds.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to expedite research and access to psychedelics used outside the US to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

The IRS has released Internal Revenue Bulletin. [IRB 2026-17, 04/20/26]

President Donald Trump and the IRS are still hashing out a settlement in a $10 billion lawsuit against the agency after the president’s data was part of historic leak of billionaires’ tax information.

The IRS has issued its final rule amending income tax regulations relating to occupations that customarily and regularly received tips, as a result of Public Law 119-21, the One Big ...

The IRS has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking relating to proposed regulations that would provide rules and definitions for the excise tax imposed on certain remittance transfers that occur ...

The IRS has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking relating to the dollar thresholds in regulations governing information reporting for payments, made in the course of a trade or business, ...

Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time but failing to correctly place the satellite it was carrying into its intended orbit.

The dispute will shape a panoply of SEC cases in which victims aren’t easy to pinpoint, from low-profile record-keeping violations to major insider trading allegations.

Option traders have flipped from concern that the Iran war will sink the economy to fear of missing out on the torrid equity rebound. That shift away from macro risk to individual stocks is set to continue as corporate earnings take center stage.

Observed transits of commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz have come to a halt following a brief surge on Saturday as tensions ratcheted higher after vessels came under gunfire in the waterway and Iran warned against crossings.

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For more than 50 years, the US civil rights law known as Title IX has been a bulwark against sex discrimination in education. Covering students from kindergarten through university, it’s been the basis for landmark cases involving campus rape, gender bias in standardized testing and unequal funding for women’s athletics.