The incoming Biden administration is giving serious consideration to selecting Jenny Yang, a former EEOC chair, to head the Labor Department’s contractor compliance agency, according to two sources familiar with internal personnel discussions.

New York litigator Barry Berke has been tapped as Democrats’ top legal adviser in the upcoming impeachment trial against President Donald Trump.

In a dramatic account of the siege at the Capitol, U.S. prosecutors in Arizona claimed Thursday that rioters had sought to “capture and assassinate” elected officials, but retracted the assertion a day later.

The Biden administration’s plan to expand emergency federal leave during the Covid-19 pandemic includes the nation’s largest companies, widening the pool of employers that can be sued if they refuse to grant worker requests to recover from the virus, care for family members, or deal with school and childcare closures.

Capital One Financial Corp. agreed to pay an additional $290 million to settle an investigation brought by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network into its anti-money laundering program.

President-elect Joe Biden says he’s against the death penalty now. A case involving the surviving Boston Marathon bomber waiting for him on Day One will test if he means it.