Moderna Inc., one of the leading biotechnology companies in the push to get a coronavirus vaccine, is preparing to part ways with its top lawyer, the company said Thursday.

McDonald’s Corp. was accused of discrimination by the Black franchise operators of four of its restaurants in Tennessee, escalating a legal fight after a group of Black former franchisees claimed in a lawsuit that the company set them up to fail in crime-ridden areas.

The NAACP and other civil rights groups hit the Trump administration Thursday with a constitutional challenge to the president’s recent executive order banning federal contractors and grant recipients from holding workplace diversity trainings that discuss “divisive” topics like race and sex “stereotyping and scapegoating.”

A coalition of unions filed a petition Thursday asking the Ninth Circuit to order the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to enact a rule protecting workers from airborne diseases as Covid-19 cases continue to soar.

A dizzying array of U.S. Supreme Court orders and opinions over the past 10 days has left the rules governing next week’s presidential election in flux.

Deutsche Bank AG has a new leader for its U.S. entities in Steven Reich, previously general counsel for the Americas at the German financial services outfit.