Virginia-based Newport News Shipbuilding has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle discrimination charges involving 141 Black job applicants over nearly a year.

Residents and businesses who say Seattle’s tolerance of an autonomous zone established in the Capitol Hill neighborhood by civil rights protesters caused economic damage and other harm can proceed with most of their claims against the city, a federal judge in Washington said.

The deaths of George Floyd and others inspired protests demanding changes in how officers interact with suspects. In more than a dozen cities and counties, the protests led to the ballot box.

Black borrowers pay $13,464 more over the life of a home loan, with interest, mortgage-insurance and tax expenses higher than for their White counterparts, further hurting African Americans’ ability to save for retirement, according to a new study.

Goodwin Procter’s Blake Liggio stands apart from scores of newly announced partners at firms this fall as the first transgender equity partner at Goodwin and one of relatively few transgender lawyers known to have climbed the ladder in Big Law.

ESG investing is the most significant development in money management since the creation of the exchange-traded fund two decades ago and it will reshape finance just as passive funds have.