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☆ Coinbase Insider-Trading Case Spearheads Crypto’s Latest Bid to Avoid SEC Oversight
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Dave Michaels | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Eric Lee for The Wall Street JournalThe Securities and Exchange Commission has told Coinbase it is likely to recommend enforcement action against the company over listing assets that regulators believe are securities. WASHINGTON—Crypto has picked an unlikely ally in its battle against oversight by Wall Street’s chief regulator: a former Coinbase Global Inc. employee convicted of insider trading. Ishan Wahi, a former manager at Coinbase, pleaded guilty this year to giving his brother and a college friend trading tips that generated almost $1.5 million in illicit profits. An Indian immigrant, he could serve more than three years in prison and be deported after doing time.

☆ Justice Department Probes TikTok’s Tracking Of U.S. Journalists
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Sadie Gurman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Eric Lee for The Wall Street JournalThe Justice Department opens the probe as the Biden administration shifts to a tougher approach toward the video-sharing app. The Justice Department is investigating the surveillance of American journalists by TikTok’s Chinese owners, a person familiar with the matter said, a revelation that comes as the Biden administration has shifted toward a tougher approach to address the perceived security threat from the video-sharing app. The federal investigation began after the Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. in December acknowledged that its employees misused their authority to access the data of journalists in an effort to identify leaks of confidential company information.

☆ Eye Drops Recalled by Two Companies Over Safety Concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Eric Lee For The Wall Street JournalThe Food and Drug Administration posted voluntary recalls of eye drops from two companies. Two companies have recalled eye drops because of safety risks that could cause infections and other problems. The Food and Drug Administration posted the companies’ voluntary recalls, announced earlier this month, on its website.

☆ Drug to Prevent Preterm Births to Be Pulled From Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Liz Essley Whyte | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Eric Lee for The Wall Street JournalMakena was the only drug approved by the FDA to reduce the risk of preterm birth in women with a history of early deliveries. Covis Pharma Group said it will stop selling its drug to prevent preterm births, after a study couldn’t confirm the medicine worked and U.S. health regulators were taking steps that could have it pulled. Makena was the only drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to reduce the risk of preterm birth in women with a history of early deliveries.

☆ Biden Snub on Crime Law Reminds D.C. Who’s in Charge
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Annie Linskey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Eric Lee for The Wall Street JournalThe nation’s capital is subject to congressional oversight because of a provision in the Constitution. WASHINGTON—The city that hosts the most powerful government in the world doesn’t have much power. President Biden’s decision to side with Republicans and some Democrats in blocking changes to the District of Columbia’s crime code is the latest in a long string of interventions regarding contentious local laws. Federal lawmakers say they are exercising needed oversight for the federal district, while local elected officials argue Congress is undercutting the democratic process to score political points.

☆ Lawmakers Call for Broad U.S. Probes of Financial Conflicts by Federal Officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Brody Mullins | Rebecca Ballhaus | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Eric Lee for The Wall Street JournalTwo Democratic lawmakers are requesting recommendations for how ethics rules and regulations in Washington can be strengthened. WASHINGTON—Two Democratic lawmakers called on the executive branch to root out financial conflicts-of-interest among top government officials. In letters sent to eight federal agencies Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington asked that internal investigators launch probes into conflicts of interest and review the effectiveness of the agencies’ rules.

☆ FDA Widens Path for Rare-Disease Treatments With New Approval
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Amy Dockser Marcus | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Eric Lee for The Wall Street JournalThe Food and Drug Administration, headquartered in Silver Spring, Md., has said it is willing to approve a drug based on results from one trial and “confirmatory evidence.”Federal regulators approved a drug to treat a debilitating disease using data collected about patients over decades, creating an opening for researchers of other rare conditions who often struggle to prove their treatments work. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s drug Skyclarys, or omaveloxolone, for treating the neurological disorder Friedreich’s ataxia in adults and adolescents age 16 and older.

That money was to be given in $2 billion annual installments of Foreign Military Financing, or FMF, grants over five years. Republicans accused Biden's administration of failing to advocate strongly enough for the Taiwan grants, given that his fellow Democrats controlled both the Senate and House last year. "Securing FMF funding is always a challenge given the tight budget constraints, even for priority partners like Taiwan," said Eric Lee of the Project 2049 Institute think tank. "I would prefer to see a revival of FMF grants, but with clear strings attached," said Michael Hunzeker, a Taiwan military expert at George Mason University. Grants to buy specific weapons could be made on condition of Taiwan showing further moves toward asymmetric defense, he said.

☆ Successfully applying for Social Security disability is difficult. Applying as a long Covid patient is even trickier
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Social Security disability benefits are generally available to workers who have earned enough credits through payroll taxes — typically 40 credits, though younger workers may qualify with less. Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, is a federal benefit available to disabled individuals who may not qualify for Social Security disability based on their work records. Allsup, which works with NASA, helped Perry get his Social Security disability benefits application approved. "That can really make or break a Social Security disability case," he said. Social Security disability benefits are aimed at long-term conditions.

☆ The feds say they're in for the long haul on Jan. 6 investigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Ryan J. Reilly | Ryan J. Reilly Is A Justice Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +16 min

But the federal investigation has been strained, spread thin and strapped for resources as a sometimes less-than-agile federal bureaucracy adapts to the overwhelming scope of the caseload. While the FBI arrested more than 700 defendants in the first year of the investigation, it arrested about 200 in the second. Online sleuths have done their best to bust those myths, too. “That was it.”The Sedition Hunters website features images of people online sleuths say took part in the Jan. 6 attack, including many (in blue) who have been identified. Some charging documents in Jan. 6 cases make the role that online sleuths played clear.

☆ Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dominated oral arguments and challenged conservative thinking in her first months on the Supreme Court, observers say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has sat on the Supreme Court for a little more than two months. The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022 in Washington, DC. Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court during a formal group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Some court observers say oral arguments can potentially be an opportunity for justices to sway their colleagues' thinking – though that doesn't happen often. During the three hours of oral arguments, Jackson frequently threw cold water on the idea.

☆ Michigan investigation into missing man Eric Lee Franks continues over a decade later
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Veronica Fulton | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +22 min

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