Peter Whoriskey

National Guard troops deployed to protect statehouses from a repeat of U.S. Capitol assault.

More than 170 of those recipients have been named in multiple consumer complaints, racking up at least 100 with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to The Washington Post’s analysis.

Despite their success, at least 27 of the 50 largest firms held layoffs this year, collectively cutting more than 100,000 workers, The Post found.

Human rights advocates are seeking to hold Nestlé USA and Cargill responsible for the mistreatment of six Malians who say they were trafficked as children to work on cocoa farms.

Twenty years ago, Robert F. Smith, made a deal to set up his private equity firm. Smith has since become a billionaire and is often ranked as the wealthiest Black person in the U.S. But the old deal with businessman Robert Brockman also entailed offshore accounts that federal prosecutors now say were part of the largest tax fraud in U.S. history.

Child labor among agricultural households in cocoa-growing areas of Ivory Coast and Ghana, the two primary suppliers, increased from 31 percent to 45 percent between 2008 and 2019, according to the Department of Labor survey.

In 1840, the government's count found that ‘insanity and idiocy’ was 10 times more common among free Blacks than the enslaved — a number that was completely wrong but never corrected.

“For any other recession, this may have been a very good response. But because of this virus, it was doomed to fail.” The U.S. government spent nearly $4 trillion on a coronavirus recession without considering the deadly pandemic.

Following allegations that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy urged employees of his previous business to make political contributions, Congressional Democrats accuse him of laundering campaign money and call for an investigation.

The government's Paycheck Protection Program paid $517 billion to thousands of companies with the intention of keeping people on payroll. Many employees of large companies who received millions from the program, however, have yet to be returned to the payroll.