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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a powerful agency policing predatory or unfair practices. Trump hobbled it. But a court ruling allows Biden to appoint a new sheriff at the bureau.

Mayorkas, who was born in Havana, came to the U.S. with his family as a political refugee. He was U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services chief in the Obama administration.

Fulton County's DA has opened a criminal investigation into "attempts to influence the administration of the 2020 Georgia General Election," according sent to the Georgia secretary of state.

Former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf says the Biden administration did not heed advice from the former administration about preventing an influx of migrants at the southern border.

Torrential rain has inundated parts of Australia, forcing evacuations and sending waterfalls down the side of the country's majestic — and normally arid — Uluru rocks.

The ACLU wants the Biden administration to close dozens of immigration detention facilities, citing the historically low number of immigrants in detention and the high cost of paying for empty beds.

Scientists are trying to determine if the coronavirus variant in India could be the most transmissible variant known.

The president rolled out a plan to overhaul the immigration system on his first day in office. Last week he shifted to talk about a narrower approach. Some advocates feel abandoned.

The former House speaker says the troubled mortgage giant paid him the consultant fee in 2006 for his "advice as a historian" — and that he was not a lobbyist. Strictly speaking, that's right. But one expert says what Freddie really wanted was "political protection and cover."

Japanese automaker Honda has had a tough time recently. The earthquake and tsunami disrupted production. And now flooding in Thailand is causing more trouble. There are concerns that the quality of Honda's cars may be slipping.