Supreme Court declines to hear appeal, giving creditors a rare opportunity to access funds from overseas accounts

The Supreme Court has revived a requirement that owners of millions of small businesses register with an arm of the Treasury Department under an anti-money laundering law.

The Supreme Court has upheld the law that will effectively ban TikTok on Sunday,9. The decision marks the end of TikTok’s months-long legal

The case has raised concerns about potential chaos in the motor finance and car industry, which could make it more difficult for consumers to secure loans.

After hearing arguments on Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to uphold the law, meaning that TikTok will be banned effective if the parent company ByteDance does not sell the company by Sunday.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court injunction against the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires businesses to disclose their beneficial owners. The outcome has significant implications for banks' AML compliance burdens.

A subsequent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned that injunction, which restored the requirement. Soon after, a separate panel of judges on the Fifth Circuit overturned the decision that lifted the injunction — which, once again, halted implementation of the rule.

The Cross River House of Assembly has okayed deducting 7.5 per cent from the monthly federal allocation of each of the state’s 18 local government areas. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that the deduction is contained in the Local Government Amendment Bill 2025, which has passed its third reading in the House.

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THE US Supreme Court ... based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the injunction to take effect ahead of a Jan 13 deadline that most companies had faced to submit their initial reports to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the North Dakota Monitor. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. During Doug Burgum’s two terms as North Dakota governor,

While national exit polls reveal some information about the youth vote in 2024, there were no exit polls for California and neither the state nor the federal government release age-specific voting data,