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The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), enacted in 2008, was one of the first state laws to address commercial collection of biometric data. Biometric data includes an iris scan, [...]

In what is considered the largest privacy-related settlement in history, Google will pay $391.5 million to 40 states to settle an investigation by 40 state attorneys general. The bipartisan coalition [...]

Residency has long been the touchstone of insurability when it comes to homeowners insurance. Courts applying Pennsylvania law have held that residency is a condition precedent to insurance coverage under [...]

Byline: Pramila Jayapal, Haley Stevens, Adam B. Schiff and Sean Casten For Print Use Only. Not since the Great Depression has the United States seen such high levels of unemployment. [...]

Byline: Pramila Jayapal;Haley Stevens;Adam B. Schiff;Sean Casten Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, is co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in the House. Haley Stevens, a Democrat from Michigan, serves [...]

Byline: Anna G. Eshoo and Adam B. Schiff If you take a pill every day to treat high blood pressure or high cholesterol, you probably don't spend much time thinking [...]

Byline: Adam B. Kushner Samantha Power has always had a self-righteous streak. She freely admits the 'certitude' and 'sanctimony' of her younger self. After a few years as a correspondent [...]

Byline: Adam B. Kushner Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century By George Packer Knopf. 608 pp. $30 --- Richard Holbrooke was a rare creature - [...]

Byline: Adam B. Schiff and Steve Chabot As members of Congress, we swear an oath to defend the Constitution, a pledge that includes protecting the First Amendment and its guarantee [...]

Byline: Adam B. Schiff Special counsel Robert Mueller's report chronicles a 'sweeping and systematic' Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump. It details a [...]

Byline: Adam B. Schiff Last week, the House voted 420-0 to make special counsel Robert Mueller's findings and report public. I hope Attorney General Bill Barr was watching. Contrary to [...]

Byline: Adam B. Schiff This is a moment of great peril for our democracy. Our country is deeply divided. Our national discourse has become coarse, indeed, poisonous. Disunity and dysfunction [...]

Byline: Adam B. Schiff Our democracy is broken, and President Donald Trump is only one reason. Congress is the other. It has failed to serve as anequal branch of government, [...]

Byline: Anna G. Eshoo;Adam B. Schiff If you take a pill every day to treat high blood pressure or high cholesterol, you probably don't spend much time thinking about where [...]

Byline: Adam B. Kushner Samantha Power has always had a self-righteous streak. She freely admits the 'certitude' and 'sanctimony' of her younger self. After a few years as a correspondent [...]

Byline: ;Adam B. Schiff Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report chronicles a 'sweeping and systematic' Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump. It [...]

Byline: Adam B. Schiff This is a moment of great peril for our democracy. Our country is deeply divided. Our national discourse has become coarse, indeed, poisonous. Disunity and dysfunction [...]

In 2010, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I led the effort to impeach a federal judge from New Orleans named Thomas Porteous Jr. He was accused of [...]

Byline: Adam B. Schiff Our democracy is broken, and President Trump is only one reason. Congress is the other. It has failed to serve as an equal branch of government, [...]

Byline: Adam B. Schiff In 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin directed an active-measures campaign of unprecedented scale against the United States. His object was to sow discord among Americans and [...]

Byline: ADAM B. SCHIFF WASHINGTON -- Not long after it was formed last year, members of the Select Committee on Benghazi gathered to meet privately with family members of the [...]

Byline: Adam B. Kushner When Hurricane Katrina annihilated my home town, it also seemed to extinguish a strain of American optimism. Suddenly, people wondered aloud whether New Orleans should be [...]

Byline: ADAM B. ELLICK and LIZ ALDERMAN VAULX-EN-VELIN, France -- France may have just hosted its biggest outpouring of solidarity since the end of World War II in response to [...]

Byline: ADAM B. ELLICK and LIZ ALDERMAN VAULX-EN-VELIN, France -- France may have just hosted its biggest outpouring of solidarity since the end of World War II in response to [...]

VAULX-EN-VELIN, France -- France may have just hosted its biggest outpouring of solidarity since the end of World War II in response to the terrorist attacks last week in and [...]

Byline: Adam B. Kushner If you have kids, you know that peanuts are increasingly verboten in schools. The food-allergy rate has risen at an alarming clip in recent decades, and, [...]

Byline: Adam B. Kushner SEATTLE - Shayne Bushfield hunkers over a printout, labeling black geometric figures. He races through two dozen states, naming each correctly, until one finally brings him [...]

Byline: Adam B. Kushner Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant seized nearly five years ago by the Taliban, is coming home. That's great news for him, for his family, for [...]

WASHINGTON -- AS night fell on what had been a scorching August day in Hadhramaut, Yemen, in 2012, four large explosions shattered the quiet. When the smoke cleared a few [...]

There is a story to Malala Yousafzai's improbable transformation from a quiet, deferential 11-year-old living near Pakistan's tribal areas to a teenage spokeswoman for girls' education. Malala, shot in the [...]

For years, a self-made real estate magnate named Edul Ahmad personified the collective dreams of Richmond Hill, Queens, which is populated by many immigrants from Guyana, in South America. Mr. [...]

MANAMA, Bahrain -- The police cars were lined up across the street, staking out a hub of subversive activity. Their focus was not some underworld hangout, but a coffee shop, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED MUHAMMAD BAIG knows exactly what he wants in a son-in-law, but he is also willing to compromise. Mr. Right would be Pakistani, though someone from India might do. [...]

KARACHI, Pakistan -- Dinner at Rabia Sultana's house is now served over a cold silence. Her family has not spoken to her since May, when Ms. Sultana, 21, swapped her [...]

DRUSHKHELA, Pakistan -- People here felt a surge of optimism last year when the military declared the Swat Valley cleared of Taliban insurgents, who had bullied their way to power [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The killing of an exiled Pakistani politician in London shut down most of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, on Friday as the police contained unrest and moved to [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A clash between anti-American protesters and the Afghan police injured 35 police officers and 12 civilians here on Wednesday, as each side accused the other of indiscriminately [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The run on deposits at the troubled Kabul Bank slowed Tuesday after a long religious holiday, but Afghan financial officials and businessmen said they foresaw further problems [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- On Wednesday, the last business day before a national holiday, state security forces punched and pushed back hundreds of governments workers trying to storm the central branch [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In early 2009, as President Hamid Karzai scanned the landscape for potential partners to run in his re-election bid, he was approached from an unusual corner: a [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The chairman of the Central Bank of Afghanistan promised Monday to lend the embattled Kabul Bank ''as much as it wants'' to stave off a collapse, even [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government took steps on Sunday toward seizing the properties of major shareholders of the troubled Kabul Bank, as perturbed crowds and national security forces surrounded [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a bid to fend off the threat of a nationwide financial crisis, the Afghan government scrambled to shore up Afghanistan's largest bank on Saturday [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Ten Afghans, including four policemen, were killed Saturday in two separate bombings, in the cities of Kunduz and Kandahar, NATO and local government officials said. A Taliban [...]

The Afghan bank under severe threat of collapse was closed, as usual, on Friday, the national day of rest. The country's banking system will reopen on Saturday, and observers will [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Airstrikes by NATO forces that killed 12 people on Thursday in northern Afghanistan have produced sharply conflicting accounts as to whether the attacks hit a team of [...]

KARACHI, Pakistan -- Even as the government and international relief workers struggle to get food and clean water to millions of flood-stricken Pakistanis, concerns are growing about the enduring toll [...]

CHARSADDA, Pakistan -- As public anger rises over the government's slow and chaotic response to Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years, hard-line Islamic charities have stepped into the breach with [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The damage from Pakistan's worst floods in generations mounted on Monday as rescue operations continued and public fury rose in the country's most volatile province. The official [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The military and other emergency workers struggled against time and nature on Sunday to reach at least 10,000 people trapped by collapsed bridges and flooded roads and [...]