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Protection changes: The Justice Department proposed Congress roll back protections for online platforms, putting legislative form to President Donald Trump’s war against social media companies. The proposed changes would strip protections of companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter shielding them from legal responsibility for what people post on their platforms.

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DEA report: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration failed to effectively oversee and manage undercover money laundering operations that move tens of millions of dollars of illegal drug proceeds each year through a network of government-approved fronts, according to a watchdog report. The new report suggests that a number of deficiencies remain, including weak oversight from the Justice Department.

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Seeking peaceful resolution: China said Wednesday it is seeking a peaceful resolution to its Himalayan border dispute with India following the death of 20 Indian soldiers in the most violent confrontation in decades.

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Price-fixing sentence: Christopher Lischewski, former president and chief executive of Bumble Bee Foods, was sentenced to 40 months in jail and a $100,000 fine Tuesday for his role in a yearslong conspiracy to fix prices of canned tuna, the Department of Justice said. The scheme affected over $600 million worth of canned tuna sales

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Assad’s uncle sentenced: An uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad was sentenced to four years in prison in France on Wednesday for illegally using Syrian state funds to build a French real estate empire. The anti-corruption groups that launched the legal proceedings against Rifaat Assad announced the decision by a Paris court and hailed it as a new victory in long-running efforts to prosecute foreign leaders accused of hiding stolen money in France.