Sophia Park, 17, and her family huddled around her laptop one evening this month as she entered her details onto the State Bar of California’s website and clicked “Check pass list.”

NEW YORK >> Gautam Adani, the chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, U.S. prosecutors said today.

NEW YORK >> Gautam Adani, the chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, U.S. prosecutors said today.

NEW YORK >> Gautam Adani, the chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, U.S. prosecutors said today.

NEW YORK >> Gautam Adani, the chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, U.S. prosecutors said today.

NEW YORK >> Gautam Adani, the chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, U.S. prosecutors said today.

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. House Ethics Committee did not reach an agreement on whether to release the results of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, the panel’s head said today.

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. House Ethics Committee did not reach an agreement on whether to release the results of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, the panel’s head said today.

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. House Ethics Committee did not reach an agreement on whether to release the results of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, the panel’s head said today.

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. House Ethics Committee did not reach an agreement on whether to release the results of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, the panel’s head said today.

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. House Ethics Committee did not reach an agreement on whether to release the results of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, the panel’s head said today.

NEW YORK >> Former billionaire investor Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang was sentenced to 18 years in prison today over the collapse of Archegos Capital Management, which cost Wall Street banks more than $10 billion.

NEW YORK >> Apple asked a federal judge today to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice’s case accusing the iPhone maker of unlawfully dominating the smartphone market, in the latest Big Tech antitrust showdown.

NEW YORK >> Apple asked a federal judge today to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice’s case accusing the iPhone maker of unlawfully dominating the smartphone market, in the latest Big Tech antitrust showdown.

A powerful storm clobbered Washington state today, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people while disrupting road travel and causing at least two deaths and two injuries.

LONDON/SINGAPORE/NEW YORK >> Bitcoin rose to a fresh record high just shy of $95,000 after a report that Donald Trump’s social media company was in talks to buy crypto trading firm Bakkt boosted expectations of a crypto-friendly regime under his incoming administration.