When something big happens, we explain the background you need to make sense of it, without picking a side.
A year after thieves took eight pieces of France's crown jewels from the Louvre in less than eight minutes, four suspects are in jail awaiting trial, the museum's director has resigned, and the jewels have not been found.
Three arms of the Treasury Department penalized Bank of America more than $1.21 billion on October 13th, and the bank admitted it willfully failed to report billions of dollars in suspicious transactions. Here is what the 95-page order says went wrong.