Expect the incoming Office of Management and Budget to take a more activist role in leading President-elect Trump's push to deregulate, cut spending and overhaul the federal workforce.
The powerful consulting firm McKinsey will "accept responsibility" and pay $650 million for helping to fuel the opioid crisis, but executives will once again dodge prosecution.
Ohio and 16 other Republican-dominated states have sued, asserting that a waiver granted to California to set its own rules violates the basic design of the U.S. Constitution, which they assert should treat states as equals.