The House Judiciary Committee escalated the bipartisan battle against the world’s biggest online retailer with a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland referring the case for a criminal inquiry.

The president urges the Federal Reserve to explore whether the central bank should create its own digital currency.

But the continent’s dependence on Russia for energy makes an immediate embargo much more difficult.

It challenges a decades-long argument that employers moved jobs abroad to lower their costs by relying on cheaper workers.