Week in review

Biden delivers final United Nations address

President Joe Biden declared in his final address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the U.S. must not retreat from the world, as Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon edged toward all-out war and Israel's bloody operation against Hamas in Gaza neared the one-year mark.

Biden used his wide-ranging address to speak to a need to end the Middle East conflict and the 17-month-old civil war in Sudan and to highlight U.S. and Western allies' support for Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. He also raised concern over artificial intelligence and its potential to be used for repression, but said he finds cause for optimism.

VISA LAWSUIT: The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa on Tuesday, alleging that the financial services behemoth uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market. According to the DOJ's complaint, 60% of debit transactions in the United States run on Visa's debit network.

hmad Alissa, a mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket in 2021, was convicted Monday of murder by a jury that rejected his attempt to avoid prison time by pleading not guilty by reason of insanity.

OHIO DERAILMENT: A federal judge approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad offered to everyone who lived within 20 miles of last year's disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Roughly 55,000 claims were filed.