Good morning. The U.S. solar industry is confronting fresh disruptions as U.S. officials crack down on human-rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, which produces almost half the world’s supply of a crucial component in solar panels.

Several Chinese solar-panel suppliers, among the world’s largest, have had shipments to the U.S. detained or sent back during the past several weeks as customs agents enforce a new law, industry executives and analysts say.

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The extent of the disruption is still hard to gauge. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, or UFLPA, went into effect at the end of June, and importers, suppliers and customs agents are still feeling their way on what it will take to get goods into the country, the industry executives and analysts say.

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JetBlue Airways Corp. has promoted Renée Anckner to principal compliance and privacy officer, the airline said Tuesday.

Ms. Anckner, who will handle those duties as part of her new title, associate general counsel, will continue to report to Brandon Nelson, JetBlue’s general counsel. She joined JetBlue in 2017 and has been lead in-house counsel for JetBlue’s major infrastructure projects. She will keep those responsibilities in her new role.

Previously, Ms. Anckner practiced commercial and product liability litigation at law firms in New York and served as outside counsel for JetBlue.

–Richard Vanderford

Re/Max Holdings Inc. has appointed Susie Winders as its new general counsel and chief compliance officer, the franchised real-estate brokerage said on Monday.

Ms. Winders, who has been at the company more than 13 years, previously served as vice president and assistant general counsel. In her new role, she will lead the company’s legal and contracts departments, and oversee corporate governance and compliance, among other duties.

—Dylan Tokar

The U.S. on Tuesday brought administrative charges against China’s largest wire and cable manufacturer, saying it had violated U.S. export controls by helping telecommunication company ZTE Corp. deliver restricted technology to Iran, Risk & Compliance Journal's Dylan Tokar reports.

Far East Cable Co., a company based in China’s Jiangsu province, signed a contract with ZTE in an effort to conceal the telecommunication company’s business with Iran, which relied on U.S.-origin routers and microprocessors, according to a charging letter by a bureau of the U.S. Commerce Department.

A federal judge approved Blue Cross Blue Shield companies’ settlement of a sweeping antitrust suit filed on behalf of their customers, with the insurers agreeing to pay $2.67 billion and change certain practices that allegedly limited competition.

The approval on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor, whose Alabama court handled the litigation, means the settlement is set to start going into effect after 30 days.

Federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday in part because they believed additional classified information remained at the private club after the National Archives retrieved more than a dozen boxes of White House documents from the resort earlier this year, people familiar with the matter said.

• Government Records Case Against Trump Could Raise Rare Legal Issues
• House Democrats Can Have Access to Trump Tax Returns, Appeals Court Rules

Former Twitter Inc. employee Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia after passing on private user information associated with critics of the kingdom in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Mr. Abouammo, 44, who worked at Twitter from 2013 to 2015 managing media partnerships with high-profile users in the Middle East and North Africa, was also found guilty of money laundering, falsification of records and one count of wire fraud by the 11-person jury on Tuesday. Mr. Abouammo was found innocent on five other counts of wire fraud.

• Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has agreed to pay up to about $20 million to roughly 13,000 workers in a settlement with New York City over claims that the workers’ rights to predictable schedules and paid sick leave were violated.

Taiwan’s military fired dozens of shells off its southern coast on Tuesday in a simulation of a defense of the island, as Taiwan followed up nearly a week of Chinese military drills with preplanned defensive maneuvers of its own.

Taiwan kicked off its two-day military exercise—known as Tianlei, which can be loosely translated as “Heaven’s Thunder”—with an hour-long live-firing drill involving more than 700 troops, according to Taiwan’s Eighth Army Corps, with 38 howitzers firing 114 shells into the waters.

The annual drills, while planned months in advance, come amid tensions across the Taiwan Strait that are their highest in decades.

• War Game Finds U.S., Taiwan Can Defend Against a Chinese Invasion

Transneft PJSC, the government-owned oil-pipeline operator, said Tuesday that crude exports through Ukrainian territory had halted on Aug. 4. It blamed payment difficulties caused by Western sanctions on Moscow and said Ukraine’s pipeline operator had declined to carry crude after it didn’t receive funds.

• Blasts Rock Russian Air Base in Crimea
• Inside the Russian-Occupied Ukrainian City Living Under Threat of Nuclear Disaster

• Average U.S. hourly earnings grew 5.2% in July from a year earlier, and annual wage gains have exceeded 5% each month this year, the Labor Department said Friday. The rapid earnings growth adds to other evidence that employers are continuing to increase pay as they try to find and keep workers in a tight job market.
   
• U.S. labor productivity declined for the second consecutive quarter as overall economic output contracted and employers spent more on labor as they added workers.

Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Chapek is expected to address investors publicly this week for the first time since the media giant’s board of directors renewed his contract through the end of 2024.

The 63-year-old is expected to outline his vision for Disney and face questions during the entertainment company’s third-quarter earnings report Wednesday afternoon about how he plans to steer the company’s streaming business. Mr. Chapek is also likely to be asked about how Disney will capitalize on increased travel at its theme parks and what type of content the company plans to invest in for various entertainment outlets.

• Revlon Inc. is changing out its top finance executive roughly two months after filing for bankruptcy protection.

Microsoft Corp. is asking teams across the company to rein in some employee expenses as the software giant tries to control costs in the current economic environment.

Managers at the Redmond, Wash., company have told staff of various cutbacks to the company’s budget, said people familiar with its plans. Some spending on business travel, outside training and company gatherings is being targeted, said the people.

A $600 million debt deal that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. recently arranged for Avaya Holdings Corp. went bad within weeks.

The two banks sold new loans and bonds for Avaya, a cloud-communications company, in late June. Investors included Brigade Capital Management LP and Symphony Asset Management LLC, people familiar with the matter said.

A few weeks later, Avaya announced that it would miss by more than 60% its previous forecasts for adjusted earnings in the third quarter, which ended June 30. It gave no explanation. The company also said that it would miss revenue targets and announced it was removing its chief executive officer.

• Avaya Taps Legal, Financial Advisers to Look at Debt Options

• The chip industry that was bracing for a difficult period with laptop sales slumping is adjusting to a wider and sharper slowdown even as semiconductor companies prepare to spend billions of dollars on new factories.
   
• Coinbase Global Inc. reported a surprisingly large second consecutive quarter of losses, driven by the crypto market’s spring meltdown.
   
• Endo International PLC, the pharmaceutical manufacturer facing thousands of lawsuits alleging it fueled the opioid addiction crisis, said Tuesday that it is likely to file for bankruptcy imminently.
   
• The energy package recently passed by the Senate includes $27 billion for what are called green banks that funnel money into renewable projects, although some of the biggest beneficiaries could ultimately be private-sector investors.