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🎯 Biden Unlocks Fresh Funds to Iran Totaling Billions. This is the first time the Biden administration has renewed a key waiver since the Iran-backed terror group Hamas launched its attack on Israel. Washington Free Beacon
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🌎 Cyprus Confidential. A new investigation exposes the sprawling financial industry that has powered the Putin regime as it dominates its neighbors – and undermines the West. ICIJ
🌎 As sanctions loomed, accounting giant PwC scrambled to keep powerful Russians a step ahead. The Big Four firm has served dozens of oligarchs through its Cyprus branch, undermining global efforts to punish Putin’s allies and stymie support for Russia’s war machine. ICIJ
🌎 In some Latin American drug cartels, women are the violent new overlords. The context of women’s involvement in the Latin American drug trade has been changing, in pace with the growing participation of women in economic and social life. LA Times
🌎 The American Multimillionaire Marxists Funding Pro-Palestinian Rage. Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans are China propagandists – and a primary source of the fury exploding on our streets. Free Press
🌎 China receives US equipment to make advanced chips despite new rules. A House Select Committee on China takes aim at the Biden administration's October 2022 export curbs which seek to bar Chinese chipmakers from getting U.S. chipmaking tools. Reuters
🌎 How Meta got busted for harming teenage girls, boosting cartels and more. Haugen was hired by Facebook in 2019 for a noble mission: to study how misinformation was spread on the site and what could be done to stop it. NY Post
🌎 LockBit ransomware group assembles strike team to breach banks, law firms and governments. Most of the victims are not listed on LockBit’s portal, which suggests they are negotiating payment or have already paid. DoublePulsar
🌎 SEC Touts $5B in Penalties After Year of Crypto Dragnet. The SEC said the total penalties it won between October 2022 and September 30 was the second highest amount on record. Bloomberg
🌎 The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet – then went to work for the FBI. Wired
🌎 Michael Flynn and family pocketed leftover money from his legal defense fund. Flynn, a key figure in the early days of the Trump presidency, served as national security advisor for 22 days. Semafor
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