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🎯 US targets two China-based firms over forced labor practices. The United States will ban goods from two key firms as part of its effort to eliminate the use of forced labor practices in the U.S. supply chain. Reuters
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🌎 Trump’s New Legal Fund Is a Lean, Mean Grift Machine. Trump’s legal costs have gotten so high that he’s been forced to find a new way around campaign finance laws, allowing him to draw massive donations from megadonors. Daily Beast
🌎 What to know about the judge overseeing Trump's Jan. 6 case. Tanya Chutkan, judge in Trump’s latest criminal case, is ‘toughest punisher’ of Jan. 6 rioters, once repped Theranos. NY Post
🌎 Mexico’s ‘Monster’ Trucks Show Cartels Taking Drug War to Next Level. Taking the monster truck concept to deadly new realms, cartels are modifying pickups with gun turrets, steel armoring and battering rams. NY Times
🌎 Cloud company assisted 17 different government hacking group. Cloudzy had been leasing server space and reselling it to no fewer than 17 different state-sponsored hacking groups from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, India, Pakistan and Vietnam. Reuters
🌎 U.S. House committee flags MSCI, BlackRock for China investments. U.S. investments in 50 blacklisted Chinese companies have drawn the attention of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. CNBC
🌎 Russia’s Digital Ruble Won’t Help It Evade Sanctions Anytime Soon. Russian lawmakers, analysts, think tanks and state media have touted the Digital Ruble as a game-changer in helping Russia skirt Western restrictions. Moscow Times
🌎 Ripple Ruling Rebuke Complicates Coinbase’s Defense Against the SEC. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected Judge Torres’ distinction between institutional sales and sales to retail investors on crypto exchanges – a misinterpretation of the Howey test. CoinDesk
🌎 FBI finds 200 sex trafficking victims, 59 missing children in two-week sweep. The nationwide operation also identified or arrested 126 suspects of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking and 68 suspected traffickers. NBC News
🌎 Bald Token Rugpull May Have Links to Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda. On-chain data shows bald's deployer contract has interacted with Alameda-linked wallets and was an active DeFi participant in the early days. CoinDesk
🌎 Why it would be better for Israel if Iran enriched to 90% now. Israel is better off with an Iranian push to 90% without billions of dollars flowing to the regime and without the illusion that holding Tehran at 60% enrichment is meaningful. FDD
🌎 Secret Data Dumps and Sleaze Allegations Rock Monaco’s Royal Palace. Just as the rumors about his marriage are dying down, Prince Albert faces a new crisis in Monaco fueled by money and power. Daily Beast
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