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๐ฏ Agents find more than 2,300 pounds of meth hidden in celery. In what the DEA called one of the largest seizures of its kind, agents confiscated the drugs being delivered to the Atlanta State Farmers Market. CBS
๐ง New Zealand charity distributes candies with lethal levels of meth NBC
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๐ Chief Compliance Officer Pay Rises, but at a Slower Pace. Median compensation for compliance chiefs at public companies rose 7% to $419,000 in 2024. WSJ
๐ฉ America's Companies Are Being Forced to Reveal Your Salary Newsweek
๐ Nearly all Chinese banks are refusing to process payments from Russia. Fearful of the US' secondary sanctions, nearly all Chinese banks are refusing payment transfers from Russia. BI
๐ฉ Russiaโs Bigger Shadow Fleet Helps Beat Oil Sanctions Bloomberg
๐ Harris campaign's Google ads rewrite news headlines. The ads include links to real articles from the news outlets, but the headlines and supporting text have been altered to read as though the articles support the Harris campaign's objectives. Axios
๐ Judge rejects Donald Trumpโs latest demand to step aside from hush money criminal case. Itโs the third time the judge has rejected such a request from lawyers for the current Republican nominee. AP
๐ Hunter Biden asked U.S. embassy in Italy for help landing Burisma deal while Joe was VP. The revelation adds to evidence linking Hunter to violations of FARA through his work for Burisma and various business entities. ABC
๐ SEC Charges OTC Link LLC with Failing to File SARs. OTC Link failed to adopt or implement reasonably designed AML policies to surveil transactions conducted through its ATSs for suspicious activity. SEC
๐ U.S. eyes Iranian oil exports as threat of Israel attack grows. Tehran relies on shipments of crude to prop up its sanctions-stricken economy. Politico
๐ Biden administration asks Supreme Court to revive terror victimsโ suits against Palestinian Authority. At issue is whether victims can haul the PA and PLO into U.S. courts under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act. Hill
๐ Oklahoma college students may have been drugged for trafficking, organs on Mexico vacation. They were on a Mexican vacation with their boyfriends when disaster struck. NYP
๐ West hits pause on fresh measures against Venezuela's Maduro. U.S. and other Western countries are showing little sign of swift tough action over voting fraud. Reuters
๐ Authorities sound alarm on 'gold bar scam' thatโs swindled millions from seniors. Scammers pose as Treasury Department agents and instruct victims to convert their assets into gold bars for 'safekeeping.' Fox