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🎯 Social media fuels fentanyl crisis as drug dealers take to platforms to connect with minors. Snap, TikTok, Telegram and Meta, which owns Instagram, are not doing enough to keep children safe. CBS
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🌎 Islamic State-Somalia becomes financial hub; leader could be top IS chief. Somalia’s weak central government has enabled Somalia to become the financial hub of the Islamic State. VOA
🚩 Biden/Harris Under Pressure To Expedite Hamas Financing Report Free Beacon
🌎 Inside California's brutal underground market for puppies and big profits. Many dogs were supplied by breeders charged with abuse, including one who transported puppies diagnosed with the deadly contagious parvovirus. LAT
🌎 Iran turns to Hells Angels and other criminal gangs to target critics. Iran has cultivated ties with criminal networks in the West to carry out a recent wave of violent plots in the U.S. and Europe. WaPo
🇮🇷 Justice Department preparing criminal charges in Iran hack targeting Trump Fox
🇮🇷 Iran hawks skeptical as Blinken unveils sanctions for Tehran’s missile sales to Russia Independent
🌎 Trump Wants Huge Tariff for Dollar Defectors, Fewer U.S. Sanctions. Trump has talked down the utility of sanctions after a record-busting barrage failed to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine. Bloomberg
🚩 De-dollarization: How the West boosts China's yuan DW
🚩 Here's Why Dollar Dominance Is In Question (pod) Bloomberg
🌎 Biden unveils new evidence of RT’s key role in Russian intelligence operations. For more than a year, the Russian government quietly embedded an intelligence-gathering unit within RT focused on influence operations worldwide. CNN
🌎 Mexican drug kingpin ‘El Mayo’ had his own nephew killed for stealing from him. The cruelty was revealed in court papers as El Mayo appeared in a Brooklyn courtroom, where he pleaded not guilty. NYP
🌎 U.S. regulator orders Wells Fargo to overhaul its efforts to combat illicit funds. The OCC identified deficiencies in the bank’s financial crimes risk management practices and AML internal controls. Reuters
🌎 U.S. appeals court voids $564M verdict against Bank of Montreal in Ponzi case. BMO persuaded the court to throw out a jury verdict in a $3.65B Ponzi scheme run by a convicted Minnesota businessman. Reuters
🌎 Federal Judge Threatens Former FTX Exec Ryan Salame. Salame pled guilty to campaign finance violations in September but argued that prosecutors had promised him they would cease any criminal investigations into Michelle Bond. CoinDesk
🌎 The Richest Man in Germany Is Worth $44 Billion. Klaus-Michael Kuehne, born in 1937, has more money than Ken Griffin, MacKenzie Scott, or François Pinault. Just don’t ask him how he got so rich. Vanity Fair
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