Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher Wray expressed concern over reports of police stations linked to the Chinese government springing up across the US cities. Speaking at the US Senate’s homeland security and governmental affairs committee hearing, Wray said that the bureau is investigating these claims, but declined to give further details. I’m very…
DetailsThe Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is resuscitating its criminal probe into former President Donald Trump’s role in hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels, sources confirmed to The Post on Monday. While the office’s long-running investigation into Trump, 76, appeared to go cold earlier this year, District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his prosecutors are…
DetailsLondon, Paris and Berlin are condemning Iran’s expansion of its nuclear program, saying it had “no credible civilian justification” and was a “challenge to the global non-proliferation system.” By starting enriching uranium up to 60 percent at its Fordo plant, “Iran has taken further significant steps in hollowing out the JCPoA,” the so-called “E3” governments…
DetailsBAGHDAD — Auditors in Iraq have uncovered a massive scheme in which a network of businesses and officials embezzled some $2.5 billion from the country’s tax authority, despite layers of safeguards. The scandal poses an early test for Iraq’s new government, which was formed late last month after a prolonged political crisis. Prime Minister Mohammed…
DetailsArmie Hammer’s father, Michael Armand Hammer, has died at age 67. Sources connected to the family told TMZ on Tuesday that Michael had been ill and faced a yearslong battle with cancer. The businessman climbed the latter within Occidental Petroleum, the company once run by his grandfather, industrialist Armand Hammer. He also oversaw the Armand…
DetailsThe Israeli firm Cellebrite offers tools that unlock data, trawl search histories, and perform facial recognition. The New York State Police are in the market. TEXTS, EMAILS, PHOTOS, social media activity and messages, contact lists, phone logs, and minute-by-minute location data — the State Police want it all. The New York State Police use powerful…
DetailsBelarus’s long-standing foreign minister has died suddenly, the state news agency Belta reported on Saturday, just days before he was due in Poland to meet key Western officials. ‘Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei has passed away suddenly,’ Belta reported today without giving further detail. Makei, 64, had held his post since 2012 and wasn’t known to…
DetailsWASHINGTON—The U.S. said it would allow Chevron Corp. CVX -0.29%decrease; red down pointing triangle to resume pumping oil from its Venezuelan oil fields after President Nicolás Maduro’s government and an opposition coalition agreed to implement an estimated $3 billion humanitarian relief program and continue dialogue in Mexico City on efforts to hold free and fair…
DetailsMajor Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection along with eight affiliates, it has said, the latest crypto casualty to follow the spectacular collapse of the FTX exchange earlier this month. The filing in a New Jersey court on Monday comes as crypto prices plummet, with Bitcoin down more than 70 percent…
DetailsDamian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced earlier today that a federal jury found NEIL COLE, the former Chief Executive Officer of Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (“Iconix”), guilty of participating in a scheme to fraudulently inflate Iconix’s revenue and earnings per share, making false filings with the U.S.…
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