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Todd Blanche is the U.S. Attorney General, heading the Department of Justice in Trump's second administration; he previously served as Deputy Attorney General.
Judge Timothy Kelly signalled he may turn his two-week order against Trump's White House ban on POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW into a longer injunction. That would keep the outlets in the West Wing through what could be months of litigation.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal's staff found that 84% of 846 sanctioned, terror-linked wallets relied heavily on Tether's USDT. He wants Treasury and Justice to examine Tether's sanctions and money-laundering controls, though neither agency has yet announced an inquiry.
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Donald Trump wants Jerome Powell forced off the Fed board over a renovation audit and sued if he stays, in a seat whose term runs to January 2028. TD Cowen expects the threat to keep Powell there until at least early January 2027, so Trump gets no vacancy to fill.
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Sen. Josh Hawley's bill would make agencies permanently delete license-plate reader data within 10 days unless a criminal investigation is open. Police who trace where a car went weeks ago would lose that search in any case not yet opened.
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Three 11th Circuit judges refused to pause sanctions over Trump's $10 billion IRS suit, keeping a bar on citing its settlement in official proceedings. The bar appears to reach Attorney General Todd Blanche's audit shield for the Trump family and business until the appeal is decided.
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Senate staff say Tether froze 5 of 39 Hezbollah-linked wallets Israel named in 2023 while $34.6 million left the rest. Treasury and the Justice Department can act on that freeze record more readily than on the report's 84% USDT share when they answer Blumenthal by Oct. 9.
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Kyle Spitze drew the maximum on every count, served consecutively, in a case that reached the FBI through a Discord referral. Escalation paths now feed maximum-penalty prosecutions.
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Justice says Chinese state operators laundered intrusions through infected routers and cameras in more than 130 countries since 2018. Source geography has been unreliable for years.
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FBI Director Kash Patel suggested the bureau would target AI models built for crime after four companies disclosed agents that hacked other organizations. Nothing shows the models were built to hack, so the nearer fight is over lawsuits and the liability exemption the labs want.
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Trump has twice declined to retaliate against Beijing, and the tariff campaign he did run ended in an armistice that China's rare earth monopoly helped force. Anyone pricing a snapback argues against that record.
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OpenAI says the joint work with Anthropic and Google DeepMind has been running for weeks. Its policy chief does not expect to need an antitrust waiver, Anthropic's CEO has asked Washington for one, and the FTC chairman says his alarm bells are going off.
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Washington has filed on the side of fair use in the Times case against OpenAI, and the passage that matters to anyone shipping on scraped text is its estimate of who could still afford to train if licensing won.
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Operators of more than 180 Russian facilities, most of them inside Ukrainian strike range, have been told to fund counter-drone protection themselves, with temporary state administration as the penalty for those who do not.
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Vidar, LummaC2, RedLine and Atomic Stealer are pulling session material that authenticates without a login prompt, so the usual reset-and-enroll response can leave the intruder inside and spending the victim's paid usage.
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Adebola Festus Adekunle and Mudasiru Afeez Olawale were picked up in Nigeria in 2023 and only now face charges in Mississippi and North Carolina. The gap is what cross-border reach costs in elapsed time.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche says criminals worked X's password-recovery system against hundreds of thousands of accounts this week and that X stopped them. The technique is the part still undisclosed.
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Cook's response makes intent the whole question. Whether "for cause" carries fraud's intent requirement decides how reachable a Fed governor's vote is, and rates desks hold that answer.
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Prosecutors say a Nanjing contractor rented IoT botnets and commercial proxies to the MSS and PLA from 2018. No individuals were charged, and the conscripted hardware stays conscripted.
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