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The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has proposed revisions to the U.S. Munitions List, key ITAR definitions, and licensing exemptions. The proposal follows September actions revising country policies, narrowing controls on uncrewed underwater vehicles, and correcting inadvertent deletions from exemption provisions.
The U.S. trade deficit widened for a second month in August as imports climbed to a record $420.8 billion, propelled by capital goods and industrial supplies, while exports posted a smaller increase.
An unexplained death at a Russian high-containment biological research facility is putting renewed attention on a problem that U.S. export-control officials have been confronting for several years: biotechnology is advancing faster than the regulatory architecture intended to keep dangerous biological capabilities from proliferating.
Another former TD Bank branch employee has pleaded guilty to taking bribes to help launder millions of dollars to Colombia, extending a series of prosecutions that has targeted tellers, retail employees and an assistant branch manager while producing no criminal charges against senior bank executives.
The withdrawals reflect Treasury’s broader shift toward easing digital asset regulation, giving greater weight to financial privacy and compliance costs despite documented use of mixers in illicit finance. Alongside the department’s removal of Tornado Cash sanctions, the move signals a retreat from some preventive measures aimed at cryptocurrency abuse. FinCEN nevertheless says it will continue monitoring mixers and may act against illicit activity.
Foreign bribery enforcement remains active across multiple jurisdictions, with hundreds of investigations pending and exposure extending to companies, individuals, and related accounting and money-laundering offenses, according to the OECD’s enforcement report covering 1999 through 2025.
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