(Bloomberg) — Criminal charges against a crypto trader who claimed to have walked away with about $50 million worth of digital assets after exploiting a decentralized finance platform show that even as DeFi remains mostly unregulated, it offers no shield against the legal consequences of alleged fraud.
(Bloomberg) — Lockheed Martin Corp. is protesting the US Army’s choice of Bell Textron Inc. to build the service’s replacement for its mainstay Black Hawk assault helicopter by 2030, a potential $7 billion project that includes development and production if all options are awarded.
Bolivia’s police detained one of the country’s main opposition leaders, Santa Cruz Governor Luis Fernando Camacho, triggering protests by his supporters in the country’s wealthiest city.
The US Virgin Islands is suing JPMorgan Chase & Co. for “turning a blind eye” to former client Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking on his private island there.
Representative Jamie Raskin, who led President Donald Trump’s second impeachment for inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol, disclosed Wednesday he has a “serious but curable” form of cancer and will undergo chemotherapy.
US stocks fell for a second day on concern that the end of China’s zero-Covid policy could lead to a rise in cases around the world.
(Bloomberg) — Gains in defense and reopening stocks countered losses in technology shares to help the Japanese equity market stave off the steep declines seen in global peers this year.
The US will require airline passengers coming from China to show negative Covid-19 tests as global concerns over the virus’s spread ratchet higher since the country lifted restrictions aimed at stamping out infections.
(Bloomberg) — A federal judge in Washington rejected a proposed defense from a man accused of taking part in the Jan. 6 riot that he was just following orders of then-President Donald Trump.
Rapid interest-rate increases have dramatically changed the backdrop
