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A USPS inspector general audit estimates counterfeit stamps cost the Postal Service more than $349 million in fiscal 2026, capping a year of escalating fraud warnings.
BlackRock-Temasek's Decarbonization Partners, Qatar Investment Authority, and $206 million in DOE grants funded a Kentucky cathode plant that never produced at commercial scale. The Trump administration cancelled the next $110…
The Department of Education's redesigned Section 117 portal has surfaced $67.6 billion in cumulative foreign funding to U.S. universities — with Qatar at $8.8 billion, Cornell holding a $1.1 billion…
Federal prosecutors, the Verra registry, and the ICVCM have now disqualified the methodologies behind nearly two-thirds of cookstove offsets — yet corporate ESG buyers continue retiring credits the science says…
Treasury's April 24 designation of Hengli Petrochemical, China's second-largest 'teapot' refinery, exposes a Fortune 500 conglomerate at the heart of Iran's military oil revenue and signals a strategic shift toward…
The son of one of Iran’s most senior security officials now sits at the center of what the U.S. Treasury Department is calling the “financial equivalent” of a bombing campaign…
The world’s largest EV maker now faces forced labor investigations on two continents — and just landed on Brazil’s official slavery blacklist BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle giant that surpassed…
When the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the Pandora Papers in October 2021 — 11.9 million leaked documents comprising 2.9 terabytes of data — the revelations confirmed what anti-corruption…
Somewhere in the waters of the Riau archipelago, off the coast of Indonesia, a CBS News investigation documented twelve ship-to-ship oil transfers in a single day — an unprecedented concentration…
On the morning of October 7, 2023, Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians in the nation’s history. In the weeks that followed, Israeli intelligence provided documentation to the…