DOJ Watch: June 3, 2026 — Aspiration Co-Founder Gets 14 Years, Citron’s Andrew Left Convicted, Chinese Container Cartel Indicted
Daily roundup of DOJ enforcement actions: Aspiration Partners co-founder sentenced to 14 years, short-seller Andrew Left convicted, a Chinese shipping-container cartel indictment, an IRGC-linked terror plot, and more.
Federal Register Watch: June 3, 2026 — Trump Realigns Childhood Vaccine Schedule; Rescinds Carter-Era Off-Road Vehicle Orders
Two new Trump executive orders top the Federal Register: realigning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with peer nations and rescinding 50-year-old off-road vehicle restrictions. The SEC moves to rescind climate…
Decarbonization Partners’ Battery Bonfire: How Ascend Elements’ $1.1 Billion ESG Bet Ended in a Texas 363 Sale
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…
SEC Watch: June 3, 2026 — Crypto AI Fraud, Musk Trust Penalty, and the Adani Settlements
By Eduardo Bacci, The Investigative Journal Recent filings posted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR system and on the Commission’s enforcement and press release pages reveal a steady…
Morning Wire: June 3, 2026 — Iran Strikes Kuwait Airport; Treasury Blacklists Nobitex; SCOTUS Rules in Whitton
Overnight: Iran hits Kuwait's airport and U.S. assets in Bahrain; Treasury sanctions Iran's largest crypto exchange; SCOTUS sides with death-row petitioner in Whitton v. Dixon; USTR floats Section 301 tariffs…
Afternoon Wire: June 3, 2026 — AI Order, Pulte Tapped as Acting DNI, Iran Strikes Kuwait Airport
Trump signs frontier-AI executive order centering NSA review; Bill Pulte named acting DNI as Gabbard departs; Iranian missiles and drones strike Kuwait's main airport, killing one; Gulf states call for…
Think Tank Roundup: Week of May 11, 2026 — RAND Maps the U.S.-China Military Gap
This week's policy research from RAND, Brookings, the Tax Foundation, AEI, the Center for American Progress, and the Cato Institute — on the U.S.-China military balance, open-weight AI, balanced budgets,…
DOJ Watch: May 14, 2026 — Comey Indictment Headlines a Week of Federal Enforcement
Daily federal enforcement digest: former FBI Director James Comey indicted; NIAID official charged; $46.6M Medicare wound-care seizure; $600M ERC scheme sentencing; Latvian ransomware operator gets 102 months.
Federal Register Watch: May 14, 2026 — Pentagon Notifies Congress of Multi-Billion Arms Sales to NATO, Israel
The Defense Department transmitted ten arms-sales notifications to Congress, the CFTC issued a substituted-compliance order for Goldman Sachs Paris, and OFAC added counterterrorism designations — a snapshot of the May…
SEC Watch: May 14, 2026 — Musk Trust Settles $1.5M Twitter Disclosure Case
The SEC's first half of May 2026 produced a $1.5M Musk Trust settlement over Twitter disclosure, charges against 21 alleged insider traders, a $26M HYIP receivership, and a proposal to…