This press piece, headlined "US Prosecutors Challenge 'Unusually Lenient' Sentence in HashFlare Mining Fraud," reports that federal prosecutors were quick to appeal this notable
federal sentencing decision in a cryptocurrency fraud handed down this week. Here is a bit of the story from the press piece: Federal prosecutors have moved to [...]
The Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists in the eleventh-annual competition
recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. [...]
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently announced that the functions of the intelligence community’s Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) would be reduced
and absorbed into other parts of the U.S. intelligence community. In doing so, Gabbard has dismantled the last remaining U.S. [...]
As the diplomacy on the Russia-Ukraine War accelerates following President Donald Trump’s summit with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s consultations with Trump and European leaders in Washington, so too has talk of a European “reassurance force” for Ukraine. [...]
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In July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) adopted its advisory opinion on climate change. While the ICJ found that any State suffering from climate change can
bring charges against others for their contribution to climate change, the opinion does not distinguish between the obligations of developed and developing States [...]
