Happy Friday! It’s October 3, and we’re tracking top stories to take you into the weekend: Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Millions impacted by data breaches at insurance giant, How Banned Doctors Move Across Europe, Italian Fashion House Brunello Cucinelli Confirms Ongoing Business in Russia, and much more…

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Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels. A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.” NYT

🔥 TOP STORIES

Millions impacted by data breaches at insurance giant, auto dealership software firm Record 

System Failure: How Banned Doctors Move Across Europe, Leaving Patients Vulnerable OCCRP

Italian Fashion House Brunello Cucinelli Confirms Ongoing Business in Russia Reuters

U.S. targets Iran’s nuclear program with new sanctions Hill

Russia does not recognize return of UN sanctions on Iran Reuters

In the biggest sex abuse settlement in U.S. history, some claim they were paid to sue LAT

SBI Crypto Hit by $21M Hack With Suspected DPRK Links CoinDesk

South African Ambassador Found Dead in Paris After Facing Corruption Allegations CNN

Ex-Start-Up CEO Charlie Javice Gets Prison Term for JPMorgan Fraud BBC

Maui vacations, luxury watches: Wine buyer at major California grocery chain accused of taking bribes LAT

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies ProPublica

Great Cons Are Part of the American Story. And That Might Not Be So Bad. WSJ

🚩 RUSSIA & CHINA

G7 nations will target those continuing to increase Russian oil purchases Reuters

Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 Ramps Up Output to Record Levels Bloomberg

Brazil and China Team Up to Create New Investment Fund Bloomberg

Why the US may have to sue for economic peace with China Semafor

China Is Once Again a World Leader in Human Trafficking U.S. Congress

💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

Danish tax authority loses $1.9 billion London 'cum-ex' tax fraud case Reuters 

Firm linked to UK underwear tycoon must repay $163M for breaching COVID contracts AP

DOJ fires top national security prosecutor after he's questionably linked to Comey pushback NBC

What to Know About the ‘Gen Z’ Protests Roiling Countries Across the Globe Time

Met’s corruption crisis may take more than a decade to fix BBC

🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER

Oracle customers being bombarded with emails claiming widespread data theft Cyberscoop 

China-linked hacking group Phantom Taurus targeting embassies Record

Shutdown guts U.S. cybersecurity agency at perilous time WaPo

Kido nursery hackers say they have deleted stolen data Guardian

UK weighs if China fraud scheme victims get current value of seized 61K Bitcoin Cointelegraph

🚚 TRAFFICKING

Judge denies Kilmar Ábrego García’s bid for asylum in the US Guardian

Feds rack up arrests in Memphis in Trump’s latest crime crackdown operation CNN

Senior member of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang arrested BBC

Montenegro Cracks Down on Transnational Cocaine Ring, Indicts Five OCCRP

Florida's new law allows death penalty for some child sex trafficking cases CBS

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