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Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former chief executive officer of now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. — WIKIMEDIA COMMONSNEW YORK – US prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman–Fried, accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of paying a $40 million bribe to Chinese officials so they would unfreeze his hedge fund’s accounts.The new bribery conspiracy charge adds

North Korea and South Korea as seen a screenshot from Google Maps.SEOUL/BUSAN – North Korea unveiled new, smaller nuclear warheads and vowed to produce more weapons-grade nuclear material to expand its arsenal, state media said on Tuesday, as a US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea for military drills.North Korea‘s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released photos of the warheads, dubbed Hwasan-31s. Leader Kim Jong

REUTERSWASHINGTON – A top US regulator told a Senate panel on Tuesday that Silicon Valley Bank did a “terrible” job of managing risk before its collapse, fending off criticism from lawmakers who blamed bank watchdogs for missing warning signs.In the first congressional hearing into the sudden collapse of two US regional lenders and the ensuing chaos in markets, both Democratic