“Putin is the ultimate apostle of payback,” William Burns told the Aspen Security Forum.

A former Venezuelan spy chief and longtime adviser to the country’s late leader Hugo Chavez pleaded not guilty Thursday in a New York courtroom to decade-old drug trafficking charges, a day after his extradition from Spain.

The medical staff originally believed he had meningitis. Later, they discovered he had the deadly brain-eating amoeba that caused widespread concern earlier this year.

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The US DOJ merges its crypto enforcement team that debuted in 2021 into the agency investigating computer-related crimes, giving crypto crimes the same status  —  The National Cryptocurrency Enforcem…