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British American Tobacco to pay $635 million for violating North Korea sanctions. The world's second-largest tobacco company has agreed to pay over $635 million to the United States after its subsidiary admitted to violations of sanctions against North Korea, the company announced Tuesday. The British American Tobacco subsidiary pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud and violating U.S. sanctions against North Korea by selling tobacco products to the country between 2007 and 2017, according to newly unsealed court documents. "On behalf of BAT, we deeply regret the misconduct arising from historical Business activities that led to these settlements, and acknowledge that we fell short of the highest standards rightly expected of us," Jack Bowles, chief executive of BAT, said in the Tuesday statement. North Korean propaganda village "Gijungdong" is seen from an South Korea's observation post inside the JSA during a media tour at the Joint Security...

DOJ and FBI hold a presser at DOJ announcing the results of “the largest international operation” targeting fentanyl and opioid trafficking on the Darknet. Nearly 300 people were arrested as a result of a years-long, three-continent operation targeting darknet trafficking of fentanyl and opioids, the Justice Department and FBI announced Tuesday. Under "Operation SpecTor," the "largest ever operation targeting the trafficking of fentanyl and opioids on the dark web," 288 people were arrested within the last two years, and more than 850 kilograms of drugs -- including 64 kilos of fentanyl or fentanyl-laced narcotics -- intended to be sold on the darknet were seized, DOJ said. "Our message to criminals on the dark web is this: You can try to hide in the furthest reaches of the internet, but the Justice Department will find you and hold you accountable for your crimes," Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference Tuesday. DEA warns about fentany...

The U.N. World Food Program is grappling with its worst funding shortage in 60 years and "we are in a desperate situation," Executive Director Cindy McCain said Sunday. The U.N. World Food Program, the largest anti-hunger initiative around the globe, is grappling with its worst funding shortage in 60 years and "we are in a desperate situation," its executive director said on Sunday. "It's a combination of things -- it's COVID, it's climate change, it's co NFL ict and also the cost of being able to do Business ," Cindy McCain told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl about the reasons behind the lack of money . "Those things combined and, of course, a world that has kind of grown tired of all this. There's a great malaise right now within countries about foreign aid and giving." In Afghanistan, for example, the food program doesn't "have enough money to even get through October." McCain made th...