Corruption is “a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy,” said a certain vice president, back in 2014. Now commander in chief, Joe Biden must confront a corruption problem unfolding on his watch: the spiraling costs of misspent Covid funds. In recent court filings, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has described a “massive fraud scheme” in ...

Bloomberg A six-ton unmanned reconnaissance drone that streaked across eastern Europe from war-ravaged Ukraine and crashed in the Croatian capital has raised awkward questions about Nato’s readiness to protect European airspace. Startled authorities are asking how none of the three North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) member states — Romania, Hungary and Croatia — reacted as the Soviet-era Tu-141 traversed their ...

Bloomberg Police in Slovakia, a Nato and European Union (EU) member bordering Ukraine, detained four people suspected of spying for Moscow and expelled three Russian diplomats in response. Russia paid the suspects “tens of thousands of euros” for sensitive or classified information, Special Prosecutor Daniel Lipsic told journalists, a day after the detentions and the diplomats’ expulsion. Two people were ...