The Morning Risk Report: More Workers Are Cheating on Drug Tests
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Good morning. Workers are cheating on drug tests at the highest rate in more than 30 years, according to one of the U.S.’s largest drug-testing labs.
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Lawmakers from both parties grill FDIC chairman over scathing report. Lawmakers in both parties laid into Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg over a report that revealed widespread sexual harassment at the agency, with Republicans badgering him to resign and some Democrats signaling they didn’t have confidence in him to lead the agency. “You have failed your employees, your agency and the American people,” Rep. Patrick McHenry (R., N.C.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said in his opening remarks at the panel’s hearing. |
Former FTX executive asks for 18-month sentence. Attorneys representing former FTX executive Ryan Salame have asked that he be sentenced to 18 months in prison, citing his cooperation with authorities. Salame pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to make illegal political contributions, as well as conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmission business. Salame was not part of crypto exchange FTX’s inner circle and had no knowledge customer funds had been taken, his lawyers said. |
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Hamas shift to guerrilla tactics raises specter of forever war for Israel. Seven months into the war, Hamas is far from defeated, stoking fears in Israel that it is walking into a forever war. The U.S.-designated terrorist group is using its network of tunnels, small cells of fighters and broad social influence to not only survive but to harry Israeli forces. Hamas is attacking more aggressively, firing more antitank weapons at soldiers sheltering in houses and at Israeli military vehicles daily, said an Israeli reservist from the 98th commando division fighting in Jabalia. |
Russia advances on new front, stretching outnumbered Ukrainian troops. Russian forces are fighting inside the northeastern border city of Vovchansk, as Moscow grinds forward on a new front while Kyiv is still waiting for much-needed U.S. weaponry to reach the battlefield. Russia’s advance into the city, located about 3 miles south of the border with Russia, is part of a push into the Kharkiv region that is drawing Ukrainian troops from other fronts in the east and is aimed at threatening the regional capital of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Russia has seized a handful of villages since it sent armored vehicles and infantry across the border on Friday. |
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Eli Lilly on Wednesday said Alonzo Weems, executive vice president of enterprise risk management and chief ethics and compliance officer, plans to retire at the end of the year after more than a quarter of a century with the drugmaker, according to MarketWatch. |
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