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Security News in Brief: U.S. Entertainer/Businessman and Malaysian National Charged with Back-Channel Lobbying Campaign to Drop 1MDB Investigation and Remove Chinese Dissident from U.S.

Source: United States Department of Justice News

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment Thursday charging a U.S. entertainer and businessman and a Malaysian national with orchestrating an unregistered, back-channel campaign beginning in or about 2017 to influence the then-administration of the President of the United States and the Department of Justice both to drop the investigation of Jho Low and others in connection with the international strategic and development company known as 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), and to send a Chinese dissident back to China.

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Defense News in Brief: Patrol Squadron 40 Completes NATO Exercise Steadfast Defender

Source: United States Navy

The “Fighting Marlins” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 40 operated two P-8A Poseidon aircraft from Naval Air Station Rota, Spain in the NATO-led Steadfast Defender 2021 Maritime Live Exercise from May 20-31, 2021. Two of the squadron’s 12 Combat Aircrews executed multiple flight events conducting multinational coordinated operations across anti-submarine warfare and surface warfare mission areas, building the squadron’s interoperability and tactical expertise in a multi-domain environment.

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Defense News in Brief: Broadening High School Horizons: Naval STEM Expands Virtual Student Outreach

Source: United States Navy

ARLINGTON, Va. – Meet some of the Department of the Navy’s (DoN) science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) interns and scholar alumni. Learn about engineering design for parachutes; bio-inspired research, including the science of seal tracking; and deep-submergence rescue vehicles, which are mini-submarines designed for rescue missions.