US SEC enforcement activity drops dramatically as agency ‘resets’

2026-04-07 22:06:27 UTC / Reuters

By Chris Prentice and Kanishka Singh

April 7, 2026 10:06 PM UTC Updated 47 mins ago

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• Summary

• SEC enforcement cases fell over 20% in fiscal 2025
• Report ‘resets the measure of enforcement effectiveness’, SEC says
• Division reeling from staff losses, leadership changes

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) – Enforcement cases brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fell ‌more than 20% in the latest fiscal year as the regulator “recentered” its enforcement program, the agency said on Tuesday.

The SEC brought 456 enforcement actions in the fiscal year that ran through the end of September, the agency said in ​a long-awaited annual enforcement report. The regulator brought nearly half of those actions before the ​start of the Trump administration in January 2025, SEC data showed.

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Total monetary penalties surged ⁠to a whopping $17.9 billion, largely due to a final judgment in a Ponzi scheme case the ​SEC originally brought in 2009. Excluding that case, the SEC levied penalties and disgorgement of $2.7 billion.

That ​compares to $8.2 billion in financial remedies and 583 actions a year earlier.

“We have redirected resources toward the types of misconduct that inflict the greatest harm – particularly fraud, market manipulation, and abuses of trust – and away from approaches that prioritized ​volume and record-setting penalties over true investor protection,” SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said in a statement.

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To ​be sure, enforcement activity typically slows during transition years as new leaders come into the building, according to experts ‌and ⁠past data. But 2025’s dramatic decline points to a deeper change in how the SEC views enforcement activity under Republican leadership.

In an unusual statement underscoring that change, the SEC noted that its annual statistics did not include 1,095 matters in which potential violations were investigated and later closed or practices were ​remediated.

Enforcement resources were “misapplied” in ​the past to “run up ⁠numbers, and in turn, led to misguided expectations on what constitutes effective enforcement,” the SEC said.

Atkins has long criticized large corporate penalties for harming shareholders. ​He has said he wants to refocus enforcement on bread-and-butter SEC cases involving ​fraud and ⁠investor harm.

Under Republican leaders, the SEC has moved away from large corporate cases with steep penalties and has also dismissed numerous high-profile cases against crypto firms and executives.

The SEC’s enforcement division has been reeling ⁠from ​the sudden resignation of its enforcement director last month and a ​mass exodus of staff under the Trump administration. The division lost 18% of its staff in fiscal 2025, a recent government report showed.

Reporting by ​Chris Prentice in New York and Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Nia Williams and Stephen Coates

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中国央行连续第17个月增持黄金

2026年4月8日 07:10 / 联合早报

中国央行上月黄金持有量增加16万安士，为连续第17个月增持。 （路透社档案照）

中国央行上月黄金持有量增加16万安士，为连续第17个月增持。 （路透社档案照）

中国央行3月继续增持黄金，表明尽管金价在伊朗战争期间承压，支撑黄金的一个关键支柱依然稳固。

据彭博社报道，星期二（4月7日）公布的数据显示，中国央行上月黄金持有量增加16万安士，为连续第17个月增持。

中国央行是全球最大的黄金买家之一。

受中东冲突推高美元汇率，并引发市场预期通胀若加剧美联储将无法降息影响，3月份金价下跌12%，创2008年以来最差月度表现。此外，一些投资者抛售黄金以弥补其他投资的损失，也对金价构成压力。

彭博社的报道分析称，在其他一些央行转向抛售黄金之际，中国央行的最新购金举措或有助于提振投资者对黄金的信心。

另据中新社报道，中国国家金融与发展实验室特聘高级研究员庞溟说，过去一年多来，全球央行普遍提高黄金配置比例，以对冲美元资产波动、分散地缘政治风险。中国央行连续17个月增持黄金，体现了在外汇储备结构中提升“非信用资产”比重的明确取向，也反映出在全球货币体系调整加速的背景下，中国央行更重视储备资产的安全性与长期稳定性。

庞溟认为，中国央行低量、多次、小幅的补仓节奏，更易于平滑市场波动、把握成本窗口、降低一次性大批量购入对金价的冲击。此举既提前对冲了全球宏观风险，又可以在关键节点提供“官方预期”信号，持续为市场预期提供稳定器功效。

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says he’s open to serving in job permanently

2026-04-07 16:12:00 / CBS News

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that he’d be willing to serve as the attorney general permanently if asked by President Trump, after Pam Bondi was ousted from the post last week.

Speaking at a press conference to announce the creation of a new National Fraud Enforcement Division, Blanche introduced himself as the acting attorney general, even though Bondi’s portrait is still hanging on the walls throughout the building, and said he still planned to travel with her Wednesday to a previously scheduled event.

“I did not ask for this job,” he told the press. “I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a lifetime, and if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate me, that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else and I go back to being the Deputy Attorney General, that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, ‘thank you very much, I love you, sir.’”

Bondi’s removal last week came amid frustrations by Mr. Trump that the Justice Department has not worked swiftly enough to prosecute his political enemies, CBS previously reported.

Blanche claimed on Tuesday not to know the reasons for Bondi’s removal, and praised her for her leadership.

“Pam Bondi is a trusted friend of President Trump’s,” he said. “Nobody has any idea why the attorney general is no longer the attorney general and I’m the acting attorney general, except for the president.”

Trump advisers have also been actively discussing whether to further shake up senior leadership by possibly demoting Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and elevating Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division. But this hasn’t happened yet, and Woodward watched the press conference from the back of the room on Tuesday. It remains unclear whether additional personnel moves could come.

Blanche fended off questions about whether he will be facing additional pressure by Mr. Trump to secure indictments against political opponents, saying every case would be investigated “to the fullest extent of the law, using all of the resources we can,” including those involving Mr. Trump’s enemies.

“We have thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions going on in this country right now, and it is true that some of them involve men women and entities that the president in the past has had issues with,” Blanche said.

“I do not view this as pressure,” he added. “I do not view this as something that is going to keep me up at night.”

Acting Atty. General Todd Blanche conducts a news conference at the Justice Dept., April 7, 2026. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Blanche also said that the Justice Department’s new fraud division would be willing to accept criminal referrals from the White House, though the new assistant attorney general, Colin McDonald, will not be formally reporting to the White House. When Vice President JD Vance announced the creation of the position in January, he said that it would be run out of the White House and he and Mr. Trump would oversee it. He later walked those comments back, and documents outlining the structure sent to Capitol Hill showed that McDonald will be reporting to senior Justice Department leadership, as do all of the other assistant attorneys general.

This arrangement is a stark departure from prior norms instituted after the Watergate scandal, which sought to insulate criminal investigations from political influence from the White House.

“There is always communication between a president and his priorities and what the Department of Justice should be focused on and not focused on,” he said. “If the president of our United States says, ‘I have heard that there is ongoing fraud in Minneapolis, Minnesota,’ like any president before him, I hope that the attorney general would absolutely say, ‘Yes, we’ll investigate that,’” Blanche said.

Blanche said the new fraud division will combine a variety of offices at the department that handle mostly criminal fraud involving health care, taxes fraud, benefits and corporate fraud and bring them together under one roof.

He also announced the establishment of a new prosecutor-led national fraud detection center composed of data analysts from multiple federal agencies that will aim to “ferret out the most harmful actors defrauding federal government programs.”

Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.

中国颁布新规 防范产业链供应链安全风险

2026年4月8日 07:41 / 联合早报

中国国务院颁布新规，防范产业链供应链安全风险，维护经济社会稳定和国家安全。

据中新社报道，中国国务院总理李强签署国务院令，公布《国务院关于产业链供应链安全的规定》，自公布之日起施行。

《规定》旨在防范产业链供应链安全风险，提升产业链供应链韧性和安全水平，维护经济社会稳定和国家安全。《规定》共18条，主要包括以下内容：

一是明确产业链供应链安全工作原则。规定产业链供应链安全工作贯彻总体国家安全观，统筹发展和安全，统筹国内国际，推进高水平对外开放，促进全球产业链供应链稳定畅通。明确国家引导产业链供应链合理有序布局，加强产业链供应链领域国际合作，支持关键领域核心技术攻关，促进产业链供应链高质量发展。

二是建立健全产业链供应链安全制度措施。建立健全产业链供应链安全工作机制。规定国务院有关部门和省、自治区、直辖市人民政府产业链供应链安全工作有关职责。加强关键领域产业链供应链安全保障，建立健全信息共享、风险监测预警、风险防范、应急管理制度，维护关键领域的原材料、技术、设备、产品等的生产与流通稳定、持续运行。

三是规定反制措施和域外适用。针对外国国家、地区和国际组织以及外国组织、个人损害中国产业链供应链安全的，建立产业链供应链安全调查制度，国务院有关部门可据此开展产业链供应链安全调查，采取反制措施。中国境内的组织、个人应当执行有关反制措施。任何组织、个人违法开展与产业链供应链有关的信息收集活动的，有关部门依法采取相应处理措施。

对于上述新规，彭博社引述咨询公司Tidalwave Solutions高级合伙人卡梅伦·约翰逊（Cameron Johnson）指出：“这标志着中国将供应链从单纯的经济范畴转向视为国家安全资产的正式转变。”

Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Christian rhetoric at the Pentagon reignites praise and scrutiny

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US soldier’s wife freed from ICE detention as deportation attempt continues

2026-04-07 23:07:16 UTC / Reuters

By Kanishka Singh

April 7, 2026 11:07 PM UTC Updated 21 mins ago

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US soldier’s wife was released from ICE detention on Tuesday
ICE detained her on April 2
Trump immigration crackdown has been condemned by rights groups

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. soldier’s wife who was detained ​by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency last week was released from detention on Tuesday ‌while President Donald Trump’s administration attempts to deport her from the country.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, of which ICE is a part, said Annie Yaritza Ramos Alvarado was arrested on April 2, with a DHS spokesperson saying “she has no legal status ​to be in this country.”

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Ramos, 22, recently married Sergeant Matthew Blank, 23.

On April 2, the ​couple were joined by relatives at Fort Polk, Louisiana, who were there to help ⁠register Ramos as a military spouse and get her moved in, Blank’s mother, Jen Rickling, told ABC ​News. However, ICE agents entered the facility and detained her.

The DHS spokesperson said ICE arrested Ramos “after she attempted ​to enter a military base.” The spokesperson alleged Ramos was in the country illegally, having entered the nation in early 2005 when she was less than two years old.

Attorney Jessie Schreier was cited by ABC News as saying that Ramos, ​who was born in Honduras, was 20 months old when she was issued an order of removal. ​The attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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ICE has been at the heart of Trump’s immigration crackdown ‌and ⁠deportation drive that has been widely condemned by rights groups as violating free speech and due process rights. Rights advocates say the crackdown has created an unsafe environment and caused concerns of racial profiling.

Trump has said his actions are aimed at curbing illegal immigration and improving domestic security. The crackdown has faced judicial roadblocks.

The ​DHS spokesperson said Ramos ​had been released on ⁠order of supervision with a GPS monitor while she undergoes further removal proceedings and she would receive full due process.

“All I have ever wanted is to ​live with dignity in the country I have called home since I was ​a baby,” Ramos ⁠said in a statement cited by ABC News.

“I never imagined that trying to do the right thing – registering my wife so she could receive her military ID, access the benefits she is entitled to as my ⁠spouse, and ​begin the process toward her green card – would lead to ​her being taken away from me,” her husband said after her arrest.

In the statement, cited by ABC News, Blank said he was ​proud of his wife and proud to “serve this country.”

Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Jamie Freed

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Trump agrees to 2-week ceasefire if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz

April 7, 2026 7:15pm EDT / Fox News

Trump delays planned Iran strikes for two weeks after talks with Pakistani leaders

By Alexandra Koch Fox News

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that, based on conversations with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, he will delay the “bombing and attack of Iran” for two weeks.

Trump said the decision came after the leaders requested the U.S. “hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran,” which the president previously threatened would start at 8 p.m. eastern time if a deal was not reached.

The president said the postponement is subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to “the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz.”

President Donald Trump said he will suspend planned military strikes on Iran for two weeks after talks with Pakistani leaders, contingent on Iran immediately reopening the Strait of Hormuz.(Aaron Schwartz/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2025 via Getty Images)

“This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East.”

He added the administration received a 10-point proposal from Iran, and officials “believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.”

“Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated,” Trump wrote. “On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East, it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution.”

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All DHS workers to be paid by end of week for past 6 weeks of shutdown

April 7, 2026 / 5:40 PM EDT / CBS News

Chimney Rock, North Carolina— Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, promised Tuesday that DHS employees affected by the ongoing government shutdown can expect to receive paychecks by the end of the week.

Mullin, who was traveling for his first official visit as DHS secretary, in Chimney Rock, North Carolina, said department employees who’ve been working without pay for the past six weeks would see the missing payments covering recent pay periods in their accounts soon.

“We expect most of those checks to be in their banks by Friday,” he told CBS News. “Some of the financial institutions may have to wait till Monday, but the majority of everybody will be paid by then.”

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, right, talks with Mayor Peter O’Leary, during a trip to survey damage caused by Hurricane Helene, April 7, 2026 in Chimney Rock, N.C. Rebecca Santana / AP

The secretary said the payments are being made possible through executive action and existing funding flexibility, but he warned that future payroll for DHS employees — outside of law enforcement officials — would depend entirely on Congress.

“Going forward, we got to wait on Congress. This was kind of a rifle shot,” he said, noting the high cost of DHS payroll every two weeks.

Mullin pulled no punches in dressing down Democrats for the delay.

“They’re willing to defund and shut down 22 agencies that are tasked to keep the homeland safe,” he said, likening DHS, the third largest department in the federal government, to the biggest, the Pentagon. Despite the funding lapse, Mullin said DHS operations remain active, crediting employees who have continued to report to work without the certainty of pay. “People are still showing up to work … that’s a tremendous amount of dedication from employees that I get to be over right now,” he said.

When pressed by CBS News on the source of the appropriations, Mullin said the Trump administration is relying on a provision that gives the president limited the ability to move funds in emergencies. He described it as allowing DHS “a little bit of flexibility … with the dollars that were set up to allow us to do stuff just like this,” but he emphasized the move required executive action and is not a long-term solution.

4月6日，美国总统特朗普在白宫举行的新闻发布会上回答提问。 （路透社）

美国总统特朗普在最后期限即将结束前在社交媒体上宣布，他已同意“暂停对伊朗的轰炸和攻击两周”。

特朗普星期二（4月7日）傍晚6时32分在Truth Social贴文说：“基于我与巴基斯坦总理夏巴兹和陆军参谋长穆尼尔的会谈，他们请求我暂缓今晚对伊朗实施的毁灭性打击，并且以伊朗伊斯兰共和国同意完全、立即、安全地开放霍尔木兹海峡为条件，我同意暂停对伊朗的轰炸和袭击，为期两周。这将是一项双向停火！”

特朗普接着写道：“原因在于，我们已经实现并超额完成了所有军事目标，而且在与伊朗达成长期和平协议以及中东和平协议方面取得了重大进展。我们收到了伊朗提出的10点建议，并认为这是一个可行的谈判基础。美国和伊朗几乎就过去存在的各种争议点达成了一致，但停火两周将使这项协议得以最终敲定和生效。”

“作为美国总统，我谨代表美利坚合众国，同时也代表中东各国，为这一长期问题即将得到解决而深感荣幸。感谢各位对此事的关注！唐纳德·特朗普总统。”

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Swalwell campaign denies ‘false, outrageous rumor’ as allegations of misconduct swirl on social media

2026-04-07 7:10 PM ET / CNN

By Eric Bradner

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell attends the SEIU-United Service Workers West’s Gubernatorial Candidate Worker Forum at Meruelo Studios in Los Angeles, California, on January 10, 2026.

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The campaign of Rep. Eric Swalwell, the California Democratic candidate for governor, on Tuesday sought to rebut claims made by several people on social media that multiple women plan to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct involving staffers.

“This false, outrageous rumor is being spread 27 days before an election begins by flailing opponents who have sadly teamed up with MAGA conspiracy theorists because they know Eric Swalwell is the frontrunner in this race,” Swalwell campaign communications director Micah Beasley said in a statement.

He also said one prominent claim that women have remained silent because of non-disclosure agreements is false.

“In 13 years, no one in Eric Swalwell’s congressional office has ever been asked to sign an NDA. Ever,” Beasley said. “In 13 years, not a single ethics complaint by any staff in his office or any other office has ever been lodged. Ever.”

The statement comes less than two months before California’s June 2 primary, in which Swalwell and several other prominent Democrats are battling for what’s likely to be just one spot in the November general election. Voters can begin mailing in ballots in less than four weeks.

All parties’ candidates compete in California’s primary, with only the top two finishers regardless of party advancing to the general election — a unique “top-two” system that complicates the state’s crowded field.

Just two major Republicans are competing: Steve Hilton, a British transplant and former Fox News host, and Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff. Republicans are a minority in California, but because the field of Democratic candidates is much larger and more fractured, Democrats have long feared a doomsday scenario in which none of the party’s candidates finish in the top two in the primary to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom.

President Donald Trump this week endorsed Hilton, cementing the likelihood that he will advance, but also helping Democrats avoid the nightmare of being shut out of the general election.

Along with Swalwell, the roster of well-known Democrats in the race includes US Rep. Katie Porter; billionaire activist Tom Steyer; Xavier Becerra, the former state attorney general and Biden administration Health and Human Services secretary; San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan; former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond; and former State Controller Betty Yee. None have emerged as a clear favorite.

Allegations of wrongdoing against Swalwell emerged on social media through accounts of progressive influencers. The Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet, on Monday published a report highlighting claims leveled by Cheyenne Hunt, a lawyer and former congressional candidate who is now the executive director of Gen-Z for Change.

Hunt said in an X post Monday that she is “working with a number of women who are in the process of coming forward and sharing their stories of sexual harassment and even alleged abuse at the hands of Eric Swalwell.”

Hunt did not name any of the women she said are alleging misconduct, and did not share the specifics of their claims. She said those women are working with a lawyer, and that some felt they had to remain silent because of non-disclosure agreements.

Porter, one of Swalwell’s Democratic rivals in the governor’s race, highlighted what she said were “very troubling allegations” Tuesday on CNN.

“With regard to Rep. Swalwell, I have seen allegations coming from women staffers. They are very, very troubling allegations. It’s those women’s stories to tell when they are ready, and I hope they feel safe and supported if they choose to do so,” Porter said.

Porter said she has not spoken to any of the women who social media influencers say plan to come forward with allegations against Swalwell.

“This is about building a politics that works for people, that is focused on living our values, and I believe women. I think that has to be the starting place here,” she said.

Trump and other Republicans have long mocked Swalwell over his association with the woman at the center of a suspected political intelligence operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015, Fang Fang or Christine Fang.

The House Ethics Committee in 2023 closed its investigation into Swalwell without taking action, and he was never accused of wrongdoing. However, The Washington Post reported in March that FBI Director Kash Patel was pushing to release case files from the investigation.