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Judge Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO) on Monday of the Department of Homeland Security’s interim fina...
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Three senators—Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)—have sued President Trump and Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker over Trump’s installation of Wh...
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This month, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will assess the first phase of its Explainable AI program—a multi-year, multi-million dollar effort to enable artificial intelligence (AI...
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Earlier this year, just as the United States was preparing to kick off its national elections, the country of Iraq was finalizing the results of its own and finally installing a new government after mont...
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Witch hunt or no, the Mueller investigation has so far produced a lot of litigation, and that litigation has produced a lot of documents. Today, Lawfare is releasing a new resource page collating signifi...
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A Russian Interior Ministry Official, Maj. Gen. Prokopchuk, is one of the nominees to serve as the next INTERPOL president, alarming some Western officials, human rights activists and Kremlin opponents w...
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The annual Asia-Pacific Economic (APEC) Summit concluded on Nov. 18 in Papua New Guinea with leaders failing to agree on a final communique for the first time ever, due to clashes between the United Stat...
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Yemen Moves Toward Peace Talks, But Fighting Continues
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For counterterrorism officials, one of the most difficult counterterrorism challenges is identifying the next global struggle that, like the Syrian civil war, will energize the world’s Muslims and lead t...
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Mieke Eoyang joins us for the interview about Third Way’s “To Catch a Hacker” report. We agree on the importance of what I call “attribution and retribution” as a way to improve cybersecurity. But we dis...
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As Lawfare readers have probably noticed, there has been a fair amount of controversy over Matthew Whitaker's designation as acting attorney general as of late. To keep track of it all, we at Lawfare hav...
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Much controversy has arisen over the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the acting attorney general.
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The Supreme Court of Facebook is about to become a reality.
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On Monday, Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse and Mazie K. Hirono filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asking a federal judge to decide the legality of Matthe...
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We appear to be entering into a new geoeconomic world order, characterized by great power rivalry between the United States and China and the clear use of economic tools to achieve strategic goals. This ...
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Details of the interactions show why contacts between the president and the top officials investigating his White House were risky for all involved.
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American companies are getting hacked, and the Securities and Exchange Commission wants corporate executives to do something about it. According to a White House Council of Economic Advisers report relea...
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For more than a decade, the national security agencies of the federal government have repeatedly recognized climate change as a national security threat. Since 2010, the Department of Defense has publish...
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Editor’s Note: Although the Trump administration has made much of China's rise when it comes to trade, the president should be focused more on the security implications. Robert Ross of Boston College poi...