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On Feb. 22, deputies from a variety of government agencies convened a meeting to discuss the White House proposal to establish a Presidential Committee on Climate Security.
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Since its November 2018 announcement of the Paris Call, a code of conduct for cyber space, France has turned to the offensive. On Jan. 18, French armed forces minister Florence Parly unveiled the country...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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Paul Manafort's defense team has filed its sentencing memo in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The document is available here and below. The special counsel's sentencing memo is avai...
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During ongoing Taliban peace talks in Qatar, American negotiators met with a Taliban delegation that included the group’s deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the highest-level Taliba...
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In the past few days, two young women who left their home countries to join the Islamic State in Syria announced their desire to return home with their children. Hoda Muthana, from the United States, and...
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The heated debate about the possibility of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, prompted by recent negotiations between the U.S. government and the Taliban, has focused understandably on the militar...
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On Feb. 22, a federal judge in the Southern District of Texas ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require only men to register for the draft.
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At least 40 Indian soldiers and local officials were killed in a suicide attack on Feb. 14 that targeted a large military convoy traversing Indian-controlled Kashmir. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a State Depa...
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Editor's Note: "The Week that Was" is being posted a day late this week because Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes is a bonehead who was so overwhelmed by the week that he just clean forgot that it ...
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The special counsel's office has filed its sentencing memo in the Paul Manafort case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The memo, along with a lengthy section of exhibits, is availa...
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Each year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London publishes The Military Balance, an annual assessment of the military capabilities and defense economics of 171 countries arou...
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On Friday, Solicitor General Noel Francisco filed a brief on behalf of the special counsel's office regarding In Re Grand Jury Subpoena, the case concerning the special counsel's attempt to subpoena an u...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdul Razak Ali's petition for an initial hearing en banc in Ali v. Trump et al. Ali, held at Guantanamo sinc...
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President Trump claims that the law allows him to spend billions of dollars on a wall that Congress refused to fund. House Democrats, along with Republican Rep. Justin Amash, have introduced a joint reso...
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House Democrats introduced a measure to block President Donald Trump’s border emergency declaration, which is likely to pass the House next week before moving to the Senate and potentially facing a presi...
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On Feb. 12, Germany’s investigative police force arrested two former high-ranking members of the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate (GID) allegedly involved in crimes against humanity. The German Fe...
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For many Americans, the tragic killing of 58 Las Vegas concert-goers in October 2017 made all too vivid the dangers posed by bump stocks, attachments that convert semiautomatic firearms into automatic we...
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It’s looking more and more like Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation is finally reaching an end.
