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Here’s a free suggestion for President Obama and to FBI Director James Comey, for that matter: Take a trip to Kansas.
Kansas? Whatever for?
To visit some meatpackers, of course.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that a new offensive against the Islamic State’s capital in Raqqa is only weeks away, NBC reports. The start of the Raqqa offensive would follow only weeks ...
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Earlier this month, 18-year-old Mahin Khan of Tucson, Arizona pleaded guilty to terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism, and conspiracy to commit misconduct involving weapons.
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Review of David Priess's The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama (PublicAffairs, 2016).
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Three terrorists attacked a Pakistani police academy in Quetta on Monday night, killing at least 61 people, reports the Wall Street Journal. The militants broke into the training center’s dorms and kille...
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Our guest for the episode is Rob Silvers, the assistant secretary for cybersecurity policy at DHS. He talks about what the government can and should do about newly potent DDOS attacks and the related pro...
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Last Friday, on the heels of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declaring his “separation from the United States” during a visit to China, the USS Decatur conducted a freedom of navigation operation (F...
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Hearings continued on Wednesday in the Al-Nashiri case. After some preliminary matters, the commission turns immediately to the matter at hand: the testimony of Stephen D. Gill, on redirect. On Monday th...
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The End of Sisi’s Authoritarian Honeymoon
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A review of Mark Bradley's The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
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The battle for Mosul has entered its second week as coalition forces continue their advance toward the Iraqi city.
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[This piece has been updated where noted.]
