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ACLU urges end to some local immigration enforcement deals

WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union urged federal immigration authorities on Tuesday to end dozens of cooperation agreements with local law enforcement agencies that the group identified as having the worst records of civil rights violations, bad jails or prisons and other factors.

Tribune News Service · Aug 9, 2022

Crypto sector lobbying expenditures up a third in second quarter - Roll Call

The cryptocurrency industry set a new spending record on lobbying in the latest quarter as it becomes a bigger issue in Washington.

Roll Call · Aug 9, 2022

Law Enforcement Searches Donald Trump’s Mar-a-lago Home

Former US President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledged was part of an investigation into Trump’s removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort.The unprecedented search of a former president’s…

Evening Standard · Aug 9, 2022

Russia Suspends Arms Inspections under Treaty with US

Russia said Monday it was suspending US on-site inspections under a strategic arms reduction treaty with Washington, pointing to Western sanctions and coronavirus infections. The Russian foreign ministry said facilities that are subject to inspections under the New START treaty will be "temporarily" exempt from such inspections. The announcement comes…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 9, 2022

U.S. doubling down on investment in the Pacific - senior diplomat

The world's future will be written in the Pacific, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said in New Zealand on Tuesday, as she wrapped up a whistle-stop tour of Pacific nations intended to demonstrate Washington's commitment to the Pacific region.

Reuters · Aug 9, 2022

What-if DC war game maps huge toll of a future US-China war over Taiwan

WASHINGTON — As China waged extensive military exercises off of Taiwan last week, a group of American defense experts in Washington was focused on their own simulation of an eventual — but for now entirely hypothetical — U.S.-China war over the island.

Tribune News Service · Aug 9, 2022

Trump's pick overtakes GOP House member who voted to impeach

Republican Joe Kent has taken the lead over incumbent Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in the race for the second spot in Washington state’s top two primary

The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2022

Trump-backed Joe Kent surges past Republican who voted for impeachment

Former Green Beret vows to ‘bring national security state to heel’ as ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago estate raided by FBI

The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2022

Mar-a-Lago raided by FBI agents, Trump says

WASHINGTON — Former President Trump said in a statement Monday that the FBI is searching his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, in what he described as a “raid.”

Los Angeles Times · Aug 9, 2022

Artie Burns struggled with Steelers, but Seahawks happy with what they've found

RENTON, Wash. — Through all the understandable attention on the two rookie cornerbacks the Seahawks drafted in the spring and the revival of the career of former Huskies star Sidney Jones IV, Artie Burns just keeps hanging in.

Tribune News Service · Aug 8, 2022