Washington’s policymakers reflect on the Afghan collapse after two decades of hollow nation-building.
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A research center in the Midwest is a brain trust for the Department of Homeland Security’s changing fight against violent extremism.
The Biden administration announced its moves as Taliban fighters seize provincial capitals across the country and work to isolate the capital, Kabul.
He became the agency’s acting general counsel after 9/11, and helped develop a legal framework for its brutal detention and interrogation program.
Jenny and Piper were trained at a women’s prison and got their badges in Manhattan this month.
Trump’s last acting attorney general told lawmakers he had to “persuade the president not to pursue a different path.”
Officials hope the threat of isolation will convince the militants to accept a negotiated political solution, but it may be too late.
“You’re under no obligation to tell the truth,” Giuliani’s law partner said in defending the former New York mayor’s promise of an October surprise.
The worsening outlook comes as Taliban fighters, emboldened by the American military departure, have steadily retaken ground from Afghan government forces — including at least seven provincial capitals in a span of days.
Virginia Giuffre says she was trafficked beginning at age 16.
New Jersey’s only women’s prison was the site of a series of rapes and attacks from staff members, investigators found.
Pyongyang’s latest warning, delivered by Kim Jong Un's powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, comes amid signs that relations between the two Koreas could be improving.
The January 2020 attack on an airfield in Manda Bay killed a U.S. soldier and two American defense contractors. Lawmakers say military officials have not provided them “any substantive information about the attack or the security lapses that contributed to it.”
The Indian Ocean island nation has won international court rulings backing its claim to Diego Garcia and other atolls, but the U.S. and the U.K. have brushed them aside.
Across the country, self-described “patriot” groups are attempting to form alliances with people opposed to mask mandates and skeptical of coronavirus vaccines.
U.N. envoy Kyaw Moe Tun enraged leaders Myanmar’s military leaders by publicly denouncing their takeover of the country.
During the bloody World War II battle, Marines in his unit planted the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi.
The federal pattern-and-practice probe is the third by the Biden administration and will examine police treatment of the homeless.
