U.S. intelligence community (IC) declared last week that the greatest danger to American national security is old-fashioned organized crime – mainly Mexico’s drug cartels – many former IC experts wondered …
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More than 100 chemical weapons sites are suspected to remain in Syria, left behind after the fall of the longtime president, Bashar al-Assad, according to the leading international organization that …
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President Trump has said he trusts President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to abide by any peace deal on Ukraine they negotiate. Many Russians who fled the country in the …
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‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
by opiniguruby opiniguruThe mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months. On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world’s …
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Russia’s activity in the realm of gray zone warfare – specifically the Kremlin’s increasing use of sabotage to pressure the U.S. and its allies on Ukraine. Cipher Brief experts have …
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EXPERT INTERVIEWS — President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have spared no nations, slammed several longtime allies, and sent global markets into a tailspin. They will likely carry national security implications as …
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Abrupt Changes at the top of the National Security Agency Risk Destabilization
by opiniguruby opiniguruEXCLUSIVE CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING  — The Cipher Brief was the first to report on Thursday in the weekly Dead Drop column that Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), General …
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Trump Administration Revokes Visas of South Sudanese in Clash Over Deportees
by opiniguruby opiniguruSecretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that he was revoking the visas of all South Sudan passport holders because the country’s transitional government had refused to accept in …
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Israel Says Its Account of Rescue Workers Killed in Gaza Was Partly ‘Mistaken’
by opiniguruby opiniguruThe Israeli military on Saturday acknowledged that the initial accounts from troops involved in the killing last month of 15 people in southern Gaza — who the United Nations said …
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The Trump administration this week levied sweeping tariffs across the globe, provoking retaliation from other countries and sending the stock market tumbling. An unexpected consequence? Penguin memes. Images of the …