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National Security and Foreign Affairs

July 7, 2017

Several amendments to the annual defense policy bill seek to curb U.S. support for the Saudi Arabia-led campaign in the Yemen civil war.

The amendments come as Saudi Arabia's conduct in the war and the region at large comes under increasing scrutiny in Congress, including a closer-than-expected vote in the Senate that would have blocked an arms sale to the country.


July 6, 2017

Nearly six months into his presidency, President Donald Trump declined yet again Thursday to state definitively that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election.

Trump said it might have been Russia, but he raised the prospect that it could have been others, too, clashing with the US intelligence community's assessment that Russian intelligence agencies interfered.


July 5, 2017

WASHINGTON West Coast lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to alter its approach toward North Korea after Pyongyang's successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking Alaska, and possibly other parts of the United States.

The trouble is, they can't agree on what that alteration should look like.


July 4, 2017

After a global ransomware attack extending from Russia to the U.S. hit computer systems last week, security analysts quickly realized the perpetrators were using stolen cyber weapons that were part of the National Security Agency's (NSA) arsenal — for the second time in just six weeks.


July 3, 2017

President Trump would show "weakness" if he fails to broach the subject of Russian interference in the 2016 elections during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, a House Democrat said Monday.


July 1, 2017

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) tweeted at first daughter Ivanka Trump Saturday, joking that President Trump's travel ban, which says grandparents are not considered close family members, is teaching her children that the president is not a close family member.


June 29, 2017

Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu wants the National Security Agency to stop the crippling Petya ransomware from spreading, if it can.

Petya sparked mass disruption after it emerged Tuesday. The first infections were seen in Ukraine, where Petya attacked 12,500 computers, according to Microsoft. The ransomware subsequently spread to 64 other countries, including Russia, Germany and the U.S.