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Three House Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday prohibiting the U.S. from forming a collaborative cybersecurity initiative with Russia.
The No Cyber Cooperation with Russia Act, brought by Reps. Brandon Boyle (D-Pa.), Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), echoes a number of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act that also sought to prohibit such cooperation with Russia.
The bill is in response to a proposal floated by President Trump.
A California congressman has written a letter to the Alabama State Bar (ASB) accusing Attorney General Jeff Sessions of possibly violating Alabama's Rule of Professional Conduct for lawyers.
More than a dozen Democrats in the House of Representatives are questioning why the Justice Department settled a recent money laundering case involving the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The National Defense Authorization Act is a massive $696 billion defense policy bill that covers everything from F-35 fighter jets to Guantanamo Bay to military pay raises.
Two Democratic Reps. have introduced amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act hammering the President's perceived dovishness on Russia.
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Virg) introduced an amendment blocking funding to any new joint cybersecurity effort with Russia, such as the one the President is said to have agreed to with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Officials from both the United States and Russia in the room when President Trump and Putin met Friday both said the leaders agreed to some form of bilateral cybersecurity unit.
THE TOPLINE: After a grueling nine-month campaign, the U.S.-led coalition and Iraq's prime minister declared victory Monday over the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Mosul.
"I announce from here the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism which the terrorist Daesh announced from Mosul," Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a speech on state television, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
Donald Trump's plan to forge a cyber security unit with Russia to protect the US from potential election hacking in future has been roundly criticized.
Cyber policy specialists also noted that similar attempts at cooperation between the two former Cold War adversaries have swiftly run aground in recent years.
President Donald Trump declared on Twitter that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had "discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit." | Getty
President Donald Trump's pledge for cybersecurity cooperation with Russia would likely fail quickly and could even make the U.S. less secure, numerous cyber analysts said Sunday after the president's announcement met dismay and mockery from lawmakers of both parties.
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.