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July 10, 2017

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.


July 9, 2017

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.


July 9, 2017

Women criticizing Ivanka Trump's inclusion in the G20 summit are bad feminists, according to Donald Trump's former deputy campaign manager.

Citizens United chairman David Bossie said in an interview with Fox News that left-wing criticism for Ivanka did not benefit women.


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

President Donald Trump has spent 35 of his 165 days in office playing golf—far more than his predecessors, according to reports.


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.