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Three American soldiers died and a fourth was injured in another green-on-blue attack in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
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American special forces troops and reconnaissance aircraft are helping Philippine troops fight Islamic militants in Marawi City. This is not something you’d expect given Rodrigo Duterte’s preference for China over the U.S.
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Congress is debating renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which deals with the NSA hoovering up information without a warrant. As part of that debate, the NSA promised to estimate the number of Americans whose information has been hoovered up. The NSA has now abandoned its effort to create that estimate.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sent a letter to the Department of the Interior demanding that the federal government retain control of land the Obama administration seized by designating it a national monument.
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Russia paid a Chechen assassin, Artur Denisultanov-Kurmakayev, to pose as a journalist in Ukraine, where he used an interview as cover for an attempt to murder two Chechens famous for fighting for Ukraine.
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An al Shabaab raid on a military base in Somalia resulted in 59 deaths. Thirty-eight people were injured.
