The Defense Innovation Unit awarded contracts to develop one-way attack drones to American software companies partnering with Ukrainian drone manufacturers.
The measures would dedicate personnel, training, and resources to monitor transnational repression from authoritarian regimes and protect target groups.
The ACLU and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to speed along deportations of Venezuelan nationals.
Tren de Aragua ‘is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States,’ Trump said.
Goals of the unit include reducing U.S. dependency on Chinese telecom products, preventing cyber attacks, and securing a win in tech rivalry with China.
ISIS deputy caliph Abu Khadija was killed in an airstrike conducted by Iraqi national intelligence and U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq’s Anbar Province.