Foreign Policy and National Security
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An American subsidiary of an Israeli construction company will pay the U.S. government $2.8 million and abandon $16 million in potential administrative claims, ending False Claims Act allegations that its Israeli parent actually did the work on a military port contract meant for U.S.-based companies… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A group of federal watchdogs has criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for determining that a whistleblower’s report about allegedly inappropriate White House interaction with Ukraine wasn’t an “urgent concern,” thereby blocking the complaint from being sent to Congress… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The American Civil Liberties Union said on Thursday that the Trump administration had handed over data as part of a class action suit challenging its migrant family separation policy that shows more than 1,500 additional migrant children were separated from their families than previously known… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The county of El Paso in Texas and a local immigrant-rights nonprofit asked a Texas federal judge on Monday to block the entirety of the Trump administration’s planned diversion of $6.1 billion in defense funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The acting head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, is leaving the agency after a six-month stint as its interim leader, President Donald Trump said late Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 