National Security

Donald Trump Jr., far right during his father's inauguration, has released an email exchange about setting up a meeting in 2016 with a Russian lawyer who he is told has damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails About Meeting With Russian Lawyer, Annotated

4:38pm July 11, 2017

Trump Jr. tweeted images of an email chain about the 2016 meeting in which an intermediary said he could connect Trump with damaging information about Hillary Clinton. NPR journalists add analysis.

Medics and nurses load an injured American soldier onto a helicopter during the Iraq war. The Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest program is aimed at immigrants with special skills, such as in medicine.

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Citizenship For Military Service Program Under Fire

1:01pm July 11, 2017

by Tom Bowman

Thousands of foreign nationals with critical skills have served in the U.S. military in exchange for citizenship. The Trump administration is considering ending the program.

Donald Trump Jr. Was Told Of Information's Moscow Origin

12:25pm July 11, 2017

The New York Times is reporting that Trump Jr. was told that the potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton offered by a Russian lawyer last year came from the Russian government.

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Despite Victory Over ISIS, Some Fighting Continues In Mosul

12:25pm July 11, 2017

by Jane Arraf

The Iraqi government has declared a holiday in celebration of its victory over ISIS in the city of Mosul. But the group Amnesty International says the fighting has created a civilian catastrophe.

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Author: Governments Seek To Dominate The 'Wild West' Of Cyberspace

12:25pm July 11, 2017

by Mary Louise Kelly

In The Darkening Web, Alexander Klimburg warns that the threat of an international cyber war is as real as nuclear exchange during the Cold War — only "many orders of magnitude greater."

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Just How Closely Linked Is The 'Kremlin-Linked' Lawyer?

7:23am July 11, 2017

Donald Trump Jr. met in 2016 with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer described as close to the Kremlin. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Atlantic writer Julia Ioffe exactly what that means.

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U.S. Soldier Arrested, Accused Of Trying To Provide Material Support To ISIS

1:33am July 11, 2017

by Barbara Campbell

Ikaika Erik Kang had been investigated for over a year by the Army and the FBI. He is accused of offering the extremist group military documents and training.

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, photographed on Nov. 8, 2016, met with Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016.

Lawyer Who Met With Trump Jr. Has Ties To Russian Government

10:05pm July 10, 2017

by Miles Parks

Natalia Veselnitskaya says she never acted on behalf of the government, but she's spent much of the past five years pushing Putin's messages and fighting American sanctions against Russia.

Donald Trump Jr. speaks at a campaign stop with his father, then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, in April 2016 in Indianapolis, Ind.

Report: Trump Son Informed Russia Meeting Was Effort To Aid His Father's Campaign

10:02pm July 10, 2017

by Jessica Taylor

Earlier on Monday, the White House was defending President Trump's eldest son following another Times report the meeting was intended to get damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

House Poised To Approve National Defense Authorization Bill

6:35pm July 10, 2017

by David Welna

The House version of the Defense Authorization Bill sets spending at an unlawful $700 billion (because of sequestration) and includes items recognizing climate change as a threat to national security — a view supported by a number of Republicans.

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