The FBI is seeking artificial intelligence capable of finding patterns across federal databases and producing predictive models for its Threat Screening Center, the office that maintains the government’s consolidated terrorism watchlist. The procurement request publicly available on SAM.gov moves the debate over “pre-crime” policing beyond local crime maps, and into a federal system that can affect travel, surveillance and encounters with police. The request does not mean the FBI has purchased or deployed the system. It is a March 27 request for information asking companies to describe available technology. Its specifications, however, show the capabilities the bureau wants to develop.…
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks overnight killed at least three people in Ukraine, local officials said Friday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was expecting U.S. envoys in Kyiv in the coming days as part of renewed diplomatic efforts to end the war. The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as the conflict stretches into its fifth year following Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor. Russian forces have relentlessly struck civilian areas. Previously, these attacks occurred mostly at night, but now they are happening during the day as well. The front line in eastern and southern Ukraine remains…
There’s one big problem with many Republicans, and that’s how the only way they’re better than Democrats on guns is that they don’t inherently want every bit of gun control that comes down the line. They’re open to talking, and they’ll even vote for it from time to time, but they’ll vote against others. They’re not good, just less bad. But not all are cut from that cloth. There are some who are truly pro-gun, which is something you just don’t see from Democrats anymore.That’s how we got suppressors and short-barreled long guns without tax…
Eugene Lucas spent about a decade working inside the Department of Veterans Affairs, treating veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder from conflicts spanning Vietnam through Iraq and Afghanistan. In a recent interview with Military.com otherwise focused on emerging GLP-1 research and alcohol use disorder, Lucas, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who is now associate professor and coordinator of the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at Wilkes University, made a clinical observation that stood apart from the rest of the conversation: In his experience, the number of times a veteran deployed to a combat zone tracked closely with how much trauma they carried…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury announced Friday it has imposed sanctions on a Turkish financial institution as part of its latest effort to sever “critical financial lifelines” for the Iranian government. The actions against Golden Global Yatirim Bankasi Anonim Sirketi come nearly a week after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast, ” Washington’s new effort to get Tehran to capitulate to its demands after more than six months of war. The department accused the bank and its entities of being established to enable Iran’s efforts to transfer oil revenues from China to Turkey, where they could then…
Civilizational Comeback It was the culmination of close to 30 years of an international liberal order coming apart. The first mistake was when the American public voted into office Bill Clinton, rather than George Bush, the father. This choice proved the public has pivoted towards something fresh, something new, instead of proven traditional American leadership. Bush represented the CIA, the U.N. and the Cold War, which the U.S. had won, but he also represented carrying a heavy load, living in fear of atomic weapons and sending troops abroad to stop the spread of communism. Americans wanted to turn the page…
Most people who joined the military after 2001 have never known a Department of Defense structured the way it was Sept. 10 of that year. The combatant command responsible for defending the U.S. homeland didn’t exist. Airport security was run by private contractors, not a federal workforce. Special operations forces numbered in the tens of thousands rather than the tens of thousands more they field today. Twenty-five years later, the institutional scaffolding built in direct response to that morning is still the scaffolding most service members serve inside, regardless of whether they recognize its origin. A New Command — Built…
Veterans of civil rights groups are among those intended to safeguard polling places against voter intimidation in several states during November’s midterm elections. The elections are critical as they may upset the balance of power in Congress. Some Democrats have expressed concerns that President Donald Trump’s administration could use troops or other instruments of the federal government—like U.S. Immigration and Customes Enforcement, or ICE, agents—to intimidate voters and interfere in the results of the elections. Republican lawmakers have pushed legislation in Congress like the SAVE Act to, as they claim, protect the electoral process from non-citizen votes that could impact…
