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Washington National Guard attacker worked with the CIA

The suspect who shot two members of the Washington National Guard on Thursday, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was an Afghan national who had been working with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) back in 2011, CNN reported a senior US official as saying on Thursday. At the time, the agency conducted its own vetting process using a range …

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A rare sight in Washington: The House of Representatives is getting down to work

Welcome back, members of the US House of Representatives. The world has changed since you’ve been gone. Since the House cast its last vote, on September 19 — well before the longest government shutdown in history started — Donald Trump has brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and traveled to Asia and back. The …

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Washington withdraws the oversight of Gaza aid from Israel

Washington has assigned responsibility for overseeing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip to the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Center instead of Israel, according to The Washington Post. The newspaper reported that this represents a fundamental shift in managing the reconstruction of Gaza, within the peace plan launched by US President Donald Trump. The report cited informed …

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Pressures from Kyiv and Washington led to US ambassador’s resignation, sources say

CNN  —  When US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink resigned her post two days ago, she was both under pressure from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office in Kyiv, and feeling the strain of working for her ultimate boss in Washington, President Donald Trump, according to people who knew her. At the same time, she was almost …

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What a Kremlin envoy’s trip to Washington says about Trump’s Russia-Ukraine policy

CNN  —  The White House is showing its true colors on Ukraine. While imposing biting trade tariffs on 185 countries this week, the Trump administration quietly lifted travel sanctions on one of Vladimir Putin’s closest advisers so he could come to Washington for talks. Kirill Dmitriev is the Russian president’s money man as head of …

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