The ACLU, the National Women’s Law Center and the Service Women’s Action Network have sued the Defense Department under FOIA for records on its review of women in ground combat jobs. The study’s lead researcher wrote the contested 2015 Marine Corps study Hegseth cited in his book.
A classified Bundeswehr analysis rates the Russian sabotage threat to German troops and bases at the second-highest level for the first time, after an explosives-laden drone was found near Wunstorf air base.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met Benjamin Netanyahu at an air base in the Negev to talk about Iran. The Pentagon isn’t saying much, and the timing, eight days before Israel votes, says plenty.
The narrow vote lets Mayor Andre Dickens negotiate the sale of the Atlanta City Detention Center to Fulton County, which faces federal oversight at its Rice Street jail.
Atlanta’s $117 million police and fire training campus opened in 2025. What it is, where it is, what it cost, who trains there and why opponents named it Cop City.
Liliana Bakhtiari’s H.A.L.T. Act would bar Atlanta from buying or using weaponized autonomous systems, drones and robots. A council committee backed it unanimously.
Atlanta’s $117 million training center is in its second year. The state’s racketeering case is on appeal, the Tortuguita lawsuit was dismissed and the referendum effort lost in court.
A year after it opened, the facility once known mainly for protests is training hundreds of police and fire recruits. What happens there day to day, what officials say it has achieved, and why critics remain unconvinced.
The movement against Atlanta’s public safety training center began with a 2021 land lease and grew into one of the longest-running protest campaigns in the country. A timeline of how it started.
Cities have long treated tree cover and public safety as competing goals. Planners and researchers increasingly argue the two can be designed to work together.