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Three GOP senators have introduced a bill to require mobile app stores to label apps with their “country of origin.” Justin Sherman examines what exactly is in the bill and its potential implications. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/examining-a-new-bill-to-label-apps-made-in-china

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Over the past few days, Ukrainians hit the Kerch Bridge and Russia has left the Black Sea grain initiative.

On today's Lawfare Podcast, Benjamin Wittes is joined by Dmitri Alperovitch and Mykhailo Soldatenko to discuss these developments and their implications. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-ukrainians-hit-the-kerch-bridge-again

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This morning, former President Trump announced that he had received a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith in the Jan. 6 investigation. Benjamin Wittes discusses what receiving a target letter means for Trump and what inferences can be made. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-trump-jan.-6-indictment-appears-to-be-imminent

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Today at 5 p.m. ET, Benjamin Wittes, with Anna Bower and Roger Parloff will host a Lawfare Live to unpack this afternoon's Fort Pierce hearing in the classified documents case against Donald Trump and Walt Nauta and discuss developments in the Jan. 6 case.
https://www.youtube.com/live/_C-WwQ_twhI?feature=share

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Does the Coast Guard have the statutory authority it needs to meet new challenges of the era, including technological innovations?

Cary Coglianese overviews a study produced by NASEM by request of Congress on the question: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-coast-guard's-looming-challenges

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Joshua Busby, Emily Holland, Morgan Bazilian, and Paul Orszag consider how the Biden Administration is using the Defense Production Act, a Korean War-era policy, to assist in the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-defense-production-act-s-role-in-the-clean-energy

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On today's Lawfare Podcast, Alan Rozenshtein spoke with Pamela Samuelson about her recent piece "Generative AI meets copyright,” in Science Magazine in which she analyzes the current litigation around generative AI learning from copyright material and where it might lead.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/pam-samuelson-on-copyright's-threat-to-generative-ai

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There is growing consensus about the need for AI regulation and countries are quickly moving to address the issue. Itsiq Benizr, Arianna Evers, Shannon Togawa Mercer, and Ali Jessani explore the current state of AI regulation in the U.S., EU, and UK. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-comparative-perspective-on-ai-regulation

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Trump asked the GA Supreme Court to disqualify DA Fani Willis from continuing her Fulton County investigation into 2020 presidential election interference & suppress the special purpose grand jury’s final report. Read Trump’s filing, posted by Hyemin Han: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trump-asks-the-georgia-supreme-court-to-quash-fulton-county-report-disqualify-willis

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Politicians across the ideological spectrum agree that current U.S. data policy toward China needs to be updated to address national security and privacy risks. Samm Sacks and Peter Swire discuss four distinct approaches to this issue. https://lawfaremedia.org/article/assessing-u.s.-data-policy-toward-china-a-proposed-framework

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NATO's annual summit just wrapped up and the big news is that Sweden is in, and Ukraine is not. Eric Adamson joins Benjamin Wittes on today's Lawfare Podcast to discuss Sweden's accession and Ukraine's relationship with NATO. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/eric-adamson-on-the-nato-summit

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The Supreme Court announced its decision in U.S. v. Texas, a case over Biden's immigration enforcement policies, in June. Shalini Bhargava Ray explains the case and the implications of the court's decision. lawfaremedia.org/article/united-states-v.-texas-explained

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Why did it feel like the intelligence agencies were caught off guard on Jan. 6?

FBI leadership told Congress repeatedly that the bureau couldn’t have anticipated the Jan. 6 attack. Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic argue that a new Senate report suggests otherwise: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-new-senate-report-undermines-fbi-excuses-about-jan.-6

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On today's Lawfare Podcast, Scott Anderson sat down with Roger Parloff and Anna Bower to catch up on the latest developments in the Trump trials, including what charges may be coming down the pike and how his overlapping trials fit into his legal defense. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/catching-up-on-the-trump-trials

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Last year the U.S. government agreed that it would not use torture-obtained evidence in Guantanamo military commissions prosecutions, but the commissions approved its use in U.S. v. Nurjaram. Scott Roehm analyzes the decision: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-military-commissions-can-t-seem-to-quit-torture-evidence

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On today's Lawfare Podcast, Alan Rozenshtein was joined by Jeff Kosseff and Derek Bambauer to discuss the impact of a federal judge's ruling prohibiting dozens of Biden admin officials from communicating with social media companies about taking down First Amendment-protected content. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-louisiana-judge's-dramatic-jawboning-decision

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The selection process for a grand jury that could potentially consider criminal charges against Trump & his allies in the Fulton County case began yesterday. Anna Bower’s dispatch from last night: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/they-ll-be-in-the-room-where-it-happens

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Asheesh Agarwal and Matt Perault examine how antitrust laws and concerns over human rights abuses could impact the proposed merger between LIV Golf, financed by a Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund, and the PGA. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/live-and-let-liv

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Plans to move FBI headquarters to either Maryland or Virginia have been in the works for years. Adam Klein and Mark Lawrence discuss how the move gives the bureau a chance to renew its complicated relationship with the American public. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-fbi-is-getting-a-new-headquarters.-will-americans-get-a-new-fbi

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Nathaniel Lubin and Ravi Iyer examine why transparency of product experimentation results would benefit tech regulation and what would be needed to implement transparency requirements. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-tech-regulation-can-leverage-product-experimentation-results

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On today's Lawfare Podcast, Eugenia Lostri discussed the latest changes in the ransomware ecosystem and the impact the Russian invasion of Ukraine had on ransomware activity with Charl van der Walt. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-charl-van-der-walt-on-cyber-extortion

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Jacob Shapiro and Jen Rosiere Reynolds examined why Germany’s Network Enforcement Act June 2021 amendment, meant to make it easier for scholars to access data on content moderation from platforms, has not been used and what lessons it might have for future data access laws. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-puzzling-non-use-of-data-access-laws-the-netzdg-case

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On today’s podcast, Lawfare contributors David Kris and Bryan Cunningham sat down with Eric Goldstein of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to talk about all things cybersecurity, including the U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy and U.S. government cyber lanes. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-eric-goldstein-of-dhs-on-all-matters-cyber

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