Lawyers for the man accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan said the attorney general was putting “partisan politics over justice.”
The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.’s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
His predecessor as defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, started the roughly 50-nation group to support Kyiv after Russia invaded in 2022, but Mr. Hegseth has given up leadership.
Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after recent gains by Al Shabab militants.
A United States special operations forces trainer speaking to Danab recruits in 2023. The United States has trained and equipping vetted units of Somalia’s special forces, known as the Danab.
Ksenia Karelina, who was jailed in Russia over a one-time donation to a Ukrainian charity group, was released in exchange for Artur Petrov, a dual Russian-German citizen.
The World Anti-Doping Agency will report to its board that federal officials questioned one of its U.S. employees last month in the inquiry into the agency’s handling of positive tests by Chinese athletes.