- SecDef Esper, without consulting the president, has ordered National Guardsmen deployed to DC not to carry weapons. He has…
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“The two most populous countries in the Horn of Africa—Ethiopia and Sudan—are both struggling with once-in-a-generation political transitions. Complicating these…