Last week the State Department changed its travel advisory on Cuba from “reconsider travel” to “exercise increased caution.” The “reconsider travel” warning was apparently based on the sonic attacks on diplomats in Cuba. The decision to change to “exercise increased…
The John McCain National Defense Authorization Act of 2018, in addition to passing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), which reforms the CFIUS process, also enacted the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (“ECRA”). That name…
The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMAâ€), just signed into law as part of the John McCain National Defense Authorization Act of 2018 (“NDAAâ€), will change significantly the way in which the Committee on Foreign Investment in…
According to a State Department press release released today, the United States has made a determination that Russia used novichok, a chemical warfare agent, in an attack on British soil and, as a result, the US will impose sanctions on Russia under the…
Just hours before Defense Distributed, pursuant to a Settlement Agreement with the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, planned to upload plans to allow anyone who can afford a 3-D printer to make their own plastic guns, a…