- The Henry A Wallace Police Crime Database is a new database dedicated to tracking crimes committed by police officers. [Link]
- A former Cleveland police officer has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two women at an illegal traffic stop with a sex toy. The officer was fired from his police job two weeks after the incident. [Link]
- The House approved three amendments to a spending bill that will reduce the power of Attorney Sessions Directive on civil asset forfeiture. [Link]
- Rand Paul is making an effort to have a vote on repealing the 2001 AUMF in the Senate. [Link]
- The Wall Street Journal explains how war games are carried out. [Link]
- Trump says the latest UN sanctions against North Korea pale in comparison to what will happen to North Korea in the future. [Link]
- 370,000 Rohingyan refugees are now in Bangladesh. [Link]
- John McCain has withdrawn Armed Services Committee plans to expand US military ties with Myanmar. [Link]
- The Indian government is looking at deporting 40,000 Rohingyas who currently live in India as refugees. These refugees fled to India from Myanmar years ago to escape violence. [Link]
- At an Arab League meeting in Cario, diplomats from Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia traded heated words. [Link]
- Islamic State fighters in Marawi continue to hold out. The Philippine’s military insists the militants will soon be defeated. [Link]
- The Philippines government gave an annual budget of $20 to the committee tasked to investigate the country’s war on drugs. [Link]
- The US dropped more than 500 bombs on Afghanistan in August. August was the most active month for bombings in Afghanistan in five years. [Link]
- The Iraqi Kurds say they plan to move forward with their independence vote on September 25th. The Iraqi Parliment passed a measure that gave the Prime Minister the power to prevent the Kurds from seceding from Iraq. [Link]
- 69 civilians have been killed by airstrikes in eastern Syria since Sunday. Russia likely carried out the airstrikes. [Link]
- Iran signed a deal with Syria for Iran to be contracted to rebuild Syria’s power grid. [Link]
- The Saudi coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen have killed 26 children with airstrikes since June. [Link]
