Author: Michael

The Army’s newest legal arm is using a “reach back” authority to prosecute old cases of serious crimes that may have escaped prosecution. 
Since opening its doors in December, the Army’s Office of Special Trial Counsel has reopened more than 100 older cases, which has included recalling retired service members to active duty to face charges they may have once believed they’d escaped.
The new office launched in December 2023 to answer the long-standing complaint from justice advocates that the military justice system often left legal decision-making to unit commanders.

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On the heels of a suspiciously timed International Bird Flu Summit in DC, and following reports of new cases of bird flu in humans here in the U.S., we get word that the French government is sounding the alarm on the spread of bird flu.
According to Reuters:
France has raised its risk level of bird flu to ‘moderate’ from ‘negligible’, it said in a decree published in the official journal on Tuesday, a move that will reinforce security measures around poultry farms.

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