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• U.S. has urged legal reforms abroad to block Islamic State recruits

  The U.S. Justice Department has provided specific suggestions to governments in Europe and elsewhere on how to strengthen counterterrorism laws in order to arrest would-be foreign fighters before they join groups like Islamic State, according to a policy paper reviewed by Reuters.

• ACLU sues two psychologists who devised CIA interrogation program

  The American Civil Liberties Union sued two psychologists who devised the CIA's Bush-era interrogation program on Tuesday, saying they encouraged the agency "to adopt torture as official policy" and made millions of dollars in the process.

• Obama lifts hold on U.S. military aid to Egypt

  President Barack Obama on Monday told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that he would lift a hold on U.S. military aid to Cairo, but also said the United States would stop allowing Egypt to buy equipment on credit starting in fiscal year 2018.

• House breaks impasse, passes security funding without provisions

  The House of Representatives approved full fiscal-year funding for the U.S. domestic security agency on Tuesday, dealing a blow to conservative Republicans who had wanted the bill to include language blocking President Barack Obama's recent executive orders on immigration.

• Al Qaeda Terror Plot Thwarted in Canada: Authorities Arrest 2 Whose Hopes Were to Commit Violence on Passenger Train, Authorities Say (Video)

  Canadian authorities have arrested two men, Chiheb Esseghaier, of Montreal and Raed Jaser, of Toonto, with links to Al Qaeda with conspiring to murder people on a VIA Canadian railway passenger train. While the subjects had the capacity to carry out an attack, the public was never in imminent danger.

• CIA 'Ramping'Up' Counterterrorism Efforts' in Iraq, Wall Street Journal Says

  The CIA is stepping in and "ramping up" its role with the unit in Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Citing unnamed sources the increased CIA role is in an effort to prevent spillover from the war in Syria by helping counterterrorism units fight al-Qaeda in Iraq.