WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following opening statement from a Feb. 13, 2025, hearing entitled "Eliminating Waste by the Foreign Aid Bureaucracy": * * * I am very discouraged by this hearing, and by the witnesses you have chosen to give a platform to today. Instead of having a serious discussion, we're going to hear conspiracy theories as the Committee holds what amounts t  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for the policy community, issued the following news release: * * * Three Furies Reawakened in Canada The greatest challenge that new Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney will face as prime minister - and Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre will have to contend with, too - is neither a trade war with  more