WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on Jan. 23, 2026: * * * I Can Buy a British Election for $25m: Here's How The UK's protections against political interference are analog in a digital age, leaving it wide open to corruption and foreign interference. By Andy Pryce As an urgent review into foreign financial interference in UK elections gets underway, there is a recognition in London that outright manipulation of electoral campaigns   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on Jan. 23, 2026: * * * The Resurrection of Network Fees European telecommunications operators are pushing for network fees again. South Korea's experience shows why that's a mistake. By Fiona Alexander After defeat in Dubai, Europe's telecommunications operators held fire. The EU introduced the Open Internet Regulation, protecting net neutrality after many of the same European telecom companies w  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Legal Sidebar white paper (No. LSB11274) on Jan. 22, 2026, by legislative attorneys Peter G. Berris and Clay Wild: * * * Geofence Warrants and the Fourth Amendment Introduction From thermal imaging and wiretaps to GPS tracking and various forms of electronic eavesdropping, the emergence of new technologies and their investigative use have sometimes created legal tension with constitutional privacy protec  more

MUNICH, Germany, Jan. 24 (TNSrep) -- ifo Institute issued the following news release: * * * Reform Options for an Economically Sustainable Pension in Germany Meet with Little Approval Among the Population The majority of the population in Germany reject reforms that would strengthen the sustainability of statutory pension insurance, as a study by the ifo Institute concludes. "Linking the statutory retirement age to life expectancy and limiting pension increases to a greater extent are necessa  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 23 -- Scholastic, a children's publishing, education and media company, issued the following news release: * * * Scholastic to Publish Trade Paperback and Movie Tie-In Editions of Sunrise on the Reaping, the #1 Worldwide Bestselling Fifth Novel in the Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced the publication of both a trade paperback edition and a movie tie-in paperback editi  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 -- The House Education and Workforce Committee released the following written testimony by Kevin Frazier, AI innovation and law fellow at the University of Texas, from a Jan. 14, 2026, hearing entitled "Building an AI-Ready America": * * * I. Introduction: The Portfolio Economy Artificial intelligence (AI) will inevitably and permanently alter the nature of work.1 Where, how, and to what extent is unknown and, critically, unknowable.2 Economists do not have a definitive t  more