WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets released the following testimony by Kia Hamadanchy, senior policy counsel for the National Political Advocacy Division of the American Civil Liberties Union, from a Jan. 22, 2026, hearing entitled "Declassified MLK Records: What They Reveal and Why They Matter." MLK stands for Martin Luther King Jr. * * * Chairwoman Luna, Ranking Member Crockett, and members of the Ta  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Beyer Statement On The Washington Post * Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district in the Washington, D.C. suburbs in the U.S. House, today issued the following statement after the announcement of mass layoffs at the Washington Post, which reportedly included the elimination of substantial portions of the newspaper's desks covering local and regional news, international   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on Feb. 4, 2026: * * * Power in Numbers: Governments Gang Up On Tech Governments are demanding that tech compromise. The pressure can prove effective, provided they act together. By Clara Riedenstein It was a global counterattack. After AI chatbot Grok started producing fake sexualized images, the European Commission warned of an investigation. UK regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation. Br  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 -- The City University of New York Graduate Center issued the following news: * * * In Memoriam: Leanne Rivlin A founder of environmental psychology, she brought compassion and rigor to research on how people are shaped by the places they inhabit. * The Graduate Center mourns the passing of Professor Emerita Leanne Rivlin, a founding figure in environmental psychology whose work centered people who were often overlooked. She died on January 5. She was 96. Graduate Center P  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Feb. 4 -- The Nevada Democratic Party posted the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Lombardo SKIPS Oversight Hearing After Covering Up For Musk's Boring Co. and Deleting the Evidence * Las Vegas Review Journal: "Boring Co., Lombardo's office no-shows at state Vegas Loop meeting" Joe Lombardo refused to answer lawmakers' questions after his office helped Elon Musk's Boring Company get away with serious and "willful" safety violations that led to two Clark County firefi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Smith, Schweikert, Mann: Future Farmers of America Must Explain Ties to Chinese Communist Party Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08), Oversight Subcommittee Chairman David Schweikert (AZ-01), and co-Chair of the Congressional Future Farmers of America (FFA) Caucus, Representative Tracey Mann (KS-01), are calling on the FFA to explain its  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Feb. 5 (TNSjou) -- Washington University in St. Louis issued the following news: * * * Closing the research-practice gap Implementation scientists argue for a stronger focus on real-world impact By Deb Parker Billions of dollars are invested each year in scientific research, yet too often the benefits stop at journal publications rather than reaching patients, communities or policymakers. In a recent paper published in Implementation Science Communications, a group of  more