WASHINGTON, May 26 -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following testimony by Tom Malinowski, former assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor, from a May 20, 2026, hearing entitled "FY2027 Budget Request: State Department Adjacent Entities": * * * Chairman Mast, Ranking member Meeks, and to all my friends on both sides of this Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify. It's always good to be with you in this room. As many of you know, I wasn't b  more

JERUSALEM, Israel, May 26 -- The government of Israel issued the following news release: * * * President Herzog speaks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney President Herzog expressed his deep alarm at the mounting levels of antisemitic violence in Canada, and called on Prime Minister Carney and his government to address the growing fear and sense of abandonment among the Canadian Jewish community. * President Isaac Herzog spoke yesterday (Monday, 25 May 2026 ) with Prime Minister Mark C  more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Cantwell, Colleagues Raise Major Alarms Over Foreign Government Influence in American News Media if FCC Greenlights Paramount-Warner Brothers Investment Deal * Paramount's financing scheme needs FCC approval so Saudi Arabia, UAE & Qatar can own significant stakes in its television stations Foreign governments hostile to a free press could exert extraordinary influence over CNN, CBS News,  more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following testimony by Damon Wilson, president and CEO of the National Endowment for Democracy, from a May 20, 2026, hearing entitled "FY2027 Budget Request: State Department Adjacent Entities": * * * Chairman Mast, Ranking Member Meeks, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before this Committee. On behalf of NED's Board of Directors, staff, and thousands of democratic partners around the w  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following opening statement at the markup of views and estimates letter to the House Budget Committee: * * * There are years where we can agree on the spirit of the Views & Estimates letter but this is not one of them. The self-congratulations packed into this document is over the top. Americans agree overwhelmingly that their president is causing them harm, which makes  more

HELSINGBOR, Sweden, May 22 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks by Secretary Marco Rubio and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte after their meeting: * * * SECRETARY GENERAL RUTTE: So good morning again, and good morning again, Marco, Marco Rubio. Really appreciate you being here today. We had a first discussion. We will now continue with, of course, the NATO foreign ministers, and the meeting will very much concentrate on a couple of issues also on your mind and the Preside  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, issued the following opening statement at a hearing entitled "State and Local Cybersecurity: Escalating Threats, Federal Partnership, and the Resilience of America's Communities": * * * Subcommittee Chairman Ogles Opens Hearing on State and Local Cybersecurity Today, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Chairman Andy Og  more

GEELONG, Australia, May 24 -- Deakin University issued the following news release: * * * Switching to a four-day work week went surprisingly well for 15 Aussie companies * By Professor John Hopkins from the Deakin Business School. This article first appeared in The Conversation. In a 1930 essay, British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that in 100 years time, technological advances would have displaced so much human labour that people would be working 15-hour weeks - if they worked   more