WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Eighty-four immigration legal services and advocacy organizations headquartered across the United States have submitted a public comment letter strongly opposing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), interim final rule (IFR) titled USCIS Immigration Fees and Related Procedures Required by H.R.1 Reconciliation Bill. This IFR introduces an annual asylum fee (AAF) and imposes new procedural and sub  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 1 -- NATO issued the following news: * * * Deputy Secretary General addresses the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lithuania * On Monday (1 June 2026), NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska gave the keynote speech at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Spring Session in Vilnius. The Deputy Secretary General highlighted NATO's strength and solidarity: "No Ally ever stands alone in the Alliance." "Our Forward Land Forces are deployed from the Baltic to the Bla  more

WASHINGTON, June 2 -- The Jamestown Foundation posted the following commentary on June 1, 2026, by Pavel K. Baev, senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute Oslo, in the foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Russia Hits Strategic Ceiling With Attacks, Strikes, and Bluffs Executive Summary: * Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on May 29 warned that there would soon be a new Russian large-scale missile/drone strike on Kyiv amid Russia's intensified nuclear brinkma  more

WASHINGTON, June 1 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF10472) on May 29, 2026, by defense policy analyst Daniel M. Gettinger and nonproliferation specialist Mary Beth D. Nikitin: * * * North Korea's Nuclear Weapons and Missile Programs Overview Over the past decade, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) has advanced its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, which has raised the threat Pyongyang   more

WASHINGTON, June 2 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following statement by Secretary Marco Rubio on Italy National Day: * * * On behalf of the United States of America, I extend warm congratulations to the people of Italy on the 80th anniversary of the Italian Republic. As the United States celebrates its 250th year of independence, we honor the profound influence that Rome's republican traditions had on our Founding Fathers. Just as Rome's legacy shaped the birth of American democracy  more

WASHINGTON, June 1 (TNSLrpt) -- The World Bank issued the following working paper (No. 11402) on June 1, 2026 by Arti Grover and Pierre-Louis Vezina entitled "The Impact of Conflict on Foreign Investments: Evidence from Project-Level Data." Here is the abstract: * * * This paper examines how armed conflict affects the global allocation of foreign direct investment using monthly conflict fatality data matched with project-level greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) and cross-border merger  more

WASHINGTON, June 1 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: * * * WOW.DHS.GOV: DHS Adds Another 5,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens to "Worst of the Worst" Website * Nothing will slow ICE down from arresting the worst of the worst across the country and removing them from our communities WASHINGTON - The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the "Worst of the Worst" (WOW) website, WOW.DHS.gov, has been updated with yet another 5,  more