WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Blumenthal Probes Tether On Its Role in Iranian Shadow Banking * [WASHINGTON, D.C.] - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), today wrote to Tether Chief Executive Officer Paolo Ardoino demanding records and information related to Tether's apparent failure to prevent illicit use by sanctioned entities, terrori  more

LONDON, England, June 5 (TNSjou) -- BMJ Group issued the following news release about The BMJ: * * * Healthcare professionals in the House of Lords join calls to bring the assisted dying bill back The debate must continue until parliament reaches a decision, they argue - Eight peers of the House of Lords with nursing and medical backgrounds are urging MPs to continue to support urgent law reform on assisted dying after the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill failed to reach a vote in t  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on June 3, 2026, by Anda Bologa, senior researcher in the Tech Policy Program: * * * Can the Internet be Childproofed? European and Americans share a desire to keep children safe online. The US uses courts. Europe regulates. - Child safety has become the preferred argument to crack down on tech. No politician wants to oppose it. No company wants to look complacent about it. No parent thinks childr  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on June 4, 2026, by Anda Bologa, senior researcher with the Tech Policy Program: * * * Slaying the Cookie Monster Europe's pop-up economy hurts consumers and businesses. It can be fixed. - Every European web user knows the ritual. Click on a website, and you are ambushed by a massive, legalese-filled banner demanding to know: "Do you accept cookies?" Exhausted and frantic to just read the article o  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on June 3, 2026, by David Kirichenko, a freelance journalist and an associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society: * * * Russia's Threadbare Air Defenses For a country that has built its foreign policy on the notion of encirclement, Russia is surprisingly bad at defending itself. - The morning of June 3 dawned bright and sunny in Vladimir Putin's home city of St Petersburg, which might hav  more

NEW YORK, June 3 -- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health posted the following news: * * * Study Offers New Evidence on Role of Health Crises in Driving Housing Instability and Homelessness * Major health events increase the risk of housing instability and homelessness among Medicaid enrollees, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. These findings shed new light on the complex, bidirectional relationship between health and housing. The   more

NEW YORK, June 4 [Category: BizMedia] -- Dow Jones, a provider of news and business information, posted the following news release: * * * WSJ's Global Food Forum 2026: Forces Reshaping Food and Agriculture * The Wall Street Journal's Global Food Forum took place in Chicago on June 1 and June 2, bringing together top executives, investors and policymakers for two days of insightful programming and candid conversations exploring the forces reshaping food and agricultural industries. From clim  more