WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R49059) on Aug. 3, 2026, entitled "Columbia River System Operations and the Future of the Lower Snake River Dams:" (Continued from Part 1 of 4) * * * Snake River Salmon and Steelhead Trout Populations Listed Under the ESA The ESA was enacted to conserve species identified as endangered or threatened and their habitats./52 Three species of anadromous fishes listed under the ESA are currently   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R49059) on Aug. 3, 2026, entitled "Columbia River System Operations and the Future of the Lower Snake River Dams:" (Continued from Part 2 of 4) * * * Conserving and Restoring Snake River Fishes Federal, state, local, and tribal stakeholders have conducted activities to conserve and restore Snake River salmon and steelhead trout. Most federal activities aimed at restoring salmon and steelhead  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R49059) on Aug. 3, 2026, entitled "Columbia River System Operations and the Future of the Lower Snake River Dams:" (Continued from Part 3 of 4) * * * Litigation and Administration Actions Following the 2020 Record of Decision After the action agencies issued the 2020 ROD, NWF and the other plaintiffs in existing litigation over Columbia River System operations filed an eighth supplemental co  more

SANTA MONICA, California, Aug. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Rand Report issued the following report on August 11, 2026, entitled "Defense Requirements Planning in Comparative Organizations." Here are excerpts: * * * U.S. leadership has directed sweeping acquisition reform to address the mismatch between the Department of War's (DOW's) requirements system and evolving technology, emerging threats, and the speed needed to provide capabilities to operational forces. U.S. allies and adversaries are facing sim  more

SANTA MONICA, California, Aug. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Rand Report issued the following report on August 10, 2026, entitled "Meeting the Needs of the RAF Community." Here are excerpts: * * * The Royal Air Force (RAF) Benevolent Fund and the wider RAF welfare sector provide support to a sizeable community of Serving and former-Serving RAF personnel and their families. To inform future strategic planning around the delivery of support to the community, the RAF Benevolent Fund commissioned RAND Europe t  more

SANTA MONICA, California, Aug. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Rand Report issued the following report on August 12, 2026, entitled "Respirator Surge Manufacturing." Here are excerpts: * * * The United States lacks a resilient domestic manufacturing base that can rapidly manufacture respiratory personal protective equipment (PPE) during biological emergencies. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic exposed dangerous shortages of PPE; supply disruptions, foreign export restrictions, and spikes in gl  more

SANTA MONICA, California, Aug. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Rand Report issued the following report on August 12, 2026, entitled "Southern California Edison's Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program." Here are excerpts: * * * Southern California Edison's Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program (WRCP) provides evidence that a utility can set up and run a direct compensation program that pays survivors of utility-caused wildfires more rapidly and with lower legal and other transaction costs than litigation ty  more

SANTA MONICA, California, Aug. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- Rand Report issued the following report on August 11, 2026, entitled "Testing Large Language Model Agents on the Use of Biological Tools for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening Evasion." Here are excerpts: * * * Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to accelerate progress across the biosciences, but they also introduce significant concerns about the accompanying potential for misuse.1 AI-enabled biological tools (BTs)  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R49058) on July 31, 2026, entitled "The Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 - Background, Impact, and Issues:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * Impact This section discusses the impact of the SSFA on existing and prospective beneficiaries who would otherwise have been affected by the GPO or WEP, as well as its effects on the solvency and administration of Social Security, railroad retirem  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 15 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release: * * * States have tools to slow healthcare spending growth, new UCLA Health report finds Across the United States, the cost of healthcare continues to climb faster than inflation and wages. But states that enact policies to cap healthcare spending growth can slow that growth - if they build in penalties and other accountability measures, according to a new UCLA Health report that analyzed medical s  more