WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Cato Institute issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2026: * * * Cato Expert Available: Supreme Court Rules on Warrantless Home Entries in Case v. Montana Today, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Case v. Montana, concerning when police officers can enter a home without a warrant to provide emergency aid to someone inside. In an opinion by Justice Kagan, the Court held that officers do not need probable cause that an emergency exists before doing s more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: * * * Daines Applauds Montana Wins in Senate Funding Bill * U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senator Steve Daines today applauded the passage of a Senate funding bill that includes a number of Daines priorities for Montana. "Today the Senate voted to fund the federal government in a fiscally responsible way. Our funding bill included critical Montana priorities like conservation, tribal public safety, wildfire preven more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: * * * Daines Statement on Venezuela War Powers Vote * U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senator Steve Daines, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement today regarding his vote on the Venezuela War Powers Resolution: "The War Powers Act grants presidents clear authority for the use of limited military force. President Trump was well within this authority when he brought Nicolas more PR

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Jan. 16 -- Dirks, Van Essen and April, a merger and acquisition firm, issued the following news release: * * * Forum Communications to Acquire Midwest Newspaper Portfolio from Wick Communications Sierra Vista, AZ - January 14, 2026 - Forum Communications Company announced today it has reached an agreement to acquire a portfolio of six Midwest newspapers and related assets from Wick Communications, expanding Forum's footprint across the Northern Plains and reinforcing its more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: * * * In the News: Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Sen. Daines touts expanded fire-fighting, national park funding * U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senator Steve Daines spoke with the Bozeman Daily Chronicle about the Senate's latest funding bill, which provides support for Montana's rural communities and public lands. Sen. Daines touts expanded fire-fighting, national park funding amid $5B minibus cuts Bozeman Daily Ch more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- First Five Years Fund, an organization that advances ways to increase access to high-quality early childhood education for children from low-income families, posted the following statement on Jan. 13, 2026: * * * JOINT STATEMENT: National Organizations on Federal Child Care Program The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is a federal state partnership that makes it possible for hundreds of thousands of families with young children to afford safe, quality child care.  more PR

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Jan. 15 -- WildEarth Guardians posted the following news release on Jan. 14, 2026: * * * Legal challenge: Feds more than a year overdue in designating much-needed critical habitat for wolverine Only about 300 wolverines remain in the Lower 48 states * MISSOULA, Mont. -- Today, a coalition of wildlife advocates filed a complaint in the Federal District Court for the District of Montana against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to designate critical habitat  more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Jan. 15 [Category: Sociological] (TNSrpt) -- Americans for Prosperity posted the following news release: * * * Permitting Purgatory: Higher Prices, Thousands of Lost Jobs, and Billions in Missed Economic Opportunity * Jan 15, 2026 by AFP ARLINGTON, VA -Americans for Prosperity today released a new report detailing how, in just six states, the federal government's broken infrastructure permitting system has caused the delay, or outright loss, of tens of thousands of new more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Daines, Ranking Member Shaheen Statement after Meeting with the Foreign Ministers of Denmark and Greenland * U.S. SENATE - Today, U.S. Senators Steve Daines, Chairman of the Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after their meeting with the Foreign Minister more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The White House sent to the Senate on Jan. 13, 2026, the nominations of 66 individuals for positions in the federal government: * * * Ademola Adewale-Sadik, of New York, to be United States Director of the African Development Bank for a term of five years, vice Oren E. Whyche-Shaw. Charlton Allen, of North Carolina, to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a term of five years, vice Julia Akins Clark, term expired. Matthew Anderson, of Colorad more PR