WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following testimony by Oren M. Cass, chief economist at American Compass, from a Jan. 14, 2026, hearing entitled "Winning the AI Arms Race Against the Chinese Communist Party": * * * Good morning Chairman Mast, Ranking Member Meeks, and Members of the Committee. Thank you for inviting me to participate in today's hearing. My name is Oren Cass. I am the chief economist at American Compass, where we recently published a repo more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 [Category: ThinkTank] -- Groundwork Collaborative, a think tank and progressive advocacy group, posted the following news release: * * * At the One-Year Mark Into Trump's Second Term, Americans Are Paying More and Saving Less * Twelve months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, his disastrous economic policies are hitting Americans where it hurts most. Far from lowering prices "on day one", Trump's reckless tariffs, health care cuts, and tax giveaways to the we more PR

LAXENBURG, Austria, Jan. 23 (TNSjou)-- The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, a research institute that says it advances systems analysis and applies its research methods to identify policy solutions to reduce human footprints, enhance the resilience of natural and socioeconomic systems, issued the following news release: * * * China can meet its rapidly growing cooling demand without heating the planet China's rising demand for cooling doesn't have to drive rising temperat more PR

MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 23 (TNSjou) -- The University of Melbourne issued the following news: * * * Jumping giants: Fossils show giant prehistoric kangaroos could hop Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big to bounce, overturning long-held assumptions about the limits of hopping. Today, Australia's red kangaroo is the largest living hopping animal and weighs around 90kg. But durin more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 -- The House Education and Workforce Committee released the following written testimony by Kevin Frazier, AI innovation and law fellow at the University of Texas, from a Jan. 14, 2026, hearing entitled "Building an AI-Ready America": * * * I. Introduction: The Portfolio Economy Artificial intelligence (AI) will inevitably and permanently alter the nature of work.1 Where, how, and to what extent is unknown and, critically, unknowable.2 Economists do not have a definitive t more PR