WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets released the following testimony by Kia Hamadanchy, senior policy counsel for the National Political Advocacy Division of the American Civil Liberties Union, from a Jan. 22, 2026, hearing entitled "Declassified MLK Records: What They Reveal and Why They Matter." MLK stands for Martin Luther King Jr. * * * Chairwoman Luna, Ranking Member Crockett, and members of the Ta more PR

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Feb. 5 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Society of Addiction Medicine posted the following news wrap up, ASAM Weekly for Feb. 3, 2026: * * * This Week in the ASAM Weekly Addiction is (also) a disease of attention. Alcohol imagery contributes to alcohol use but it has become incredibly difficult to measure the effect now that so much of our attention has moved online ( Addiction ). On the flip side, people who pay a lot of attention to life online are finding thems more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on Feb. 4, 2026: * * * Europe's New Sovereignty Target - US Payment Giants Europe's reliance on US payment networks has become a strategic vulnerability that worries policymakers. By Jack Galloway After AI chips and cloud computing, Europeans have woken up to another American dominated technology to worry about -payment systems operated by Visa and Mastercard. France's Aurore Lalucq, one of the Eur more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on Feb. 4, 2026: * * * Power in Numbers: Governments Gang Up On Tech Governments are demanding that tech compromise. The pressure can prove effective, provided they act together. By Clara Riedenstein It was a global counterattack. After AI chatbot Grok started producing fake sexualized images, the European Commission warned of an investigation. UK regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation. Br more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: * * * DHS Sets the Record Straight on Administrative Warrants and American Public Support of President Trump's Deportations of Illegal Aliens * WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is debunking several of the mainstream media's false narratives related to the use of administrative warrants to arrest illegal aliens, as well as the notion that most Americans do not support immigr more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Larson Moves to Block Trump Plan to Steal $10 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars from U.S. Treasury * Washington, D.C. - Following news of President Trump's unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit (link is external) against the IRS and the Treasury Department that he oversees, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) and his Democratic colleagues on the House Ways and Means Committee introduced the Prevent Presidential  more PR

ITHACA, New York, Feb. 4 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Mindful choice or locked in? Study probes feelings about written consent * People who sign consent forms feel more trapped - not more empowered - than those who give consent verbally, according to new research by Vanessa Bohns, the Braunstein Family Professor in the ILR School, and co-author Roseanna Sommers of the University of Michigan Law School. Consent forms have proliferated in recent years, thanks to an  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: * * * Scanlon, Judiciary Democrats Demand DHS and ICE Rescind Memo Authorizing Warrantless Home Raids * Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, today joined Reps. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee; Pramila Jayapal, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Senate Judiciary Committee Investigation of Credit Suisse Reveals Hidden Truths and Garners Global Attention * WASHINGTON - Today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Nazi-linked accounts at Credit Suisse, inspired by an ongoing oversight investigation led by Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), brought new facts about the bank's past to light and increased pressure on Credit Suisse's successor b more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 4, 2026: * * * Warnock, Warren, Senate Democrats Urge Vought to Rescind CFPB's Proposal to Gut Civil Rights Protections in Lending "This proposal would gut longstanding civil rights protections, widen the wealth gap, and increase housing, credit card, car loan, and other borrowing costs by undermining ECOA's core pur more PR