MONROVIA, California, March 6 -- AeroVironment issued the following statement on March 4, 2026: * * * The Math Problem Breaking Air Defense, And Why Lasers Change It By Aaron Westman, Senior Director of Business Development at AV A $50,000 drone can destroy a $30 million aircraft. A $2 million missile can destroy a $50,000 drone. If that sounds like a losing proposition, it's because it is. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have fundamentally altered the economics of conflict. We have  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 3 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service has issued a situation and outlook report titled 'Wheat outlook: February 2026' (Report No. WHS-26b), authored by Andrew Sowell and approved by USDA's World Agricultural Outlook Board. Released on February 12, 2026, the report projects a record global wheat harvest for 2025/26, driven in part by Argentina's largest crop on record, and details modest adjustments to U.S. food use and global stocks that  more PR

SACRAMENTO, California, March 6 (TNSrep) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on March 5, 2026: * * * Trump pardons wipe nearly $2 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for Medicare and tax fraud, and more What you need to know: A new analysis finds that Trump's pardons of criminals across his two terms have denied nearly $2 billion in victim restitution, forfeitures, and fines. * President Donald Trump has made his priorities clear from day one  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 4, 2026, by Anna Matilde Bassoli, an independent researcher and analyst: * * * Europe's Fighter Fiasco 2: The Politics The Franco-German jet seems to have crashed before taking to the air. Europe must find a better approach. * After the return of Donald Trump to the White House, US tough love has prompted Europe not only to spend more on defense but also to revitalize its own defense indu more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 5, 2026, by Philip S. Kosnett, senior fellow for the Transatlantic Defense and Security program, and Erlingur Erlingsson, senior visiting fellow at the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland: * * * How Should the U.S. Treat Greenland? Like Iceland The US and Iceland closed the US airbase at Keflavik in 2006, establishing NATO's role in the region and exemplifying e more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 4, 2026, by non-resident senior fellow Alexander Kolyandr: * * * Iran War Won't Save Putin's Crumbling Economy Russia is in serious trouble from a ballooning budget deficit. Rising oil prices are unlikely to change the math. * War in the Middle East is pushing oil prices up, to the delight of the Kremlin -- but the rise may prove too short-lived and too modest to save the Russian governme more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 4, 2026, by senior fellows Mathieu Boulegue, Alexander Crowther, Evgeny Roshchin and Sam Greene: * * * Russia, Europe, and the Iran War - CEPA Fellows Experts assess the consequences of the war on Iran. * Two things are clear from the Kremlin's response to the US-Israeli military campaign against its Iranian ally. The first is that Russia is worried, and the second is that it still enjoys more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * Chairman Wicker Leads SASC Hearing on the American Small Drone Industrial Base U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today led a hearing to examine the state of the U.S. small drone industrial base and the path to American leadership in drone production. The Honorable Owen O. West, Senior Advisor for Drone Dominance, Department of Defense; Mr. Travi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on March 4, 2026, by Astrid Chevreuil, visiting fellow in the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program: * * * Macron's Ile-Longue Speech: Updating France's Nuclear Doctrine for a New Era Six years ago at the Ecole de Guerre, President Emmanuel Macron introduced the "European dimension" of French nuclear deterrence--a concept that remained largely theoretical to France's allies. On March 2, 202 more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on March 4, 2026, from Missile Threat, a product of the CSIS Missile Defense Project: * * * Missiles of Iran Iran possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the Middle East, with thousands of ballistic and cruise missiles, some capable of striking as far as Israel and eastern Europe. For the past decade, Iran has invested significantly to improve these weapons' precision an more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following transcript of an event on March 5, 2026, entitled "Epic Fury: The Campaign Against Iran's Missile and Nuclear Infrastructure". Event participants included Heather Williams, director of the Project on Nuclear Issues, Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project, and Kari A. Bingen, director of Aerospace Security Project, all of the CSIS Defense and Security Department. * * * Kari A. Bingen In  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 [Category: Energy] -- The Institute for Energy Research issued the following commentary: * * * Energy Supplies Under a Prolonged Middle East Conflict Key Takeaways 1 The conflict with Iran in the Middle East will affect energy prices, but the extent of price hikes will depend on its duration and outcome. 2 The most important chokepoint is the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20% of the world's supply typically transits. 3 Between two and four million barrels per more PR

WASHINGTON, March 3 (TNSRep) -- The Federal Reserve issued the following white paper (No. 2026-1432) in March 2026 by Dario Caldara, Mike McHenry, Matteo Iacoviello, and Immo Schott entitled "The Effects of the War on Ukraine on Global Corporate Investment". Here are excerpts: * * * We study the investment effects of the Russia-Ukraine war using a novel, text-based measure of firm-level exposure derived from earnings call transcripts. Combining this measure with financial statement data for  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 [Category: Financial Services] -- America's Credit Unions posted the following news: * * * Future of credit union advocacy starts on the global stage * World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) President and CEO Paul Treinen emphasized the importance of coordinated advocacy at the local, national, and global levels during his mainstage address Wednesday at Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC) 2026. "At the end of the day, this work is not about policy for policy's sake,"  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Georgetown University issued the following news: * * * The Professor Untangling the Thorny Ethics of Global Blood Plasma Collection At the McDonough School of Business, professor Peter Jaworski teaches students how to apply ethics to the business world. Outside of class, he applies ethics to an entirely different world: blood. Specifically, plasma -- the yellow, watery part of blood that ferries vital proteins, nutrients and electrolytes around the body. For a decade more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Hudson Institute, a research organization that says it promotes leadership for a secure, free and prosperous future, issued the following commentary on March 4, 2026, by nonresident senior fellow Can Kasapoglu: * * * Ukraine Military Situation Report Executive Summary * Battlefield assessment: Last month Russian forces reportedly lost more Ukrainian territory than they gained. Kyiv hadn't achieved this level of success since November 2023. * Ukrainian drone diplomacy  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Jamestown Foundation posted the following commentary on March 5, 2026, by Irakli Laitadze, former career diplomat and academic, in its Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Kremlin Suspends Internal Russian Passport Issuance in Abkhazia Executive Summary: * In early February, the Kremlin suspended the issuance of internal Russian passports inside Abkhazia, a breakaway territory of Georgia, after concerns from local authorities about sovereignty, relocating the offices to n more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Jamestown Foundation posted the following commentary on March 4, 2026, by Jakub Bornio, senior analyst for the Institute of Central Europe in Lublin, Poland, and an assistant professor at the University of Wroclaw, in its Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Poland Considers Developing Nuclear Program Executive Summary: * Polish President Karol Nawrocki has become the first senior Polish official to openly support initiating work on the development of Polish nuclear capabi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Jamestown Foundation posted the following commentary on March 4, 2026, by Syed Fazl-e-Haider, contributing analyst at the South Asia desk of Wikistrat, in its Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Tokayev's Visit to Islamabad Elevates Kazakhstan-Pakistan Relations Executive Summary: * Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's February 3 state visit to Pakistan--the first by a Kazakh head of state in 23 years--elevated bilateral relations to a strategic partnership and produc more PR

WASHINGTON, March 3 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service has issued a situation and outlook report titled 'Feed outlook: February 2026' (Report No. FDS-26B), authored by Jennifer Bond with contributors Steven Ramsey and Joshua Huang and approved by USDA's World Agricultural Outlook Board. Released on February 12, 2026, the report revises global coarse grain trade based on updated shipment pace and supply developments, while lifting the 2025/26 U.S. corn exp more PR

WASHINGTON, March 3 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report on February 10, 2026: Here are excerpts: * * * WHEAT: The outlook for 2025/26 U.S. wheat is for unchanged supplies, modestly lower domestic use, unchanged exports, and slightly higher ending stocks. Domestic use is lowered on reduced food use as indicated by the NASS Flour Milling Products report, issued on February 2. This reduction is partially offse more PR

ROME, Italy, March 5 -- The United Nations World Food Programme posted the following news release: * * * WFP Welcomes Japan's US$63.7M Contribution to Food Assistance Activities in 27 Countries and Regions Worldwide * Yokohama - The World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of US$67.3 million from the Government of Japan to provide assistance to vulnerable people affected by conflict, natural disasters, and economic crises in 27 countries across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.  more PR