BRONX, New York, March 30 [Category: Environment] -- The Wildlife Conservation Society issued the following news release: * * * At UN Summit CMS CoP15: Amazon Countries Approve Action Plan to Conserve Migratory Catfish * Campo Grande, Brazil -March 30, 2026 -At COP15 of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), Parties have unanimously adopted the Regional Action Plan for Amazonian Migratory Catfish, marking a new milestone for the conservation of these species. This resolution was propos more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minnesota, ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, issued the following news release on March 30, 2026: * * * Ranking Member Angie Craig, Waters, Warren, Klobuchar Exhort Trump Administration to Clamp Down on Insider Trading Using Prediction Markets House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) led a bicameral letter with Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Hudson Institute, a research organization that says it promotes leadership for a secure, free and prosperous future, issued the following commentary on March 30, 2026, by China Center Director Miles Yu to the Washington Times: * * * How US Military Dominance Unravels China's War Machine Battlefield performance triggers purges, failures and deeper cracks inside the CCP system. * The modern trajectory of China's weapons development cannot be understood without recogniz more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: * * * ICE Asks Charlotte Sanctuary Politicians to Not Release Illegal Alien from Jail who was Arrested for Two Murders * Sanctuary politicians released nearly 1,400 criminal illegal aliens from jail directly back onto North Carolina streets WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged a detainer asking  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- The Peterson Institute for International Economics issued the following commentary by senior fellow Elina Ribakova and Alicia Garcia Herrero, senior fellow at Bruegel: * * * How Russia and China are winning the war in Iran The expanding war in Iran is disrupting, if not devastating, the global economy. Meanwhile, the sound of silence from normally voluble leaders of China and Russia is telling. From their point of view, silence is the best way for them to let Washingto more PR

AMHERST, Massachusetts, March 30 -- The University of Massachusetts posted the following news: * * * President Trump's Approval Sinks to 33% in New UMass Poll * A new national University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll finds President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to 33%, the lowest rating of his second term in office. The poll of 1,000 respondents, conducted March 20-25, finds Trump's approval down five points from July 2025 and 11 points lower than last April. "In the midst of more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State and Related Programs released the following testimony by Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, from a March 25, 2026, hearing on fiscal 2027 appropriations for global security and international development: * * * Chairman Mario Diaz-Balart, Ranking Member Lois Frankel, and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today in front of this committee on our more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following news release on March 30, 2026: * * * Resumption of Operations at U.S. Embassy Caracas Since March 2019, U.S. diplomatic engagement with Venezuela has been carried out through the Venezuela Affairs Unit (VAU), the interim diplomatic office of the U.S. Government to Venezuela, located at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia. Today, we are formally resuming operations at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, marking a new chapter in  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 [Category: Energy] -- The Institute for Energy Research posted the following commentary: * * * The Iran War Is Disrupting Fertilizer Exports * Key Takeaways 1 Iran's threat to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is affecting about a third of the world's fertilizer trade, raising prices 30% to 40% and threatening food supplies around the world. 2 Productive agriculture depends on fertilizer, and fertilizer depends on natural gas as its feedstock. 3 Iran is a major pr more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Warner, Colleagues Push Regulators to Address Illegal Insider Trading in Prediction Markets * WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) joined over 40 other lawmakers in writing to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) to urge the agencies to address illegal insider trading in prediction markets by federal employees. Since January, multiple i more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Warren, Merkley, 40+ Lawmakers Push Regulators to Address Illegal Insider Trading in Prediction Markets * Multiple incidents prompted speculation about possible insider trading in prediction markets by federal employees Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Representative Maxine Waters, more PR