WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The American Center for Law and Justice posted the following commentary on July 14, 2026, by Director of Media Logan Sekulow: * * * Iranian Vigil for Graham Outside Embassy Iranians held a candlelight vigil in London outside the U.S. embassy to honor South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away on Saturday evening at 71 after serving four full terms in the U.S. Senate. The longtime Republican Congressman was a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and was known for his foreign policy acumen. As reported by more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: * * * Barrasso Honors the Life and Legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham * "The United States Senate will never see anyone quite like Lindsey Graham again. He was a happy warrior. He always put service before himself. And he believed in the Senate as an institution. He continued to shape it throughout his successful and his significant career. He helped make America safer and stronger. And Mr. President, I just join the entire Senate, and his friends and his more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on July 13, 2026, by freelance journalist David Kirichenko: * * * Ukraine's Explosive Global Reach Drone and communications technology, along with audacious intelligence operations, have allowed Kyiv to attack Russia a long way from the major battlefields. - Ukraine has been waging a global campaign against Russian interests. Cheap, portable drones are increasingly expanding what's possible against a wide range of targets, including Russian merch more PR

NEW LONDON, Connecticut, July 15 -- Connecticut College issued the following news: * * * Four faculty members awarded $112,500 in research grants Four Connecticut College faculty members in various departments have been awarded grants to further their research projects and enhance the expertise they offer to Camels. Topics include the Ancient Greek poet Callimachus, autonomous robots, a Columbia conference on a classic Chinese chronicle, and the U.S. election system. Investigating Callimachus and the royal court Assistant Professor of Clas more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on July 14, 2026, by Sergiy Tsivkach, adjunct fellow (non-resident) for the Project on Prosperity and Development: * * * Reflections from URC 2026: Ukraine's Reconstruction Has Become Wartime Resilience On June 25-26, 2026, Poland hosted the fifth Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) in its port city of Gdansk. The flagship event that began in Lugano, Switzerland, in 2022 as a war recovery conference has now turned into a platform that supp more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on July 14, 2026, by Nikita Shah, senior fellow with the Intelligence, National Security, and Technology Program: * * * Understanding Russia-Iran Collaboration in Cyberspace Reports of Russia-Iran collaboration in the U.S.-Iran conflict are a real and live source of concern. Russia has shared intelligence with Iran that purportedly led to the targeting of U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, as well as drone technologies that have given Ira more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 14 -- SIMPLISAFE, INC., Boston, Massachusetts has been assigned a design patent (No. US D1134391 S1, initially filed July 5, 2024) developed by seven inventors Jessica Pitocco, Arlington, Massachusetts; Nadeem Hussain, Worcester, Massachusetts; Alice Chiang, Arlington, Massachusetts; Irene Lee, Boston, Massachusetts; Stephanie Leathe, Wenham, Massachusetts; Oleksandra Rudenko, Lviv, Ukraine; and Madeleine Fougere, Seattle, Washington, for "Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface." more PT

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 14 -- NASDAQ TECHNOLOGY AB, Stockholm, Sweden has been assigned a design patent (No. US D1134448 S1, initially filed Nov. 22, 2023) developed by three inventors Yulia Havriuk, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine; Marie Romani, Stockholm, Sweden; and Sanda-Maria Albu, London, United Kingdom, for "Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface." more PT

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 14 -- VIMEO.COM, INC., New York, New York has been assigned a design patent (No. US D1134403 S1, initially filed Oct. 24, 2024) developed by three inventors Philip Worthington, Brooklyn, New York; Arseny Pugach, Omsk, Russian Federation; and Mykhailo Smahin, Zaporizhzhiya, Ukraine, for "Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface." more PT

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Reflects On Recent Bipartisan, Bicameral Congressional Delegation Trip To The NATO Summit In Turkiye * July 13, 2026 Durbin also spoke about President Trump declaring that the ceasefire with Iran is over and Trump's unclear strategy to get us out of his war of choice WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Co-Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, reflected on his recent trip more PR

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Remembers Senator Lindsey Graham On The Senate Floor * July 13, 2026 WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) recognized U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) lifetime of public service following his sudden passing this weekend. "Last week, I joined several of my colleagues from the Senate and the House at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkiye... Last Wednesday, we had a dinner hosted more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Ernst Honors Senator Lindsey Graham * WASHINGTON - Today on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) honored the life and legacy of her dear friend and colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham (S.C.). Watch Ernst's remarks here. Ernst's full remarks: "I rise today with a heavy heart to honor my dear friend and colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "Before he ever set foot on this floor, he wore the uniform of the United States  more PR

RIVERSIDE, California, July 13 -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Expert: When assessing war, consider Putin's pain threshold * More than four years after Russia invaded Ukraine, there have been several developments in Ukraine's favor. President Trump, who has vacilated on his support of Ukraine, said he would sell Patriot missile technology to Ukraine. Ukraine has started an effective strategy of targeting fuel tankers Russia relies on to supply its army, and drones have targeted oil refinerie more PR

COVENTRY, England, July 14 -- The University of Warwick Business School posted the following news: * * * How can you trust the answers AI gives you? * With the race to scale up AI continuing apace, a natural concern arises. As AI systems become more powerful, they also seem ever more mysterious. How can we trust systems that appear to be impenetrable black boxes, whose inner workings we only dimly understand? One response is to try to 'open the box' - to identify the representations distributed across billions of weights and activations more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI--Hagerty JoinsMornings with Maria on Fox Business to Discuss CLARITY, the SAVE Act, Reconciliation 3.0 and Lindsey Graham's Legacy * Washington -Today, United States Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, joined Mornings with Maria on Fox Business to honor the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, and to discuss the CLARITY Act, the SAVE America Act and Reconciliation 3.0. * more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The Jamestown Foundation issued the following commentary on July 14, 2026, by analyst Kassie Corelli in the foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Domestic Repression Undermining Kremlin's Defense Capabilities Executive Summary: * Ukraine's expanding drone strikes deep inside Russia, including the June 18 attack on Moscow, are prompting Kremlin-aligned media and military bloggers to demand treason charges against civilians who photograph or share footage of attacks online. * Russia's new "confirming the delivery d more PR

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The Jamestown Foundation issued the following commentary on July 14, 2026, by Paul Goble, specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia, in the foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Gas Crisis Increasingly Serious Political Problem for Putin Executive Summary: * Gas shortages across the Russian Federation that Ukrainian drone attacks have brought on are rapidly acquiring a political dimension despite the Kremlin's assumption that Russians will weather this latest challenge with their usual forbearance.  more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 14 -- An inventor from Kyiv, Ukraine, Evgeniya Medvedeva has been awarded a design patent (No. US D1133956 S1, initially filed May 15, 2025) for "Keypad for alarms." more PT

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 14 -- HERE GLOBAL B.V., Eindhoven, Netherlands has been assigned a patent (No. US 12680827 B2, initially filed Dec. 22, 2023) developed by Hilko Hofmann, Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany, and Mykola Driuchatyi, Odesa, Ukraine, for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for identifying turning circles and generating turning circles in map data." more PT

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Neal, Wyden Oppose Giving Trump New, Unilateral Tariff Power in Sanctioning Russia Act * Leading Democrats on Trade Policy Warn Russian Sanctions Bill Could Lead to Higher Prices and Unchecked New Tariffs Paid by American Families WASHINGTON, DC- House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced their opposition to granting Donald Trump massive new  more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 14 -- An inventor from Lakewood, Ukraine, Louis J Finkle has been awarded a patent (No. US 12682742 B1, initially filed Aug. 7, 2025) for "Programable alarm assembly for emergency activation devices." more PT

WASHINGTON, July 15 [Category: International] (TNSrpt) -- Refugees International, a humanitarian organization that says it advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights and protection for displaced people, issued the following news: * * * New Report: Aid Cuts Are Dismantling the Women-Led Organizations that Support Women and Girls in Humanitarian Crises Refugees International and Women's Refugee Commission today launched a new report showing that global aid cuts have significantly impacted women-led organizations (WLOs) despite their ess more PR

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Rosen Helps Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Hold Purchasers of Russian Oil Accountable * Before His Death, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Secured An Agreement With The White House On A Sweeping Sanctions Bill Against Enablers Of Russia's War in Ukraine Full remarks can be found HERE. WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen joined colleagues on both sides of the aisle in introducing a bipartisan bill to hold major purchasers of Russian oil an more PR

WESTPORT, Connecticut, July 15 (TNSrep) -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, posted the following news release on July 14, 2026: * * * Ukraine: June Sees Highest Number of Child Casualties Since First Months of Full-Scale War KYIV - Child casualties in Ukraine are surging once again, Save the Children said, with new analysis from the child rights organization finding that the number of child casualties in June was the highest since the th more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 14 -- Two inventors, Ilshat Garipov, Haapsalu, Estonia, and Evgeniya Medvedeva, Kyiv, Ukraine, have been awarded a design patent (No. US D1133945 S1, initially filed May 15, 2025) for "Seismic detector." more PT

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following statement: * * * Senator Coons statement on passing of Senator Lindsey Graham U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement on the passing of his friend and colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): "I traveled the world with Lindsey, visiting dozens of countries across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. We argued, advocated, and legislated together for more than fifteen years, and I am stunned by his sudden passing. We had dinner to ce more PR

LONDON, England, July 14 -- PEN International issued the following news: * * * Serbia: Violent attack on writer Vladimir Arsenijevic condemned 'The brutal assault on writer Vladimir Arsenijevic comes in the wake of a pervasive crackdown on dissent in Serbia. As we express our full solidarity with Arsenijevic, we once again urge the Serbian authorities to end the vicious cycle of violence and impunity, which continues to fuel relentless attacks,' said Ma Thida, Chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. - The Serbian authori more PR

LONDON, England, July 14 -- International Transport Workers' Federation posted the following news release: * * * Stop killing transport workers: ITF sounds alarm as attacks on shipping and transport workers escalate again * The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has condemned another sharp escalation in attacks on merchant shipping and transport workers on two fronts - the US-Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war - warning that civilian seafarers and other transport workers are being killed and injured in wars they have no part more PR

FAIRFAX, Virginia, July 13 -- George Mason University issued the following news: * * * The new art of herding robots * As autonomous systems grow in number and complexity, researchers at George Mason University are tackling a critical question: How can a single human operator manage an entire swarm of robots? Professors Alexander Brodsky, Cameron Nowzari, and Daigo Shishika are designing smart-swarm technologies to help military planners coordinate unmanned aerial and ground vehicles within Human-Machine Integrated Formations. The urgency more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New York. *** Method to Improve Interconnect Coefficient of Thermal Expansion ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 14 -- APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12685108 B2, initially filed March 20, 2023) developed by Tyler Sherwood, Fonda, New York, and Raghav Sreenivasan, Fremont, California, for "Method to improve interconnect coefficient of thermal expansion." *** Table Lamp ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 14 -- An inv more ST

WASHINGTON, July 14 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report on July 10, 2026: Here are excerpts: * * * WHEAT: The outlook for 2026/27 U.S. wheat this month is for lower supplies, unchanged domestic use and exports, and smaller ending stocks. Supplies are reduced 22 million bushels on lower beginning stocks and production. Production is forecast at 1,536 million bushels, down 7 million from last month. This is the lowest U.S. wheat production since 1970/71. The more PR