WASHINGTON, July 19 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site. PUBLIC COMMENT Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking - Prediction Markets RIN: 3038-AF65 Submitted via: comments.cftc.gov Deadline: April 30, 2026 To the Secretary of the Commission: As a Certified Public Accountant, a 50 percent owner of a public accounting firm, and a professional with an academic background in statistics and industrial-organizational psychology, I a more ST

OTTAWA, Ontario, July 17 -- Global Affairs Canada, an arm of the Canadian government, posted the following news release: * * * Announcement of new diplomatic appointments * July 17, 2026 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced the following diplomatic appointments: Tamara Mawhinney will become Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine. Ms. Mawhinney will replace Natalka Cmoc. Corinne Petrisor will become Consul in Nuuk (Greenland). Ms. Petrisor wi more PR

SANTA BARBARA, California, July 18 [Category: Health Care] -- Direct Relief posted the following news: * * * Medical Impact Reaches Patients in Venezuela, Post-Earthquake * Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 399 shipments of requested medical aid to 36 U.S. states and territories and 23 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 17.9 million defined daily doses of medication Medications and supplies shipped this week included treatments for rare diseases, nutritional supplements, syringes, and cold-chain storage equipment.  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 19 (TNSLrpt) -- At What Cost? Women-Led Organizations, Funding Cuts, and the Price of Survival - A report from Refugees International, Women's Refugee Commission - July 2026 (39 pages) Here are excerpts: * * * Table of Contents 3 Executive Summary 4 Recommendations 6 Introduction 10 Methodology 11 Afghanistan: The Cost of Defunding Women's Health Services 12 Findings 12 Longstanding weaknesses in the humanitarian system 17 Short-term survival strategies 20 The costs of "efficiency" 21 Bangladesh: The Cost of Losing more ST

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- In response to a federal agency request for information, the following public comment letter was submitted electronically to the regulations.gov site. February 2 , 2026 3 The Honorable Michael Selig Chairman Commodity Futures Trading Commission Three Lafayette Centre 1155 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20581 Chairman Selig, We are writing to express strong concern with prediction contracts that incentivize physical injury or death, and the grave and perverse moral and geopolitical implications of these contract more ST

LVIV, Ukraine, July 18 -- The Ukrainian Catholic University issued the following news: * * * BRIDGE Project Marks Its First Year with an Online Forum Uniting Ukraine and Latin America The BRIDGE (Building Relationships and Intercultural Dynamics through Global Education with Latin America) Project was born a year ago out of a simple but ambitious idea: that Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), even while operating under the strain of a full-scale war, could build genuine academic solidarity with regions it had never systematically engaged be more PR

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 17 [Category: Religion] -- The World Council of Churches posted the following news: * * * H.E. Metropolitan Gabriel: Ukrainian people "a unique example of resilience and unity" * H.E. Metropolitan Gabriel of Nea Ionias and Philadelphia, Church of Greece, World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee member and WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs commissioner, was part of a WCC-led delegation that made a solidarity visit to Ukraine on 14-17 July. He took time to reflect on the deep meaning of more PR