WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (TNSLrpt) -- Better Markets, an organization that says it promotes pro-market, pro-business and pro-growth policies to help build a better financial system, issued the following analysis: * * * "Prediction Markets," Gambling, the CFTC & Regulation: Facts, Fiction & The Law Introduction Since 2022, Better Markets has been deeply engaged in the debates over so-called "prediction markets," first at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and then in the courts, media, at other agencies, and now virtually everywher more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- Hudson Institute, a research organization that says it promotes leadership for a secure, free and prosperous future, issued the following commentary by senior fellow Nick Snyder to the Washington Post: * * * Why Transitioning to the Dollar Is Venezuela's Fastest Route to Recovery Venezuelans have endured too many challenges for too long. They suffered under the authoritarian regime of Hugo Chavez and the brutality of his successor, Nicolas Maduro, who left Venezuela in political and economic ruin. After Maduro was depo more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 14 -- Littler, a law firm, issued the following commentary on Aug. 14, 2026, by senior counsel Bruce Buchanan: * * * DHS Adds "Invalidated" EADs, Through Expired TPS, to E-Verify Status Change Reports As employers have experienced staffing shortages over the last year, the Trump administration has been ending many forms of work authorization by terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the foreign nationals of numerous countries, including Haiti,/1 Venezuela,/2 Afghanistan, Honduras, and Syria,/3 ending more PR

OSLO, Norway, Aug. 14 [Category: International] -- The Norwegian Refugee Council issued the following news release: * * * Colombia: Conflict affected families have lost everything yet again * "Colombia was facing severe humanitarian needs long before Monday's deadly earthquake. Over nine million people-survivors of armed conflict, refugees, migrants, and communities affected by severe floods and droughts-were already reliant on aid. Roughly 10 per cent of them live in the very regions now most devastated by this earthquake. "This disaster more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of War issued the following transcript: * * * Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Holds a Press Availability at the Jungle Operations Training Course in Panama * SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH: Happened in the halls of Congress; it happens in training centers like this with Americans like this who do really difficult things in really tough places. Not for the timid or the entitled. I can tell you these young Americans are neither timid nor entitled, and they're willing to do things on behalf of the Americ more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of War issued the following transcript: * * * Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Holds a Press Availability at the USS Gridley * SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH: [In progress] control of the Strait of Hormuz. The United States of America, the US Navy ships like this one out there enforcing an ironclad blockade, Iran knows that. And so, the president has all the options at his disposal and will ensure, as we have from the beginning, that a maniacal regime like Iran never has a nuclear weapon. They can't. H more PR