LONDON, England, Sept. 17 -- The British Ministry of Defence issued the following news: * * * Battle for the Atlantic * Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us, and my thanks to the Department for Naval Research for organising today's symposium. As we gather here at Admiralty House, the importance of sea power will not be lost on any of you. That is because our history has been shaped by the sea. Because our prosperity, security and influence have for centuries depended on our ability to master it, protect what more PR

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 17 -- Free University of Brussels-VUB issued the following news release: * * * The summer when Europe saw its water disappear VUB researchers take stock: "Waiting for rain is not a strategy" 17/09/2026 The summer of 2026 is all but over. It painfully highlighted how heat, drought, ice and water are all interconnected. It was a summer in which water disappeared from more and more places. Rivers fell to alarmingly low levels, the soil dried out, nature reserves caught fire and, in the Alps, snow and glacial ice melte more PR

HOKKAIDO, Japan, Sept. 18 -- Hokkaido University posted the following news release: * * * How much ice did Greenland's Qaanaaq Ice Cap lose over 13 years? * Long-term field measurements between 2012 and 2025 show that the Qaanaaq Ice Cap lost enough ice to produce a layer of water about 8 meters deep. Each summer, researchers from Hokkaido University returned to the Qaanaaq Ice Cap in northwestern Greenland to measure changes in the ice surface using aluminum poles drilled into the ice. Their 13-year record shows how the ice cap has change more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following floor remarks: * * * Neal on the House Floor: The American People Can't Afford Congress to Hand Trump More Tariff Power September 16, 2026 (As prepared for delivery) M/ Speaker, I rise today not only because I'm concerned about what this bill would do to the people but also because of what a stain it will be on this institution. My Republican colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee don't even see the more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of War issued the following news: * * * NORAD F-16s Deploy to High North Under Operation Arctic Vanguard * The Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region deployed F-16 Fighting Falcons from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, to Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in support of Operation Arctic Vanguard 26-4.2. During this NORAD operation, Alaskan NORAD Region is operating directly alongside the Canadian NORAD Region to execute critical defense missions across the Arctic, Sept.  more PR