Noteworthy new and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following.
“Iran’s Nuclear Program: Status,” updated November 20, 2008.
“Iran: Ethnic and Religious Minorities,” updated November 25, 2008.
“Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses,” updated November 24, 2008.
“Presidential Libraries: The Federal System and Related Legislation,” updated November 26, 2008.
“Nonmarital Childbearing: Trends, Reasons, and Public Policy Interventions,” November 20, 2008.
“Border Searches of Laptop Computers and Other Electronic Storage Devices,” updated November 17, 2008.
The bootcamp brought more than two dozen next-generation open-source practitioners from across the United States to Washington DC, where they participated in interactive modules, group discussions, and hands-on sleuthing.
Fourteen teams from ten U.S. states have been selected as the Stage 2 awardees in the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), a national competition that helps communities turn emerging research into ready-to-implement solutions.
The Fix Our Forests Act provides an opportunity to speed up the planning and implementation of wildfire risk reduction projects on federal lands while expanding collaborative tools to bring more partners into this vital work.
Public health insurance programs, especially Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), are more likely to cover populations at increased risk from extreme heat, including low-income individuals, people with chronic illnesses, older adults, disabled adults, and children.