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.
This strategy provides specific, actionable policy ideas to tackle the growing threat of extreme heat in the United States and was co-signed by more than 60 labor, industry, health, housing, environmental, academic and community associations and organizations.
Extreme heat has become a national economic crisis: lowering productivity, shrinking business revenue, destroying crops, and pushing power grids to the brink. The impacts of extreme heat cost our Nation an estimated $162 billion in 2024 – equivalent to nearly 1% of the U.S. GDP.
AI is transforming how children learn and live, and policymakers, industry, and educators owe it to the next generation to set in place a responsible policy that embraces this new technology while at the same time ensuring all children’s well-being, privacy, and safety is respected.
A peer support option should be integrated into the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline so that 988 service users can choose to connect with specialists based on a shared lived experience.