⚪️ Today’s House & Senate committee meetings & hearings (7/26/23):

https://www.congress.gov/committee-schedule/daily/2023/07/26

⚪️ The Senate will continue work on the 2024 defense programs and policy bill:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?529553-1/senate-session-part-1

⚪️ Congress will hold a hearing Wednesday on unidentified anomalous phenomena, also known as UAPs. The event will feature firsthand accounts of UAPs sightings and assess their possible threat to the U.S. national security:

https://m.youtube.com/live/SpzJnrwob1A?feature=share

⚪️ State Department’s Public Schedule (7/26/23):

https://www.state.gov/public-schedule-july-26-2023/

⚪️ Defense Department’s daily schedule (7/26/23):

https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/

⚪️ UN Live Schedule (7/26/23):

https://media.un.org/en/webtv/schedule

⚪️ Today in the European Parliament (7/26/23):

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agenda/weekly-agenda

⚪️ Today in the Knesset (7/26/23):

https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/Activity/Pages/Today.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0DOUnsKGZ2aYTFQwAUtmXsUB8Y7K0eu2vbkBT7wBm3gNDoI92QPCX63v0

⚪️ The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate on Wednesday to the highest level since 2001 to tackle above-target inflation, and signaled the possibility of further increases ahead:

https://insiderpaper.com/us-fed-hikes-interest-rates-to-highest-level-since-2001/

⚪️ Following the Federal Open Market Committee’s July meeting, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell held a news conference to discuss the economy and monetary policy actions:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?523971-1/federal-reserve-chair-holds-news-conference

⚪️ A plea agreement between federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden fell apart Wednesday after the judge refused to sign off on a deal that would have seen the president’s son enter guilty pleas to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a diversion program in lieu of pleading guilty to a felony gun possession count:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-plea-deal-court-judge/

⚪️ A team of South Korean researchers report on a room-temperature superconductor in the pre-print server ArXiv:

https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/07/26/researchers-claim-they-developed-a-room-temperature-superconductor/