JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, May 9 -- The U.S. Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center issued the following news: By Malcolm McClendon, AFIMSC Public Affairs The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center's Innovation and Improvement Division is transforming the way Airmen do business by integrating cutting-edge data-prep and data-visualization tools across the Department of the Air Force. The AFIMSC team is providing the resources decision-makers need with platfor  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following commentary on May 8, 2024: * * * How Mentoring is Reaching New Teachers in Rural Alaska By Abigail Swisher, Rural Impact Fellow, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Spanning 37,000 miles across Alaska, the Northwest Arctic Borough School District has struggled to hire and retain enough new teachers. The eleven villages within the district - many of them above the Arctic Circle - are sparsely populated and rem  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following statement by Commissioner Geoffrey Starks on an action entitled "Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet, Declaratory Ruling, Order, Report and Order, and Order on Reconsideration" (WC Docket No 23-320): * * * Today, we take the important and necessary step to give control of the Internet to those who deserve it: Consumers. That is what this item is really about. Some, no doubt today, will claim that it is al  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, May 8 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: Attorney General Alan Wilson led a 24-state coalition in a letter to Congressional leadership, urging Congress to permanently cut all funding to the terrorist-embedded United Nations Relief and Works Agency ("UNRWA"). On October 7, 2023, dozens of UNRWA staff participated in the largest attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust. UNRWA's ties to terrorism are not just the work of a  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration issued the following news: * * * Federal study shows lives lost from overdose crisis are felt across generations, emphasizing need to include children and families in support * * * An estimated 321,566 children in the United States lost a parent to drug overdose from 2011 to 2021, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry. The rate of children who e  more

MCCONNELL AFB, Kansas, May 9 -- The U.S. Air Force McConnell Air Force Base (22nd Air Refueling Wing) issued the following news: The 22nd Air Refueling Wing participated in the Pacific Air Forces-directed joint exercise RED FLAG-Alaska (RF-A) 24-1, involving multiple units and aircraft from the Italian Air Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy from April 22 to May 3. The exercise took place within the expansive Joint Pacific-Alaska Range Complex, a 77,000- square-mile training  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 9 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on May 8, 2024: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter to U.S. Congressional leaders, calling on the federal legislative branch to "stop funding United Nations Relief and Works Agency." The letter, which was led by the States of Iowa and South Carolina, issues its demand over the agency's continued and troubling ties to the terror organization Hamas. This letter, sent on May 7, follows a simila  more