DALLAS, Texas, June 27 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: * * * Employment and production little changed as sector seeks clear direction * * * Oil and gas activity showed modest growth in second quarter 2024, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Energy Survey. The business activity index--the survey's broadest measure of conditions facing Eleventh District energy firms--rose from   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 26 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 17 state attorneys general in opposing the White House's recent decision to defer removing Palestinians from the United States. Earlier this year, President Biden ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop removing Palestinians subject to removal orders. The President purportedly ordered the deferral due to "humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian te  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, June 27 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on June 26, 2024: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement announcing he has sent a letter on behalf of 20 state attorneys general supporting the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (ICC Act), legislation sponsored by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to protect American civil and military officials from unlawful prosecutions by the International Criminal Court (ICC): "A  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, June 26 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on June 25, 2024: * * * After announcing he is suing Chinese e-commerce company Temu for violations of the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (ADTPA) and the Arkansas Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement: "Temu is not an online marketplace like Amazon or Walmart. It is a data-theft business that sells goods online as a me  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, June 27 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: Attorney General Jason Miyares today announced his support for S. 4484, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (ICC Act), joining a 20-state coalition of attorneys general in a letter to United States Senate leadership. This legislation aims to shield American civil and military officials from unlawful prosecutions by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The House c  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 26 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that New Jersey, California, and Pennsylvania have filed another set of amicus briefs in federal courts across the country this month to defend Title IX's protections of students from sex-based discrimination and harassment in education. Attorney General Platkin, the Division on Civil Rights (DCR), and their state partners are seeking t  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on June 26, 2024: * * * Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in Murthy v. Missouri preserving the government's ability to collaborate with social media companies to address the spread of disinformation and dangerous content on their platforms. "This decision rightly preserves the government's ability to work with s  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: Projects Funded by President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Strengthen American Farms and Rural Small Businesses U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is partnering with rural Americans on hundreds of clean energy projects to lower energy bills, expand access to clean energy and create jobs for U.S. farmers, ranchers and agricultural producers. Many of t  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 26 -- Gov. Jeff Landry, R-Louisiana, issued the following news: Governor Jeff Landry and the Louisiana Department of Health announced key leadership changes within the Louisiana Department of Health. Secretary Dr. Ralph Abraham will move to the newly created Office of the Surgeon General, Undersecretary Michael Harrington will become the Department's Secretary, Chief of Staff Drew Maranto will become the new Undersecretary, and LDH Director of Legislative and Govern  more

GULFPORT, Mississippi, June 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: A Bay St. Louis man was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Kolby Zu Sims, 21, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. According to court documents, on August 29, 2023, the Hancock County Sheriff's Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration followed up on a written complaint alleging   more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 27 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that the United States Supreme Court has cleared the way for his office to obtain more discovery in his landmark First Amendment case exposing Joe Biden's censorship regime. In his case, Murthy v. Missouri, Attorney General Bailey argued that top officials in the federal government coerced big tech social media   more

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colorado, June 27 -- Peterson and Schriever Space Force Base issued the following news: By 1st Lt. Danielle Rose, Space Base Delta 1 Public Affairs For three days from June 28-30, 50 women are slated to gather in Greeley, Colorado to compete in the 2024 Miss Colorado USA Pageant, one contestant being U.S. Space Force Spc. 4 Brianna Guillory, 4th Space Operations Squadron wideband engineer. From Iowa, Louisiana, a small town of less than 3,500 people, Guillory grew   more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: Camille Stagg, a USGS research ecologist who led the study titled "Accelerating elevation gain indicates land loss associated with erosion in Mississippi River Deltaic Plain tidal wetlands," explained that this information sheds new light on the way researchers study wetland loss. Wetlands are a vital wildlife habitat for thousands of species and provide flood protection by b  more