BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 4 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Dec. 3, 2024: Attorney General Liz Murrill joined a coalition of 30 current and future state attorneys general in urging the United States Senate to swiftly confirm Pam Bondi as the 87th United States Attorney General. "President Trump made an excellent choice with Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General. As longtime AG of Florida, she has the proven record to bring back the trust we need in our   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- The Appalachian Regional Commission issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: * * * Five new Appalachian Regional Commission ARISE awards, funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will bolster workforce development and capacity across eight states. * * * Today, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) awarded $14.5 million to five collaborative, multi-state projects that will drive large-scale economic transformation. Funded through ARC's Appalachian   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: With annual childcare expenses comparable to a year's rent in parts of Tennessee, FEMA may be able to help with those costs. Families that were affected by Tropical Storm Helene and have children under age 13 may be eligible for childcare assistance through FEMA's Other Needs Assistance program. Childcare assistance is limited to $200 per week per child for up  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Dec. 4 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: Attorney General Ashley Moody is leading, along with South Carolina, a multistate effort urging the U.S. Senate to confirm former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as the 87th U.S. Attorney General. Bondi served as Florida's first female attorney general for eight years and worked as a prosecutor for nearly two decades. Attorney General Moody, along with 27 other attorneys g  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 4 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today urged the U.S. Senate to swiftly confirm Pam Bondi as the 87th United States Attorney General. President Trump nominated Bondi, a prosecutor of nearly 20 years and former Florida Attorney General, to serve as U.S. Attorney General. During the height of the opioid crisis, Bondi fought to shut down pill mills that flooded streets with deadly dru  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 3 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: Gov. Reynolds today joined 16 other Republican governors in sending a letter to Congress calling on legislators to reauthorize an updated Farm Bill and provide our nation's farmers immediate financial assistance so American farmers can continue to feed our nation and the world. The letter reads as: "We, the undersigned Governors, write to express our concern for the future of rural Americ  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: An indictment was unsealed yesterday in Nashville, Tennessee, charging nine members of a multi-state money laundering organization responsible for laundering millions of dollars derived from internet fraud, including business email compromise schemes. The nine defendants were arrested in a takedown coordinated across three jurisdictions. According to court documents, Samson A. Omoniyi, 43 of Houston; Misha  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor issued the following news release: * * * 2nd contractor employed children to do dangerous work at Seaboard Triumph Foods * * * SIOUX CITY, IA - The U.S. Department of Labor has found a second sanitation contractor at the Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC facility that employed children to perform dangerous work during overnight shifts at its Sioux City pork processing plant. Under a consent order and judgment, approved by   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Collaboration links large genetic database, photosynthesis expertise At the ORNL-led CBI, scientists have studied poplar for years as a fast-growing, nonfood perennial crop for feedstock production. They assembled the first genome-wide association study, or GWAS, of Populus trichocarpa by sampling from 1,500 trees in the wild and analyzing their physical characterist  more

JACKSON, Mississippi, Dec. 4 -- Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: Attorney General Lynn Fitch joined a coalition of 30current and future state attorneys general in urging the United States Senate to swiftly confirm Pam Bondi as the 87th United States Attorney General. "I commend President-elect Trump for his appointment of Pam Bondi to serve as the United States Attorney General and I look forward to the Senate confirming her nomination,  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Dec. 4 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a 23-state coalition in putting the Biden Administration's Department of Education on notice about their fourth illegal attempt to saddle working Americans with someone else's debt. "We are 10-0 with the lawless Biden Administration in our fight to block their illegal redistribution of wealth. Missouri has successfully defend  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Kris Gaines is on a nonproliferation mission: to make it easier for more countries to eliminate highly enriched uranium, or HEU, thus neutralizing the inherent threat of its potential for nefarious use. As a nuclear nonproliferation specialist and project manager at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Gaines leads aspects of an important project   more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Dec. 4 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on Dec. 3, 2024: Attorney General Alan Wilson co-led a coalition of 30 current and future state attorneys general in urging the United States Senate to swiftly confirm Pam Bondi as the 87th United States Attorney General. "I could not be more thrilled by President Donald Trump's appointment of my dear friend Pam Bondi," said South Carolina Attorney General Wilson. "Pam and I served togeth  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Spark Innovation Center Director Lilly Trench shared that Knoxville is ranked in the top 20 hubs in the United States for clean technology--in large part because of the work of Knoxville-based organizations, such as ORNL's Innovation Crossroads, a Department of Energy Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program that offers a two-year fellowship for researchers working to ad  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: "Our work shows that amyloid fibrils can actually provide an enormous neuroprotective response due to a quantum optical effect, known as single-photon superradiance, by absorbing high-energy UV photons rapidly and downconverting them to longer, safer wavelengths," Kurian said. Kurian and his team used Summit to make predictions for the thermal quantum yields the rati  more