WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following weekly digest: * * * Commission meetings and hearings No open meetings or executive sessions were scheduled this week. * * * Advisory Opinions Request Received Advisory Opinion Request 2025-01 (Sherrill) On January 21, the Commission made public an advisory opinion request from Rep. Mikie Sherrill. The requestor, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a candidate in the 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial pri  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2025: The Justice Department announced today that KBWB Operations LLC, which did business as Atrium Health and Senior Living (KBWB-Atrium), and former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Member Kevin Breslin of KBWB-Atrium, both pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud and one count of tax conspiracy related to the operation of numerous skilled nursing facilities. "Americans rely on ski  more

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 25 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2025: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the expansion of the Suffolk Crime Analysis Center, one of 11 in the nationally recognized, one-of-a-kind network funded and supported by the State Division of Criminal Justice Services in partnership with local law enforcement agencies statewide. New York State invested nearly $1 million to triple the center's size and double the number of profes  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Jan. 21 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release: Las Vegas, NV - Today, Attorney General Ford announced that he, along with 17 other states, the District of Columbia, and the City of San Francisco, is challenging President Donald Trump's executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship, an action that violates the constitutional rights to which all people born in the U.S. are entitled. "President Trump's executive order is an unla  more

ALLENWOOD, Pennsylvania, Jan. 25 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2025: Governor Josh Shapiro announced Pennsylvania won a multi-state competition for new business from Italian pasta manufacturer Il Pastaio to support the company's first pasta manufacturing facility in North America, which will be located in Pennsylvania. This project will inject more than $12.5 million into the local economy and create at least 74 new, full-time jobs in Union   more