WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: * * * 'Dating or Defrauding?' a Joint Effort to Alert Online Daters, Social Media Users of Relationship Investment Scams # Release Number 9052-25 # February 10, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In coordination with multiple federal, state, and nonprofit organizations, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Office of Customer Education and Outreach has launched a national awareness  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following news release: * * * 'Dating or Defrauding?' a Joint Effort to Alert Online Daters, Social Media Users of Relationship Investment Scams WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In coordination with multiple federal, state, and nonprofit organizations, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Office of Customer Education and Outreach has launched a national awareness effort to alert the public to relationship investment scams tar  more

SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 11 -- Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield issued the following news release on Feb. 10, 2025: * * * Ag Rayfield Sues Trump Administration For Defunding Medical And Public Health Innovation Research Coalition of 22 Attorneys General Challenge NIH Funding Cuts for Universities and Research Institutions Attorney General Dan Rayfield and 21 other attorneys general today sued the Trump Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of  more

SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 11 -- Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield issued the following news release on Feb. 10, 2025: * * * Attorney General Rayfield Announces Swift Victory in Lawsuit Stopping DOGE's Attacks on Americans Attorney General Dan Rayfield today released the below statement after an early morning victory in court. A federal judge in the Southern District of New York temporarily blocked Elon Musk and his "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) from accessing Americans' most sensi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Democrats Urge Republicans Against Using Medicaid To Bankroll Tax Cuts For The Rich At The Expense Of Working Families, Seniors And Americans With Disabilities Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with other Senate Democrats are warning their GOP colleagues against bankrolling tax cuts for the rich by gutting   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Merkley, Heinrich, Western Senators: Trump's Illegal Funding Cuts Threatening Wildfire Mitigation Efforts Washington, D.C. - Today, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, and New Mexico's Senator Martin Heinrich, Ranking Member of the Senate Committe  more

SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 11 -- Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield issued the following news release: * * * NIH Case Update: Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration from Defunding Medical and Public Health Innovation Research Federal Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order Against NIH's Directive to Slash Funding for Cutting-Edge Medical Research at Every U.S. Research Institution Salem, OR - Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield applauds a federal judge's swift action in issuing temporary  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Members Merkley, Pingree: Health Care in Tribal Communities in Danger Under Trump's Hiring Freeze Washington, D.C. - Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01), the top Democrats on the subcommittees that oversee funding for the Indian Health Service (IHS), demanded urgent action from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop dangerous cut  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Marshals Service issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Marshals Task Force Arrests Alleged Sexual Predator Deer Park, WA - On February 10, 2025, after more than three years of evading capture, Lorenzo Eugene Delgado Martin was arrested today by the United States Marshals Service Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force (PNVOTF). Martin, 35, was taken into custody at his residence in Deer Park, Washington, in coordination with   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Wyden Co-Sponsors Bill to Keep Ski Fees Local Washington D.C.-- U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today announced he is co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation that would let National Forests retain a portion of annual fees paid by ski areas operating on U.S. Forest Service lands in Oregon and nationwide. Ski areas operating on Forest Service lands pay fees to the Forest Service averaging more than $40 million annua  more