WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report on the employment and unemployment in the metropolitan area for June 2020: Unemployment rates were higher in June than a year earlier in 388 of the 389 metropolitan areas and lower in 1 area, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. A total of 218 areas had jobless rates of less than 10.0 percent and 6 areas had rates of at least 20.0 percent. Nonfarm payroll employment decreased ov  more

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois, July 30 -- The Computing Technology Industry Association issued the following letter: The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the leading association for the global information technology (IT) industry, joined a multi-association letter supporting H.R. 7665, a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that directs the United States Trade Representative to extend current product exclusions from the Section 301 China tariffs for at least one year. * *  more

DARTMOUTH, New Hampshire, July 31 -- The Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine issued the following news release: A newly awarded $820,000 grant from The National Cancer Institute (NCI) will allow a team of multi-disciplinary investigators to increase clinical trial awareness and participation for rural patients who make up almost half of the area served by Dartmouth's and Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC). The project also seeks to address and reduce disparities in  more

NORTH SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island, July 30 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a proposed plan to cleanup groundwater at the Landfill and Resource Recovery, Inc. (L&RR) Superfund Site located on Oxford Road in North Smithfield, Rhode Island. The proposed plan's purpose is to inform the public of the alternatives considered and solicit comment on EPA's preferred remedy. EPA will also hold an informatio  more

NEW YORK, July 30 -- Forbes Media, a global media, branding and technology company with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles, issued the following news release: Dedicated to driving change in business, culture and society, Forbes announced the newly created Next 1000, a comprehensive initiative to spotlight diverse entrepreneurs who are redefining business amid unprecedented uncertainty. The Next 1000 will h  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 30 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: Yellow fever, a hemorrhagic disease that is common in South America and sub-Saharan Africa, infects about 200,000 people per year and causes an estimated 30,000 deaths. While there is a vaccine for yellow fever, it can't be given to some people because of the risk of side effects, and there are no approved treatments for the disease. An international team of researchers, led by MIT Profes  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, July 31 -- The Natural Resources Council of Maine issued the following news release on July 30: Over the past six months, the foreign government-owned corporation Hydro-Quebec has dramatically escalated its political campaign to interfere with the citizen-initiated referendum to block Central Maine Power's (CMP) controversial corridor proposal. A new analysis by the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) detailed below shows the extent to which Hydro-Quebec, a so-called "Cro  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following news release on July 29: Two doses of an experimental vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) induced robust immune responses and rapidly controlled the coronavirus in the upper and lower airways of rhesus macaques exposed to SARS-CoV-2, report scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes   more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, July 31 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following feature story: The first environmental suitability study for blue mussel culture in federal waters off New England's shore was conducted by scientists from the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Milford Laboratory. The study revealed great potential for farming. The scientific team has continued this work, furthering the case for offshore mussel farms in a recent perspectives column in  more

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, July 30 -- Notre Dame Press will publish the following book in November 2020 - "Between Two Millstones, Book 2, Exile in America, 1978-1994" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The publisher provided this outline of the work: This compelling account concludes Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary memoirs of his years in the West after his forced exile from the USSR following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. The book reflects both the pain of separation from   more

WESTON, Massachusetts, July 30 -- Regis College issued the following news release: Regis College and New England College of Optometry (NECO) are pleased to announce a renewed affiliation that provides students entry into a doctor of optometry program after successful completion of three years of pre-medicine or pre-veterinary medicine program at Regis College. The affiliation agreement represents a mutual, ongoing commitment to provide students with exceptional educational and career opportuni  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02), Congressman Richard E. Neal (MA-01), Congressman Tom Malinowski (NJ-07), Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-02) introduced the Scenic Trail Viewshed Protection Act. This legislation will help protect our national scenic trails by requiring stricter evaluation of natural gas pipeline projects that seek to cross these trails or their   more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: The House of Representatives passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020. The bill as passed would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to spend $34 billion for harbor dredging over the next decade. Representative Seth Moulton wrote a letter to the Committee on Transportation asking them to increase the amount of this money that it devotes to small harbors. The committee increased the percen  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on July 30: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02), Congressman Richard E. Neal (MA-01), Congressman Tom Malinowski (NJ-07), Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-02) introduced the Scenic Trail Viewshed Protection Act. This legislation will help protect our national scenic trails by requiring stricter evaluation of natural gas pipeline projects that seek to cross these trails o  more

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 31 -- The University of the Witwatersrand issued the following news: Immunising pregnant women with a potential vaccine against RSV could prevent the most common cause of pneumonia in their babies. Professor Shabir A. Madhi of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is the lead author of a study published (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1908380) in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, 30 July 2020. The multinatio  more