NEW YORK, Aug. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on the consumer price index in New York-Newark-Jersey City for July 2020: Prices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), rose 0.5 percent in July, after increasing 0.1 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Chief Regional Economist Martin  more

UPTON, New York, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: An international group of more than 260 scientists have produced one of the most stringent tests for the existence of sterile neutrinos to date. The scientists from two major international experimental groups, MINOS+ at the Department of Energy's Fermilab and Daya Bay in China, are reporting results in Physical Review Letters (https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLet  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 15 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 18-00099): GUIZHOU TYRE CO., LTD. AND GUIZHOU TYRE IMPORT AND EXPORT CO., LTD., et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant. Before: Timothy C. Stanceu, Chief Judge OPINION AND ORDER [Ordering reconsideration of an agency determination concluding an administrative review of an antidumping duty order on off-the-road tires from the People's Republic of China] Daniel L. Porter, Curtis, M  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 18-00006): WILMAR TRADING PTE LTD., PT WILMAR BIOENERGI INDONESIA, and WILMAR OLEO NORTH AMERICA LLC, Plaintiffs, and GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA and P.T. MUSIM MAS, Consolidated Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and NATIONAL BIODIESEL BOARD FAIR TRADE COALITION, Defendant-Intervenor. Before: Richard K. Eaton, Judge OPINION and ORDER [U.S. Department of Commerce's fina  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 20-00112): SEA SHEPHERD NEW ZEALAND AND SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES, WILBUR ROSS, in his official capacity as Secretary of Commerce, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, a United States government agency, CHRIS OLIVER, in his official capacity as Assistant Administrator of the National Marine Fisheries Service, NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, a United  more

BUFFALO, New York, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration's New York field office issued the following news release on Aug. 13: U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Bryan Ferrer-Vazquez, 27, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, was sentenced to serve 78 months in prison by U.S. District  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Aug. 12: Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the ninth update to the Administrator's Emphasis List of Superfund Sites Targeted for Immediate, Intense Action (Administrator's Emphasis List) in Green Bay, Wis. In this latest update, the Quendall Terminals site in Renton, Wash. was removed from the list as the final cleanup plan has been signed and the   more

NEW YORK, Aug. 11 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following news release: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Center for Microeconomic Data released the July 2020 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that household expectations regarding their employment prospects and their year-ahead financial situation slightly deteriorated in July after two months of gradual improvement. Other indicators, such as the expected growth in home price and in household income, remaine  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 14 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis issued the following white paper entitled "Labor Market Policies During an Epidemic". Here are excerpts of the white paper issued on Aug. 10 and co-authored by economist Serdar Birinci, Fatih Karahan, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Yusuf Mercan, assistant professor at the University of Melbourne, and Kurt See, senior economist at the Bank of Canada: Abstract We study the effects and welfare implica  more

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Grant C. Jaquith, issued the following news release on Aug. 12: Michael T. Mann, age 50, of Saratoga County, New York, pled guilty today to orchestrating a years-long fraud that caused more than $100 million in losses to banks, financing companies, and other businesses. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Offic  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Aug. 14 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Seth D. DuCharme, issued the following news release on Aug. 13: Seth D. DuCharme, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Peter D. Lopez, Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 (EPA), announced today that the United States filed suit under the Clean Air Act (CAA) against the Village of Rockville Centre ("the Village") to add  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- President Trump issued the following remarks in a news briefing on Aug. 11 where he talked about the coronavirus and the riots in New York, Portland, Chicago and Seattle: THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Nice to be with you all. Good evening. Before providing today's update on the China virus, I want to address the violence, looting, and rioting taking place in the Democrat-controlled cities of New York, Portland, Chicago, and Seattle. The mayors and governors of thes  more

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago issued the following news release: The U.S. Embassy cannot book tickets or hotel reservations on behalf of a passenger. Baggage and pet arrangements must be coordinated directly with the airline when purchasing tickets. Onward travel options from New York are the responsibility of the traveler and should be made as soon as possible with available commercial airlines operating out of JFK airport. The U.S. Emb  more

SENECA FALLS, New York, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on Aug. 13: Women's Rights National Historical Park (NHP) is pleased to announce Equality Weekend- Seneca Falls, a series of online programs being held August 22-23 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment's ratification. On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution and the right to vote in the U.S. could no longe  more