WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (TNSRep) -- Federal Housing Finance Agency issued the following news release: House prices rose nationwide in October, up 1.5 percent from the previous month, according to the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (FHFA HPI(R)). House prices rose 10.2 percent from October 2019 to October 2020. The previously reported 1.7 percent price change for September 2020 remained unchanged. For the nine census divisions, seasonally adjusted monthly house price change  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 23 -- The Greater Boston Food Bank issued the following statement: * * * Right now, nearly a million people across the Commonwealth are choosing between putting food on the table and paying bills, like rent and utilities. The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is New England's largest hunger-relief non-profit organization, but food banks and their emergency hunger-relief networks cannot meet the need for emergency food assistance on their own. As our community continue  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 23: Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, and Subcommittee Member Katie Porter sent letters to 11 Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) and a letter to the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) requesting documents about the performance, finances, operations, and potential  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement after President Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY) 2021. The annual legislation authorizes national defense objectives for the fiscal year and has historically been a successful bipartisan effort. The defense bill for FY2021 contained   more

BIDDEFORD, Maine, Dec. 24 -- The University of New England issued the following news release: An interprofessional team of University of New England students will advance to the televised round of the "Greenlight Maine" Collegiate Challenge, a televised competition that pits students' business ideas against each other for the chance to win $10,000 in kickstart money. Morgan Dube (M.S. Physician Assistant, '22), Pablo De La Guardia Criado (Business, '21) and Matt Harkins (Exercise Science, '22)  more

BIDDEFORD, Maine, Dec. 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of New England issued the following news release: "On Inhumanity," the book released this year by David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at the University of New England, has received praise in its latest review from TLS, a renowned journal for literature and ideas. The book, composed of 26 short chapters, is about dehumanization -- what it is and how it works, its connections to racism and atrocity, and how to combat the ph  more