SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Feb. 6 -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following news release: The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb regarding the introduction of a bill Thursday by U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, that protects women's sports by clarifying that sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972: "Women and girls deserve the opp  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 6 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Feb. 5, 2021: Attorney General William Tong and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Cordant Health Solutions entered into a civil settlement with the federal and state governments and have paid $845,108 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal and state False Claims Acts. Cordant Health Solutions, which is based in  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John H. Durham, issued the following news release on Feb. 5, 2021: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham and Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, today announced that SECON OF NEW ENGLAND, LLC, d/b/a SECON LABORATORIES, and STERLING HEALTHCARE OPCO, LLC, d/b/a CORDANT HEALTH SOLUTIONS (collectively, "Cordant") have entered into a civi  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Feb. 6 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release: May states bar parents from participating in a student-aid program because they send their children to schools that provide religious instruction, or does that violate the Constitution? That is the question the Institute for Justice (IJ) has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve as it appeals a federal court ruling that discriminates against parents who select such schools. In 2020, the Institute for   more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 6 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following radio address transcript: Boy I don't know anybody who doesn't love a Super Bowl party. And, while I have no favorite, I'll be very excited to watch the fireworks between Tom Brady, making his tenth Super Bowl appearance, and the much younger Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City with its superior record of 16 wins and 2 losses. Hey this is Janet Mills, Governor of the great State of Maine. Thank you for listening. Regardless  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Feb. 5, 2021: Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (MA-5) and the Massachusetts Delegation, including Senators Edward Markey (D-MA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Representatives Richard Neal (MA-1), James P. McGovern (MA-2), Lori Trahan (MA-3), Jake Auchincloss (MA-4), Seth Moulton (MA-6), Ayanna Pressley (MA-7), Stephen F. Lynch (MA-8), and William Keating (MA-9), sent a letter to Secretary-Designate   more