WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (TNSPol) -- EMILY's List issued the following statement: * * * EMILY's List, the nation's largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Nellie Gorbea in the race for governor of Rhode Island. Laphonza Butler, president of EMILY's List, released the following statement: "EMILY's List is proud to stand with Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea as she runs to make history once again as Governor of Rhode Island. Secretary Gorbea is a dedicated public servant who has prioritized   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 2 (TNSPol) -- GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders issued the following news release on Dec. 1, 2021: Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a ruling affirming the inclusion of "emotional harm" in the definition of bullying in Massachusetts' anti-bullying law. The ruling in Doe v. Hopkinton Public Schools preserves important statutory protections for addressing one of the principal effects of bullying: the long-term psychological damage that  more

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, Dec. 3 (TNSJou) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center issued the following news: * * * A new study confirms that the Gulf of St. Lawrence is an important habitat for a large proportion of the endangered North Atlantic right whale population. * * * Researchers have identified 187 individual North Atlantic right whales--about 40 percent of the catalogued population--in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence during the summ  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued the following statement by Victoria Reggie Kennedy, President Biden's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Austria, at an Oct. 5, 2021, confirmation hearing: * * * I'm honored to appear before you as the nominee to be Ambassador to the Republic of Austria. I am grateful and humbled by President Biden's confidence in me. I thank Senator Markey for his generous introduction. My son Curran is with me today. My daughter Caroline and   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (TNSJou) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Research and Development issued the following news: By Tamar Nordenberg, Veterans Affairs Research Communications In the first head-to-head comparison of the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, researchers examined the electronic health records of Veterans who had received each vaccine. Both vaccines were highly effective in preventing COVID-19 outcomes such as documented infection, hos  more