PHOENIX, Arizona, July 12 (TNSpp) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on July 11, 2023: The Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-AZ), a chapter of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned racist vandalism targeting homes in Tucson. Seven homes in a Tucson neighborhood have been vandalized with racist graffiti. One resident's car was reportedly spray-painted with racial slurs. Th  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 12 (TNSres) -- The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities issued the following news release: The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities applauds the selection of 30 faculty and staff from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) around the nation as the 2023 class of E. Kika De La Garza Fellows to Washington, D.C. to learn more about the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) services and programs that will benefit them and their students. This effort i  more

NOGALES, Arizona, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: A Mexican national, and former law enforcement officer from Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced last week to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involvement in firearms smuggling as a result of an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations. "This prison sentence sends a clear message - HSI will expose weapons traff  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 13 (TNSres) -- The Planetary Science Institute issued the following news release: Scientists are getting a closer look of potential organic signatures in Martian rocks and may have found evidence of key building blocks of life preserved within two potentially habitable paleo-depositional settings in Mars' Jezero crater. These organics, a class of carbon-based molecules, could have been left by ancient microbial life - though there are many geological sources of organics on  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * As traditional sources of water run low, concern around Arizona's water supply is growing. A team of researchers is working to address the problem by advancing water reuse techniques. * * * The Colorado River, which provides drinking water to tens of millions of people and irrigation water to more than 5 million acres of farmland, has dropped by one-third in recent years. Arizona recently   more