PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 27 -- The Arizona Auditor General issued the following audit report (No. 23-111) on Sept. 26, 2023, entitled "Arizona State Board for Charter Schools - Sunset Review." Here are excerpts: * * * To: Members of the Arizona Legislature The Honorable Katie Hobbs, Governor Ms. Ashley Berg, Executive Director, Arizona State Board for Charter Schools Transmitted herewith is the Auditor General's report, A Performance Audit and Sunset Review of the Arizona State Board for Ch  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following remarks by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke at the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference: * * * Thank you, Congresswoman Wilson, for that kind introduction. Thank you to Reverend Sharpton, Derrick Johnson and to all of you for your commitment to civil rights. I am honored to be here. Your subject for today is an import  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 27 (TNSres) -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: Today, Attorney General Bonta's legislation, Senate Bill 2, which was cosponsored by Governor Gavin Newsom, and authored by Senator Anthony Portantino, was signed into law. The bill strengthens California's concealed carry weapons (CCW) law in a manner consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. The law, wh  more

BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 27 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Attorney General Raul Labrador led a coalition of 20 states in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to grant a writ of certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's widely criticized decision in Johnson v. City of Grants Pass. The decision controversially asserted that the Constitution allows individuals to sleep and camp on sidewalks, playgrounds, and other public lands.  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- NASA issued the following news release on Sept. 25, 2023: After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City. Within an hour and a  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Sept. 27 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: Today, Governor Kristi Noem and 16 of her fellow Republican governors sent a letter to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Brenda Mallory opposing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Regulations Revisions Phase 2. "The stated purpose for the Proposed Rule is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the NEPA process. It fails in both   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- The White House issued the following news release: With less than one week before the end of the fiscal year, extreme House Republicans are playing partisan games with peoples' lives and marching our country toward a government shutdown that would have damaging impacts across the country--including risking significant delays for travelers and forcing air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Officers to work without pay. During an Extreme Republican Shutdown,   more