MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Oct. 2 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * Railroad Terminated Qualified Conductors and Locomotive Engineers It Regarded as Color Vision Deficient, Federal Agency Charges * * * Union Pacific Railroad, a freight-hauling railroad headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska that operates rail lines in 23 states, covering most of the western two-thirds of the United States, violated federal law when it terminated conductors and loc  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (TNSrep) -- The Health and Human Services Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. A-05-20-00033) in September 2023 entitled "Illinois State University's Management of NIH Awards Complied With Federal and Financial Conflict of Interest Requirements" involving the National Institutes of Health. Here are excerpts: * * * Report in Brief Why OIG Did This Audit Extramural research awards accounted for more than 84 percent of the $45 billion that the National In  more

LANSING, Michigan, Oct. 2 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joins 19 attorneys general in calling for further protections for borrowers when student loan payments resume in October. Over 40 million borrowers are set to resume making payments following a three-and-a-half-year pandemic payment pause. In that time, a majority of loans were transferred to new servicers. Congress passed a law in June barring further exte  more