LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Nov. 10 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Nov. 9, 2023: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin announced that Syngenta Seeds, LLC, has paid the $280,000 civil penalty imposed on the Chinese state-owned enterprise for violating Act 1046 of 2021 and issued the following statement: "Because Syngenta is foreign owned--ultimately by the Chinese Communist Party--it was required to report its ownership of agricultural land to the Secretary   more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Nov. 10 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Nov. 9, 2023: * * * After making an announcement alongside Arkansas Children's President and CEO Marcy Doderer, FACHE, and Arkansas Children's Chief Clinical Officer Rick Barr, MD, this morning, Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement: "Today we are making history in the fight against opioid abuse in America. I am granting $50 million of the state's opioid settlement f  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Nov. 9 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: Attorney General Tim Griffin today sent a letter on behalf of a coalition of 20 state attorneys general to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas calling for the prompt removal of foreign student visa holders who are found to have endorsed terror activity or provided material support to foreign terrorist organizations. After s  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R44668) on Oct. 4, 2023, entitled "The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant - A Legislative History:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * Major Differences Between AFDC and TANF PRWORA ended AFDC and related programs, and folded their funding into the broad-purpose TANF block grant. Dedicated funding was ended to assist the specific population eligible for family cash assistance.  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) today introduced new legislation to provide a comprehensive framework to reform the federal government's care and custody of unaccompanied noncitizen children (UC).  more

CLINTON, New York, Nov. 8 -- Hamilton College issued the following news: Two former EPA administrators visited College Hill to explore the everyday complexities and impacts of transitioning to renewable energy in this semester's fourth Common Ground discussion on Nov. 6. Former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman, administrator of the EPA (2001-03) under President George W. Bush, and Gina McCarthy, former White House national climate advisor and former EPA administrator (2013-17) under   more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, Nov. 10 -- The Golf Coaches Association of America issued the following news: Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney will speak at the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) National Conventions on Tuesday, December 5 in Las Vegas. A decorated F-16 Fighter Pilot, Lt Col Rooney is best known for founding the Folds of Honor, a leading non-profit organization that provides educational scholarships for children and spouses of fallen or disab  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, discussed his announcement last week that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote to authorize issuing subpoenas as it relates to the Judiciary Committee's Supreme Court ethics investigation. These votes in Committee could take place as soon as Thursday. "I do not make t  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Nov. 9 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Nov. 8, 2023: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today announced two grants totaling more than $1 million to help prevent and treat opioid addiction in Arkansas as part of his keynote remarks at the Stop Overdose Summit, and issued the following statement: "As Attorney General, I am committed to distributing the state's share of opioid settlement money to programs that will protect Arkansa  more

PASADENA, California, Nov. 10 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Dr. Michael Lomax, a leader in politics, the arts, education, and civic engagement, visited Caltech as part of the Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series. A former professor, chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, president of the National Faculty and Dillard University, Lomax currently serves as president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, the country's largest philanthropic  more

PERTH, Australia, Nov. 11 -- The University of Western Australia issued the following news: Since the Second World War, the United States has lost just about every war that it has fought in a developing country. It has epitomised the tragedy of a world power's inability to win a small or medium war in asymmetric conflicts. The latest war, from which the US bowed out without having achieved its original objectives, was the twenty-year conflict in Afghanistan. The disastrous consequences of this  more