CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 9 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news release: Amtrak and its Midwest partners have been awarded more than $101 million to improve existing routes and advance plans to expand Amtrak service as part of CHIP, the Chicago Hub Improvement Program. "At Amtrak, we are working with our partners to maximize Chicago's role as the central hub of Amtrak's National Network and position intercity passenger rail as an engine for improved   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news release: Amtrak and its partners have been awarded more than $2.1 billion to improve existing routes and advance plans to expand Amtrak service across the United States. "Amtrak ridership is soaring and we're advancing plans to further enhance and expand our services across the United States with our various partners, thanks to these grants," said Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner. "We're eager to bri  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release on Dec. 8, 2023: The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) to the High Energy Physics program of the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics has released a new Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report, which outlines particle physicists' recommendations for research priorities in  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Dec. 7, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $42 million for a program that will establish multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary hubs to advance foundational inertial fusion energy (IFE) science and technology, building on the groundbreaking work of the Department's researchers into harnessing the power of the sun and stars. The hubs will be led by researchers at Colorado State Un  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Dec. 8 -- Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued the following news on Dec. 7, 2023: Today, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti fulfilled his duty in enforcing our antitrust laws by joining six other states in filing a federal antitrust lawsuit on behalf of the State of Tennessee, challenging the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) transfer eligibility rule in order to stop unlawful conduct that harms both collegiate athletes in Tennesse  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory issued the following news on Dec. 8, 2023: * * * Research focuses on global climate change, plastic pollution, and methane production * * * Seventeen scientists from across the world have been awarded Exploratory Research funding from the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). The fiscal year 2024 awardees represent a range of research projects focused on aerosols,   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release on Dec. 7, 2023: * * * Recent agency actions have helped lower costs, increase care quality for consumers and promote competition across the health care market * * * Anticompetitive acquisitions and practices can chill fair competition, leading to higher health care costs, degraded working conditions, and less innovation across the health care and pharmaceutical industries. Through regulatory and legal actio  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 8 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on Dec. 7, 2023: Attorney General Kwame Raoul today filed a federal antitrust lawsuit challenging the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) transfer eligibility rule as an illegal restraint on college athletes' ability to market their labor and control their education. The NCAA rule requires college athletes who transfer among Division I schools to wait one year before competing in   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 8 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb, co-led a coalition of 22 state attorneys general in calling for an end to Mississippi's regime of large-scale, permanent felon voter disenfranchisement. Raoul and the attorneys general filed an amicus brief (https://ilag-dev.dotcms.cloud/dA/db5c75df-800f-480d-b4  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 8 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on Dec. 7, 2023: Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced today his office reached a settlement with plasma collection company CSL Plasma Inc. (CSL) and its parent company, CSL Behring LLC, which resolves a lawsuit alleging the company's policies discriminate against people with disabilities. Attorney General Raoul filed the lawsuit in June of 2020 in response to complaints from Illinois resident  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 8 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with 18 attorneys general, issued a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expressing support for its proposed Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule, but also calling for amendments to provisions that would permit the placement of unaccompanied children (UACs) in unlicensed immigration detention facilities. In the comment lett  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Dec. 8 -- The Illinois Supreme Court issued the following news release on Dec. 7, 2023: The Illinois Supreme Court announced today amendments to Supreme Court Rule 315 as well as clarifying language amendments to Rules 46 and 604, 605, and 606. The changes are intended to expediate pretrial appeals before the Court. The amendment to Rule 315 adds a section (k) entitled "Pretrial release cases" and establishes the timeframes by which both appellant and appellee must file   more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 9 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a multistate coalition of 21 Attorneys General supporting a proposed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Rule that would reduce illegal gun trafficking by ensuring that more gun sales are subject to background checks. Following the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the ATF has proposed a new regulati  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 9 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 22 Attorneys General urging the U.S. Supreme Court to make it clear that states have the authority to regulate social media platforms. An amicus brief was submitted in two cases currently before the Court, Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, which are challenges to laws passed in Florida and Texas. The brief focuses  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: Announcement includes 10 projects in 9 states ready for construction and 69 corridors across 44 states identified for future development through two grant programs funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that it has awarded $8.2 billion for 10 passenger rail projects across the country  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Dec. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois issued the following news release: This week, a federal court in Illinois entered a permanent injunction against the City of Springfield, Illinois, prohibiting it from enforcing a local spacing ordinance that bans people with disabilities from living in homes within 600 feet of one another if the home has five or fewer residents. The court's order follows a July 2022 trial at which a jury award  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Dec. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois issued the following news release: A Springfield, Illinois, man, Demetrius S. Washington, 27, was sentenced on December 6, 2023, to a total of 108 months imprisonment: 96 months for possession of a weapon by a felon and a consecutive 12 months for wire fraud. In addition to the sentence of imprisonment, Washington was ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay $10,843.84 in rest  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet: * * * President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country $8.2 Billion from the President's Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America President Biden's Investing in America Agenda - a key pillar of Bidenomics - is delivering world class-infrastructure across the country, expanding access to econo  more