SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 14 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the expansion of its successful Closing America's Wastewater Access Gap Community Initiative to 150 additional communities as part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda. Originally launched in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the pilot initiative has been assisting 11 communities since 2022. Th  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 14 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 9, 2024, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the Chicago Metropolitan Area - December 2023": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 4.1 percent in the Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 14 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 9, 2024, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the Detroit Metropolitan Area - December 2023": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 3.8 percent in the Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 14 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 9, 2024, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the Minneapolis Metropolitan Area - December 2023": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 3.6 percent in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported tod  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Honolulu Area - January 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.5 percent over the past two months, up 3.9 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Honolulu area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), advanced 0.5 percent for the two months e  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Los Angeles Area - January 2024": * * * Area prices were up 1.0 percent over the past month, up 2.5 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Los Angeles area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), advanced 1.0 percent in January, the U.S  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Riverside Area - January 2024": * * * Area prices were unchanged over the past two months, up 2.9 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Riverside area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were unchanged for the two months ending in   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, San Diego Area - January 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.4 percent over the past two months, up 3.8 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the San Diego area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), advanced 0.4 percent for the two months  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, West Region - January 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.7 percent over the past month, up 3.3 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the West Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), advanced 0.7 percent in January, the U.S. Bureau o  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 14 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: Following Governor Gavin Newsom's efforts to bolster CAL FIRE's firefighting fleet, President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act which authorized the official transfer of seven C-130H aircraft from the United States Coast Guard to CAL FIRE. This finishes the partnership which was started by the late Senator Dianne Feinstein and continued in recent months by Se  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: Gabriel Alva, 32, of Winnetka, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine over the dark web, and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, Alva and his co-conspirators ran mu  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: Esmun Moyses Moral-Raudales was sentenced yesterday to 80 months in prison for crimes including distribution of, and possession with intent to distribute, fentanyl and methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), San Francisco Field Division, Special Agent in Charge Brian  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: Kaymeisha Keyes, 32, most recently of Tracy, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, between April 2020 and August 2021, Keyes executed a scheme to defraud the California Employment Development Department (EDD) by   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following statement on Feb. 13, 2024, by Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson at the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee meeting: * * * It's a pleasure to join for your first meeting of 2024. Role of Metals Markets in Transitional Energy The agenda today includes a number of important topics, chief among them issues concerning the supply of, and markets for, rare earth elements. This issue has been a prior  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following opening statement on Feb. 13, 2024, by Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger at the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee meeting: * * * Before we get started, I also want to recognize our #1 Kansas City Chiefs fan and EEMAC Secretary Lauren Fulks who once again went above and beyond the call of duty in both hosting a Super Bowl party on Sunday and flying to Colorado early Monday morning. I would also  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following statement on Feb. 13, 2024, by Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero at the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee meeting: * * * I am glad to see this committee out in the field gathering invaluable real-world experiences. I want to thank Commissioner Mersinger for sponsoring this committee, and to the staff, especially Lauren Fulks. The continued exploration of metals and minerals markets is im  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 14 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: Associate Administrator Francisco Sanchez of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Recovery & Resilience today reminded Texas small businesses of the March 13, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury caused by the severe storms and flooding in Nacogdoches County that occurred May 10 - 23, 2023. According to Sanchez,   more

ARGONNE, Illinois, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * A new study from Argonne is shedding new light on how ancestry plays a role in prostate cancer risk * * * This study included larger groups of people from African, Hispanic and Asian ancestries than many other previous studies. A recent study involving scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has uncovered insigh  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Feb. 13, 2024: In support of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced the selection of three projects that will receive up to $60 million to demonstrate the efficacy and scalability of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Funded by the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the pilot projects will use innovative technology and a variety of development techn  more

FRESNO, California, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's San Francisco Division issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2024: Ivan Sigmond, 50, of Clovis, pleaded guilty today to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brian M. Clark announced. According to court documents, on Aug. 28, 2020, law enforcement officers obtained and executed a searc  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Feb. 14 -- Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced proposed legislative action to curb the growing nationwide uptick of retail theft and porch piracy. In 2022, retailers across the country lost $112 billion to retail theft, with sharp increases in major cities like New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. In Florida, shoplifting has decreased by 30% since Governor DeSantis first took office.  more

LIVERMORE, California, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has joined forces with Precision Neuroscience Corporation (Precision) to advance the technology of neural implants for patients suffering from a variety of neurological disorders, including stroke, spinal cord injury and neurodegenerative diseases such as Lou Gehrig's disease. Under the three-year collaboration, outlin  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- NASA issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and stars evolve. The space telescope, called UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer), is targeted to launch in 2030 as NASA's next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer mission. In addition to conducting a highly sensitive all-sky survey, UVEX will be   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following decision (Case No. 32-RD-331171) by Region 32 Director Valerie Hardy-Mahoney: * * * PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION MOUNTAIN VIEW & SUNNYVALE, Employer and MALGORZATA NEPALI, Petitioner and ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS OF CALIFORNIA, LOCAL 20 IFPTE, Union DIRECTION OF ELECTION The National Labor Relations Board will conduct a secret ballot election among the employees in the unit found appropriate above. Employees will v  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio issued the following news release: United States Attorney Rebecca C. Lutzko announced the results of a federal investigation involving eight men that were charged in two cases with participating in a pump-and-dump scheme designed to inflate the stock price of Global Resources, Inc. ("GBEN"), a public company that purportedly planned to bring hemp-infused wine to market. All the defendants pleaded guilt  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Feb. 14 -- Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry issued the following news: Attorney General Michelle Henry joined a bipartisan coalition of 41 Attorneys General in urging the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to authorize much-needed 2024 bridge funding for the federal Crime Victims Fund (the "VOCA Fund"), which provides crime victims a network of care and resources. According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime, funding for   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release: The Smithsonian American Women's History Museum has established a committee of scholars to guide the museum on content and provide input on the museum's comprehensive plan to document the full spectrum of the experiences of women in the United States through exhibitions, public programs, research initiatives and education resources. The museum is currently being led by Interim Director Melanie Adams of the Smi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release: The 82nd anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Executive Order 9066, this Presidents Day, Feb. 19, will be commemorated with a panel discussion at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The order granted the U.S. Army the authority to remove civilians from military zones established in Washington, Oregon and California during World War II, resulting in the forced removal and wr  more

PASADENA, California, Feb. 13 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: NASA's Perseverance puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called "Skinner Ridge" in a set of images captured in June and July 2022 by the rover's Mastcam-Z camera system. SHERLOC is mounted on the end of the arm. Engineers are working to stabilize a dust cover on one of the science instrument's cameras. Data and imagery from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover indicate one of two cov  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a news briefing on Feb. 12, 2024, by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby: * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 2) MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Awesome. Thank you. Q: Can you help me understand, though, like, why -- why there wouldn't be any communication between CFIUS and the administration broadly? I mean, with the National Security Council, given -- MR. KIRBY: I didn't say there  more