FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, March 15 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: WICHITA, Kan. - The 451st Expeditionary Sustainment Command (ESC) and special guests welcomed Command Sgt. Maj. Robert M. Stirling as the new command sergeant major for the organization during an Assumption of Responsibility ceremony held on Saturday, March 2, during the Training Year 2025 Yearly Training Brief. For the past few weeks, Master Sgt. Ricci Molina, functioned as the   more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following statement on March 15, 2024, by Commissioner Caroline D. Pham on administrative proceedings: * * * The appropriate use of agency administrative proceedings has generated much debate. I have previously shared my views on the Commission's use of administrative proceedings before a hearing officer in the absence of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and in lieu of filing an action in federal court.[1] I now turn   more

BOISE, Idaho, March 16 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Attorneys General Raul Labrador of Idaho and Todd Rokita of Indiana led 26 other states in filing a brief with the United States Supreme Court challenging Illinois' unconstitutional ban of AR-15 rifles and their standard 30-round magazines. "This ruling from the Seventh Circuit flies in the face of the Bruen decision and the Second Amendment's unqualified command," said Attorney General Labrado  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 16 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a group of 24 state attorneys general and one state legislature in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new methane emissions rule. The coalition has filed a petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block the rule. "The Biden Administration's methane emissions rule is a bl  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 16 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief, led by the State of Virginia, in Alario v. TikTok. The case, which is pending at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, involves a challenge to the State of Montana's recently enacted law, SB 419, which prohibits TikTok from being downloaded within its borders. The Montana law provides that the prohibition will cease to apply if TikTok  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 16 -- The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Research and Development issued the following news: By Rachel Warden, Rocky Mountain MIRECC for Suicide Prevention The VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention associate director has been named as one of the United States' Top Female Scientists for 2023 by Research.com. This is the second year in a row that Dr. Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd, Ph.D., made the list, w  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, March 16 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: Attorney General Jason Miyares today joined a 12-state coalition in a letter to the Biden Administration demanding that it stop funding Iran after the Administration renewed a sanctions waiver that would allow Iran to access $10 billion in frozen assets. The Biden Administration plans to grant Iran access to upward of $10 billion from frozen accounts in Iraq, Oman, a  more